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r -i - — n 9JESE JAT1ES’ ASHES.Owly Dwt RmmIw o da Notorious Outlaw.Kearntr, Mo., Special* June 9ith, to BaltiinoreHun.The mouldering bones of Jesse James, the Missouri baudit king, were buried today for the last time io the Baptist graveyard iu Kearney.The body,which had rested since his tragic death at the hands of “Bob'' Ford, iu St. Joseph, in 1882 was- disinterred thia morning at the old Saduoele homestead three and a half miles-northeast of this city, placed iu a new black- coffin and re-bur led by the side of his wife and little brother in the family lot in the cemetery on the edge of the towu. The stoue shaft, which has stood guard over his body for 20 years will be removed to the new resting place.Frank James came here three days ago but had goue to bed at tbe hotel, sick with grip, aud could not attend the removal tf bis brother’s body.Only young Jesse looked on bis father when tbe seal of the grave was broken. Tradition has it that the State-of Missouri paid for Jes-seJ sines’ burial about fOO, but ; if it did somebody seems to have been mulcted for about' 9476 or more, for the coffin was merely a sheet irou-box rivited closely together and bad rusted to'-pieces years ago. Tbe body was supposed to have beBii embalmed,- too, but this evidently was not soj for tbe body bad been dust so long that it , has nearly disappeared.Jesse, Jr., picked op tbe skull ( of bis father and back of tbe left ear found a bole, porbaps an inob long. Through it went tbe bullet ' of Bob Foard, bis treaoberous oompanion, which ended bis ca-reer. lt;
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Lumberton Robesonian
Lumberton, North Carolina, US
Tue, Jul 08, 1902
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