JOE SIMPSON WITH HIS TWO YOUNG SONS, ENGAGED IN PULLING CORN WHEN TOM SESSIONS, WHOSE BROTHER IS ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED BY SIMPSON, CREPT UP WITH SHOT GUN AND FILLS HIS VICTIM FULL OF BUCK SHOT.

(Special to The Record.)

Camden, Nov. 4 – Another shooting scrape occured at Blaney, in this county, today in which Joseph Simpson, a white man, came near losing his life.

It is said that Simpson, with two of his sons, were engaged in pulling corn in a field near his home, when he was fired upon by Thomas Session, who, unseen, had slipped upon him from a branch nearby.

It will be recalled that some few months ago Simpson became involved in a difficulty with Henry Sessions, a brother of Sessions, in which Henry Sessions was killed. Simpson’s trial for the killing was to come up at next week’s term of court for this county. It is known that the parties had been at outs for some time and today’s shooting is an attempt to avenge the death of Sessions’ brother.

The details of the affair are extremely cowardly, if correct. Sessions had been seen to pass by the field in which Simpson and his sons were working, and watching for an opportune time when the two sons were at a far end of the field, he drove around and hitched his mule. Going afoot up a corn row, he was seen by young Norman Simpson, a mere lad of ten, who, cried a warning to his father. Simpson turned just in time to receive the load of shot in his face and side. being unarmed, he immediately made for a farm house nearby to procure a gun. Sessions followed, but surmising Simpson’s intentions, made his way back to the buggy and drove off.

Deputy Huckabee went to Blaney immediately, where he arrested Sessions and brought him to jail tonight.

Whether Simpson will go on trial for murder next week depends upon the outcome of his injuries. He is being given medical attention by Dr. W. D. Grigsby.