People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1893 — ADMITS THE MURDER. [ARTICLE]

ADMITS THE MURDER.

Negro Captured Who Says He Killed the Ray Sisters. Cairo, HI., July 11.—News was received here Monday night that a negro had been arrested at Milan, Tenn., who is found to have been an accomplice of Miller and a partner in crime, and who is the one that actually committed the murder of the Ray sisters. The sheriff at Bardwell, Ky., has been notified, and if he proves to be the man, a* claimed, another lynching is in prospect. A passenger conductor on the Illinois Central, who brings the news of the arrest, says the man fought desperately, but when finally overpowered admitted that he murdered th® girls, and that Miller knew it and refused to divulge it. Miller, while in jail at Bardwell, is claimed to have said that, while he did not commit the crime, he knew who did it. He afterwards denied having said so. Until Monday no one could be found who would say positively that he had seen Miller in Kentucky on the day of the murder, but now a young woman asserts that she saw the Miller who was lynched hiding in her father’s barn near Bardwell that morning and saw him again when he was first taken back. The impression is growing that the mob got the right man or his accomplice, notwithstanding tire slight and purely circumstantial evidence upon which he was hung. Tbediscovery of the fact that he mailed a letter from here on the Fourth »f July to his wife at Springfield, IlSt, strengthens this belief, so-r after mailing the letter he had ample time to go from here to where the young girl says she saw him in the barn near the place where the murder was committed