THE SHOT PILOT

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18619, 23 April 1932, Page 5

THE SHOT PILOT

MRS MILLER RELEASED

LETTERS BY THE DEAD MAN “CAN’T MAKE THE GRADE.” United Pres 3 Assn. —Elec, Tel. Copyright* (Received April 23, 9.30 a.m.) - NEW YORK, April 22. A message from Miami (Florida), states that Mrs Miller lias been exonerated of the fatal shooting of her fiance, Mr Haden Clarke, aged 31. The Stale Attorney (Mr .Vernon Hawthorne) said he was convinced that Mrs Miller was in no way connected with tiie shooting, and she has been released from gaol. Clarke was fatally wounded while in bed a few hours after he and Mrs Miller told Captain Lancaster of their, plans to be married. Mrs Miller’s acquaintance with Clarke turned into love as he wro.a the story of her life. At the funeral service, Mrs Miller met Mrs Ida Clarke, the mother of the dead man. The women embraced and wept. „ . The investigators of the affair said that notes left by Clarke pointed conclusively to an intention to comnuti suicide. Mrs Clarke agreed. She said hes son had had financial worries. Mrs Miller and Captain Lancaster were emphatic in their assertions that Clarke took his own life. Letter found by the investigators from Mrs Miller and Clarke to Captain Lancaster told of their intentions to marry, and an answering telegram, from Lancaster on Sunday told tue two that he did not want to he a dog in the manger and wished them e'eiy happiness, and urged that they deter; the marriage till his return. One of Clarke’s notes addressed to. Lancaster read: "Bill, —I can’t make the grade. Tell 1 Chubbie ’ of our talk. My advice to you is: ‘Never leave her again.’ ’’ A note to Mrs Miller said: 'The economic situation is such that I can t go through with it. You have Bill; he’s the whitest man I know.”