MILLER, Walter
Miller, a 38-year-old Huntsville, Ala., black man had served. ten
years in an Alabama prison far burglary and grand larceny, Me way-
laid a 19-year-#ld Huntsville white girl, Vivian Woodward, one night
as she was returning home from a movie and dragged her behind a
garage where he raped her and then bludgeoned her to@ath with a
brick. Miller, who had been seen in the area, became a suspect
when he disappeared the day after the crime and he was trailed to
indiana where he was taken into custody and returned to Alabama,
He confessed that he had assaulted and killed the girl but repudiated
his confession before his trial and maintained that he was innocent,
Fe went to his death in the electric chair on Junk 19, 1936, still
protesting that he was innocent. Mis last words were a request to
the Warden, spoken as the mask was lowered over his face: "All right,
E&PEX Cap'n Frank, quick as possible,"
THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS, Birmingham, Ala, SHASXUPJXAPE June 19, 1936.
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MILLER, Walter
Miller, a 38-year-old Huntsville, Ala., black man had served ten
years in an Alabama prison fér burglary and grand larceny. Me way-
laid a 19-year-bld Huntsville white girl, Vivian Woodward, one night
as she was returning home from a movie and dragged her behind a
garage where he raped her and then bludgeoned her to@ath with a
brick. Miller, who had been seen in the area, became a suspect
when he disappeared the day after the crime and he was trailed to
Indiana where he was taken into custody and returned to Alabama,
We confessed that he had assaulted and killed the girl but repudiated
his confession before his trial and maintained that he was innocent,
Fe went to his death in the electric chair on Junk 19, 1936, still
protesting that he was innocent. Mis last words were a request to
the Warden, spoken as the mask was lowered over his face: "All right,
REESE Cap'n Frank, quick as possible, "
THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS, Birmingham, Ala, S&KSXISJXIPE June 19, 1936.
MILLER, Walter
» black man had served ten
years in an Alabama prison far burglary and grand larceny. Me way-
brick. Miller, who had been seen in the area, became a suspect
when he disappeared the day after the crime and he was trailed to
Indi
ana he was into custody and returned to Alabama,
He confessed that he had assaulted and killed the girl but repudiated
his confession before his trial and maintained that. innoce:
protesting that he was innocent. Mis last words were a request to
the Warden, spoken as the mask was lowered over his facet "All right,
ERB Cap'n Frank, quick as possible,”
‘THE BIRMINGHAM NEWS, Birmingham, Ala, DEKSXUPJXUPE June 19, 1936.
