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HORACE MILLSADJUDGED INSANEh t n antlt;iHorace Mills, 40-ycar-old former Pemberton resident charged Pwith the shotgun murder of his' son-in-law, Clarence Preston n Miller, jr., 26, Tuesday was ad-™ jjudged insane by a Raleigh county t; lunacy commission and ordered- committed to a state institution,- Assistant Prosecutor Harry Mc-11 Creery said yesterday, je A warrant charging Mills with j a murder was issued by state police ^ e; following the incident last Friday jsj-a morning in his daughter and son-|iri in-law’s home where police said . he had been staying for about a month alter separating from his! wife.Conservator of the Peace Walter Huff following the shooting stat-’jed he thought Mills was insane.! Mills, according to Huff, blew off I the back of Miller’s head with a blast from a 12 gauge shotgun and then, after throwing two of three shotguns out a window-, went to bed.State police reported they found Mills in bed “moaning like a crazyj man” when they arrived more than two hours atter the shooting.MeCreery said state authorities probably would transfer Mills i to an institution in about a w'eek.Cl innrnu onrnr rnro
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Beckley Post Herald
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Thu, Dec 06, 1945
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