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obe.NO. 97MISSOURI’S CURSEI PLANTED UNDER SIT FEET OFearth at last.All Trains Halt to Allow Passengers to Attend the Funeral-Wallings of the Women—The Ford Boys Threatened-The Crimes of the Outlaws—The Horrible Barbarities and Cold Blooded Murders They Hare Commltted-A Kecord Which Makes the Killing of Jesse James Brave by 'ComparisonCAPT. FORD.8t. Louis, April 6.—Dispatches from tha west say Capl. Ford, brother of Bob and Charley, who have cut so conspicuous a flg-. ure in the death of the outlaw, Jesse James, was In 8t Joseph to-day, accompanied by attorneys, and had an interview with his brother in jail, but the nature of it is not knowD. niiE’s BODY FOUND.The body of Wood Hite, brother of Clarence Hite, now in the penitentiary for participation in the Winston train robbery, has been found near Richmond, and an inquest is no# being held. It is understood that Dick Little killed Hite, but it is believed that Dob Ford was also concerned in the murder. Hile was shot through the head and buried by Bob Ford and Dick Little in a spring near Ford’s farm. It is uulikely that Little and Ford will be arrested for the murder.SCENES AT THE STATION.A dispatch from Kearney, Ho., near which town is the home of Mrs. Samuels, says the train bearing the remains of the once dreaded bandit arrived at that place about 1 o’clock this morning, having been detained at Cameron. Tbere was quite a number of people at the depot and the scene was a very pathetic one. Mrs. Samuels could not restrain her feelings and talked a good deal about the manner in which her son had been killed. To a reporter present she said: 1 knew it had to come, hut my boy Jesse is better off”IN HEAVENto-day than be would be here with us.” Friends flocked around and each was greeted by name by Mrs. 8amuels with a word about the trouble. The party went directly to the Kearney hotel, where Dr. Samuels met them. The body was taken to his office and the caBket opened and the crowd admitted to look. Mrs. Samuels and Jesse's widow entered with the children at 2 p. m. The scene was terrible. There were shrieks, moans and curses, and Luther James, Johnny Mills, Dr. Samuels and friends tried to get the old lady away from the body, but before she and Mrs. James got to bed, all the friends present bad looked at the remains and identified them as those of Jesse James. A big crowd was in town all night and the excitement intense, though not openly manifested. At daylight the sky cleared, and the suu rose upon roads deep in mud horsemen began coming from every direction at the earliest hour. The cofin still lay with uncovered lid upon the upturned box in the office of the hotel and to this magnet of attraction each new comer hovered as if by instinc t. The morning trains are bringing fresh arrivals also and the scene is that of a swarming fair day.TWENTY MINUTES TOR REFRESHMENTS.Martin Ward and John B. Carson, superintendent and general manager of the Hannibal St. Jo railroad, were passengers cu the south bound train which passed at 7:45, and It was stopped long enough to permit the officials and passengers to view the body, the hotel being only half a dozen rods from the station. Two other passenger trains were stopped for the same purpose. The avidity of the people to look upon the face of the dead man seems to be one of singular power.J here appears in it more than a passing curiosity and upon many faces traces of compassionate emotion are perceptible as they gaze upon the now ghastly corpse.The wife and mother are moro subdued this morning, but their color has a treacherous aspect which forebodes au Outbreak at the funeral, which la to take place thie afternoon at the Baptist church.At the close of this dispatch preparations were neing made for the funeral, Sam Kaufman, a noted desperado, and party, arrived this morning and viewed the remains. He was telegraphed to come by Luther .Tames, cousin of the dead man.AT THE GROVE .The funeral party left the hotel at 2 p.m. First came the mayor with the corpse and next the family, next mounted officers and last a wagon with the reporters. An immense crowd on horseback, on foot and in wagons followed. The pall bearers were: Sheriff Timbcrlake, Deputy Reed, Charley Scott, J. B. Henderson, ]. D. Ford, Ben Flandera and Joseph Vaughan. On the hill around the church was a big crowd. At the church door the Rev. Mr. Martin met the mourners and asked Mrs. Samuels if she objected to Brother Jones assisting iu tbe services.She said she did not.After the body was carried into the church the services began wiih the bvmn, “What a Friend I have in Jesus. The Rev. Mr. Jones followed in prayer, after which the hymn, “Where shall Rest he Found';” wub 6ung. Tho Rev. J. M. Martin followed with the fuueral sermon.After the Rev. Mr. Martin had concluded Ids remarks, which were full of comfort for the mourners, and in which he dwelt on the forbearance and willingness to forgive of Christ, the procession started for the farm in the same order In which it went from the hotel to the church. It waB followed by an immense crowd.FORU THREATEN El).St. Joseph, April B.