George Troxler was born about 1902 to Henry and Lula Troxler in Gibsonville, North Carolina. Troxler was one of three men accused of sexually assaulting Eula Virginia Riddle in Alamance County in July 1920. Following the assault, bloodhounds allegedly led authorities from the Riddle residence to Rainey Hospital, where Troxler worked as a cook. There, authorities found a sleeping Troxler and quickly arrested him. They additionally arrested two other Black men, Arthur Vesie and Will Lee, who were sleeping nearby, but it's unclear how they made the determination to do so. The state's governor deployed a national guard unit out of Durham to prevent the lynching of these three men. Mrs. Riddle did not identify any of the three as her attacker. Troxler was held longer than Lee and Vesie. In September, a judge threw out the case, citing the victim's inability to even give the race of her attacker, a half dozen witnesses who could corroborate Troxler's whereabouts at the time of the assault, and the unreliability of the state's bloodhound evidence. At some point following the attempt on his life, Troxler relocated to Wake County, where he worked as a waiter until his death there on February 11, 1927.