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Lila May Suttles was gone and her funeral was over.

Early the next morning, Millard was apprehended. “Young Lee was captured at 5 o’clock yesterday morning at Mableton, just as the party was about to give up the pursuit,” the Atlanta Constitution reported. “He surrendered without making a show of fight and no attempt at violence was made by those had been following him. He was brought to Atlanta…and lodged in Fulton County Jail.”

Millard’s only words at the time he was caught was that he loved Lila and he couldn’t help what had happened. “I loved her and now you can take me away and hang me!”

That he was caught was a relief to everyone but it could bring no real satisfaction because the crime itself was senseless. Reporters, attorneys, and policemen swarmed the jail while people at home waited for some news, some piece of information that would make sense of the tragedy.

John Lee hurried to Atlanta to see his desperado son.

Millard Lee

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