John Caddy, 52 years old, is dead and buried, and a widow and six children mourn the loss of a good husband and father, and grief centers about another home, because Will Nixon the 23-year-old son of the home is in jail charged with being the hit-and-run driver who killed Caddy on Hertford’s principal street in front of the Perquimans County courthouse Saturday night.
Both men were from Winfall, neighbors and employes of the big Major & Loomis mill between that town and Hertford.
Mixing liquor with gasoline is assigned as the reason for the accident. Nixon, now in jail, at first defiant, says he doesn’t recall having hit the man who died shortly after being struck. But the fact that a front light on the Ford Roadster was bent, and blood was found on it, is evidence that will be used against him. Sheriff Wright took Nixon into custody shortly after the accident. He is charged with manslaughter.
And so Perquimans County court, which convenes next week, will have two big murder cases, both concerning Winfall citizens, and Winfall is gloomy because the trouble reaches into so many of the community’s homes. The other case is that or Raymond Jordan, who killed his brother in law, George W. Moore with club, when he suspected the latter was killing his father, Alex Jordan, in a street scuffle.
Besides his wife, Caddy is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Boyce and Misses Ida and Nellie Caddy; two sons, Aulton and Judson Caddy, and a six months old infant, a brother, James T. Caddy of Elizabeth City, and three sisters, Mrs. G. W. Fairley of Los Angeles, California, Mrs. J. J. Overton of Norfolk, and Mrs. A. Tisefeltd of Chichester, New York. The funeral took place at Winfall Tuesday afternoon.
Nixon is a son of Neil Nixon, for 40 years keeper of the Norfolk Southern Railroad bridge across the Perquimans at Hertford.
From page 4 of The Independent, Elizabeth City, N.C., Oct. 29, 1926
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