Cincinnati (OH) Daily Star, April 6, 1880, fourth edition, p. 1. NOTE: In another account of this murder published in another paper and sent previously to the IN-South-Central Rootsweb list, Fitzsimmons was referred to as Simmons and Joseph M. Harrods as Marsh Harrod. It is know which of the spellings, if either, is correct. KILLED BY A SUSPECTED VIGILANTE Scottsburg, Ind., April 6-James Fitzsimmons was yesterday shot twice and killed by Joseph M. Harrod at Austin, this county, on account of an old feud that grew out of the deceased and others being whipped by vigilantes last winter. Harrod was suspected of being the leader of the vigilantes and was threatened with an attack by Fitzsimmons, with the above. An inquest was held eliciting the above facts. Harrod remarked that he was sorry he had killed him and rode away. No arrest.