Evening star., 1944-05-24
Mrs. Miller Saws
She Paid Bills
|0f Slain Doctor
Bought Food, Auto
And insurance, She
Testifies in Court
picture on Page Bill
By NORMAN A. KAHL.

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BY NORMAN A. KAHL.
While she left her husbands
bills unpaid, Mrs. Robert I. Mil
ler testified today, she bought
large quantities of food for DR..
John E. Lind and made pay.
ments on his car, his life insur-
ance, department store bills and
judgments during the five years
of their association.
These new details concerning DR..
Lind's alleged blackmail activities
were brought out when Mrs. Miller
resumed the witness stand In de-
fense of her husband, charged with
hrst-degree murder in the shooting
OF the psychiatrist last February a.
She said yesterday she had paid
out the funds after DR.. Lind threat
ened to expose their relations to
Miller,
Mrs. Miller said she went to the
Arcade market every week and
bought food for DR.. Lind.
How much Of Bob Miller's money
did you spend every week for Dr.
Linds food?" she was asked by
Defense Attorney II. Mason Welch.
Spent $50 Weekly on Lind.
Never less than $40 or s25,n Mrs.
Miller replied.
She said sometimes the orders
were placed IN his car and some-
times they were delivered to his
office in the Center Building at st.
Elizabeth's Hospital.
Mrs. Miller said she had never
contemplated divorcing her hus-
band.
did you ever have the keys to
DR.. Lind's house?" she was asked
by Mr.. Maher.
mo"
DO you recall letter you wrote
to William Lind at Shepherds Field
last summer"
Eyes, I may have
did you tell him you intended to
move in with them pretty soon?"
mo, never"
In addition to buying DR.. Lind's
food, she said, she paid premiums
on two life insurance policies, one
due the seventh of the month and
one due the eighth. She said she
also paid bills at Julius Garfinckers
department store, a Judgment over
q period OF years, and that she paid
for his car-tlle same one in which
he was slain by Miller on Febru-
ary 81.
II Paid fer Everything
Il paid for everything" she said.
Earlier in the day Mrs. Miller re-
fused to submit to q fingerprint test
without the advice of counsel. The
request for the witness fingerprints
was made, in the absence of the
jury, by Assistant United States At
torney Daniel B. Maher. He said
1t was wanted for comparison with
an unidentified print found on the
flap of an envelope containing the
gun found in DR.. Linds car after
the shooting. This gun, the Gov
ernment contends, was placed on
the automobile seat next to DR..
Lind directly after the Staying.
Mrs. Miller, recounting her five
year association, said she first met
the pSychiatrist in the Supreme
Court Building while court was in
session. They met most frequently
thereafter, she said, in a grill near
the Congressional Library.
AT one time, she said, she caShed
in some of her own insurance
policies and turned the checks over
to DR.. Lind.
What was the purpose of this?"
Mr.. WEIGH asked.
Il don't know whether that was
the time he got into trouble with
another woman or whether DR..
Overholser got after him." she re.
piled. DR.. Winfred Overholser is
superintendent of st. Elizabeth's
Hospital where DR.. Lind was senior
medical officen
Niece Tells of Threats.
Mrs. Miller was followed to the
stand by her niece, Mrs. Marguerite
Fien, who told of threats uttered by
DR.. Lind against Miller.
Mrs. Fien said DIR. Lind and Mrs.
Miller came to her house on Sep
tember 18, 1943, and that both
appeared "dreadfully worried and
upset" She said Mrs. Miller was
disturbed by light flashing into
the window and feared it was
Miller's automobile.
The witness said she and DR.. Lind
went outside to reassure Mrs. Miller,
and that while they were standing
on the porch the psychiatrist
remarked about Mrs. Miller's
nervousness.
Mrs. Fien said she told DR.. Lind
that he, too, appeared nervous, and
that he replied:
oh, I'm not worried about my
SELF"
Took Gun From Pocket,
The witness said he then took
gun from his pocket and went on:
Il expect to see and shoot him
first. I feel far more capable of
handling a gun than Bob Miller.
If any one gets killed it won't
be me-"
Mrs. Fien said she believed DR..
Lind had the full intention of
doing away with Mr. Miller"
The witness said DR.. Lind called
her home two or three times
week and on one occasion he in
qulred as to Miller's health, after
the attorney had been stricken at
court and taken home. Mrs. Fien
said DR.. Lind told her at that time:
1 hope it's nothing trivial. T hope
ne dies. I'm no hyprocrite. hope
we have a good time dancing on
his grave"
Attorneys Go Into Conference.
The jury was excused while Mrs.
Miller was being asked whether she
would submit to the flngerprint test.
Her refusal was followed by a con-
ference among attorneys at the
bench and then by a recess, during
III l.