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Negro Swears Wife Killed Boydf WASHINGTON. N. C. (If — Negro LaFayette Miller testified today that Mrs. Opal Moore Boyd shot her husband, a young white farmer Miller is accused of killing.Miller took the stand In his own defense today and told a jury of whiles and Negroes that Mrs. Boyd first asked him to kill her husband, and when he refused, took the 16-guage shotgun from his hand and shof HarVfeCharlie Boyd throughthe , window oI thoir bedroom.A fir Sksoco fron the crowded courtroom when Miller made thestatement.Highway patrolmen and sheriffr officers had testified earlier that Miller admitted the shooting on the night of the crime.Miller said the pretty brunette wife of the slain man first asked him to “do something for me” several weeks before the Thanksgiving Eve murder when the- young Negro parolee was at the Boyd farmhouse (Continued on Page Two111I Ills
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Daily Record
Dunn, North Carolina, US
Fri, Jan 18, 1952
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