Franklin County Virginia USGenWeb Archives News.....Shot to Death In His Own Home July 11, 1905
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Richmond Times-Dispatch July 11, 1905
             Nowlin's Head Nearly Blown Off With a Shot Gun

                    HIS BROTHER WAS VICTIM OF ASSASSINS

The Slayer Claims He Fired the Shot in Self-Defense.   Arrested By a Citizen and 
Carried to Jail

                         Special to the Times-Dispatch

ROCKY MOUNT, VA. July 16--George McAlexander shot and instantly killed Ike 
Nowlin Sunday last about 2 o'clock in his own home.   Ike Nowlin was a brother 
of the Nowlin who was killed in the same section of country from ambush a year 
ago while on horseback with his little child.   McAlexander had been laying a 
hearth for Nowlin; they quarreled and McAlexander shot the greater part of his 
face and head away, killing him instantly.  Nowlin was sitting on his bed when 
he was shot.  The shooting was done with a shotgun at close range just across a 
small room.
  Both men have families.  No one saw the shooting but Nowlin's five year old 
son.  McAlexander says he shot in self-defense.
  McAlexander was wanted two or three years ago charged with shooting DeHart 
from ambush in Patrick County; but there was no proof obtainable against him, 
and he was discharged.
  A citizen, a Mr. Peters arrested McAlexander and lodged him in jail here 
today.

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