{"id":1186,"date":"2014-01-18T00:45:34","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T06:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2014-01-18T00:45:34","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T06:45:34","slug":"sims-robert-d-1897","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/sims-robert-d-1897\/","title":{"rendered":"SIMS, Robert (d. 1897)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>A Tennessee Negro Suffers Death for Murder<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 17 &#8211; <strong>Robert SIMS<\/strong> (colored) was hanged today at Jonesboro, Washington county, Tenn.<\/p>\n<p>SIMS shot and killed <strong>Walter GALLOWAY<\/strong>, July 9 last. \u00a0He recently made a confession and died professing hope of salvation. \u00a0The execution was private, but on the hillside surrounding the inclosure\u00a0<em>[sic]\u00a0<\/em>were large crowds.<\/p>\n<p>When <strong>GALLOWAY<\/strong> called on <strong>Miss Effie BARING<\/strong>, to whom he was engaged, <strong>SIMS,<\/strong> an employe\u00a0<em>[sic]<\/em> on the <strong>BORING<\/strong> farm, was asked to put up <strong>GALLOWAY&#8217;<\/strong>s horse. <strong>SIMS<\/strong> refused to do so on account of an old grudge. \u00a0When <strong>GALLOWAY<\/strong> was at the barn stabling his horse, <strong>SIMS<\/strong> got a gun. \u00a0<strong>Miss BORING<\/strong> ran out to warn her lover. \u00a0No sooner had she met <strong>GALLOWAY<\/strong> than <strong>SIMS<\/strong> arrived and fired, and the young man fell almost into <strong>Miss BORING&#8217;s<\/strong> arms.<\/p>\n<p>SIMS was followed many days before he was captured and narrowly escaped lynching twice. \u00a0So great was the excitement produced by the death of GALLOWAY that Miss BORING was nervously prostrated, and after several days of intense suffering she died.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Source: Los Angeles Herald, Volume 27, Number 49, 18 November 1897.\u00a0Available at the California Digital Newspaper Collection. &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/cdnc.ucr.edu\/cgi-bin\/cdnc\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/cdnc.ucr.edu\/cgi-bin\/cdnc<\/a>&gt;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tennessee Negro Suffers Death for Murder Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 17 &#8211; Robert SIMS (colored) was hanged today at Jonesboro, Washington county, Tenn. SIMS shot and killed Walter GALLOWAY, July 9 last. \u00a0He recently made a confession and died professing hope of salvation. \u00a0The execution was private, but on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,15,575],"tags":[1108,1107,1106],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-death","category-washington","tag-boring-effie","tag-galloway-walter","tag-sims-robert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}