—The Ford boys to-day received a threatening letter from a party signing himself Nenio alias Rcnio,” enclosed in an official envelope of the Tennessee legislature and dated Nashville, Tenu , April 4. The letter is writtcu with a pencil and vows bitter and bloody vengeance upon R. Ford for killing Jesse James. The boys arc in excellent spirits. They are pampered and toasted and receive their friends and admirers in the most genial manner. Both are confident the body of the dead outlaw will he robbed after burial on the homestead.Being questioned in regard to tbe report that he regretted having helped Jesse Bince his confinement, Robert said, “yes, I did say that, but it was foolish. Why I would have killed Jesse if I knew I had to go to j ill for a year. It was a ground hog case. Ihadkilled one of his pals, had helped to arrest another,log for him. Thus the lad of fifteen began a life of murder and crime, a career of daring and deaperate deeds that has no parallel in history. Frank had already attained eminence In Quantrell’a gang of murderers and cutthroats, and Jesse, emulating his example, soon eclipsed him and became the leider in all expeditions where nerve, daring bravery and a reckless disregard for hie own or other lives were required. Iu Quautreil’s command the James boys found congenial spirits In Cole and Jim Younger, Jarrette, Clell Miller, George Shepherd and otbera who have been partners iu their robberies since the war. Both were in Quantreil’s band of 200 when Lawrence, Kansas, was sacked, burned and nearly every male inhabitant ruthlessly murdered. Jesse James boasted at the time to have ahot down thlrty-alx. The Younger brothers, who were his boon companions, were raised in Jackson couuty, Mo , within four miles of Independence. I’robably no horror of equal enormity of atrocity was ever perpetrated than the massacre at Centralis, Mo,, a way station on the Wabash railroad, in Boone county. Here, on September 27. 1864, Bill Anderson, assisted by Jesse and Frank James, killed tbirtytwo Invalid soldiers in cold blood. They fir6t raided the village and sacked the stores. Then, waiting for the cast bound train, they stopped it and robbed the passengers of their money. Among the passengers were thirty-two stck soldiers cn route from St. Joseph to St. Louis for better hospital accommodations. These poor wretches were marched out and aligned by Frank and Jesse James, and Bill Anderson, wiih bis own bands,shot and killed every man of them, a pistol being handed him by either Frark or Jesse as fast as he em tied the ohe in hand. Scarce had the diabolical massacre been finished before a company of Iowa volunteers appeared in tbe distance, and they, too, became victims to the unerring aim of theEe bandits. Thus within two hours eighty slain were piled about the village. 8uch scenes as these hardened the James hoys and make their latter-day crimes merely trivial in comparison.MORE BARING DEEDSWhen the war ended Missouri became loo hot to hold the guerillas, Jesse James accompanied George Shepherd to Texas, while Frank followed the fortunes of Quuntrell into Kentucky. For three years the James boys sank from public gaze. In the spring of 1868 Jesse James accompanied by Cole Younger, AI. Shepherd,George Shepherd and Jim White dashed Into Russellville, Ky., and robbed the bank of *14,000. Their first robbery in Missouri took place in Gallatin, where not only did they rob the bank, but deliberately shot and killed Captain Sheets, the cashier, after they had collected all the money. For two years tbe James boys hung around the Rio Grande frontiea in 'Mexico. In 1870 they returned. Corydon, Iowa, a prosperous village tear the Missouri line, was invaded, and tho bank relieved of *40,000. Then the boys kept quiet for two years more, when they suddenly appeared with Cole, Jim and John Younger, at Columbia, Ky., robbed the bank and shot down tbe cashier. In tbe fall of that year the boys rode up to the box office of the County Agricultural Fair, held at Kansas City. Je.se James thrust a revolver through tbe window and demanded the money. The box, containing $10,000, wa3 handed out the outlaws dashed away, firing their pistols. This daring exploit was followed