5 blind mice's video: JIM THE KILLER MILLER - DEACON JIM THE WILD WEST OUTLAW - HIT MAN

JIM THE KILLER MILLER - DEACON JIM THE WILD WEST OUTLAW - HIT MAN James Brown Miller was born October the 25th of 1861 they called him killing Jim Jim killer Miller Deacon Jim and I suppose a few other choice names along with that now Miller was born in Van Buren Arkansas his parents migrated to Franklin Texas when he was one year old his father Jacob Miller was born in Pennsylvania in 1801 he was a stonemason and helped build a first Capitol building and Austin Miller's mother was born Cynthia Basham now just a few years after the move Miller's father died so the mother took their children who went to evant Texas to live with her parents in 1869 when Miller was 8 years old as the legend goes his grandparents were found murdered in their home Miller was arrested but was not prosecuted for the crime his sister Georgia and her husband John Thomas cope accepted the boy onto their farm at Plum Creek Inn which is near Gatesville the 1880 census records him as being 19 years old and living in Coryell County Texas with the siblings and widowed mother on July the 30th of 1884 Miller shot his brother-in-law with a shotgun while he was sleeping on the porch Miller was arrested for the murder convicted and sentenced to life in prison but there's a lot of butts in this story but the conviction was overturned on a technicality so after leaving the coop farm Miller became a hired hand on the McCulloch County ranch of Emanuel Clements in which was cousin of the outlaw John Wesley Hardin now his boss Clements was killed by Ballinger city marshal Joe Townsend on March 2 29th of 1887 during the period when Miller worked at the ranch Townsend the marshal was later ambushed it is said by an assailant wielding a shotgun and this became known as Miller's signature style the shotgun blasts severely wounded Townsend in the arm but he survived but eventually he lost his arm because it needed to be amputated over the next couple of years Miller travelled the texas-mexico border region and he operated a saloon in San Saba County in Reeves County Miller became a deputy sheriff and later town marshal and Pecos during this time he gained a reputation for killing Mexicans he said that they were attempting to escape it was in 1891 that Miller married Sally Clements and which was the daughter of man and Clements assuming the appearance of a devout Methodist he would earn the nickname Deacon Jim he was well-liked by the townspeople because he was polite and an avid member of the church but regardless of the weather he was known to wear a long black coat now Miller became involved in a feud with Pecos sheriff George a Frazer while Fraser was on a trip to El Paso he was informed that Miller had allowed criminals to gain greater control over Pecos so Frazer the sheriff enlisted the help of Texas Ranger John R Hughes to secure Pecos after returning to Pecos Frazer and which was the sheriff immediately jailed Miller on a charge of murder a jury acquitted him of this charge no after that Frazer the sheriff believed that Miller had stolen mules and had him arrested for theft no in April the 12th of 1894 in Pecos Miller was confronted by Frazer about his involvement in the murder of cattleman Kahn Gibson Frazer the sheriff did not wait for Miller to go for his shotgun and shot and wounded him in the right arm while Miller was attempting to fire his gun with his left hand heeding bystander joke Rance Frazer fired again hitting Miller in the groin which finally put him down Frazer the sheriff emptied his six-shooter into Miller's chest after Miller's friends had rushed him to a doctor his frock-coat was removed to reveal a large steel plate that Miller wore under it as a kind of bulletproof vest in which saved his life and once you know Miller recovered now several months later on December the 26th of 1894 Miller was standing outside of a blacksmith's shop when Fraser began to fire at him Fraser hit Miller in the arm and leg rushing in to finish him off Fraser tried to shoot Miller in the chest but the metal plate in Miller's coat saved him again Fraser demoralized quickly retreated Miller had Fraser charged with attempted murder the case was heard in El Paso and ended in a hung jury now Fraser lost his bid for re-election as sheriff and left town for Eddie New Mexico and which is now Carlsbad a few months later he returned to Pecos area to visit his mother and sister Miller learned Fraser was in the area on September the 13th of 1896 Fraser was at a gambling table in toya Texas Miller opened the saloon swinging doors leveling his shotgun and shot Frazer who was dealing it is said that he removed most of his head Fraser sister confronted Miller and he threatened to kill her as well and once you know a jury acquitted Miller there was a witness who testified against Miller. Keywords..........killer miller and assassin.The wild west outlaw jim the killer miller.