American Sentinel, August 10, 1895 Murder in Manchester District

American Sentinel, August 10, 1895

Murder in Manchester District - A brief account of a horrible murder, committed in Manchester district, came to us by telephone yesterday morning.

The victim of the tragedy was a man named Jacob Miller, a comparative stranger in Manchester. Miller had been working in that place and neighborhood for a week or more.

He was a quiet, well behaved and apparently an industrious man. Towards evening of Wednesday afternoon he left Manchester in company with two tramps, going in the direction of Melrose.

During the night persons in the vicinity of a grove near that place heard the noise of fighting in the woods. On Thursday morning the tramps who left Manchester in Miller's company, went into Melrose and reported that the body of a dead man was lying in the woods.

Their story was probably regarded as a fake, and no steps were taken to investigate it, but the report, in some way, reached Manchester and on Thursday night a searching party started out from that place and found Miller's dead body in the woods.

The man had been stabbed in the heart and cut about the face and head. The object of the murder was evidently robbery, as Miller had on his person, when he left Manchester, thirty dollars in money, all of which had disappeared, with other valuables, when the body was found.

An inquest was held, and a verdict rendered that the man was murdered by persons unknown to the jury. The jury was summoned by Justice Strevig.

American Sentinel, August 10, 1895.

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