Evening star., 1937-07-01


taricab driver, disappeared July 2S.
1886. His cab ,0as found at Rhode
Island duenue and Tenth street
northeast Witnesses told police
they had seen tho colored men get
out OF cab at that point, and in
uestigators assumed Miller had been
held up By the pair. Officers, Boy
Scouts and other hackers searched
moods near Catholic University, but
found no trace OF missing man.
| The identification of skeleton
found in Prince Georges County as
that of Charles Lee Miller, missing
Washington cab driver, was weakened
today when Mrs. Lucy Miller, wife
Of the missing man, said she could
not identify clothing found at the
scene as belonging to her husband.
Mrs Miller also said her husband
had lost several lower teeth. Police
said all the teeth of the Maryland
victim were found on the ground near
| the skull.
Mlllers dentist will be asked to ex-
anime the teeth tonight, and it is ex-
pected he will be able to state definitely
whether the victim was Miller.
Laundry Mark on Trousers.
The laundry mark, &C. L. Ma"
| was found in the victims trousers.
Sergt. Ralph Brown of the Prince
Georges County police said the fact
that the initials were the same as
| MlllerS may be a coincidence, but he
wanted to check the laundry mark be-
| fore abandoning the identification.
The clothing and bones we're scat
tered over an area of some 30 feet
when the remains were found Monday
bv David Sampson, BerWyn Heights,
Md. Both feet and shoes were missing
and Brown said they may have been
carried away by dogs.
The clothing consisted of underwear,
a blue work shirt, white trousers
with black stripe and a brown
leather belt. The belt buckle was
marked with the initial &C" This
corresponds to the clothing worn by
Miller when last seen Mrs. Miller
was unable to state definitely that
the clothing did not belong to her
| husband, but said she could not identi-
fy it as being his.
Mrs. Miller first learned of the
tentative Identification Of the skeleton
from neWSpapermen
Shocked by News.
Shocked by the news, she told re-
porters: Il can't talk with you now.
What is there to be said?"
Miller disappeared II months ago,
and since that time his wife has been
working to support herself and their
10-year-old son, Charles Lee Miller, jr
Miller, a.. was believed held up bv
two colored men the night of his dis
appearance, according to the story
police put together after a long in
veStigation.
The cab was found at Tenth street
and Rhode Island avenue northeast,
and police found witnesses who saw
the colored men alighting from the
cab at that point It was known that
he had taken passenger to the Sis
ters' College at Catholic University at
8 O'clock the night he disappeared
At the time he vanished his family
recalled a remark he often had made
to the effect that if he were held up
the robbers could have his money
and he would not offer resistance
Il don't think he would have put
up fight if this were the case" Mrs
Miller remarked at the time.
Had Been Contractor.
Miller became a cab driver when
the depression took the bottom out
Of his contracting business. He
entered that business after being dis
charged from the Army at the close
Of the World War, and before 1880
built number of homes in the
Woodbridge section of Northeast WASH
| lngton.
On the night he disappeared a
call came to the cab stand at
Lincoln road and T street northeast
at 7:50 pm. Miller went to 1905
Second street northeast and picked
up woman passenger, who asked to
be driven to the Sisters College Of
Catholic University. There he ar
rived after pm, and at $50 pm
he was reported seen in restaurant
at Fourth street and Rhode Island
avenue northeast.
Woods Secured in Vain.
The cab was parked at Tenth and
Rhode Island at l0:15 pm. Police,
Boy Scouts and 25 cab drivers secured
the woods near Catholic University
all the next day in vain search
for him. Foul play was early sus-
pected.
Miller was feet inches tall, with
brown eyes and mixed gray hair, bald
at the temples. When last seen he had
on blue shirt with trousers of white
With black pin stripes. He always wore
high shoes. His tie was found in the
abandoned cab.
Workmen employed by the BerWyr
Heights Real Estate Co. found the
skeleton, which police are linking with
Millers disappearance. 1t was lying
in thick underbrush near the Reset
Elements loW-cost housing project al
Greenbelt, Md.
The clothes found by the bones in
cluded blue shirt, light Summer
trousers and lightweight undercloth-
ing, as we'll as several strands of brown
straight hair.