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COweekNEW(’lilts re-f inland,1 tiuwas fired. Taking advantage of White's ..fl-®* eagerness to talk, he was separatedJ from the other two and the con fee'donwas arranged. But White was placed• in the same ceil with one Bfddj£ Click, a tough Wooster character, now in the penitentiary. To “Biddy Whiflt;(old the Ktoiy of the shooting and saidthat Miller was the guilty one. Healso disclosed that he was about tosign a written confession to that effect.Click resolved to forwarn Milter and Kverhardt. who were in a cell several feet away. Ho hr improvised a mode of communication not down.on the iail program. He passed notes to Miller and Kverhardt by simply taking a tightly wound spool of thread, aiming if in the direction of Miller’s cell andthen giving it a spin along the floorwhich sent it swiftly, though silently under the cage-like harriers to where Miller and Kverhardt stood watching. Miller securing the spool end of the thread, waited for a signal from Biddy”, who attached his notes to thefree end and thus accomplished the j means of communication back andforth. jIn this way Miller learned what White intended to do. He immediatelysent for hfa attorney. As a result, Miller formally stated to his attorney | that White was the guilty one. Ever-hnrdt, it is supposed, backed him up in his assertions. The result, of this' was that Miller and his attorneys went ad-rom-f la-»yersi iiktcwrend in1 heourte Isusi-ciholene,♦ »is.II €and ! wljBe to every act ot White and to allhis statement# to the prosecutor.lingbit-noat \yt f* I -wjhethMofT.setre-Wfrii‘assHiof(UBe,airb~hindidsLyman Crltchfleld was the Woosterattorney who aided in the defense of White. White swore Miller did Fhe shooting and was freed. Then came Miller’s turn In court. William E. Weygandt, of Wooster, and William Roach, of Alliance, defended Miller.One of the most consummate legal plots over wound into a murder trial was hatched between these two men to ,, free Miller long before White’s trial duwas the one decided on as the first of rei the three. The attorneys blustered nu alout change of venue, demanded irn- tri mediate trial, shook their heads slyly about the gravity of their client’s situation, brought him frequently into court to show his half famished condition to the Judge—Wayne county jail fare being one of the alleged punishments which at that time Jail prisoners• it w, rlt;1 supposed to be enduring—and byisitsicrofseveral Intricate passes and counter-! passes in which they cross tilted with the state several times, baffled everyone as to the plan they intended to pursue to tree Miller. Public sentimentul that time, fostered somewhat by the theory held by the state, said that Miller was the guilty one. M’JIler’s attor-j a- ; neys fought hard to have Miller tried (list, which undoubtedly clinched the1 determination of the state to fry Whitefirst White innocent seemed to mean Miller guilty and Miller’s attorneys! fostered this feeling in so far as it clouded the state’s view of their real plans and allowed White’s trial to pass off without Huy expert being introduc- ijf-etal-l-t.I -olt;l on either side to show by a com !no: toia n ess wr: prr the a be pinbepa iw 11tie*cpieindlt;gardruaseveconsibi w a shitsho(1c£pari son of bullet and bore that his SH,gun held the fatal ball., or which' mu might have shown that his gun did not j p(„ ^ j hold the fatal ball; and this would j th have meant that Everhardt’s did. Mil- L#t* ler's attorneys felt secure in their the-ory that Miller did not do the actual shooting and when an expert, one-timeemploye of the Krupp gun works, went on the stand and swore that the bullet taken from the breast of Dye did not come from the gun he carried, the Dolt which fell in the prosecutor's table was heavy and blasted his hopes forMiller's conviction.The Jury which acquitted Miller was led to believe that their predecessors at the White trial may have made a ; mistake. The jury, of course, couldnot rectify the mistake of the for- i J.mer Jury at the trial of Miller.The three hoys were Indicted for murder in the first degree. They were ♦ xttvmelv youthful. The defense exercised its 16 peremptory challenges, while file state under the existing indictment could exercise but four.The case was admirably conducted by the state, yet no one was convicted The Dye murder may be called a mystery still. In view of the acquittals. no one can now he declaredguilty Yet that voumr Thomas n.nersourtohavtoWeour live the ad v onlj t hatcon m he ben hen and ant.(ifanyhav.si Id;othcexailife
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Canton Stark County Democrat
Canton, Ohio, US
Tue, Apr 30, 1907
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