Pistol Duellists Kill Each Other; Both Empty Guns

SPARTANBURG. S. C. July 7.—in a pistol duel here last night William P. Cooper, a blacksmith, and Oscar Godfrey, a horse trader, killed each other. Each man emptied the six chambers of his weapon and when the police arrived Cooper was dead and Godfrey, though dying, was still snapping his empty gun at the body of the dead man. The cause of the fatal quarrel has not been learned.

El Paso Herald, El Paso, TX, July 7, 1920

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