MERCHANT STABBED;
DIES AT UNION CITY.
Resulting from knife wounds, inflicted by Kinchon Simmons, John Ivy Blewer, merchant of Rives, Tenn., died at Union City Saturday night at the hospital, 3 hours after the cutting fracas, without regained consciousness. Blewer was cut five times in the throat and chest, one gash penetrating the right lung, severing an artery.
Simmons is in jail at Union City with two bullett holes in his right arm. He says Blewer shot him. His younger brother, Harve Simmons, is with him, having been an eye witness to the slaughter of Blewer. Ansel Jordan, a comrade of the Simmons boys, is held as chief witness.
All three boys are in their teens and are from the Little Creek neighborhood of Rives. Mayor McNeil, of Rives stated that he understood the Simmons boys and the Jordan boy came to the Rives station on the evening of the tragody to get shopment of whiskey which they carried over besides Mr. Blewer's store to drink. They became unruly and when Blewer came out of his store and ordered them away, threatening to call an officer, Kinchon Simmons sprang at Blewer and cut him twice. Mr. Blewer then shot wildly and called for assistance. Miss Roxanna Blewer, a sister of the storekeeperl, who was in the store at the time, was an eye witness, with several others, to the affair. Simmons had thrown Blewer to the ground and was slashing at him with his knife when pulled off and handcuffed. Both men were covered with blood and Blewer was unconscious.
The Hickman Courier
Hickman, Ky
Thursday, February 1, 1917
DIES AT UNION CITY.
Resulting from knife wounds, inflicted by Kinchon Simmons, John Ivy Blewer, merchant of Rives, Tenn., died at Union City Saturday night at the hospital, 3 hours after the cutting fracas, without regained consciousness. Blewer was cut five times in the throat and chest, one gash penetrating the right lung, severing an artery.
Simmons is in jail at Union City with two bullett holes in his right arm. He says Blewer shot him. His younger brother, Harve Simmons, is with him, having been an eye witness to the slaughter of Blewer. Ansel Jordan, a comrade of the Simmons boys, is held as chief witness.
All three boys are in their teens and are from the Little Creek neighborhood of Rives. Mayor McNeil, of Rives stated that he understood the Simmons boys and the Jordan boy came to the Rives station on the evening of the tragody to get shopment of whiskey which they carried over besides Mr. Blewer's store to drink. They became unruly and when Blewer came out of his store and ordered them away, threatening to call an officer, Kinchon Simmons sprang at Blewer and cut him twice. Mr. Blewer then shot wildly and called for assistance. Miss Roxanna Blewer, a sister of the storekeeperl, who was in the store at the time, was an eye witness, with several others, to the affair. Simmons had thrown Blewer to the ground and was slashing at him with his knife when pulled off and handcuffed. Both men were covered with blood and Blewer was unconscious.
The Hickman Courier
Hickman, Ky
Thursday, February 1, 1917
MERCHANT STABBED;
DIES AT UNION CITY.
Resulting from knife wounds, inflicted by Kinchon Simmons, John Ivy Blewer, merchant of Rives, Tenn., died at Union City Saturday night at the hospital, 3 hours after the cutting fracas, without regained consciousness. Blewer was cut five times in the throat and chest, one gash penetrating the right lung, severing an artery.
Simmons is in jail at Union City with two bullett holes in his right arm. He says Blewer shot him. His younger brother, Harve Simmons, is with him, having been an eye witness to the slaughter of Blewer. Ansel Jordan, a comrade of the Simmons boys, is held as chief witness.
All three boys are in their teens and are from the Little Creek neighborhood of Rives. Mayor McNeil, of Rives stated that he understood the Simmons boys and the Jordan boy came to the Rives station on the evening of the tragody to get shopment of whiskey which they carried over besides Mr. Blewer's store to drink. They became unruly and when Blewer came out of his store and ordered them away, threatening to call an officer, Kinchon Simmons sprang at Blewer and cut him twice. Mr. Blewer then shot wildly and called for assistance. Miss Roxanna Blewer, a sister of the storekeeperl, who was in the store at the time, was an eye witness, with several others, to the affair. Simmons had thrown Blewer to the ground and was slashing at him with his knife when pulled off and handcuffed. Both men were covered with blood and Blewer was unconscious.
The Hickman Courier
Hickman, Ky
Thursday, February 1, 1917
DIES AT UNION CITY.
Resulting from knife wounds, inflicted by Kinchon Simmons, John Ivy Blewer, merchant of Rives, Tenn., died at Union City Saturday night at the hospital, 3 hours after the cutting fracas, without regained consciousness. Blewer was cut five times in the throat and chest, one gash penetrating the right lung, severing an artery.
Simmons is in jail at Union City with two bullett holes in his right arm. He says Blewer shot him. His younger brother, Harve Simmons, is with him, having been an eye witness to the slaughter of Blewer. Ansel Jordan, a comrade of the Simmons boys, is held as chief witness.
All three boys are in their teens and are from the Little Creek neighborhood of Rives. Mayor McNeil, of Rives stated that he understood the Simmons boys and the Jordan boy came to the Rives station on the evening of the tragody to get shopment of whiskey which they carried over besides Mr. Blewer's store to drink. They became unruly and when Blewer came out of his store and ordered them away, threatening to call an officer, Kinchon Simmons sprang at Blewer and cut him twice. Mr. Blewer then shot wildly and called for assistance. Miss Roxanna Blewer, a sister of the storekeeperl, who was in the store at the time, was an eye witness, with several others, to the affair. Simmons had thrown Blewer to the ground and was slashing at him with his knife when pulled off and handcuffed. Both men were covered with blood and Blewer was unconscious.
The Hickman Courier
Hickman, Ky
Thursday, February 1, 1917
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