General Notes

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Cleburne Famer Killed by Neighbor
News was received here early Wednesday morning from the Dug Hill
neighborhood that A. H. Simmons had shot and instantly killed Sterling
Logan near the former's home and a request that Sheriff [Dick] Wallace
come and arrest Simmons. Both men are well known farmers of that
neighborhood, and according to the report of Sheriff Wallace, who
returned from there yestrerday evening, Logan, in company with two other
men, had gone to the home of Simmons, who lived with his father, Frank
Simmons, and a fight was started between the elder Simmons and Logan over
the report that some chickens had been stolen in the neighborhood; that
Logan had old man Simmons down and was beating him with rocks. When young
Simmons ran up and told him that if he did not leave his father
immediately, he would kill him, Logan continued to beat the old man, and
the boy shot him with a pistol, the ball striking him in the forehead and
coming out the back. When Sheriff Wallace reached the scene, the boy had
left and the old man was found in very serious condition from cuts and
bruises about the head and face, which were inflicted by the rocks in the
hands of Logan. The old man informed Sheriff Wallace that he would have
the boy come in and surrender in the next few days.
Copied by Juanita McCutcheon Callender
Winter 2001 issue Cleburne County Historical Society JournalsPage 149
Reprint of an article from the Heber Springs Jacksonian newspaper of
October 14, 1915.