Simms confessed in KXKKXEXRHEKXHH witness room of Prairie County
Court House at DeVall's Bluff when taken back for trial, Said
crime occurred about # l AM on morning of 7-26. He was arrested
on same Way and taken to Little Rock for protection from mob
that formed at DeVall's Bluff to lynch him, Confessed that day
but then retracted, Repeated on August 1 in DeVall, saying he
had found the young woman asleep and, putting a quilt over her
head to conceal his identity, choked her unconscious, The
father of victim shot at him as he escaped,
ARKANSAS GAZETTE, August 3, 1913.
Convicted on August by jury which deliberated for 25 minutes,
sentenced to die and promptly taken to State Prison, ARKANSAS
GAZETTE, August 5, 1913
Simms confessed in EXKKXXRHKKXHH witness room of Prairie County
Court House at DeVall's Bluff when taken back for trial, Said
crime occurred about % l, AM on morning of 7-26. He was arrested
on same tay and taken to Little Rock for protection from mob
that gormed at DeVall's Bluff to lynch him, OConfessed that day
but then retracted, Repeated on August 1 in DeVall, saying he
had found the young woman asleep and, putting a quilt over her
head to conceal his identity, choked her unconscious, The
father of victim shot at him as he sscaped.
ARKANSAS GAZETTE, August 3, 1913.
Convicted on August ; by jury which deliberated for 25 minutes,
sentenced to die and promptly taken to State Prison, ARKANSAS
GAZETTE, August 5, 1913
Simms confessed in KAXKXEXRAMKXHN witness room of Prairie ey
Court House at DeVall's Bluff when taken back for trial, Sai
crime occurred about % |) AM on morning of 7-26, He was areata
on same tay and taken to Little Rock for Eee from mob
that formed at DeVall's Bluff to lynch hin,
head to conceal his identity, choked her unconscious,
father of victim shot at him as he escaped.
ARKANSAS GAZETTE, August 3, 1913.
Convicted on August by jury which deliberated for 25 minutes,
sentenced to die and promptly taken to State Prison, ARKANSAS
913
GAZETTE, August 5, 1
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SIMMS, Lee September 5, 1913
Simms, alias Will fogers, a black man, want to a tent at Brassfield,
Prairie Cos, Ark., where NX¥ Mrs, Mary Skags was staying on July 26,
1913, and criminally assaulted her. He was promptly captured and
taken to Little Rock to prevent his being lynched, He was placed on
trial at a special term of the court on August | and after Mrs, Skags
testified as to the assault and identified him as her assailant, he
took the stand and admitted going to the tent for the purpose of
raping her and said that he had committed the acte However, he
electrocuted at the Arkansas Sta te Prison on September 5, 1913, and
became the first man in the history of Arkansas to be executed by
JONESBORO EVENING SUN, Jonesboro, Arkansas 8-9-1913
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SIMMS, Lee September moa 193
Simms, alias Will Rogers, a black man, want to a tent at Brassfield,
Prairie Co., Ark., where NX® Mrs, Mary Skags was Staying on July 26,
1913, and criminally assaulted her, He was promptly captured and
taken to Little Rock to prevent his being lynched. He was placed on
trial at a special term of the court on August l, and after Mrs, Skags
testified as to the assault and identified him as her assailant, he
took the stand arid admitted going to the tent for the purpose of
raping her and said that he had committed the act. However, he
claimed by way of mitigation that he had purchased a bottle of whiskey|
at Brinkley the day before and had drank it the morning of the crime,
He said that he was crazy with drink and did not realize what he was
doing. Convicted by a jury that deliberated only 25 minutes, he was
JONESBORO EVENING SUN, Jonesboro, Arkansas 8-3-1913
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SIMMS, Lee
became the
that manner,
JONESBORO RVENING SUN, Jonesboro, Arkansas 6-5-1913
September 5, 1913
1913, and
sas to be executed by
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