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Miller: never always carried a gun as a police officer should 

 do. This was unnecessary. I don't think you can 



find a similar case in the whole United States where 



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the sheriff for eight years didn't have to carry a 

 gun. I just had them frightened to death. 



I'll give you an instance here: I shot one time 

 in Antioch at a carnival. A few people started coming 

 in and pretty soon a very large crowd of about 200 

 when a colored man stepped up and said [in dialect], 

 *I understand you's the high law." 



I said, w Yes, sir.** 



"You the high sheriff of this county?" 



"Yes, sir." 



"I 'so an escaped murderer, Missouri State Pen. 

 When the law shoots like that, they're gonna get me 

 sooner or later. I give myself up." 



I was never so surprised in my life. I clapped 

 the handcuffs on him, put him in my car, rushed him 

 down here, called the warden at Joplin State Pen t 

 and he said, "Yes, sir, that's the worst criminal 

 we've ever had. Hold him." 



