Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1892 — BLOODY WORK IN ALABAMA. [ARTICLE]

BLOODY WORK IN ALABAMA.

Tliey Rob a Merchant’s Store, Bum His House, and Kill or Malm tlie Occupants. The notorious outlaw, Job Sims, has returned to Choctaw County, Ala. Mr. John McMillan, a merchant of Choctaw County, was receiving a load of merchandise fr. tn ihe landing, and Job Sims levcJed a 'Winchester ride on the driver and made him unload the goods at Sims’ house, and sent McMillan word he would burn his house and kill him. McMillan's house was guarded that night, but one night recently at 11 oYio k seven of the Sims gang, all armed with Winchesters, fired McMillan’s house and shot the occupants as they ran out. Charley Utsy escaped unhurt: Fluollen Utsy was shot, but not mortally wounded; John Kennedy, McMillan’s father-in-law, was killed; John McMil.an was shot three times and w 11 die; the 12-year-old niece of McMillan was killed; a 10-year-old nephew was shot in the house and burned up: > lss 1 olio McKenzie, a school teacher boarding at McMillan’s, was shot twice in the neck. 'I he miscreants then opened McMillan’s store, robbed it of what goods they wanted, and left It lighted up and open, scattering shoes along the road. Kims’ daughters are dressed In men’s clothes and armed with Winchesters at Sims’ house, and are supposed to be part of the seven. A large body of m-n are after the gang, and will never stop until they catch them.