Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-02
THEY WERE LOOKING FOR HENRY
rnEs rotsp nn AND VOW THEY
ARE DEAD.
a wasabaehie ktiiing AT MONDAY
That Caused treat Excitcment--
Henry sims Deadly Work with a
shotEun-racts In the Case.

7 1NtR IN tht tahts
Wsxahachie, Tex. Dec. l.--Today at
il0. when the streets were crowded
with people. Henry Sims. armed with
a double-barreled shot gun, fred two
shots in quick succession and put two
negroes on the sidewalk, one dying In
ytantly and the other mortaliy wound-
ed. ghe crowd assembled there from
sll quarters, and in less than ten MN
u,es it was nearly Impossible to get tt
look at the yieums.
henry Sims should be counted as
I cracR sn9t Tor as he STOOD on sicAery
! q Jacks corner, he 1erked up his gun,
and placing It to ms shouider, Tired;
! then, IN an instant, ne TOOK ann again
and fired. The TWO shots were very
7 close together and each brought down
/ man, Tne Two men We're no; toucn-
+ ing each other at the time Of the shoot
ing, ana consequently It TOOK Two shots
{ u nrlns about the desired cnect. IL Is
SAID that the victims had been TX
ing Tor lneir man all day, though from
the outcome 1t VIII be seen that Henry
svt the arop on them. What the Grou-
ole was viii be found out later.
The dead man fell face down on the
daner building, His head was fairly
perforated with large shot, and great
streams Of bloom were running of TO
the gutter The wounded man was
running into the door Of Woodliers
1ewelry store when the shot was fired
Many Of the shot buried themselves in
the wlndow-taciug, also fracturing the
window OF j. NJ Lancaster. and the
great wonder Is that some one else did
not catch Il stray shot down the street
or IN the doOrways. The other shot
Clipped up the bricks along the College
street wall Of the Getzendaner build
ing, and u few fell back mashed per-
fectly fiat
The crowd rushed into ]. NJ. Lancas-
ter's store to get look at the man who
was stih alive, so rapidly that 1t was
decided to close the doors and not to
admit any one
1t is said that Henry Sims lives out In
the Sugar Hill neighborhood, and that
the other two men have had It in for
Henry FOR some time. Both We're armed
this morning for war.
In twenty minutes after the shoot
ing the Victims We're removed to the
county jail. where an inquest was held.
Austin Ramey was carried to a room
upstairs in the Jail, and thlrty-two
shots We're found to have entered his
neck, back and shoulders. DR.. Price
is hurt very badly.
Henry Sims, who did the shooting. Is
n bright mulatto negro, 81 years old,
about five feet ten inches high, slender
build
A Gazette reporter called at the Jail
late TINS afternoon and asked him why |
he shot them. He said he didn't know. |
unless II was TO save his own life; that |
Austin RHmey and Charley Edwards
had been looking for him all day /
armed with shotgun, and that he had I
been lodging them.
Here your reporter Interrupted him |
and asked him to state the original |
trouble between himself and Austin |
and Charley. File said about n week
ago his half-brother Ben Trio. and |
Austin had Il quarrel, and that he had |
told Ben not to have any trouble with
the trash. Austin then cursed him.
and he and his brother left him. so
early this morning he met Austin and
Charley In Frledmanlown and Austin
tried 70 raise row with him. and he
wouldn't pay any attention to him at
trst, but finally had a fight with him |
In front of Henry .Bruce's saloon. Az
ter the fight he went home and got
breakfast and started to the cotton
held to pick cotton for Mr. Park. and
on his way TO the field he saw Austin
and Charley in the road ahead OF him
r.
back TO town and bought douhi e-bar-
relied shotgun. Afte. he had bought
mis- gun and come out on the sidewalk
IN front Of LomaN's drug store he saw
Austin and Charley coming up East
Main street, from the direction Of
They came up to the
News and Novelty corner, turned the
corner and went up College street.
Aftcr they had passed from his sight
up College street he started to Freed
mantown and had gotten to the News
and Novelty corner when he saw AUS
tin and Charley coming up College
street on the opposite side with a gun.
He hallowed and asked Austin Il they
We're looking for him, when Austin
made a motion with his gun. He raised
his gun and fired and saw Charley fan
and Austin start to run in at Mr.. ], NJ.
Lancaster's, when he fired the second
shot, said he didn't intend to shoot
Charley unless Charley tried TO harm
him.
The above is about the tale Sims
told In roundabout way, without any
At this hour Austin Is stiu nliye i'm
one OF the upstairs rooms of the county
Jail, but II is thought he will die.
An inquest was held on Charley Ell
Iiotts body this afternoon In the iail
yard. Sims Will have Nis preliminary
hearing before ESQUIRE Bob Wimblsh
tonight. New developments are looked
Tor by Monday Sims Is a married
man and has n wife and three children
ne has lived in WaNahachie fourteen
years.