Morning Oregonian., October 15, 1919, Page 6, Image 6

TTTE HOBXIXG OltEGOXIAy, WEP"ESDAT, OCTOBER 15, 1919. '
SEATTLE PROBES
DEATH OF WOMAN
Body
of Mrs. W. P. Fuller Still
Is in Lake Depths.
MARITAL TROUBLES TOLD
Ttlond on T.annrh Attributed to Cut
Thumb: Officials Xot Yet Ready
to Place Murdfr Charge.
1 ""m'tnii! Frm firrt Tare.)
h"-en in excellent spirits when she
left their home Just before leaving
for the fatal voyage across the lake.
She had laughed and joked, it was
raid, and If either of the couple
could have been thought despondent,
it was the husband, who appeared
nervous and worried.
All acred that Mrs. Miller had left
with her husband with the intention
of entering a sanitarium at Kirkland
to be treated for a supposed addic
tion to narcotics. JJeputy Sbrriff
llauiaze learned Tuesday that a res
ervation had ben engaged for Mrs.
Miller at the sanitarium and she bod
been expected Monday afternoon.
The lake was dragged ail day for
Mrs. Jdillers body.
airs. .Miller is reported to have
agreed to go to the sanitarium in aa
effort to convince ber husband that
his charge that she was using drugs
untrue. Miller, according to air.
and Mrs. tieorge W. Miller, said h
was willing to "take her back" and
forget all talk of a divorce if h
would "give up the dope.
The documentary evidence now be
fore the prosecuting attorney's office
tells a nistory ot tne Miner a oo
Trestle troubles. Much of it concern
Sjo i'rancisco. where Miller wen
about ten months ago.
Captain of Detectives Charles Ten
want also visited the lake shore to
day and co-operated with the county
officials in probina; the case.
Miller Glvra Details.
Patterson interrogated Miller at
length. Miller went Into more de
tails than he had on the previous
night. He maintained that he had
met his wife at the home of their
mutual friends Mr. and Mrs. George
v. aliller and that his wife had in
formed bis that she was going to Dr.
IJavis sanitarium.
"On the way across the lake." added
Miller, "she threw arms around me
and kissed me. It may have been
she was bluffing and never Intended
to go to the sanitarium. I told ber
I was willing to call everything
square If she would go ahead and
take the treatment and get cured.1
Miler would not say, however.
wnetner nts wire had committed sui
ride of fallen into the lake accidental
ly. All be knew waa that be heard a
plash and saw her In the water, after
which he made an effort to save her,
but believed the bow of the boat
truck her and knocked her under.
tne epropeller catching her after
ward.
Miller made a statement today to
tne representative of the Oregonian
which differs slightly from that said
to have been made to Deputy Prose
cuting Attorney Patterson and Lieu
tenant of Detectives Kent yesterday,
in that, he said he waa taking Mrs.
Miller to enter the sanitarium for
treatment .and Patterson and Kent
declare that Miller told them that
they, were going there for the purr
pose of proving that Mrs. Miller waa
not addicted to the use of durgs as
charged by ber husband.
Morphine Care Soaght.
"I waa taking my wife to Dr. Davis
sanitarium between Kirkland and
Houghton to cure her of the morphine
habit whea she disappeared from the
bow of the launch and was drowned."
he said. "She was there for six weeks
during the latter part of the summer
of 1 ff 1 3, and It waa her own proposi
tion that she go there again.
"Mrs. Miller arrived In beetle from
Portland last Wednesday. I believe.
d registered at the Calhoun hotel. I
arrived here Monday of last week.
1 came from San k'ranrlsco. where I ;
Bad been working as a newspaper
photographer, to start divorce pro
ceedings, but my wife beat me to it.
"I soon learned after my arrival
hero that she waa about to file suit,
the had me brought into court In
Portland on a charge of abandonment,
so that I assume that that would have
been the charge in the suit If she
bad filed It.
"We met by appointment early yes
terday afternoon and during our talk
he suggested that I take ber back
to the sanitarium across the lake. 1
consented, and we etarted "for Mount
Baker to hire a boat. We engaged
the launch I had owned and sold, and
tartd ofr for the landing leading
to the sanitarium.
"We had not gone very far when
Mrs. Miller semed to experience a
change of heart about returning to
the sanitarium. I told her it would
be all right.
"If I go there 111 be in that place
another en weeks.' she told me.
"Mrs. Miller, who was a nurse, was
anxious about a position she had been
offered In New Orleans.
Loan of Place Feared.
"1 will lose that place If I re to
the sanitarium,' she said. 1 don't
want U go over there now.
