Emmet-Cheboygan County MI Archives News.....Lockey McCullough Arrested March 1, 1882
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Saginaw News March 1, 1882
Murder Will Out

A Mysterious Murder at Petosky is Explained, and One of the Murderers Arrested

Petosky, March 1.-Yesterday Lockey McCullough, who is now in jail at Harbor 
Springs on suspicion, confessed to being an accomplice in the murder of Henry 
Miller, four years ago, in Petosky. Sheriff Aldrich, of this place, has been on 
the track of McCullough for two weeks past, and found him on Saturday last in a 
lumber camp on Black River, in Cheboygan county. The officer says that 
McCullough disclosed something about the murder to a man in camp while they were 
both drunk, and subsequently the latter, reported McCullough's story, which 
reached the ears of Aldrich. Since then he has been working up the case. Last 
week he arrested McCullough and brought him to Harbor Springs, where he 
confessed that he helped kill Miller, and that Pat McCarty of this place, and E. 
C. Becker, now of Jackson, were his associates. About four years ago Henry 
Miller lived on a farm near Bliss, Emmet county. Late in the fall he left his 
farms to go to Traverse City, to work for Hannah, Lay & Co. He was on his return 
from Traverse City by the steamer Van Rualto when he stopped at Petosky. The 
boat landed about 8 o'clock at night. Miller told the captain that he had 
something at the Weeks House that he wanted to get, and would return quickly. 
The captain held the boat awhile, and, as Miller did not return, the boat went 
off without him. The night was very dark, and there was no light on the dock. 
About a week afterwards a man in a row boat saw Miller's body lying at the 
bottom of the bay, and fished it out. He was at once identified, and an inquest 
was held. The jury returned a verdict of death by accident. The opinion of the 
jury was that the man had fallen off the dock in the darkness, and had struck 
his head on a projecting log, which produced the large wound found on the back 
of his head. Notwithstanding the verdict of the jury the prevailing opinion was 
that it was a case of murder. No witnesses could be found who saw Miller ashore. 
Weeks, the proprietor of the hotel where Miller's things were, testified that he 
did not see him that evening.

In his confession, McCullough stated that McCarty killed Miller back of the 
Eckers livery stable and threw his body in the bay, and that Becker and himself 
assisted the murderer. It was done with the idea that Miller had quite a sum of 
money with him.

There is great excitement here about the case, and the people are impatiently 
awaiting the examination, which will be held to-morrow. McCarty is under arrest, 
but has been bailed out. The examination will probably lead to the arrest of two 
others who are thought to be implicated.

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