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K FILED IN HIS TRACKS.•lesne Jamas, the Sovereign Brigand, bliot Dead In a Shanty at St. Joseph, Mo.,By a Former Confederate In Crime Who Sought But Feared to Attempt His Capture.Review of the Train Robber’s Bloody Career. With His Memorable Reverse in Minnesota.St. Joseph, Mo., April :l —Th# actual Josie JsiDtM vu ktiletl hero this morning, si Thirteenth sod Lsfsvoito slrooU. st ibotil 10 o’clock, by two brothers tnunod Ford. Tboy hsd teeo here s w»ck Intending to srresi him, hut were sfrsul to try it, siivl coocliulod to kill him without uking tho chance* ou the arreat. ('harles sod Robert Ford sro their nstuen. Charles vu ia tho Blue cut robbery, sud is the mm who killed the expressmen. Robert was iu the Winston robbery. Tboy ssy Jesse James \«as in tho Blaq cut robbery, bat not m the Winston robbery. The wife of Jesse Jamea was soon at tho sceue of the killing, and wept loud and long crer the f.tto of her husband. Sho has two beautiful children, a boy of seteu and a girl of fonr vests. Tho Ford boys have surrendered to the dicers, and are now in the marshal's custody. There seems to Le not a doubt that this ts the veritable Jesse Meu who know him say they recoguized the body at at fuca Manv hero know tho two Ford buspen •vuutry backed by THE3 CBxSddisplays a devotion for the boys’* that can be likened to nothing but a tigress and her cube. After six year* of widowhood she married Dr. Reu-ben Samuel*, a respectable citUen, and he is ailU under her dominion. At the breaking oat of the rebellion Frank and Jo**# JamesJOINED QUANTUKLI. AB4ND of guerillas, audeoou ro«o to eminence by reason of their persouat hardlhootl ami «laro-devil reckless* nesa They were absolutely regardless of life, either their own or that of any one elee. and In con* sequence of their ability and daring they were each promoted to the command of a company. After tbu killing of Qnantrell and the dU-bending of bis force In 1805. the James boys returned to their homo lu .Missouri, where they livedqutetlv t r two years, when, haring effected a sort of partnership with the Younger brothers who Were also witn Quautrell, and others of that Ilk, they i-nterfd the buoluoM of wholesale rwbi*ery on s lusgniCcicnl scale. In the fall of 1 SC8 the party wont to the Lexmgtun ikv. ) races. On thslr Jour-nev homelbey stopped at Kussellolle. Ky, whore they rob!*rd a Uauk of $14,000. and went to Texas, where they invested in stock, and remained qate*-oeat until the Iu$uwittr year. In 1864 the bank of Gallatin. Ifol. was robbed of $7,000 by the James *ud Younger boys. Tho following soring the James and Younger bovs and otbors rode tutu the i jWii of Corvdon. Ia. m the f- ivuoon. dtsmouuted, walked Into the tank and while three of their num-h.-r kept the Lssbtcr. the onlv person to the hank ouiet, tho others went through tho asfe for several tlum.and dollars. Tho roht«rs wen Mii«»url but none were caught, went to Tolas, wuere alter committing several murder* they were oBUvltD TO FIXE FOR SAFETY.In the fall o( 1870 they robbed the Columbus tank tu the day lime, murdering the cashier. In 1S7’J Jesse James robbed the treasurer of the Kansas City fair. The mouev was placed lu a sack carried by one of the party, and they rode calmly down Twelfth street in full view of the populace. The cheek displayed can only b* appreciated when I he fact is taken into consideration that there were it tho least calculation HO.OGO p«ople on the g;.citula, and meu were passiug iu and out the gate . v-ry minute. Their next exploit was thevt- covered with revolvers and the safe emp-tiL-d lt;f i:e cwntenta. The next month, June l the James boys loft Kansas City whure they had been several weeks, and went to a small town ibis side of Council Bluffs, whero they were Joined by the Youuger brothers. On thu‘Ulster