The Wilson times. [volume] (Wilson, N.C.) 1896-19??, 1911-02-06
WEST SEEN
NEAR KENLY
SHERIFF WITH SQUAD OF SOL.
DIERS GO TO SELMA WHERE
NEGRO. is HEADED
jim SIMMS ARRESTED

All clues as to the whereabouts of
Louis West, the negro who murdered
Deputy Sheriff George Mumford Fri
day evening, and who it is believed
perhaps fatally shot Chief of Police
o. A. Glover, have failed to lead to
his arrest, and he and Dave Young
and Wade Williams, the other two
thieves the officers went to arrest. are
still at large.
Saturday night it was thought that
West had been located near Kenly.
but this proved to be mistate. Last
night telephone message from Fay
etteville stated that West had been
seen at his home few miles from
hat city, but if so nothing more has
come of it,
Yesterday it was reported that a
| negro answering the description Of
West had been seen in Spring Hill
| township. but this morning a contrary
report was received from Maccles-
field, in an opposite direction that
West had been seen there Sheriff
Sharpe notified the officials of both
sections this morning to get posses
and start on hunt and to kill him
| if seen. West was outlawed in Cum
berland county Saturday and in Will
son county today.
Last night Jim Simms, Wilson
county negro, was placed in Jail. 1t
is said that he was in the house of
Mary Young when the shooting oc-
Cured. Simms denies it, but the Of
fcials have good reasons to believe
ne was there. Simms recently was
| pardoned on condition of good be-
navior after serving six years for
killing another negro named Dempsey
| Poole at a dance with an axe in this
county seven years ago. a. I
Several other witnesses are also in
| jail.
| Negroes were arrested in Rocky
Mount for robbery, having automatic
/ pistols (the kind the thieves wanted
,ere stole at Dunn), but thus far they
/ have not been connected with the
murder here.
| Demos Harris, the negro who made
| he remark Saturday that he was glad
| Mumford was killed, was this morn
| Will Young, said to be a brother Of
Dave Young, is also in Jail. He is a
Fayetteville negro.
| The squads of the Wilson Light In
'antry have been searching all trains
aassing Con+etnea junction for mem
1ers of the gang, but without success
The operator in the tower there
stated that Saturday morning as a
| freight passed there he saw a negro
run out of the bushes and attempt to
| get on the freight but failed and that
the negro ran off rapidly through the
field.
Chief Glover's condition is consid-
cred better today, states DR.. Dickin-
son, of the Wilson Sanatorium. He
added that Mr.. Glover is resting
well.
The total rewards now offered
amount to about s1,7Oo: State. $3.50;
County, $3.50; City. $3.50; Citizens,
$500.
All points in large radius have been
notified Of the crime and furnished
descriptions Of negroes and stolen
pistols, and it believed that their ar
rests will follow.
The following from the Fayetteville
Observer shows the character of
West:
Lewis West, and his band of des-
peradoes, who, it is thought, robbed
the Huske Hardware House, carrying
away many rifles and pistols, and
who, on Thursday afternoon, terroriz-
ed the negro colony near the water
works plant, and were trai1ed form
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