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p - Darwin C. Boyce b. New York State & Bettie Dills b. Parkersburg, WV
death: Gunshot wounds of abdomen - cut in abdominal aorta
died: Amherst, VA
residence: 251 N. Highland Ave., Lansdowne, Pa.
57 ys. 0 ms. 6 ds. old
married: Hettie B. Boyce
occupation: Retired Salesman
informant: W. H. Carter, Amherst, Va.
race: White
Body of Boyce Brought to City
The body of Fred W. Boyce, 57, prosperous retired automobile dealer of Lansdowne, Pa., and former Charleston resident, who died early Tuesday at Lynchburg, Va., of bullet wounds believed to have been inflicted by a hitch-hiker, was taken to the Owen-Barth mortuary Wednesday for chapel services at 1:30 p. m. Friday.
Shot in the back and left beside the road to die, Mr. Boyce was found about 10:15 p. m. Monday three miles south of Piney river en rout 29. Later, his automobile was found parked in Lynchburg.
Papers found in the car showed that Mr. Boyce was the owner of a considerable amount of property in Charleston.
Mr. Boyce left Charleston about 20 years ago after engaging in the automobile business here. He and his father, D. C. Boyce, owned the Boyce building on the river bank of Kanawha boulevard, facing Hale street. The building was torn down when the new boulevard was built.
His father, a prominent coal operator in the New river fields, also engaged in the salt business in Malden and was widely known in Charleston banking circles. He built the Elk hotel.
While in Charleston, the family lived at 1106 Virginia street, East, in the building now occupied by Dr. W. S. Shepherd, and were neighbors of Colonel Chilton.
Fred W. Boyce was a first cousin of Mrs. Walter R. Thurmond of 2025 Quarrier street and an intimate friend of Sam Chilton and Riley Wilson. He formerly operated a Cadillac automobile agency, leaving Charleston about 1918,
Mr. Boyce leaves his widow and two daughters. Burial will be in Spring Hill cemetery.
--Charleston Daily Mail [WV] April 16, 1941 Wed
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Escaped Convict Sought In F. W. Boyce Slaying
Lynchburg, Va. - Investigators expressed the belief that Walter Ross, 20, who escaped from a Tazewell county convict camp April 10 fits the description of the shabbily dressed hitch-hiker who was with Fred W. Boyce a short time before the retired Lansdowne, Pa., business man was killed whilel en route to Charleston, W. Va.
Both Commonwealth Attorney Walter H. Carter of Amherst county and Sergeant L. L. Stanley of state police said Ross, who lacked two years of serving a 15-year term for murder, was of about of the same build and general appearance as the man in whom Boyce gave supper in a Covesville restaurant Monday.
--Charleston Daily Mail [WV] April 19, 1941 Sat
p - Darwin C. Boyce b. New York State & Bettie Dills b. Parkersburg, WV
death: Gunshot wounds of abdomen - cut in abdominal aorta
died: Amherst, VA
residence: 251 N. Highland Ave., Lansdowne, Pa.
57 ys. 0 ms. 6 ds. old
married: Hettie B. Boyce
occupation: Retired Salesman
informant: W. H. Carter, Amherst, Va.
race: White
Body of Boyce Brought to City
The body of Fred W. Boyce, 57, prosperous retired automobile dealer of Lansdowne, Pa., and former Charleston resident, who died early Tuesday at Lynchburg, Va., of bullet wounds believed to have been inflicted by a hitch-hiker, was taken to the Owen-Barth mortuary Wednesday for chapel services at 1:30 p. m. Friday.
Shot in the back and left beside the road to die, Mr. Boyce was found about 10:15 p. m. Monday three miles south of Piney river en rout 29. Later, his automobile was found parked in Lynchburg.
Papers found in the car showed that Mr. Boyce was the owner of a considerable amount of property in Charleston.
Mr. Boyce left Charleston about 20 years ago after engaging in the automobile business here. He and his father, D. C. Boyce, owned the Boyce building on the river bank of Kanawha boulevard, facing Hale street. The building was torn down when the new boulevard was built.
His father, a prominent coal operator in the New river fields, also engaged in the salt business in Malden and was widely known in Charleston banking circles. He built the Elk hotel.
While in Charleston, the family lived at 1106 Virginia street, East, in the building now occupied by Dr. W. S. Shepherd, and were neighbors of Colonel Chilton.
Fred W. Boyce was a first cousin of Mrs. Walter R. Thurmond of 2025 Quarrier street and an intimate friend of Sam Chilton and Riley Wilson. He formerly operated a Cadillac automobile agency, leaving Charleston about 1918,
Mr. Boyce leaves his widow and two daughters. Burial will be in Spring Hill cemetery.
--Charleston Daily Mail [WV] April 16, 1941 Wed
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Escaped Convict Sought In F. W. Boyce Slaying
Lynchburg, Va. - Investigators expressed the belief that Walter Ross, 20, who escaped from a Tazewell county convict camp April 10 fits the description of the shabbily dressed hitch-hiker who was with Fred W. Boyce a short time before the retired Lansdowne, Pa., business man was killed whilel en route to Charleston, W. Va.
Both Commonwealth Attorney Walter H. Carter of Amherst county and Sergeant L. L. Stanley of state police said Ross, who lacked two years of serving a 15-year term for murder, was of about of the same build and general appearance as the man in whom Boyce gave supper in a Covesville restaurant Monday.
