LEE NORRIS
I.C.MILLER
May 11, 1897
Arizona Republican Newspaper

A little after 1 o'clock a telegram was received at the sheriff's 
office here from the under sheriff at Prescott, saying that a 
fatal delivery had occurred there.  The jailor had been badly 
beaten and Asst. District Attorney Lee Norris had been shot and 
three prisoners, Jim Parker, the Peach Springs train robber, L.
C. Miller, the forger and a Mexican murderer Cornelia, were at 
large and going south.


Lee Norris, the murdered man is a younger brother of Hon. T.G. 
Norris. He was graduated from the University of Michigan last 
year and came directly to Arizona.  He was less than thirty 
years old, a young man of promise and well liked. He had been 
connected with the office of the district attorney since the 
first of this year.

The desperadoes rode out into the country pursued half an hour 
later by a respectable posse of fifty men.  Sheriff Ruffner 
was at Congress when he heard of the delivery.  He went back 
on a special engine and directed a further pursuit.

At nightfall a part of the posse overtook the outlaws at the 
Lynx Creek divide.  A man named Yeoman shot Miller's horse and 
Deputy Sheriff Munds shot Miller.  The train robber lifted 
Miller behind him and rode away yelling defiantly in reply 
to shots from the posse.  They were going toward the Agua 
Fria with the possible intention of crossing into the 
Verde country where Parker is supposed to have friends.  

The history of Parker is so well known and his exploits as a 
train robber are so recent as to hardly warrant a further 
description.  From what is known of him there is little doubt 
that his capture will involve at least the death of himself 
if not that of one or more of his pursuers.

Miller, the forgerer, was arrested at Tucson two weeks ago 
and was kept overnight in the jail there. He was a constable 
at Prescott three years ago and at that time shot Miles 
Archibald, then chief of police.  The Mexican, Cornelia 
was in jail for a shooting at the Crown King.


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