Greenville, N.C., June 24—Wilbur and Leland Stancill, brothers, aged 31 and 23 years, respectively, sons of a well-to-do farmer residing about four miles from Greenville, are dead and Edward Evans, aged 23, and Francis Johnson, aged 12, half-brothers and who resided on the Stancil plantation, are held in the Pitt County jail without bond charged with the double murder, which occurred about 8 o’clock this evening following an argument over parking rights in a garage on the Stancil place.
According to the reports of the tragedy as gleaned by officers who arrested Evans and Johnson, a dispute over the rights of the use of the garage brought on an argument which resulted in a fist fight between the quartette. Evans and Johnson are said to have been bested. A few minutes later they went to their home and secured a rifle and shotgun and returned to the scene and opened fire on the Stancils. Both fell mortally wounded at the first volley and died before they could be brought to a hospital in this town.
As soon as the authorities were notified of the shooting they went in search of the slayers, both of whom are sons of a prominent farmer in this county. They were located within a short while and immediately brought to Greenville and placed in the county jail. Tomorrow they will appear before the county coroner and testify as to the tragedy.
All the parties implicated in the tragedy are more or less prominent in this community and the affair is deeply regretted.
From the front page of the Goldsboro News, Friday, June 25, 1926
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