Monday, February 24, 2020

Courtship Leads to Double Homicide, Feb. 24, 1920

From the Hickory Daily Record, Feb. 24, 1920

South Carolinians in a Parlor Gun Battle

Columbia, S.C., Feb. 24—Allie Cone, aged 20, and Orbic Cone, aged 17, were instantly killed and John Brant, 22, slightly wounded in a gun battle in the parlor of the home of E.P. Phillips, a prosperous farmer living near Allendale, about 8 o’clock Sunday, the news reaching Columbia last evening.

John Brant and his brother, Earl Brant, 17, are under arrest, charged with the double killing. The slain Cone lads were first cousins. The shooting occurred in the presence of two of Mr. Phillips’ daughters, upon whom the men involved were calling, according to the police authorities. Details reaching here as to the cause of the fight are conflicting.

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