Obituary of FOSTER SIMS, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana

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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.  
Microfilm at the LaSalle Parish Library located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.

Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for 
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.





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Date:  September 12, 1929

Headline:  Foster Sims is Killed Sunday in Tullos Fight 
Sub-Headline: John Gutophalus in Jail to Await Trial for Tullos Slaying

Foster Sims, aged 33, is dead and John Gustophalus, Greek restaurant owner of 
Tullos, is being held in the parish jail in Jena charged with the slaying.  
The killing occurred in the restaurant owned by Gustophalus at Tullos Sunday 
afternoon.

According to information reaching the sheriff's office, Sims and Gustophalus 
are alleged to have engaged in an altercation over $2.50 that the Greek had 
promised to pay on a fine assessed in the city court at Tullos.  Gustophalus 
is alleged to have shot Sims when the latter entered his restaurant after the 
altercation in another part of town.

Five shots are said to have been fired.  Sims died while being conveyed to an 
Alexandria hospital.

Funeral services were held for the dead man at Wyatt, Louisiana, at ten 
o'clock Tuesday morning.  He is survived by the following relatives:  Wiley 
Sims, Gandy, La.; Page Sims, Winnfield; J. Y. Sims, Cotton Valley; Sim Sims, 
Ruston; T. W. Sims, Georgetown; Sam Sims, Jr., of Zwolle; and Miss Mila Sims, 
Chicago, Ill.  He is also survived by his mother, Mrs. Sam Sims, who lives at 
Winnfield, where the remains were taken pending funeral arrangements.

(Gutophalus and Gustophalus were used as typed above.)