Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-23

rubbed. Just before dying he requested tha: his body be taken to his mother.
 When called by the name Jim he would pay no attention, but on hearing the name Johnson he would open his eyes and look around.
 A fire was started where the dying man lay, and there the officer, Mir. Hubbard and Burt Vines watched him until he breathed hi, last at 9:45.
 Yesterday morning the dead man was brought 10 Toadvine in Burt Vine's wagon and from there to Birmingham in Mir. Sexton's wagon,
 They did not get to the city until nearly o'clock and until the arrival of Deputy Sheriff Cole with the dead body of Jim Morrison nothing was known in Birmiag- ham of the killing, 1t having occurred thirty miles in the country and the same distance from a telegraph station.
 The body was taken 10 the undertaking esta biish ment of Warner 6 Smiley, on Twentieth street, anu there prepared for burial. News of the death Of the noted outlaw spread rapidly and h few minutes several hundred people had gathered in the street and alley near the undertakers in the hope of seeing the great desperado who has terrorized this section for years past, but none were admitted and the crowd finally dispersed very much disap- pointed.
 dead man, who are now in jail under in- dictments for counserfeiting, were taken 10 the undertakers' by Sheriff Morrow, and identified the dead man as their brother. Lee and Sam Morrison also identified him.
 The body will be turned over to the fam fly today, and they will arrange for the burial.
 A DESPERATE MAN.
 Jim Morrison was desperate character, and tor years has been a terror to the ofh- cers in Jefferson, Bibb and Tuskaloosa counties. He was about 35 years old, and rr,A r.xt tt,fa utafA fafh nyu lives in Bessemer.
 In 1878 he shot young white man, Jef Sutton by name, near Warrior. Morrison was discharging his pistol in the public road, and Sutton told him he was coward for doing so. At this remark Morrison got mad and shot the boy, though the wound did not prove serious, and he was not pros- ecuted for it.
 His next crime was the murder of Alex Webb at Clements station, in Tuskaloosa county, nine or ten years ago. For three or four years Morrison evaded arrest, but was finally apprehended. On his trial in Tuskaloosa he was convicted and sentenced to a term of nine years in the penitentiary.
 The quarrel between Morrison and Webb is said 10 have been over some trivial mat ter, and few days later Webb refusing to open the door of his store for Morrison, the latter shot him and death followed almost instantly.
 It was while serving his sentence for the murder of Webb that Morrison escaped from Pratt mines about year ago. The escape was neatly planned and executed. Jim Morrison, Jim Davis, St. Clair county convict; Sandy Oden, notorious one or two other convicts got hold of some dynamite. door in the mine was knocked down and two guards at the en- trance overpowered. Morrison took a breech- loading shotgun from John Patton, one of the guards. The escapes separated soon after leaving the mines, Morrison and Davis going together to Bessemer and thence into the lower end of Jefferson and across the line into Tusksloosa. The factt th at convicts had escaped from Pratt mines was telegraphed to the sheriffs of all adjoining counties. Deputy Sherih Dexter of Bibb county formed posse and went in search of Morrison. The posse | met Morrison and Davis in the public road l near Goetbite, in Tuskaloosa county, and pitched battle ensued. Deputy Sheriff | Dexter was killed and Davis, Morrison 8 pal, badly wounded. The latter was re- turned to the mines. The next heard of Morrison he was in the country few miles from Bessemer, and it is alleged that he was at the head of gang of counterfeiters and thieves, who were committing frequent Expectations in the vicinity of Payne's mill, some eight miles from Bessemer.
 Eight or ten men, alleged to have been his partners in the counterfeiting and rob- berries, were arrested, and some of them are now in the county jail awaiting trial. Among the number are two of his brothers. REWARDS OFFERED. Rewards to the amount of S1200 were of- fered for the arrest Of Jim Morrison, as follows: By the state, s4O0; Sheriff La than, $100; Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail- road com pany, $400; Mrs. Dexter, widow of Deputy Sheriff Dexter, $500. The Ten nessee company never pay rewards for dead men, and Deputy Sheriff Cole says he won't accept the S300 reward from Mrs Dexter. That leaves $500 that will be paid for the desperado's body.
 Morrison had said several times he would never be taken alive, and he spoke truly. Would you save labor, trouble, disap-