Evening star., 1944-05-26

terday.
ridor of the District Court build
ing. He again asked DR.. Lind to
stay away from Mrs. Miller and
threatened to call DR.. Overholser.
"He told me to 60 to hell" Mil
ler recalled, land said if I went
over there I would never practice
law anymore"
| What did you understand he
meant by that" Mr.. WEIGH asked.
Accepted as Death Threat.
IT thought he was going to kill
me-"
Were you aware of anything you
had done that would have caused
any court to disbar your"
1--WE never done anything In my
life to anybody"
Miller said he had several other
indications that DR.. Lind intended
to kill him. He said a nephew,
George Ealy, brother OF Mrs. Ed
ward Fien, previous defense wit
ness, warned him to be careful, that
DR.. Lind was carrying gun and was
going to kill him.
With his voice breaking with emo
ton, Miller described his attempts
to ind peace through prayer. He
told Of lighting holy candles in his
office every morning and of seeking
divine guidance.
did you believe In the efficacy
of prayer?" Mr.. WEIGH asked.
II did"
do you still?"
II do"
What did you pray for?"
Still Loves Wife.
II prayed he would let her alone"
do you still love her?"
"I do"
On the morning of the Staying,
Miller said, he brought a holy can
die from the Church Of the I'm
maculate Conception and went
through the usual devotions in his
office.
Even on that morning you clung
to your religion and prayer and q
belief that the situation would
terminate" he was asked. @s
II did," he said. E
Mrs. Miller was absent from the
courtroom as her husband told of
their marital strife over DR.. Lind.
The defendants brother, Fred Mil
ler, 80, listened to the testimony
hunched forward in his seat with
his head and hands resting on his
cane. So.
Three psychiatrists, who examined
Miller In the District Jail inf1rmary,
were to take the stand today to put
expert weight behind the defense
contention that Miller was tempo
rarily insane when he killed DR..
Lind.
The psychiatrists expected to back
up the insanity plea are Drs. An
tome Schneider, Albert Marland and
Harry Crawford.
FL Defense witnesses. *
Twenty-one defense witnesses, in
cluding four judges, paraded to the
stand yesterday to build up a COM
posite picture of the 67-year -old
defendant as a devout man, nor
mally Of jovial character and gentle
manly habits, with a good reputa-
ton in his community, who had
degenerated into a person of un-
sound mind after he learned that
his wife was carrying on a rela-
tionship with DR.. Lind.
Municipal Court Judge George D.
Nelson, who said he has known
Miller during the past 10 years,
testified he had noticed a change
in the lawyers physical and mental
condition since the time Miller was
knocked down by an automobile
near the court building last
August 3.
Judge Nelson, along with Justices
T. Alan Goldsborough and James
w. Morris of District Court, and
Judge Nathan Margold of Municipal
Court, said Miller's reputation in
the community for peace and good
order was very good"
Refuses to Take Print Test.
Mrs. Katherine Townsend, secre-
tary in Miller's law office, became
the second person yesterday to re-
fuse to submit to flngerprint test
without the advice of counsel. Mrs
Townsend made her refusal, while
the jury was out of the room
after Assistant Prosecutor Daniel
B. Maher asked whether she would
give her prints to the METROPOLITAN
Police Department for comparison
with one found on the flap of the
envelope found in DR.. Lind's cal
and containing second gun.
| Previously, Mrs Townsend hao
denied that there were any plain
white envelopes among the station
cry in Miller's Office.
Mrs. Townsend, soft-spoken
middle-aged woman, told OF Mil
lers apparent agitation since las,
summer and of his frequent appeals
for divine aid.
Every morning, he came into
the Office to light the blessed can
dies" she said. Then he would
stand over the candles as If offering
up little prayers. He would walk
around the Office with the Badge OF
the Sacred Heart in his hand ano
the Rosary. have seen him jump
up in his Office, and raise his hands
and cry, oh, My God, help me- He
did this several times day."
At other times, the witness said
Miller would sit at his window ano
stare out vacantly for long period;
of time.
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