in six weeks by the robbery of the bank at ct. Genevieve. Nobody was killed here, but *4,000 w as poured into the capacious moutb of tue bandits’ saddle bags. They were followed northwest to the Missouri, where all trace of them was lost.AS TRAIN ROBBERS.The next heard of them was in J une of 1873. The James boys were recognized around home in Clay county, and shortly after their appearance a train on the Chicago, Rock Island Pacifl c railroad was wrecked and the express messenger was robbed of $0,600. Then came the robbery of an Iron Mountain railroad train at Gad’s Hill. They took possession of the station, switched the train on a side track and, at. their leisure, Clell Miller, Jesse and Frank James and Jim and Cole YoliDger stripped the pa36engers of their surplus wealth and robbed the expiess car of *11,506. Detectives were sent, to hunt them out, but their traps were never entered by the outlaws and the detectives generally lost their lives. The Youngers were lerreted out by Captain Tull, of the Chicago police, and James Wrightand Deputy Sheriff McDaniels, of Osceola. Their business was suspected however, and in a fight McDaniels aed John Younger were killed, and Captain Tull subsequently died. Then the gang disappeared until 1874, when they robbed a train on the tbe Kansas Pacific, near Muncie, and obtained *24,000 and disappeared in the woods. Clell Miller and Hinds were arrested for the Muncie robbery, Miller in Carroll ‘ county and Hinds at Independence, the county seat of Jackson county, ten miles from Kin-sss City. Miller, after his arrest, captured the sheriff in charge, and, holding him iu front of his body, b ide him send his deputies away, and with a revolver muzzle in his ear the officer complied, and tho bold highwayman escaped; but his end was not many years distant. Hinds escaped in about the same manner from the officers of Independence, and has never been heard from.IN PURSUIT or THE BANDITS.So hot was the pursuit after the Muncie rubbery that the outlaws separated and the James boys went to Texas. In September 1875, Frank Joined Co’c Younger, Thompson, McDaniels and a man known as Keen, alias Hinds, and roh'ied a hank at Iluntington, West Virginia. In less than two hours a posse of over one hundred men started in pursuit. In the mountains, nearly one hundred miles from Iluntington, a light took place between the officers and fleeing robbers. Thompson McDaniels was killed and Keen, alias Hinds, captured, but, as usual, Colo Younger and Frank James esciped. Keen was sentence! to fourteen years in the penitentiary and is now serving his time. He ba3 never told his tiuc name. Frank James joined Jesse in Texas and the band was increased by the addition of several out laws from the Indian Territory. In July, 1870, tkeir plans we-e completed ami the east-bound passenger train on tbe Missouri Pacific railroad was robbed at a point about twen'y miles east of Seda'ia, called Ottervilie. The train was stopped by obstructions and the out-laws captured *15,000 iu the safe in the express car. Hobbs Henry, one of the robbers, was captured and confessed, and of all concerted only the Jamss boys escaped. Three of their companions were killed,FIGHTING IN THE STREETS.A trip was next planned to Northfield, Minnesota. Bill Chadwell, a hosse thief, joined the hand, which Included Cole, Jim and Bob Younger, Jesse and Frank James, Clell Miller, Charley Pitt6 and ChadweJl. This was in September, 1876. On the afternoon of the 7th the desperadoes da9bed Into town,Clay count; horse-thief; Tucker Baasham, Ed. Ryan and Dick Little. The last three were yoong farmers’ sons, who, led on by th« persuasive power of Jease James, went blindly into the work. They robbed a train on the evening of October 8 at Glendale, on tbe Chicago Alton, and BecureJ *25,000 or *30,000. The gang scattered at once. James Ligget, at that lime marshal of Jackson county, at once organized a strong party to capture the robbers, if possible, and George 8hepherd, a former friend of Jesse James, was taken into their confidence. Shepherd was to betray Jesse. A plan war laid to rob tbe bank at Galena, Mo. 8hepherd came back and reported that he had killed Jease, but It was only a put-up job to secure the *5,000 reward. Then followed the recent robberies at Winston and Blue Cut, which are still fresh in the public mind. After the Blue Cut robbery Jesse hid at his mother’s house in Kearney. He had shot himself during the fight and was badly wounded. Little, in a fqss, killed Woo Hite, Jesse’a best friend, and had to leave the gang. He then gave himself up and has confessed all about the recent rob beries. Jesse and Ed. Miller, he save, had a quarrel about the spoils after the Blue Cut robbery, and Miller was shot by Jesse. The death of Jesse will about put an end to the outlaws. There is no other leader so daring.OVER THE_0CEAN.GREAT BRITAIN,LoNDOn, April 6.