The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-11
BARE DETAILS
OF SACRIFICE
DEATH Scene
Kentuckians Are Waiting
for Resurrection of
Aged Woman.
FANTASTIC STORY TOLD
Mountain Cabin Is Used for
Frenzied Orgy Bring
ing Killing.
By United Press

By Cntted Press
INEZ, KY, Feb. 1.-THE fan
tastic story of what happened at
Tomahawk when aged Lucinda Mills
was killed in a Sacrificial ceremony
by her religion crazed kinfolk, has
been given to county authorities by
Mrs. Tom Boyd, in whose noun
tainside cabin the cult members
held their last frenzied orgy.
AS Mrs. Boyd, the victims daugh-
ter, narrated the incidents which
led to the death, the countryside
waited apprehenSively for the prom
ised resurrection" of the dead
woman.
John Mills, cult leader and one
of her sons, who is accused of the
actual killing, predicted that his r.
year-old mother would arise from
the dead today, born anew with
out sin"
Eight Held in Killing
Meanwhile, in the county Jail, the
eight members of the family who
we're arrested at the height of their
ceremonial, were somewhat quoted
and, for the most part, had ceased
their chanting and wailing. Mills
muttered his strange gibberish oc-
caSionally.
Mrs. Boyd said she and her hus-
band and her mother were at home
in their cabin Tuesday.
1--WE got up about II o'clock"
she said, and ate breakfast. It
wasn't long before I heard shouting
down the crick, and 1 looked out
the window.
John Mills was coming up the
holler holding stick in front of
him. His eye were shut, and he
had a Bible in his other hand.
Smites Flock With Stick
alongside of him was Ballard
Mills Ca nephew of Mrs. Mills and
he was carrying another stick, and
holding it just like John.
They came on stumbling I'D the
road, and 1 could see they were
walking with their eyes shut because
they stumbled over the rocks and
bushes.
Behind John and Ballard were
their wives and Fred Mills and his
wife and about thirty-five or forty
kids. When I saw them I was
scared. 1 knew something was 60
ing to happen.
After they got in the house, they
started praying and shouting and
John went around shifting people
with the stick to see if they were
worthy.
INSTRUCTED by Lord"
"After while, John said he had
been instructed by the Lord to kill
six virgins, and they all began to
look around to see who they would
pick for the virgins. Some of the
kids got scared, and ran out of the
house.
After they chanted a while, John
said he was going to drive the devils
out of our mother. She was in the
other room, and had sick head
ache.
John brought her out, and she
sat down on the altar. Then John
told her to lay down on the altar.
and he started waving his hands
and praying. The others were YELL
ing in the tongue
Then, all of a sudden, John grab
oed her throat, and started to choke
ner.
Too Weak to Escape
He got his knee in her chest. and
her with one hand and beat
1er with the other.
She tried to get away but she
vas too weak"
After Mrs. Mills had been killed
preparations were being made TO
ourn her body as a sacrifice to God
when authorities, notified of the
'hantlng by neighbors, broke in the
cabin door.
John Mills is charged with the
murder OF his mother while the
'ther eight members of the noun |
,aineer family are held as accom- |
1lices.