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MIAMI DAILY NEWS-RECORD —, MIAMI, OK LASUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1948Jesse James Stories Bob Up Every Now and Then; St. Joe Not ExcitedThe rest of the country won’t twice a day to Have, kept so many forget, and the old .^timers won't blacksmiths busy/’ forge£. Everybody over the' age '/ St. •Joseph has tried in vain to of 80 seems to have known .Tosse live down its connection with personally. “T pjayed many a game Jesse James. Known for many of pool with him” or.,he got his year? as “the city, of million-horses shod at iny' father’s black- 'hires’? because ofTa'mityf or tunes smith shop”‘ is. '■ heard . too ' fre- ' founded -.by ^outfitting* Hie.'Mflers,' quently. The office, wag • remarked St. Joseph .did ; nbt : relish Jesse,, that Jesse must had at. least GO It huith preferred' to' think about horses and changed •their • shoes ' the Pony Express. . ..he would ask over anti over again. One patron, after sitting through, the Jesse James show twice and ani: “it” girl film oncqs shouted, If lie is Jesse James, I’m -Clara Bow.” You can find it all in the.Ncws-Press of July 11, 1034.About that time every circus and carnival had an original Jesse James. Out in California a fclloV was arrested on Charges of obtaining money by false pretenses—the false pretenses being that he claimed to be Jesse James. To win exoneration he had to prove he was a train robber aiid a bank robber. It wound u,p in a sanity hearing at Los A n gel es. S uperi o r JudgeThomas Gould ended the case by dismissing the proceedings jbut remarking: “You’re sane but you are either a great bandit or a great liar, and I think you are a mighty good imposter.”Year after year the city desk of'the News-Prcss received letters such as this one from Van-datia, III,x “Last summer we saw a carnival and my husband and I talked to a man who said he was Jesse James, He was in a. side show and afterward wc went around to talk to him. He sounded real honest, and said he robbed the rich to give to the poor. I wonder if you know whether or not the man killed in St. Joseph in 1882 was really Jesse James.”St. Joseph has been Lrying to forget Jesse James for G6. years,But all in vain: Two-thirds of the I’ony Express' building collapsed last winter while waiting Cor a restoration movement. The Jesse James house, moved two miles to be made conveniently located for tourists, packs ’em in at- two hits a head.* The city owned the home for many years, taking it over for an unpaid paving bill. Then a cityemploye accidentally listed it for taxes* and a taxbiil buyer got it for a: song Without even knowing it. to be the James. House. Today it belongs to/a filling station owner, who uses it as an added attraction,am the original Jesse James?” Well, a lot of people weren't convinced. The widow of Jcssc James, Jr., made a denial. The controversy raged until July 5, 1934, when Henry Bauman, now dead, came to the News-Prcss with a photograph. He was a grading contractor in 1895, and as part of the improvement of LnFayetle street the whole top of the big hill had been cut. off. The house where Jesse James was killed had been placed on a crib and the lot was reduced in height by 12 to 15 feel. A gun buried by Jcssc in 1882 would have been at least 14 feet under ground in order to be within reach of a grubbing hoe in 1932.That was the last St. Joseph heard of the Jesse James of 1932. But there have been others.A couple of years later the Electric theater brought in a man who put on a 30-minute show every night, claiming he was the original Jesse James. He discussed incidents of “my life” while he paced back and forth on the stage. Ho had one principal line of talk as theater ‘patrons heckled him, “If I’m not Jesse James, who am 1?”Thirty-one million acres of New 'Mexico land is in farms and ranches.28-32 NORTH MAINPHONE 283Shop at WardsMEN'S BRIEFS AND SHIRTSMade from fine grade mercerized cotton. Briefs cut to fit and shirts that don't bind you.ownctaft3-TAB HEXAGON SHINGLES REDUCED!?u hove ow,hcr 0fr..an who , !?**■ lt;wd rimes,Here’s Wards.improued 3-tab hexagon shingle ♦ . a edorful. ceramic surfaced shingle that gives new beuty and lasting protection lo-(your home. Self-spacing.-Easy to Jay. Firc-resistant^;^iMe:j^,(many colors. Buy yours at todayV sale price and'save! ■PLASTIC TABLE COVERSProtect your ‘table and tablecloths with these cleor plastic covers—and at such a low price too!
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Miami Daily News Record
Miami, Oklahoma, US
Sun, Jun 13, 1948
Page 5
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