—The Times Dublin correspondent says the report that the Irish American suspects have been liberated on condition that they quit the country, except two or three who refused to accept the conditions, is unfounded. About six of the suspects who are naturalized citizens of the United States have been released within ths ast three weeks, on the 6ame grounds as were he others who were liberated. Their citizenship is entirely unconnected with their release, the executive holding that all persons resident in Ireland are liable to British law, and are to be treated as British subjects. Among those of this class who were released twas Boyton, who was liberated on account of ill health. Tbere are only four of the same class now imprisoned.London, April 6.—The Standard says it is gratifying to find the action of tbs American government has not been suggested or in fluenced by tbe expression of opinion at the meeting at Cooper Institute.LAMSON’S LUNACT.The falber of Dr. Lamson has written a long letter, maintaining that the question of his sons ineauity is not a new one, nor was it first raised after the trial, nor in America through promptings from England. The case, he says, was greatly prejudiced by Dr. Lamson’s acts, showing as they did severe monetary pressure. He expresses regret that the plea of insanity was put aside by the managers of the defense.Dublin, April 6.—The police have made extensive seizure of arms, and two arrests.Dublin, April 6.—Matthew Kiozella was tried for the murder of Fcter Andrews in Tighe Shit, on the night of March 19, and found guilty of manslaughter. It is maintained that Kinzella committed deliberate murder at the instigation of a secret society.An important Fenian escaped in an American vessel, the police closely pursuing, but were unable to arrest him.UFIRMANY.Berlin, April 6.—The government of Bavaria, giving notice of its intention to vote against the tobacco monopoly bill, advocates tax on the manufacture of tobacco- Hamburg and also decided against tbe bill.Reports concerning Bismar.k’s health are unfavorable. Physicians recommend a long rest.It is said tbe Prussian government will recommend tnat tbe upper house diet adoptthe ecclesiastical bill in its original form.KC8S1ASt. Petersburg, April 8.—Three soldiers (lancers) entered »iiquor store kept by a Jew at Dubra and demanded drink. After some objection the eldest danghter of the Jew served them with liquor. A quarrel ensued and the soldiers shot the proprietor, killed his two sons and infant, outraged his danghter, brutally beat his mother, and plundered the bouse.GENERAL FOREIGNRome, April 6.—The report on the proposal for extraordinary military expenditure for 1883 and 18S3 makes tbe amount 127,000,000 lire.Stockholm, April 6.--The Dcgblad says Sweden has tngugld to invade Finland In the event of war between Russia and Germany.Vienna, April 5.—It is announced that tblt;-nsumi lion in Crivatcie is slumped cut.Constantinople, April 5 —The 6ultau to day granted to Gens. Waliaco and Phelps, United States ministers to Turkey and Austria, permission- -now very ranly granted to ins; eat the imperial treasury. The minis ters were surprised at the amount of treasure j, in the vaults and tli: great number of precioui stones displayed. Tbere were forty officials In attendance, who opened locks with manv formalitits.Negotiations continue for a concession for a railway lo Bagdad to au American company, with which, it i« said, Phelps is connected.II is said that the khedive of Egypt will appoint Col. Long .is governor of Foudan.GULLED BY GAMBLERS.Charles Francis Adcms is Takm iu and Done For to tb» Tune of *17,300.Boston, April 6.—A remarkable conspiracy to extort money from Charles Francis Adams, and blackmail his family has just come to light. The first intention of tbe scheme was a warning received by Adams' clerk on Friday last, that Adams’ account at his bank bad been overdrawn. This was considered very surprising, as be was known to have $18,000 to his credit tbere. Investigation was at once begun and it was found that a check for *17,500, regularly endorsed and signed by Adams, but filled in by another hand, had been deposited in the Merchants’ bank some time previously, and bad In due course of business come aronnd to Adam's bank. To-dayG 8. Morrison was arrested on the 10 o’clock train for New York. He made a statement that the check represented money which Adams bad lost at gatnb-
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