THE HISTORY OF TERRIBLE TOBIAS.

NZ Truth, Issue 180, 28 November 1908, Page 6

THE HISTORY OF TERRIBLE TOBIAS.

Knowing Miller as we do, we are not surprised at his concocting such a tissue of lies for his defence. The prusoner posed as a martyr— a man who had been outrageously treated and whose wife had been unfaithful to vim— whereas he is, as all Mas.ter.ton knows, a miserable biblebanging, unscrupulous, dishonest skunk, who, but for the' sympathy people had for liisj; wife and children, would have been h/gaol long agp. .. In his defence, Miller said he "had been a successful business man. Very ! He went bankrupt, and owes money now all over Masterton, and debts extending far years have not been paid. He attributes iiis inability to pay his debts to expense incurred owing to obtaining doctors, nurses, etc., for his wife during her illness. Beautiful I The doctors and nurses have not been paid yet. BOOZE— GLORIOUS CAROUSALS -^has caused MiJler to be a non-success, combined with his utter unscrupulousness, on account of which no one In Masterton will trust or help him! This Salvation Army bacltsLder, •who has had to be repeatedly prohilied, has a most violent temper, -as exemplified when ho smashed m the door of his partner's shop m Quren-slreat with an axe and threatened to shoot Dally (the partner) because of an imaginary injury. Miller was Muled up to Court over this and bound over to keep the peace. He has threatened the lives not only of his family but of several persons m Masterton. On one occasion, at Wallsend (N.S.W.), m an outburst of temper, he threatened tn shoot his mother. The wile of this

cringing, canting fraud has stuck to him all through like a Briton, getting him out of endless scrapes. On one occasion he put to his own use some money belonging to a sewing machine company for whom he was working, and but for his wife, out of her own earnings, pay- \ ing the amount (about £15) back and pleading with the coaipany for him, he would have got gaol. This is only one incident out of many that "Truth '•* could mention. Miller, m his evidence, said that Hight received special attention from his (Miller's) wife— his clothes were always brushed, his underclothing neatly laid out for him, and so on. As i a matter of fact,, Mrs Miller had nothing to do with the housework and lookj ing after the 'boarders, as the daughter attended to everything and looked after Right's clotb.es. Miller said he nailad up a door between Hight's room and the room m which Mrs Miller and the daughter and son slept, with several big spines, whereas he put two nails, about an inch i long,, sideways m the door, and these were disturbed toy the daughter when she was cleaning one of the rooms and had occasion to open the door. Prisoner 1 said that he was on one occasion BURNED OUT OF HOUSE AND HOME at Masterton and ruined. ./' All Masterton knows that the only fire Miller had was m a small. room he called a factory, and it was quickly put out by the brigade. The insurance company paid out £82 to MiJler m connection with the fire, hut what the insurance company doesn't know is that the damage done, inclumng material destroyed, only amounted to £25— plainly showing; Milkr-'s unscrupulous .business. methods. Columns could be written of the tricks of this unscrupulous, allied relij ious, simnk, and knowing his past history and what tue Miller family have had to put up with, "Truth" has ;no hesitatiqn m giving a flat contradiction to tiie prisoner's allegation of improper relations .between Mrs Maii?r and prosecutor Hiaht.