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The Marion County Patriot, May 30, 1902
The Marion County Patriot, No. 22
May 30, 1902
Page Three

Jealous Lover Slays Girl

In House of Worship Young Man Draws Pistol and Ends Life of Unreciprocative
Sweetheart

A startling tragedy was enacted Sunday morning in Wesley chapel, the little
Methodist church at Ben Hill, in Fulton County, Ga. The doxology had hardly
been concluded when the departing congregation was startled by two pistol shots
and the dying shriek of a young woman.

The quiet little house of worship was suddenly made the scene of an awful
tragedy – the fruit of the morbid passion of a young man for a young woman who
had resisted his every advance.

Miss Lilla Suttles was shot to death by Millard Lee, the ball from his pistol
piercing her heart. Crying, “O, papa,” she fell into the arms of her father,
Dr. J.M. Suttles, who had rushed up at the sound of the pistol shots. The
young woman died without speaking again.

The church was crowded at the time and the greatest confusion ensued. It was
some minutes before the people realized what had happened. Before the
awfulness of the crime dawned upon them Lee had walked from the church
building. At the door he was caught by Earl Suttles, the young brother of the
girl he had slain. Young Suttles caught hold of Lee and attempted to hold him,
but Lee placed his pistol against the boy’s breast and told him that he would
shoot him if he did not release him. Young Suttles, in desperation, yielded
his hold and Lee took flight.

While talking to her girlfriends Miss Suttles became separated for the moment
from her escort. Millard Lee walked up to the group of which she was in the
center and touching her on the arm, asked to speak to her a moment. She
stepped to one side and he asked her if he could drive her home. “No,” she
replied, “I have company.”

Lee was heard to mutter: “If you won’t let me take you home I shall shoot
you.” Before anyone was aware of his intentions, he pulled his pistol and
fired at Miss Suttles. The ball struck just above her left hip, but glanced on
a corset steel. Miss Suttles screamed and ran toward her father, who was up at
the chancel speaking to the preacher.

As she ran from him, Lee deliberately fired at her again. The ball entered her
back just between her shoulder blades and about an inch and a half from the
spine. It passed directly through her heart and came out between the fifth and
sixth ribs about an inch to the left of the breast bone. The ball did not pass
entirely through her body, but protruded from the flesh.

Dr. Suttles ran to his daughter at the sound of her agonizing scream. He
reached her just in time to catch her as she fell. She recognized him and
screamed, “O, papa,” but died before he could lower her to the floor.

The Marion County Patriot, No. 22
May 30, 1902
Page Six

Miss Lilla Suttles, daughter of Dr. J.W. Suttles, of Ben Hill, Ga., about nine
miles from Atlanta, was shot to death in a crowded church Sunday by Millard
Lee, a jealous lover.

Millard Lee, the slayer of Miss Lilla Suttles at Ben Hill, Ga., Sunday was
captured Monday morning at Mableton and lodged in Fulton County jail at Atlanta.



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