| Show ALABAMA SHERIFF SAYS MURDER WAS CAUSED BY DISPUTE OVER OVERA A DOLLAR Another and a darker story of the crime of which Walter alter Simms now in the city jail is accused was told last night by Sheriff John L Staples of o Jackson coun county county county ty Alabama who is here to take Simms back to the south to stand trial for the murder of Richard Smith postmaster and storekeeper at Eliza Ala Sheriff Staples declares that the killing of Smith grew out of a dispute over a sum of money mon amounting to little more than a dollar According to the Alabama sheriff Simms claimed that Smith owed him money The i storekeeper admitted that there was a sum due the young man but the two could not agree upon the exact The dispute involved a sum between 1 and On Jan 15 lii 1907 Sheriff Staples says sas Simms called at Smiths house After a quarrel Simms Simma went away returning a short time later with a shotgun Sheriff Staples says that Simms found Smith sitting at a fire surrounded by his chit chil dren He claims tha lIe young man shot the storekeeper while Smith was not expecting danger and was unprepared The charge from fram the shotgun almost tore off the top of Smiths head The body bod of the murdered man fell feli Into the fire from which it was dragged by Mrs Smith who had heard the shot and rushed to her husbands assistance Sheriff Staples says that a short time before the murder Smith went into a astore astore astore store to buy bu a coffin for his law who had died In the store he met meta a relative of young Simms Simma who refer referring referring ring to the dispute over the money re remarked rei remarked i marked that Smith had better buy his own coffin The sheriff is accompanied on the trip to Salt Lake by Deputy Sheriff J M lI Skelton Shelton Those who became acquainted with Simms while he was living Jiving In Salt Lake under the name of John Lark are un unwilling unwilling willing to believe that he could have committed d the murder de described described scribed by Sheriff Staples |
