Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1921-04-21
KENDALL MILLER
DIES OF WOUNDS
TUESDAY, NIGHT
Self-Inflicted Wound Proves
Fatal, Former N. P. Car
Repairer Passing Away
About Eleven-Thirty With
out Regainine Conscious
ness.

Kendall Miller, the 22 year old
Northern Pacific car-reDairer who
shot himself thru the head late
Tuesday afternoon While sitting at q
table at the Chicago cafe, died nj the
Trinity hospital, where he was TAX
EN- Immediately after the shooting,
about. 1870 Tuesday niElt. Mil
ler died without regaining conscious
ness and the reason for his suicide
will probably never be known. AS
there were three cye-witncsscs to
the shooting, County Coroner DePny
did not deem it necessary to hold an
inquest.
The deceased WAS q former ser
vice man, having served with the air
service in France. 1t is thot that
he referred to the manner in which
many men met their death during
the World War when he said some
thing about ":his is the way we did
it" just as he fired the shot which
ended his life.
Miller had been out of work for
about three months but it is. not be-
lieycd that financial difficulties had
anything to do with his suicide as
he had q balance in one OF the
jamestown banks and his; check book
showed that he had recently with
drawn one hundred dollars from his
account there. Mrs. J. +. Morgan.
at whose home on Fourth avenue
north the Millers. have boarded for
the last six months, said that he ex-
hibited a roll OF bills containing
three or four twenty dollar bills and
.>F M
tions shortly before the shooting.
Mrs. Morgan said that Miller had
never come to the Morgan residence
in an intoxicated condition until
Tuesday noon. He WAS told at that
time that he was not in Il fit condi-
tion to he there and was requested
to leave. He agreed to do this and
left the house, apparently in good
spirits.
Acquaintances of Miller say that
he often declared that he would kill
himself or some one else, but that
these threats were not considered
seriously, one of then expressed it by
I'VE always thot. oh. that is just
Miller. He is. only talking"
Letters found on his person also
refer to threats Of suicide made by
Miller.
Mrs. Miller, who is only sixteen
years OF age and gave birth to a
baby boy Monday, has not. been noti,
fled of the death Of her husband.
She is the daughter of N. r: Bruce
of Fourth avenue north.
Arrangements for the funeral
have not been announced.
The city directory gives Mr.. Mill
er's name as Kenneth" but the rec
ords in the office of the county judge.
where Mr. Miller secured his mar
riage license, give his Christian name
as Kendall"
Kenneth Miller, who has been en-
ployed by the Northern Pacific rail-
way company for the last two years
as a car repairer, shot and probably
fatally wounded himself about 4:15
Tuesday p. M. at the Chicago cafe.
"A report from the Trinity hospital
at four-thirty was that he was con-
sidered to be in a dangerous cOnili-
tion. E.,j
No motive for the attempted sui
eide is known. Saltho Miller remarked
to friends just; before the shooting
that he was in trouble. The wound
cd man called for q taxi from the
Gladstone hotel about the middle Of
the afternoon, and was next seen by
Stephen Oliver, q barber employed