The Ouachita Telegraph - 
D. Charles Mims Kills James Wooley and James McClanahan

Date: May 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers 


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The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, June 10, 1871
Page 2, Column 5

BOSSIER.
 D. Charles Mims, and two accomplices, killed Jas. Wooley and shot Jas.
McClanahan three times while the two were working in the field on the
23rd ult., in the vicinity of Fillmore.  The wives of Mims and
McClanahan are sisters, and it is supposed the trouble grew out of
McClanahan's interference in Mrs. Mims' behalf, who had been brutally
treated by her husband, the murderer.  A reward of $1000 is offered for
Mims' delivery in the parish jail of Bossier.  His description is thus
given in the Banner:
 Mims is a lean man, six feet in hight, about thirty years old, florid
complexion, with dark red or auburn hair, light red beard and thin when
worn, and gray blue eyes.  He weighs about one hundred and fourty-five
pounds.  His complexion is of the sort that burns in the sun.  Hands
freckled.  Several wounds are thought to be on his body.  One gun shot
wound, of considerable size, is on his left arm above the elbow.
 Mims loves to trade horses, and often plays the fiddle around
groceries.  He came from Alabama to Bossier parish some three years ago,
and has lately resided in Rusk county, Texas.


The Ouachita Telegraph
Saturday, June 17, 1871
Page 2, Column 2
 The man Mims who murdered McClanahan in Bossier parish a few weeks ago,
was arrested just over the Arkansas line last week, taken to Bellevue
and placed in jail, whence he was forcibly removed by a party of twenty
disguised persons, and was hanged to a tree one mile from town, where he
was found dead the next day.

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