Evening star., 1921-08-02
|MANFOUNDSLA|N, !.
WOMAN IN CUSTODY
Daughter Of Clergyman,
Longtime Poshnistress, In
voIved in Death Mystery.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ORLANDO, Fla. August 2.-W. H.
Miltmore. proprietor of the Arcade
restaurant. was found dead. shot
through the heart, in a room at a
local hotel about 10 o'clock last night.
lister in West Palm Beach. who regis
tered for the room yesterday. Is being
held by the local authorities. charged
with murder. Baxter Lee. chauffeur,
who drove the young woman from
West Palm & Beach, also % Is held d,sa as an an
body in the room two cut money
bags, which had presumably held the
sum of $4,000 stolen in a robbery Of
the West Palm Beach post office last
Tuesday. were found.
According to the story of the clerk
at the hotel. the young Clarke woman
registered at the hotel late in, the
afternoon. Miltmore went to the room
around s o'clock. No shot was heard
and no inkling Of the tragedy came to
the inmates OF the hotel until the
authorities went to the room to make
an investigation.
Police Chiefs Statement.
Chief Vestel states that about 8
o'clock a young woman came to police
headquarters and requested to see
the chief of police privately. He
asked the young woman to come with
him to his Office in the city hall. She
told him that her name was Clarke
and that she came from West Palm
Beach. She asked him II he knew
Miltmore and he replied that he did.
The young woman then went on to
tell of the robbery at the West Palm
Beach post Office, where she was post
mistress. She stated that she had
suspected Miltmor Of the robbery
and had enticed him to her room in
known he was a morphine addic:
and that she had given him some of
the drug which she had procured in
West Palm Beach from a doctors
case. She said that she did this to
hold the man until she could notify
him. She spoke of registered let
ter which was later found near the
body. This letter was one of those
stolen from the mail pouch.
Identified as Postmistress.
Not at first believing the woman's
story. Chief VesteI called up the pos
tai authorities investigating the rob-
berry at West Palm Beach and they
identified the woman as the postmis-
10 o'clock before the officers sent to
get the man who. the woman's story
claimed. had been drugged: They. re-
ceived orders from Chief Vestel to
make Inc arrest tn9 man was dDlC
to be brought to the Jail and, If not
for one of them to remain with the
man until he could be moved. When
they entered the room It was a
corpse they found.
Following the finding OF the body,
County Judge Smith was summoned
and a coroners jury impaneled i'm
mediately. TFeir verdict after repair
ing to the scene of the crime and ex-
amining into the details of the find
ing Of the body was that Miltmor had
met his death at the hands of parties
unknown and held tho Clark woman
on a charge of murder. Baxter Lee,
the chauffeur. wro drove the woman
to Orlando, is held as an accessory be-
fore the fact, as stated.
According to the reports Of the rob-
berry, which occurred last Tuesday, the
woman involved in the case has held
the position of posthistress in that
city for a number of years She is
about thirty-five years of age.
Miltmor came to Orlando about two
months ago and purchased the Arcade
Restaurant in this city. Up until
about q year ago he worked as postal
employe in the West Palm Beach post
office. It was stated that he was in
Palm Beach during the time the rob-
berry occurred. and that he returned to
Orlando only today.