--Charleston Daily Mail [WV] April 19, 1941 Sat
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p - Darwin C. Boyce b. New York State & Bettie Dills b. Parkersburg, WV
death: Gunshot wounds of abdomen - cut in abdominal aorta
died: Amherst, VA
residence: 251 N. Highland Ave., Lansdowne, Pa.
57 ys. 0 ms. 6 ds. old
married: Hettie B. Boyce
occupation: Retired Salesman
informant: W. H. Carter, Amherst, Va.
race: White
Body of Boyce Brought to City
The body of Fred W. Boyce, 57, prosperous retired automobile dealer of Lansdowne, Pa., and former Charleston resident, who died early Tuesday at Lynchburg, Va., of bullet wounds believed to have been inflicted by a hitch-hiker, was taken to the Owen-Barth mortuary Wednesday for chapel services at 1:30 p. m. Friday.
Shot in the back and left beside the road to die, Mr. Boyce was found about 10:15 p. m. Monday three miles south of Piney river en rout 29. Later, his automobile was found parked in Lynchburg.
Papers found in the car showed that Mr. Boyce was the owner of a considerable amount of property in Charleston.
Mr. Boyce left Charleston about 20 years ago after engaging in the automobile business here. He and his father, D. C. Boyce, owned the Boyce building on the river bank of Kanawha boulevard, facing Hale street. The building was torn down when the new boulevard was built.
His father, a prominent coal operator in the New river fields, also engaged in the salt business in Malden and was widely known in Charleston banking circles. He built the Elk hotel.
While in Charleston, the family lived at 1106 Virginia street, East, in the building now occupied by Dr. W. S. Shepherd, and were neighbors of Colonel Chilton.
Fred W. Boyce was a first cousin of Mrs. Walter R. Thurmond of 2025 Quarrier street and an intimate friend of Sam Chilton and Riley Wilson. He formerly operated a Cadillac automobile agency, leaving Charleston about 1918,
Mr. Boyce leaves his widow and two daughters. Burial will be in Spring Hill cemetery.
--Charleston Daily Mail [WV] April 16, 1941 Wed
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Escaped Convict Sought In F. W. Boyce Slaying
Lynchburg, Va. - Investigators expressed the belief that Walter Ross, 20, who escaped from a Tazewell county convict camp April 10 fits the description of the shabbily dressed hitch-hiker who was with Fred W. Boyce a short time before the retired Lansdowne, Pa., business man was killed whilel en route to Charleston, W. Va.
Both Commonwealth Attorney Walter H. Carter of Amherst county and Sergeant L. L. Stanley of state police said Ross, who lacked two years of serving a 15-year term for murder, was of about of the same build and general appearance as the man in whom Boyce gave supper in a Covesville restaurant Monday.
--Charleston Daily Mail [WV] April 19, 1941 Sat
p - Darwin C. Boyce b. New York State & Bettie Dills b. Parkersburg, WV
death: Gunshot wounds of abdomen - cut in abdominal aorta
died: Amherst, VA
residence: 251 N. Highland Ave., Lansdowne, Pa.
57 ys. 0 ms. 6 ds. old
married: Hettie B. Boyce
occupation: Retired Salesman
informant: W. H. Carter, Amherst, Va.
race: White
Body of Boyce Brought to City
The body of Fred W. Boyce, 57, prosperous retired automobile dealer of Lansdowne, Pa., and former Charleston resident, who died early Tuesday at Lynchburg, Va., of bullet wounds believed to have been inflicted by a hitch-hiker, was taken to the Owen-Barth mortuary Wednesday for chapel services at 1:30 p. m. Friday.
Shot in the back and left beside the road to die, Mr. Boyce was found about 10:15 p. m. Monday three miles south of Piney river en rout 29. Later, his automobile was found parked in Lynchburg.
Papers found in the car showed that Mr. Boyce was the owner of a considerable amount of property in Charleston.
Mr. Boyce left Charleston about 20 years ago after engaging in the automobile business here. He and his father, D. C. Boyce, owned the Boyce building on the river bank of Kanawha boulevard, facing Hale street. The building was torn down when the new boulevard was built.
His father, a prominent coal operator in the New river fields, also engaged in the salt business in Malden and was widely known in Charleston banking circles. He built the Elk hotel.
While in Charleston, the family lived at 1106 Virginia street, East, in the building now occupied by Dr. W. S. Shepherd, and were neighbors of Colonel Chilton.
Fred W. Boyce was a first cousin of Mrs. Walter R. Thurmond of 2025 Quarrier street and an intimate friend of Sam Chilton and Riley Wilson. He formerly operated a Cadillac automobile agency, leaving Charleston about 1918,
Mr. Boyce leaves his widow and two daughters. Burial will be in Spring Hill cemetery.
--Charleston Daily Mail [WV] April 16, 1941 Wed
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Escaped Convict Sought In F. W. Boyce Slaying
Lynchburg, Va. - Investigators expressed the belief that Walter Ross, 20, who escaped from a Tazewell county convict camp April 10 fits the description of the shabbily dressed hitch-hiker who was with Fred W. Boyce a short time before the retired Lansdowne, Pa., business man was killed whilel en route to Charleston, W. Va.
Both Commonwealth Attorney Walter H. Carter of Amherst county and Sergeant L. L. Stanley of state police said Ross, who lacked two years of serving a 15-year term for murder, was of about of the same build and general appearance as the man in whom Boyce gave supper in a Covesville restaurant Monday.
--Charleston Daily Mail [WV] April 19, 1941 Sat
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