I told her not to worry over the
matt r. We were sitting in the bow
of the launch at the time. The mat
ter was still under discussion when
the engine began to miss fire. Leav
ing my wife sitting on the forward
deck. I went back to find the trou
ble. "I had been working on the engine,
which had stopped Just a few sec
onds when I looked around and dis
covered that my wire was gone. She
did not utter a sound that I he.-rd and
made no noise that attracted me. In
the meantime the boat had slowed
down.
"While he was etrugsling In the
water a few feet from the launch, too
far out for me to reach her. I started
the engine and circled around, hoping
to pick her up. I headed the launch
for her. I tried to run close enough
to seize her clothing, but I ran too
close and the bow struck her. By the
time I reached the bow she had
drifted back and her cloak became
tangled In the propeller, which waa
turning slowly.
"I ' reached for her and was sur
prised to find she had slipped from
the cloak and had gone down, prob
ably .stunned by the blow from the
bow. Then I began to yell and wave
for help. The Atlanta saw my dis
tress signals and towed me to Kirk
land. where I notified the police."
The spot where Mrs. Miller drowned
Is 200 feet deep. The body has not
been recovered.
Cat Taaaab Bleeds.
Miller explained stains on the
launch by the fact of cutting his left
hand with a knife while removing a
small rope to get at a towllne for
another boat to tow his launch ashore
vfter the tragedy.
Miller said he and his wife lived
together la San Francisco until she
!
went to Portland recently when he
mother .died there.
"When I met my wife at the home
of George W. Miller yesterday, and
she was in the act of leaving to cross
the lake to Dr. Davis sanitarium at
Kirkland. she told our friends, the
Millers, who are not relatives, that
she would be back in a lew days," said
the prisoners today.
"I had told her that the use of 'dope'
was the only thing that stood .between
us; that it bad been the cause of all
our troubles, and that if she under
went a treatment for the habit, as
she had done be-fore, and was cured.
we would drop all our divorce talk
suid Miller.
"I believe sew that she was only
bluffing about taking the treatment.
On that trio serosa the lake in the
launch she had her arme about me
and caressed me. patting me on the
back. I returned he rcaresaes, but
was firm in my position that she must
be cured of her habit.
"Finally, when we were approach
ing close to the Kirkland shore ehe
said: 'Do you really believe tnat i
should take a full six -weeks' treat
ment I replied: 'I think that is the
best: It is the onlv thing to do
Clarence Keamee. former . special
I'nited States district attorney, today
made the following statement, as at
torney for Mrs. Miller:
Divorce Case Started.
"Mrs. Miller employed me about the
riddle of last week to institte divorce
proceedings against her husband. She
was to come to my office yesterday
for the last consultation before th
,1-mni filir.ir of the divorce proceed
ings. Instead she went boat riding
with her husbjsid and was drowned.
"When she came to my office last
week she told me that about two
.id she was the owner of a
piece of property valaed at about
!oou. To keep certain creditors who
were oursuing her husband f rom I
tettinz it she said she deeded it to
Haw hiiKhanfl'a mother.
told me that her husband de
serted her and went to San Francisco
she said she went there to etieci
conciliation. She told rae sne went to
bis room in a hotel and there found a
rrpii maav letters which she turned
over to me as part of the basis for
the divorce action. She said she went
down into the lobby of the hotel and
tbere met her husband. wBo. cne eaia
without any provocation struck ber in
view of others In the lobby.
"Mrs. Miller toll" nr that she then
sppealed to the stale district attor
ney at San Francisco to compel her
husband to support ner. incer pres
sur. of the state attorney, Mr. Miller,
she told me. agreed to pay her $50 a
month, one payment was made, she
said, on the order of the district at
torney. and then Mr. Miller left San
Francisco.
-Mrs. Miller told me she returned
to Seattle without knowing where her
husband was and took up with her
mother-in-law the matter of the re
turn of the property she had deeded
to the mother-in-law. Attorney How
ard Cosgrove. representing the hus
band and his mother, offered to eed
back the property if the payment or
50 a month were waived, i nis i re
fused to assent to, and. as we found
no settlement was possible, I prepared
proceedings in the divorce case. These
would have been filed yesterday If it
had not ben Columbus day and a holi
day for the courts. I expected Airs.
Miller to come In. but sne am not
come. Then 1 was nomieo oi
ber
death."
Pendleton Has 'smallpox.
PENDLETON. Or.. Oct. II. (Spe
cial.) Pendleton has ten cases of
smallpox and four homes are under
uaranttne as a result, tne city pny-
sutian today reported. The disease is I
not of the malignant type, the phy
sician asserts.
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