Edith Lavoy/William Creasy
Article taken from The Charleston Daily Mail, Monday, October 2, 1922, p. 10.
"Killed Herself Because I Refused to Marry Her" he Testifies in Court
By the United Press
MINEOLA, N.Y., Oct. 2--Edith Lavoy killed herself because she loved me so and I would not marry her." William Creasy declared today as he was cross-examined in his trial on a charge of murdering the girl.
However, under the merciless questioning of District Attorney Weeks, he admitted that he never told her he had ceased to love her.
"I did not tell her right out point blank but in May, 1922, I told her I had decided not to marry her during that month. I told her that perhaps in another year I might feel differently. I do not recollect that I ever said I did not love her."
Miss Lavoy was killed in June, dying from a revolver shot fired in her brain while she was lying on a sofa with Creasy, cheek to cheek. He says she committed suicide.
Creasy was asked if he had ever said he would shoot Mrs. Creasy, his wife, at Portsmouth, Ohio. He said that he could not remember, but that he did tell their boarding house keeper at Portsmouth, when Mrs. Creasy went out one day, that "she doesn't know it, but she has gone for good."