| Show SHE COI GOT DEB HER buff a friend of f the th millers I 1 baie ad big money for SOUK some jew fork york speculators tin special i AV service 1 oct 23 A paragraph ia to a an western estern paper to the effect that tha the late justice Mille the supreme court was eo so reticent concerning the business of the court that no one was ever able to obtain from him an inkling as to the nature of decisions on pending case cases ia Is of coarse course true he was the most scrupulous man alive but nevertheless on one occa occasion siona a certain ring of speculators in new york bad had advance information of one of bis his decisions by which they made hundreds of tho thousands mands of dollars it came about in this way A certain widow of a certain famous general of the rebellion was a near neighbor and intimate friend of the M miller iller tarn rain lly ily she was a woman of extravagant tastes bat but small income and was ans pecked of mingling antho in the lobby now and then to replenish her purse but the miller family were always her firm friends and she was as much at home in their house as she was in her own it was known that judge miller had prepared the opinion of the supreme court in what was wag known an ad the pacific railroad cases under the thillman tharman thill man act that be he bad read it at the regular conference of the justices saturday morning that it bad had been ap approved TOM by the court and would b be edeve delivered on the following monday As the decision was certain to affect the prices of all pacific railway securities vry very materially which ever way and as it might ruin men who held the tile blocks stocks and bonds or make their for fortunes tunis there was an intense anxiety to know its nature in advance the agent of a new york syndicate largely interested in the securities curi ties offered the generals gene rala widow if eais would obtain tho the information she undertook the delicate task while the miller family were at church sunday morning morn lne ehe she went to the bouse house entered judge millers library unlocked bia his deek desk by means of skeleton eleton ek keys and copied a portion of the opinion which wag was taken to new now york and was the basis ot of very large transactions in stocks before the opinion was announced about 1 30 on monday the facts leaked out the widow was w as never allowed to enter th the miller oMiller house again ana was never again recognized by any of the 1110 family in fact she was compelled to leave washington Wap hington in disgrace but the got her |
