DEADLY PISTOL DUEL IN SOUTH CAROLINA COURT HOUSE
Florence, S.C., Feb. 8 – Dr. William Ilderton, a physician, is dead and J. Wilburn Hicks, an attorney, lies in an infirmary dangerously wounded as the result of a pistol duel in the hall of the county court house here at noon today. Both men had been felled by each other’s shots when the physician’s son, Geddings Ilderton, rushed into the hall and fired two or three times. The physician died a few minutes later, and it is not known who fired the fatal shot. The judge of probate and the master, H. A. Burnson, tried to separate the two men immediately after the shooting began.
It is said the shooting is a sequel to intense feeling between Ilderton and Hicks following the separation of the physician and his wife in 1915 and the suit for alimony filed by her attorney, Mr. Hicks, a short time later.
Submitted by Rebecca
From: The Monroe Journal, Feb 12,1918 (Monroe, NC)
Florence, S.C., Feb. 8 – Dr. William Ilderton, a physician, is dead and J. Wilburn Hicks, an attorney, lies in an infirmary dangerously wounded as the result of a pistol duel in the hall of the county court house here at noon today. Both men had been felled by each other’s shots when the physician’s son, Geddings Ilderton, rushed into the hall and fired two or three times. The physician died a few minutes later, and it is not known who fired the fatal shot. The judge of probate and the master, H. A. Burnson, tried to separate the two men immediately after the shooting began.
It is said the shooting is a sequel to intense feeling between Ilderton and Hicks following the separation of the physician and his wife in 1915 and the suit for alimony filed by her attorney, Mr. Hicks, a short time later.
Submitted by Rebecca
From: The Monroe Journal, Feb 12,1918 (Monroe, NC)
DEADLY PISTOL DUEL IN SOUTH CAROLINA COURT HOUSE
Florence, S.C., Feb. 8 – Dr. William Ilderton, a physician, is dead and J. Wilburn Hicks, an attorney, lies in an infirmary dangerously wounded as the result of a pistol duel in the hall of the county court house here at noon today. Both men had been felled by each other’s shots when the physician’s son, Geddings Ilderton, rushed into the hall and fired two or three times. The physician died a few minutes later, and it is not known who fired the fatal shot. The judge of probate and the master, H. A. Burnson, tried to separate the two men immediately after the shooting began.
It is said the shooting is a sequel to intense feeling between Ilderton and Hicks following the separation of the physician and his wife in 1915 and the suit for alimony filed by her attorney, Mr. Hicks, a short time later.
Submitted by Rebecca
From: The Monroe Journal, Feb 12,1918 (Monroe, NC)
Florence, S.C., Feb. 8 – Dr. William Ilderton, a physician, is dead and J. Wilburn Hicks, an attorney, lies in an infirmary dangerously wounded as the result of a pistol duel in the hall of the county court house here at noon today. Both men had been felled by each other’s shots when the physician’s son, Geddings Ilderton, rushed into the hall and fired two or three times. The physician died a few minutes later, and it is not known who fired the fatal shot. The judge of probate and the master, H. A. Burnson, tried to separate the two men immediately after the shooting began.
It is said the shooting is a sequel to intense feeling between Ilderton and Hicks following the separation of the physician and his wife in 1915 and the suit for alimony filed by her attorney, Mr. Hicks, a short time later.
Submitted by Rebecca
From: The Monroe Journal, Feb 12,1918 (Monroe, NC)
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