In company with a deputy sheriff he started…
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Secretary Millerperson
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a.k.a. Miller
Sheriff Paulperson
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a.k.a. Sheriff Paul
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In company with a deputy sheriff he started
for prison, but while waiting for a train the
deputy sheriff fell asleep and Miller escaped.
An accommodating blacksmith furnished him a
file with which to take his shackles off, and
he started across the desert. He suffered se-
verely for water. In desperation he bit into his
flesh and sucked his blood, which gave him
strength enough to keep on until he reached a
water hole in the desert. He stayed at this well
for a day and drank so much water that it
made him ill, and fearing that he would die
he crawled to a settlement and asked for help.
His description had been furnished by the
sheriff and he was placed under restraint until
Sheriff Paul went. Miller says this was his
first robbery, and that he was driven to the
crime to keep his wife from starving, and, al-
though Sheriff Paul accuses him of having
robbed a stage near Reading, Arizona, this ex-
perience was his first and last venture as a
stage robber.