Trial of Willie A. Doxey, 66, for Killing Nephew, Wm. H. Doxie, March 2, 1925

Willie Doxey Now on Trial for Life in Elizabeth City. . .Charged with Murder of William H. Doxey, Who Died in Hospital on February First. . . Deceased Warn to Leave Home. . . Had Been Reared in Home of the Defendant—Wife’s Name Is Brought Into the Case Also

By the Associated Press

Elizabeth City, March 2—Willie A. Doxey, charged with the murder of his nephew Wm. H. Doxey, who died in a local hospital February 1, was to go on trial today in Currituck superior court.

Doxey shot his nephew on January 31 after returning from a hunt and finding Mrs. Doxey away from home. Before the trial it was intimated Doxey and his nephew had engaged in a series of quarrels which ended in the former warning the latter not to visit his home again.

The defendant is now 66 years of age. Twenty-two years ago, he married Miss Daisy Hampton, 16, and known as the “belle of Currituck.” Soon after his marriage Doxey took his nephew, then a boy of 12, into his home. He was fond of hunting and was away from home many nights.

As Wm. Doxey became older, however, he became involved in quarrels with his uncle, and finally was warned never to enter the house again, it was stated.

Before dying, young Doxey left a statement in which he said that while he was on his way to Poplar Branch from the direction of Bertha, his uncle met him on the road. The elder man shouted that he was going to kill him, young Doxey said, adding that he wrested the revolver from his hand. The older man promised not to shoot, young Doxey continued, and the revolver was returned to him.

Then, the nephew asserted, Willie Doxey backed away 10 feet and shot him. His uncle’s wife was a “good woman, perfect as far as I know. We have prayed together many times.”

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, March 2, 1925

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