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Later, the two women allegedly forged a state warrant and went to Hendersonville, where they tried to arrest Mills, with McGuire dressed like a police officer in a blue skirt and jacket, a white blouse and a badge obtained from a department store.They allegedly forged the name of a nonexistent Mercer County magistrate on the warrant and tried to arrest Mills on charges of possession and transfer of marijuana, but McGuire later told the minister she wasn’t an officer. The two then fled back to West Virginia.Thomson said Sunday that the two women apparently were going to try again, but that word of their efforts had come “through the grapevine.”He said he charged them with conspiracy to commit abduction rather than kidnapping after consulting prosecutors.The abduction charge was chosen because the women never had anv\thought of collecting ransom and becaut^of the romantic nature of the susjWt’s alleged motivations.ThomsOT^said McGuire gave police a confes^on which outlined the nature of the pjot.He added that^ills is expected to be in Mabscott o^ Thursday and give police a statement in the case.Deaths■ Continued from 6ATressie TilleyLYNCO — Mrs Tressie Tilley, 63, died Saturday in a Beckley hospital after a short illness.Born Oct. 4, 1922, at Clear Fork, she was the daughter of the late Leonard Weaver and Ollie Blankenship.Mrs. Tilley was a lifeiong resident of
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Beckley Register Herald
Beckley, West Virginia, US
Mon, May 12, 1986
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