26 February 1849 Brooklyn Daily Eagle THE HEMPSTEAD FIRE. The opinion seems to prevail that the home of Mr. MILLER was set on fire to conceal the foul murder of the family, and strange to say, suspicion has fallen on Mr. MILLER himself as the murderer. He has accordingly been arrested, and the case will undergo a thorough investigation. Of course we cannot, at this distance, be very well informed respecting Mr. MILLER's previous character on the motives which could have lead to so horrible a deed. But unless the evidence is strong against him, and the motive can be made to appear, the public will be slow to believe that a father would murder his own daughter sixteen years old, and his own sons of six and eight years. We shall be glad to know on what facts this awful suspicion is grounded. It appears that Mr. MILLER's conduct has tended to deepen the suspicion against him. The committee appointed to investigate the circumstances attending the fire, requested MILLER's brother-in-law to ask his attendance before them for the purpose of eliciting information from him, but he refused to attend. The sheriff made the same request, but Mr. MILLER still refused. It was their determination to arrest him and have an investigation in a legal way. P.S. We are informed that an attempts was made yesterday to hold an examination of MILLER at Trimmings Square, but owing to the tremendous crowd that congregated at the small tavern where it was proposed to be held, the attempt was rendered futile and the examination postponed until to day at the Queens county court house. Transcriptions by Marilyn Wright for the Bklyn Info Pages http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blkyn/Bklyn.Info.Page.html