the mouth they displaced a rail, :l;iow the train from the track, creating ter-iibio confusion. Tho cuginear and liremau were l*otti killed and several passengers so vcicly injured. Every dollar in the express c.ir, beside a quautitv of bullion were carried a wav. Officers of the law eoonrcd the couutry itb tho customary result. The cembcr the boys again showed np in front or a stage which ran between Malvern and Hot Springs. The passengers, in-M.ad of going to Hot Springs, returned to Malvern to telegraph for remittances. Two week* ut:-t ward, in January, 1874. an express tram was at»»Ppfd at Osd‘s Hill ou the Iron Mountain road, the ordinary formality gone through with, and 511 .OCR) token Irwm the safe. No ons was killed. I .nkcrtcn was to work up the case, and a Gcrmau deu-tire named Witcher detailed for the duty. Witcher went to Clay county in the diagutae of an emigrant and applted fur employment as a farm hand on Mrs. Samuels’ farm. Ho was refused work and the following ilav was found shot full of holer, a card on his breast bearing the following Jn-rcrlptton: “Thtaehail bo the fate of all of Tinker-tou’a detectives who come into Missouri.” Shortly afterward Capu I.u.l. one of Pinker.on’s men. together with several others, run the Younger brothers to earth In Monaghan's wooda In southwestern Missouri. A desperate battle followed, in wblub John Younger was killed and J.rn senoosly wound-t! Sheriff Daniels of Bt. Clair county waaebot dead and Lull mortally wounded.Shortly afterward Daniel Askew, of Liberty, a well known and popular young man, who had gntd-td the detectives to tho James farm, was carried ft -m his house at-d aiiot dead by Jesse Jamea.lu the spring of 1875 the Mend* robbery, six miles out cf the city, on the Kansas Pacific read,wished for came this mortuog. Breakfast was (Jrer and Ford and Jesse James hod been In the stable* eurrymg the horses preparatory to the night r.de. Ou returning to the room where Rob-lie pulled off hts coat and veat and to«*ed theiu on the bi-1. Then he said: I gueaa 1 wtlQako off my t.is(ols for fear somebody will «ee them if 1 walk in tho yard. He unbuckled the irit to which he lt;-amed the forty-live calibre revolvers, one a Smith OS Wesson and the other achaff Dta tack w*l“ i-ow turned to -e brothers, who silently etepi/ed uetween e^se and l.la revolver!, and at a motion from. :harie*» both drew their guns. Roberthe Ladavlth his»head. Evuick flash, a sharp report and the well directed ball CRASHED THROUGH THE OUTT.AW*B SKULL. There was no outcry. Just a swaying of the body, ‘t feU heavily back upon the, of ff'JS.uOO. while tho tram was In motion. Aftc ; •ecuriugthe wealth thu robbers pulled the bell cord, lumped off. sod got away as u*o*!. July 7. 1376, a Mi«soan P :fic train was robbed at Otterville, I Pettis county. Fifteen thousand dollars were taken from the safe and the robbers, wiin their usual good fortune- escaped.THE NORTHFin.D RAID.In August, 1376, the Jaine* I or*, the chreo 1 Youngers, and three of their companions went to Mankato. Minn., where th* v remained for semafrom the Indian Nation, thl«*f from Minnesota, and was undoubtedly'the originator of the fatal Journey which ended In the almost total extermination of the entire party.well and one of tho Youngers were sent in advance hers several days W roconnolter, the main body of the expedition leaving Olay county. Mis* time during August, 1870. Cole,tterville. At near Northfiold the eight desperadoes held a consultation on September ti, and on the afternoon of the ~th they entered the last named town at a furtons . ace, shooting their revolvers right and left in order to intimiilite the people on the itreeta With rses on a dead run. the party halted difront of the bank. While Frank and Jease and Bob Younger entered, the other five guard againsta the chamber of at James' head, srldthl th* fate «.fonotry'e history.asked tcould not have more effectually the greatest bandit and fret figured In the pages of the MBS. JAMESwas :a the kitchen when the shooting wis done, divided from the room In which the bloody tragedy occuraed by a dining room: sh*heard the thei and dropping her household duties ran into the front room. She saw her husband lying on his bock aud his slayers each holding his revolver la his hand and making for the fence in the rear of the bouse. Robert bod reached the enclosure and was in the act of r.