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Miller to finish filling patients tooth
before he took the dentist into GUS
tody.
Sheriff ]. Mason Smith, in charge
of a squad which rushed DR.. Miller
to Richmond last night as good
natured crowd, mostly college students,
milled about the local police station,
said the prisoner asked him to pull
the car over to the side of the high
way before reaching Richmond.
He told U.s." Sheriff Smith said,
"the girl was to become mother and
that he had attempted the operation
at her request Monday evening.
He said he borrowed an automo-
bile and drove to a point 6 miles
north of Charlottesville, where he
turned into a side road 1t was not
yet dark.
Chloroform Proves Fatal.
HE was preparing for the opera
tion," he said, when the girl died
from the chloroform He said he then
became greatly excited and finally de-
cided to wait in the side road until
dark.
Then he told us he drove to the
patch of woods between the university
cemetery and the golf course, where
he put the body out"
Soon after arriving at the Henrico
County (Richmond) Jail. the sheriff
asserted, DR.. Miller began to write his
statement.
DR.. Miller earlier had said that the
can of chloroform found on the girls
face had been missing from a cabinet
In his office after he had given the
girl dental treatment about 10 days
ago.
A warrant charging the dentist with
murder was issued secretly after HUI
bert Carver, a salesman, reported to
police that Dr. Miller had borrowed
his automobile late Monday afternoon
upon his promise to return it within
an hour. When the car was returned
late that night, Carver said, it
'reeked" Of chloroform, and there
were bits of cotton in it.
WAS EuSdScu W VNoIEys
Cleo was engaged to marry young
man. Her mother, Mrs. Lulu Sprouse,
Is a widow. The father committed
suicide several years ago. There are
several other children.
The dentists alleged confession was
at variance, in one respect, with
story told by girl acquaintance Of
Cleo. This friend told police she saw
Cleo alive about r.m. Monday, when
the Sprouse girl drove up in car and
asked the friend to go for a ride.
At pm, according to the dentists
alleged confession, Cleo was dead.
Suspicion was first directed toward
DR.. Miller when local druggist re-
ported to police that. the dentist had
complained to him the fatal chloro-
form can had disappeared from his
office. Later the salesman told his
damaging story about the borrowed
car. It was to question Miller about
these angles that the detective went
to the dental Office late yesterday.
Police Building Porch Falls.
DR.. Miller was not served with the
murder warrant until after he had
been questioned at police headquar-
ters. During the grilling crowd of
about 1000 persons, mostly youths,
gathered outside the building. At one
time they became so eager in their
clamoring for news" that the front
porch Of the police building collapsed.
None was injured.
More confusion resulted when a
police car knocked down two spec
tators. They were not seriously hurt.
DR.. Miller was smoking cigar and
appeared at ease when Sheriff Smith
and his men brought him out Of
police headquarters for the trip to
Richmond.
How about 1t, sheriff." came from
the crowd as the group appeared. The
officers made no reply.
The authorities said DR.. Miller was
removed to Richmond, not because Of
fear Of mob rule, but because 1t would
facilitate the investigation.
Dr.. Miller is graduate Of Balti-
more Medical College. He came here