The Ouachita Telegraph - Sidney Daniels Kills Bob Simmons

Date: Oct 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>

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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, July 2, 1887
Page 2, Column 6

A Wrestling Match Ends in a Murder.
 DELTA, La., June 23. – [Picayune Special] While the construction train of
the V.S. & P. Railroad was lying here last night two negroes by the name of
Sidney Daniels and Bob Simmons engaged in a friendly wrestling match, which
resulted in the latter getting killed.  It seems as though Simmons got angry
at the way Daniels used him, and he got a spike maul and commenced beating
Daniels on the head, inflicting a terrible gash in his head.
 They were then separated by the engineer of the train, and no more was
thought of the matter until this morning, when Daniels who is watchman of
the construction train, called the cook for breakfast.  He then went back in
the engine and got a lantern, covered with a rag to hide the reflection, and
grabbed up a coal pick and struck Simmons in the head while asleep, killing
him instantly.  He then went and told the cook that he had killed Simmons
for what he had done last night to him and that he was to leave the country,
which he did.

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