Gazette and Bulletin - Extra. Williamsport, PA, March 24, 1880. The Miller Murder. Thrilling Particulars of the Jersey Shore Crime. Detailed Description of the Humble Home Where Andy Miller was Brutally Pounded to Death and Then Hanged to a Beam. Cutting Up The Body. Full Description of the Murderous Wounds. A Midnight Visit to the Scene of the Crime and Further Examination of the Body by a Physician - What Was Discovered. Verdict of the Jury. Mrs. Miller and George Smith Held for the Murder. The Prisoners Now in the County Jail - Interview With the Woman - What She Says About Her History and Places of Residence.
Willamsport: 1880, folio, two page newspaper extra, old folds, some short tears into text and at fold joints, paper a bit abraded along one fold with some minor loss, paper tanned some light spotting and soiling, else good. Two small plat maps illustrate the scene of the crime.
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The particulars of this crime, the autopsy results, biographical sketches of the victim and his killers, his wife and one of her paramours, are related in seven columns of text on each side of this sheet. The crime took place in Jersey Shore, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, which is some 15 miles south west of Williamsport. Miller was some 30 years older than his wife, described as a "Babylonish Woman," who was notorious in the area of Jersey Shore for her "loose living." He and his wife had three daughters and lived on a farm. Miller was brutally killed by George Smith and hung up in his barn in a clumsy attempt to disguise the crime as a suicide. Mrs. Miller in her defense stated that she would not be "kept down like an old woman."
Rare. No printed account of this murder is noted in McDade.