-allng 1'. when tho stepped to door and calling to him Robert you have done lids; (xnn back.* Robert answered; I swear to God I did not They returned to where she stood. Mrs. James ran to the side of her husband and lifted up hi# heed. Life wo not extinct and when seemed to bar that he . could not THE 1XQCE01.At 3 o'clock the remains were moved to the circuit court room where the Inquest was held. Mrs. Jamea also accompanied tho ofbo-rs to the city hall, having previously left her two children, aged seven sod three, a boy and a girl, at ti» h of Mrs Lurr.oi. Bbe was greatly affected I tragedy, oxvl her heart presslon of grief were sorrowfuldene# of the love she bore the Nothing la the appearance of the t cated the desperate character of the many bloody scene* of which he actor. Only the !ow*r part of the facethe sqdare cheek boner, the stout, prominent chla. .... . ... aQfj tbjo. firmlybetrayed the determined courage of the deadfarther inspection of the body........« right tide ofi three inches of the nipple, a bullet wound In (be leg and the absence of the middle finger of the left hand. ARer viewing the remains,thei HI'1 Vthe F. s continuedLittle.The inqtThe James bovs were reared In Clay county, within twelve miles of Liberty; the Youngers in Jscfcsoa county, within fonr mtlas of Independence. There is something suggestive in the names of their homes, for liberty and independence with them have been carried beyond the limits of criminal license. Frank James was born in Kentucky in 1841: Jesee in Clay connty, Missouri, in 180ft. Their father was the Roy. Robert James, a prominent and eloquent Baptist minister, a pleasant and courteous gentleman, possessed of mors education than was common with the minister* of his church In the frontier days of 18 l'.l In Missouri, when the 1 from Kentucky to Clay county.i wife. TbeJimother la still stive and vigorous, and reside* on wrll-cniitrated farm fonr miles eaat of Kearney, station r.n tho Hannibal dr 8t. Joseph railroad, seventeen mi.os northeast of Kanars City. Htio wot a MIsaZprcMa Colo of 8r«itt county. Ky., and. although she has attained the aovaneM age of fifty-In figure i _ -fully 1701 feet high—sway abuve the average run of * kind. She Is shrewd, hot dauntless couro.remained outside to guard against attack. J. L. Hayward, the cashier, and two clerka were iu tho ihe time. For refusing to open tho James eent a ball into Hayward’ib; am. Meantime the citizens on the street realized what was going on, and opeued fire on the robbera. Chadwel! was shot from his horse by a man from the court h:cse window, ju^t opposite the bank.THE FTRTNO RECAMB GENERAL m.d JvtMt Jauivs was in th* tightest place of his Mf*. Jim Younger had a bullet in bis month and I funk James one through hit left leg, but the entire six succeeded In mounting their hones and escaping from the town. Then became a flight and pursuit which for Dersistance aud endurance is almost without a parallel. The robbers were in a strange and unknown country, followod by fifty armed m*n. When It was seen that the chase was to be to the death a proposition was made to separata. Before this timo Jesse James wanted Bob Younger killed as the blood from his wound made u i i .In trail, but Cole Younger wonJd not allow It, ond said be would kill the first man who dared