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Illinois Convict Claims Ho Is Jesse James, the Outlawr \ u lit(tty the Associated l‘rc»s.) JOLIET, 111., Dec. 27 — Jesse | James still lives—in the mind of anlow Ins extradition. Later he gotthe wanderlust and started acrosscountry. Illinois officials finally seiz-,aBed convict who ate hie Christmas M sim at charlestoIli w. Va„ andjdinner in the mess hall of Joiiet!i prison.j John James is Iris name on prison , records and he claims he has proof(he is the noted outlaw leader officially assumed' to have been killedand buried' long ago.The old man, • whose age is between 85 and 95, recently was declared a parole violator by the State Parole Board. If he is a good; brought him back last July.!He declared at his hearing he was i the outlaw and had reformed and j lived in Colorado 51 years under the I name Jim Williams. He said he was cowboy-sheepherder for 30 years and. had. been a rebel spy in thej Civil War. Claiming he didn’t par-j ticipate in the Northfield Minn.,j bank, holdup, he asserted Charles; Bigelow was the man buried asprisoner, as he has been in the past, he will be eligible to seek his re-j esse ames-lease.-in April. I Bessie James Garber of Los An-Parole board records show he en-igeles’ the convict’s sister,, dealt hisclaim a blow in an affidavit filedtiered Menard prison from Jhckson I County in June, 1926, for a one-| year to life sentence for manslaughter in the killing of Charles Shel-jton during ah argument over a 50-cent debt. At that time James said She was 83..Paroled a year and a half later,with the parole board. She wrote her brother was “prone to illusions, easily influenced and swept away by tales of exploits of the James and Younger gangs.”I have no doubt but that my brother at times believes he really)he was back again in 1929 and out is «“ OTiSini!l Js5se James' she' wrote.again after doing another hitch. Then nothing was heard of him until about two years ago when complaints reached the parole boardFurther contradiction of the contentions of the old man, who admit-, ted he appeared on the stage “but!that James was tellng audiences j never in medicine shows,” was the over the country he was Jesse letter from Mrs. Jesse James ofWoodson James in person.I Los Angeles to the board saying herHe was arrested in California but i famdy had • definite proof her j Gov. Frank Merrianv wouldn't al- father-in-la'w was buried in 1882. i
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Chillicothe Constitution Tribune
Chillicothe, Missouri, US
Tue, Dec 27, 1938
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