One of Truro’s earliest manufacturing industries, perhaps the first, was the Truro Boot and Shoe Factory. This building housed various industries, etc.The Truro Boot and Shoe Company manufactured footwear for workers and fishermen as well as shoes. The company was run by Mr. James Killer with assistance from L. H. Verge and James E. Benjamin. Around 1878, Mr. Killer died and the Truro Boot and Shoe Company, under new management, floundered for a while before the company’s assets were liquidated. The building was soon taken over by the Gates Organ and Piano Company. (Truro Nova Scotia 1915)

James ‘Killer’ Miller One of the darkest and most sadistic figures of the Old West was James “Killer” Miller, a paid assassin and gunslinger known to have killed at least 14 people, though legend has that number closer to 50. Also known as ‘Deacon Jim’ because he regularly went to church and did not smoke or drink, Miller openly stated that he would kill anyone for money. His rate reportedly somewhere ranged between $150 to $2,000 per kill. Miller’s murderous days came to an end when he was placed in jail in Oklahoma (for you guessed it, murder-killing the shit out of someone). A lynch mob stormed the jail, took Miller and hung him in a barn. The last words of a man who earned the nick name of ‘killer’? “Let ‘er rip!”