lay a tli.gar on hit wounded brother. Jesse and Frank James went off in a northerly direction, while the three Yonngers and Oharllo Pitts remained in a I .dv. At on all previous occasions luck followed the James boys, for while they escaped after beingt urroed nearly 500 mile*, the Younger? were shot 1 -’.vn and ear tu red, and Pitts wu* killed. The three former were terribly ftouuded before they would surrender, and are now serving life sentences !r the Minnesota penitentiary at Btlliwater.Jesse and Frank James, after being chased for w»*ke, *acc©ed*d In reaching Texas, and at Waco ... ... - . operation‘ ' list be_______days without tar# that It made Frank a cripple for Ufa.THUS LATEST EXPLOITS.On th* 7th of October, in 1879, three years after the famous Glendale robbery occurred, the spoils estimated from 945.000 to 840.000. After this one of the gang named Shephard claimed to have killed Jmh Judm, bnt It ra trantpIrM that ho irled to pnt up a Job on the authorities, being seconded by Jamea. to secure the reward offered for James and the two worthies had a bodr flxod np lor that purpose- Daring 1879 and 1880 It la thotiifbt the bandit brother, were In Baltimore, lu tho tall of 1880 the robbery of a coach near Mammoth Caro, Ky. was aarrlbed to thorn, hoi rincotho Kmplro Cltr affair, which flaabad In tho pan, nothing donlte baa boon known of tbom until the Wln-aton robbery, and tho robbery of the train at Blue Cut, near Independence, which wea tho I sat exploit of Ihl. redoubtable robbor, and wMeh baa been folly described by the coofeeilon of yoon«laird.The Dead Outlaw.Kanhab Cm, April 4.—'The death of Jeeae Jamco, the real great Miaeonrl bandit, it now beyond queetlon a fact Got. Orittonden arrived here this morning and aaya positively that it la he, anti that bis death la the roanlt of an understanding between tho an-Uioriliei and Bob Ford who killed him, and Dick Little who eorrendored to Sheriff Timber-lake al the eame lime Ford did. The inquest at Ht Joseph was concluded at noon to-day. Mrs. ftamnels, mother of Jeeae Jamee. hie wife, Dick Little and Hlieriff Timberiake iden-■eneational scene, attacking Dick Uttle and calling all manner of cursee down upon him for having conaplred to betray bta loader. Tbe coroner's Jury returned a verdict ofagainet Ford, and tbe author!tiBa of connty refute to give him up. The body of Jeseo Jtmee will probably be taken to the old farm near Kearney, Olay connty, for boriaL The confirmation of Jamee’ death haa croated a profound aeneatlou In woe lorn Missouri, and farmer, near thle placo and Independence, who have not y«t been In either plaoe for yearn, rode Into town thle morning In the rain to in-veatlgata tbe rumor. Homo denounce Ford as an aeaaaetn whose only objeol wee blood money, while other, oxense him upon tho ground of expediency. The governor will no.Sto St Joseph, bdt will return to Jefferson ty to-night, whoro some steps will be taken to protect Ford, who ia thought to be m danger from the friends of the dead robber. All Creeker Jfeck wee n Ing end some threats have been made against the 11 Ltttla Tbe Hannibal A St. Jonia ami her r'-in law.i-t.trater, Mlun , April 4.—The newe the murder of Josae Jamea wae peculiar internal to the Younger boya, especially Cola An Interview was seen rod with the wily and reticent Cole, whose familiarity with the dead robbor chief may never ha known After a few brief remarks l.roak-lug Ibe geueral teuor ‘of tbe uewa. copy of Ibe I’ionekk I'rph* wa. handed le who read the atticla through carefully aud with evident interest. Hia first remark that there would be no trouble iu identifying Ihe body if it waa Joe, for (pointiug to right breast) ho haa a bullet wound hero that would tell lie waa shot twice in Ihe ai place, aud waa attended by Dr. Wood, of Kanaae city, for a long timo. For ail or eight mouths ho waa