The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1920-08-05
LOVE AND CASTE LEAD
TO TRIPLE TRAGEhY
Greek Follows Sweetheart to Ameri.
ca and Kills Her and Brother
then Himself.

Lumberton Robesonian.
A true love story that reads like
! fiction is entwined in the history OF
the three Greeks who were killed in
a downtown boarding house in Wash
ington a week ago, according to Jas.
Pappas of Lumberton, who knew
them all before they left their native
home to come to America.
Jean and Kathryn Odicus, broth
er and sister, and Theo Kukos, the
three Greeks killed, lived in Constan-
tinople at the outbreak of the Bal
kan war. The Odicus family was
one of the oldest and most prominent
in Thrace. There were three chill
dren in the home-two boys and one
girl. Theo Kukos was employed as
servant lad. When the war broke
out the Turks destroyed all the prop
erty of the Odicus family. 1t was then
through fear that the only daughter
in the home would be captured by the
Turks that an effort was made TO get
her away to America, She and her two
brothers had started and just as they
were ready to sail the world war
broke out. Dan the elder brother,
managed to come to America at that
time, while Jean and Kathryn spent
four years in FTance. In 1918 they
came to America.
1t was while serving the Odiscus
family that Kukos fell desperately in
love with Kathryne - his masters
daughter. Social lines barred Kukos
from marrying the idol of his heart
in the native land. Learning that
Kathryn had come TO America, the
land far-famed for its Democracy,
Kukos followed. He dreamed that in
this good land the social barriers
would be razed and that he would be
free TO pay court TO her who in the
land of his nativity was far his su-
perior in caste.
Arduously he sought the land and
heart of the fair Thracian gill, only
to be rebuffed. Jean and Dan were
opposed to kukos paying his atten-
ton to their only sister. Jean, ac-
companied by Kathryn, left kukos in
Washington and escaped him for a
year. 1t had been year since ku-
kos had seen the idol of his heart.
y
and Kathryn to Wilmington, thence
TO Greenville, n. c., 10 Norfolk and
on Saturday, July "a, he located them
in their apartment in Washington.
! After few words, it is said that
! kukos agreed 40 leave and return the
next day TO further argue the mat
ter. Sunday afternoon he presented
himself again lust what happened
will probably never be known. kukoS
was found in the room dead, his head
having been mutilated by blows with
hatchet Kathryn lay cold in death
with bullet through her heart and
! Jean was unconscious, two leadsn
bullets having pierced his head. He
died without regaining consciousness.
1t is thought that Jean attacked
kukos with hatchet, inflictlng ia
tai wounds, and that after he was
mortally wounded Kukos fired the
shots that ended the lives of 2 others
one of them that of the woman
whose hand and heart he had tried
in vain for year 10 win. This sad
tragedy ended a love story that be-
gan in Constantinople several years
ago.
George Anthony of LumbertOn is
second cousin TO Jean and kathryn
and says he knew the three who were
killed well in the native land and
since they came TO America, having
met them in New York when they
landed.