Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Foy Siler Murders His Infant Son, Severely Injures Wife with Axe, Flees Scene, April 22,1926

Slays His Infant and Carves Wife With Axe. . . Siler City Mulatto Goes After Estranged Spouse in Approved Cave Man Style

Winston-Salem, April 21—Foy Siler, a mulatto, aged about 50 years, who came here a week ago from Siler City, this afternoon went to the home of his wife, in the eastern part of the city, with whom he had not been living, picked up an axe in the yard, and going into the house proceeded to slay his child, an infant, and then severely carved up his wife with the weapon. The irate husband then fled from the city, and the wife was rushed to a hospital.

From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Thursday, April 22, 1926

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