lying al Kanaaa Oily hovering between life anil death, and eoutinned under tbe doctor'a caru for four or five veara, until ie went to California iu 1868. oat lha use of that lung 'onaequently liae hut one now, wl would be revealed by a post mortem. Tho atorv ie a verv plausible one, and uu doubt ' That wonidlio about the oolv opportunity me could gat to kilt Idm. Cole said he 10 sympathy with auy of tboee persons, if they full out among themsetvee aud killed oath otherHg HAD SO OBJECTIONS, ev were nottiiug to him. He did not know the Ford brothers, but did not know but bet they might bo eous or a mau of that name who wae associated with him during thu Ho spoke ot tho recent train robber where Diok Uttle turned Stale's evidence, aud Ihat he eaw nothing that answored to description or actions of the Jsmos boys, and thought it more than likely that some of the Kansas City sharps hsd pnt np the Job, got Ltttlo and tho others into It by giving them the idea that the .iumoa boys wore at tho head of It Another fact which leads lum to think thev are a now gang ia that if they were old friends of hts tnay Would never have gone into the neighborhood of hia friends, knowing that ins uncle and aunt were endeavoring to do aouiotliing for him hero, anil commitod the rob-bory and murdered tbe comlnolor in cold blood, because that wonld counteract everything that bad been dono for them. In regard to considerable ot (bat purporting to be a iila-tory ot their doings, annexed to the accouut he salil Ihat It waa all humbug.THR DEADLY CYCLONK.A cyclone swept Oakland county, MIoIli Thursday night, the tith inst Enough is kuowu to establish tho destructive chamc,- of the. tornado. Several p.-rs.us wore killed and many were maimed, and a large amount of property dmtroyeil. At Highland, Oaklaud conntv, Lafayette Crandall, his six year old boy and his wife's .Istor . atael Tay lor, visiting from Fonli.c, were lustautlv kl led. Tho little girl It ml an arm crushed oil Li tr the elnow aud It wae amputate-]. Suveral uthera received .light injanes. Its severity in Charlotte county wae at a point ten miles from telegraph and few details t. a received yel, though it is known Ihat several persons were killed and injnre I wboee names are not yet reported. Many houses aud barns were demol-tshsd.Tcewbolo fatndy or HoracoStt-rmin of Kali mo store thoWblMok swauip many rods from the house, tshccmau'a slater, an id t- t. waeiuetaoUy ktiled. In tho ne ghbarhoo.1 lt;t J’.asl dagicaw at. J Callsmsroo. there was a good deal of dam-age.A cyclone started eonth ot tho Arkansas tteit F.symoud, Bice comity, Kataas. and mov;..l I: a northerly ditccttou. John Wdson's house was blown down, killing Mrs Wdson, and lt;injuring Hrs. Parker, who was staying then that liters are no bopeavtf Let recovery Ivoeeedmj north, the deetroyer struck the n*w, thriving town of Chase, aud demolished twenty ontof twenty six buildings lu the placo, and threw cate from tho track. Mr It oi a hotel keeper, was killed and his wife fatally in* jured. Another womau and cbdl were a'co killed at about the same time.Among the losers by the waterspout in hiee county, Kansas, are Deities Bros., store room deetroyed with $2,00U worth of goods; F.d. ''natters, storeroom and residence, lose, JO,000 Sutton, Swieaer ,V Dupree, etoro ro-.uta aud .'timber, stvoral Ihuneand dullars; (loorge F. Miller, new two-etory business honse, $1,800; Congregational church, $ 1.200. Hold's hotel was tlawn down. Tho Methodist chnroh, dedicated last Sunday, w»s twijledsqoarterround and badly wrecked.The Keoknk, Iowa, Cjnstftati ou special from Keoeanqtta, county eta', of Yen Buren cannty, states that tho hurricane wrecked a great dcit of property and plated much havoc iu tin lower Dee Moines valley. At Ktosauqoas largo new house in which a locomitivo was kept was demolished.HAFT BOAT EXPLODED:Half a l.