SIMMS, Alexander
Jacksonville, Fla., April 7. – Alexander Simms, alias Brit Glenn, alias Jim Charlie, a negro, added another victim to his list of killed this morning. Simms shot and killed a young colored boy named Napoleon Stucks Saturday night. The officers chased him about two miles to a barn in the eastern part of the city. When Simms saw he was discovered, he opened fire with a pistol at the officers, who returned the fire. During the firing, Policeman Minor was shot in the breast and killed almost instantly. Lieutenant Minor, his brother, was shot in the left leg. Two negroes who had joined in chasing Simms were shot in the hip, one it is thought fatally. Simms offered to give himself up if the lieutenant would consent not to kill him. This was agreed to, and he gave up his revolver and came down. A large crowd gathered on the outside, and wanted to lynch him at once, but the officer hustled his prisoner off to jail. As soon as the affair became noised about a large crowd congregated at the jail and threats of lynching were frequent. Finally it was announced that Simms would be taken to the county jail for safekeeping, but instead the sheriff put him aboard a train for St. Augustine, where he was placed in jail.
Source: “Killed an Officer,” The Salt Lake Herald, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, 8 April 1895, database with images, Chronicling America (https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov : accessed 8 November 2020).
SIMMS, Charles
Stockton, Cal., Oct. 7 – Charles Simms, arrested for complicity in the hold-up of the Hubbs road house north of Stockton a few nights ago, hung himself in his cell in the county jail some time last night.
Source: “Suicide in a Jail,” San Diego Union and Daily Bee, San Diego, California, United States, 8 October 1904, database with images, California Digital Newspaper Collection (https://cdnc.ucr.edu : accessed 10 June 2020).
SIMMS, George
ATLANTA (Ga.), November 27th. – Geo. Simms, colored, was hanged today at Covington, Georgia, for outraging a white woman in 1873. He confessed the crime yesterday.
Source: “A Negro Hanged,” Los Angeles Herald, Los Angeles, California, United States, 29 November 1874, database with images, California Digital Newspaper Collection (http://cdnc.ucr.edu : accessed 10 June 2020).
SIMMS, Robert
Robert Simms, a prisoner in the work-house, escaped Saturday evening. He was a helper in the kitchen and stepped outside with the cook and mysteriously disappeared. He was serving a term for assault and battery, and had about six months to serve. Source: “Work-House Prisoner Escaped,” Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, 2 January 1899, digital images, Hoosier State Chronicles (https://newspapers.library.in.gov : accessed 10 March 2020).
SIMMS, William
William Simms, a soldier, who murdered Robert Morton, a prominent citizen of Town Creek, six miles from Decatur, Ala., while at a county dance, was dragged from jail yesterday by a mob of 500 men and lynched.
Source: “Telegraphic Brevities,” San Diego Union and Daily Bee, San Diego, California, United States, 22 December 1898, database with images, California Digital Newspaper Collection (http://cdnc.ucr.edu :accessed 10 June 2020).
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