Jim is a son of Morris and Sarah E Glenn Miller. He was single and age 30 when he died from homicide caused by a gunshot wound. It was a sad situation for all concerned.
The grandfather of this writer witnessed the shooting. He and his brother were young boys, riding their bikes by a house, when they saw a woman on the porch struggling with a man. They heard the shot, and saw him lying in the yard.
What they did not know until later was how the young widowed mother with several children had been harrassed by some young men. She had reported it to the judge in town, and he gave her a gun to use should she need it to protect her home and family.
Immediately after the shooting the woman walked out her back door, children in tow, to report what had happened to the sheriff Mr. Cantrell.
What she, nor the judge who had given her the gun knew until after the shooting, was that the man she shot was his son.
Kansas City Star - July 1, 1914, page 1 -
"Springfield, MO, July 20, James Miller, 27 years old, son of former sheriff Morris Miller of Dade County, was shot and killed today by Mrs. Alice McMasters, a widow, when the latter resisted the alleged intentions of Miller. The shooting occurred at the home of Mrs. McMasters in Dadeville, northeast of here, when Miller came to her home and was said to have forced his attentions upon her. She ordered him out of the house, Mrs. McMasters says, and when he hurled a chair at her from the porch, she opened fire, striking him near the heart. He died forty minutes later."
The grandfather of this writer witnessed the shooting. He and his brother were young boys, riding their bikes by a house, when they saw a woman on the porch struggling with a man. They heard the shot, and saw him lying in the yard.
What they did not know until later was how the young widowed mother with several children had been harrassed by some young men. She had reported it to the judge in town, and he gave her a gun to use should she need it to protect her home and family.
Immediately after the shooting the woman walked out her back door, children in tow, to report what had happened to the sheriff Mr. Cantrell.
What she, nor the judge who had given her the gun knew until after the shooting, was that the man she shot was his son.
Kansas City Star - July 1, 1914, page 1 -
"Springfield, MO, July 20, James Miller, 27 years old, son of former sheriff Morris Miller of Dade County, was shot and killed today by Mrs. Alice McMasters, a widow, when the latter resisted the alleged intentions of Miller. The shooting occurred at the home of Mrs. McMasters in Dadeville, northeast of here, when Miller came to her home and was said to have forced his attentions upon her. She ordered him out of the house, Mrs. McMasters says, and when he hurled a chair at her from the porch, she opened fire, striking him near the heart. He died forty minutes later."
Jim is a son of Morris and Sarah E Glenn Miller. He was single and age 30 when he died from homicide caused by a gunshot wound. It was a sad situation for all concerned.
The grandfather of this writer witnessed the shooting. He and his brother were young boys, riding their bikes by a house, when they saw a woman on the porch struggling with a man. They heard the shot, and saw him lying in the yard.
What they did not know until later was how the young widowed mother with several children had been harrassed by some young men. She had reported it to the judge in town, and he gave her a gun to use should she need it to protect her home and family.
Immediately after the shooting the woman walked out her back door, children in tow, to report what had happened to the sheriff Mr. Cantrell.
What she, nor the judge who had given her the gun knew until after the shooting, was that the man she shot was his son.
Kansas City Star - July 1, 1914, page 1 -
"Springfield, MO, July 20, James Miller, 27 years old, son of former sheriff Morris Miller of Dade County, was shot and killed today by Mrs. Alice McMasters, a widow, when the latter resisted the alleged intentions of Miller. The shooting occurred at the home of Mrs. McMasters in Dadeville, northeast of here, when Miller came to her home and was said to have forced his attentions upon her. She ordered him out of the house, Mrs. McMasters says, and when he hurled a chair at her from the porch, she opened fire, striking him near the heart. He died forty minutes later."
The grandfather of this writer witnessed the shooting. He and his brother were young boys, riding their bikes by a house, when they saw a woman on the porch struggling with a man. They heard the shot, and saw him lying in the yard.
What they did not know until later was how the young widowed mother with several children had been harrassed by some young men. She had reported it to the judge in town, and he gave her a gun to use should she need it to protect her home and family.
Immediately after the shooting the woman walked out her back door, children in tow, to report what had happened to the sheriff Mr. Cantrell.
What she, nor the judge who had given her the gun knew until after the shooting, was that the man she shot was his son.
Kansas City Star - July 1, 1914, page 1 -
"Springfield, MO, July 20, James Miller, 27 years old, son of former sheriff Morris Miller of Dade County, was shot and killed today by Mrs. Alice McMasters, a widow, when the latter resisted the alleged intentions of Miller. The shooting occurred at the home of Mrs. McMasters in Dadeville, northeast of here, when Miller came to her home and was said to have forced his attentions upon her. She ordered him out of the house, Mrs. McMasters says, and when he hurled a chair at her from the porch, she opened fire, striking him near the heart. He died forty minutes later."
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