-7.*n Men Killed Near Brownsville Minnesota.The raft boat Bella Mac, of tbs Macdonald line, waa almost totaliv destroyed 1 y an txplo-stun, two milts above Jlrowusvihc, tu the Mis s.ssippi, below La Crors:,Friday mo nmg, lash Tho engineers hsd justohingrd walchc \ and the captaia was al iha wheel. Every mvn tvas at his post, and thealetam gauge registered only 1113 pounds. Tho crow cousistej of seventeen men, ef whom all but six were asleep, capttar says he wae just thinking of inoreasiec ateed, when tae pilot Lrraae aud tho entire worLa Bho! iulo tho air, and he fancied he w«a falling some distance. He thinks ho was insensible for a minnte or two, and find remembers endeavoring to crawl out of the wreckage. Though badly braised and bbe Hug from t wound in the face, he set about rescuing Hit meu who were in tho water or buried beneatt tbo wreck. . Tho following are Hit dead or misibig: Frank Mclnttre, pilot; Swift Bell, common had; John Nolan, fireman; Wm. MoConmeh. common hand; Goo. Mct'onnlah, second cook; Chas. Martin, negroTho wonnded aro as follows: Thomas Jlic negro runner; Morrii Lasusnr, firemvj; VV, V. Gordon, caplatn; James and Henry Tntiov, the former first enginesr aud the la tier a e-cond engtueer; Davij McGenniah, clers: Wm. Ljicli-lieudor, cock; Chas. Mouahau, fireman; Lunis Soclfon, mate; Richard Wagner, fireman; I.ou-la l4*nenr, a little boy. Arm hnrt slightly.Northwestern Postal Matt-rc ’ Washington, April 7.—Now postoffices have been established at Ebert, Polk connty, Erick Benson as postmaster, and Maxwell, Lao-qnt Parle connty, Minn. The star mail service on the route from Cambridge to Harris, Minn., haB boeo increased to six limes a week. The poatoffloe at Angola, Becker connty, Mlnm, has been discontinued. -New pos to dices sre ostsbllsbed in Iowa as follows:At Newball, Benton county. Hardy, Hnmbol! county, Melbourne, Marshall county, Minerva, Marshall county.In Dakota at Elkliorn. Hamlin comity. Parsons, Anrora connty. Thomas Nichols, De Witt 0. Baker and John I). Foley have been appointed postmasters at the newly established offices at Minerva, Mel bourn and Hardy, la., respectively.Dakotas insane Asylums ftnrned.The Territorial Insane Asylum at Yankton waa homed last Tuesday afternoon.It was a temporary wooden building used while tbo briok bollding, now nearly completed was oonetractad. There were fifty-fenr patten tho asylum, aud of those tho following • burned to death George lvemon of Yankton oounty. •Peter Peterson of Casa connty.Crmn Lynch of lluioo connty.Joseph Hannerly of Lawrenoe oounty.Tbe property 1cm Is abonl $ 10,000 inelnding tbs temporary buildings and its contents, comparatively Dotting being saved; Insurance $800. The origin of the fireie a mystery, wae first aseu in the loot, and spread with souh rapidity that there was no lime to save property. The patients burned were uaoe removed from the bnilding bnt ran back intothe damce after escaping from enfodv. The new aesylnm is not completed bnt can be used and the survivors have been moved into itProfflt, $1,200.To snm up six lonqyeats st bedridden mckntss, osting per yesr, total 91,. 200—allot this expense was stopped by three bottles of Hop Bittern, taken by my wife. Sho has done her own housework for n p -ar since, without the loan of n day, and 1 w .nt everybody to know it for their benefit.' —-V. S. Farmer.When Mr. Justice Field, of Ike United States supreme oonrt, is troubled wilh sleeplessness, he driven it off with a soree-oher of hot claret aud water.Cast-Iron Fallow*.Mon ot endurance have healthy kidneys and liver. No aches in tbo baok, no pilsa ot con-Wort This great remedy keips up tho of tbs Whole body by enabling tho liver,towels sad kl lusjs to perform rfeotiy Bolh tbe Liquid and Dry are told •y druggists.—Piiuoer Press.
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