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I have a clip of a newspaper article and would like help on how I go about finding court records etc for the William Miller in the article (my late grandfather). His birth name is actually William John Wirthmiller. I would ultimately like a copy of the newspaper and to find the details about his conviction... can anyone help please???

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/searchbna/viewrecord/bl/0000563/19381122/115/0006

Shani - we can't see anything from that link, only an option to purchase credits for GR.

Can you give us some more details of what you have found please and we can see if we can help.

Dea Xxx

The Newspaper Article confirms the conviction.

The British Library Board has the article.

I will pm details to you Shani.

Sappho

If we have the name and date then the criminal records on various sites other than this could be checked .....

EDIT: Having seen the article, it could be too recent for those records.

For SOME idea of time-scale

Births Jun 1913 (>99%)
Wirthmiller William J Ames Elham 2a 2226

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/s/res?_q=wirthmiller

(Applications for Naturalisation, another)

Chris :)

Hi folks,

I have pm Shani and asked her to comment on my findings on the thread. I will prompt her to do this as I think it may well help with member searching.

Sappho

Hello All

Many thanks for your information, I will put a copy up on here in a sec (i'm at work hehe)
Sorry I didn't back to you straight away yesterday, I was up till the early hours emptying my kitchen for the fitters today, only to find out this morning they have cancelled!!!!!! Not happy x

Sappho kindly sent me the article;

Johanne Wirthmiller, 60 year old Folkstone Boarding House proprietor and father of William John Miller, the Mayfair man was sentence at Derby Assizes last Thursday to 18 months imprisonment, but did not know of the sentence when he gassed himself.

This was stated by the daughter of the man at the inquest at Folkestone where the verdict of suicide by gassing whilst the balance of his mind was disturbed was returned.

The daughter, Mrs Eleanor M Robinson, Clifton Crescent, Folkestone said that whilst her fther was known as John Wirthmiller, he was of German Nationality and had been naturlised.

Her father's and mother's business had been very bad lately and he had been very worried about the recent crisis and being a higly strung man, took """"""worse than a normal person.

Witness said I want to state emphatically that what my brother has done has nothing whatsoever with my father's death. Unfortunately my brother has learned where he is that he is the cause of it and he is very much upset about it.

Mrs. Robinson added that the previous weekend her father had threatened to take his life, saying he felt he could go on no longer.

Shani the article is headed thus:

MAYFAIR MAN'S FATHER GASSED HIMSELF
DID NOT KNOW OF SENTENCE OF SON.