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lif mniinwment of flii fsliihlislmiont of ils for f'llt; xihilit v. Bv fluCapital and Surplus.. $250,000CITIZENS STATE BANKMaryville, Missouri■Was My Neighb orAlAHYV'IU.KMissorm,nirifSDAYK\ i;\i\i.irxi':By Homer CroyPrinted by Special Permission of Author.I (rented Rases These expanded. The result was an explosion. One of the heavy straps truck Mrs. Samuels j in the arm; another struck Archie : Samuels in the head Archie died l*om Ids wound in the side just above the 3rd rib and later the lower portion of Mrs. Samuels' arm was 1 amputated in consequence of com-1 I plications which set in“If the fireplace had not been In use and if hot embers had not been *n it, there would have been no explosion. These entire occurrences must be viewed in the light of the extremely vicious character of Jesse and Prank James, their establishedChapter 8 ContinuedThe Pinkerton Story *There arc two sides to any storv ! °ur men had with them a device [L k JaIres* thelr ^‘‘bUshed I insert here the point of view of lor Illumination a dorken^f mu,d«rers reaction to attempts tothe Pinkerton Agency regarding the it u. ^ a cil,rke,,f'd p»««■ restrain them. The methods em-nlleged bomfeltu It was given to ** °me n* px nf*ture to Ployed by this posse were necessary me in an Interview with Ralph Dud *!le f'rppots wplch later came to be tbe circumstances The un-ley, general manager of the agency 'T* °n, the hi*llWflys whs shap- and tragic results wouldat the New York offices: i r°ughly like a globe, with a long illVf‘ been a voided had Dr. SamuelsThe far*c ... , . ! Ilec*t; *n fbis neck was a wick. The and motber of Jesse and Franktj em are based on “nderstand was of light metal Z responded to the call of thestance* ai mmSI hi *, ^rr',,n’ the bottom were strips of ,ron poMe and revealed that these out-ton and ^ Thi* was ,hat “ the ftrepot rocked 1 *'* not 11 the houseSamuels and Prank JnmeTu°rela bT[ n “S aldf‘' the We,*ht at 'he The shot k of what had happened lives and neighbors Our men and unrt m m“ke U retUrn to an to 'hPlr molher- and th'' dlt;‘th ofother law enforcement officers’ ed v . ??siVon rhlt;* contents their half-brother, embittered Jesse proached the James homestead time h and tur**‘n- a,ld f,,al,k ■' They were nowThey found l! was a citadel with kmn AMh f, ‘Im®1 ”aCt,y defimtply the.the windows shuttered and barred , ri At the time. Allan Pinker- l«w than ever Espelt;tally detective' They called to those inside to open the devire l? »f ll,U^lnatlon that Thp became merciless toward de-' , ■ , « ' ' ' side refused to do this One of our Imnhmethe r1® ll_ * ** B°S ar‘d wh('nmen then pried open a window The then hL .Lf ni( communicating with them by letterinterior Z dark excm a uZ j took tXSS' Df' San*U“Ix T'uld *’a a]1 onplace which gave off insufficient th-ri* a i ? t0 pu,sh V could a K,ut thr detectivesillumln.llon to locato and identify aU* t'u'x °Un Th« a1*?*- . Vow ' U' *lroWem lt;' sr : .sourl for all acts that had occurred before and during the Civil War, and would be given a ‘fair trial Tor all incidents’ that had taken place since What it shook down to was, Come in, boy.,, and well treat you right.’It came within a hair of passing.Even if it had passed, the Boys would not have come in. The best they could have hoped for was life imprisonment, and I think they would have passed that up One of Gang KilledBut no matter who was after themer. Neither got a scratch Jesse so ' a fireman’s coal-hammer was far as is known was not one of the [brought, and one after another the * I robbers banged away at the hinges.The Otterville Robbery j The safe bounced and shook but re-Next the Boys looked around and mained faithful to its trust decided that Otterville. Mm, would Then Cole Younger, who was the be a good Place to oomplish some- j bi se t and heftiest among the thing they had in mind Otterville visitors, took the fireman’s hammerwas a small town near Sedalia i and gave the hinges so said MrTrains passed that way. The date Good-Knight- hell. The safe bounc-was fixed for July 7. 1876 And ed a little more, but surrendered scheduled to be tied up inadvertently j not an inch. A sharp-pointed pick in lhr Otterville affair (according was found and Cole mounted a box to the talk that arose later was a to get the necessary elevation A w “‘.T* T“‘ youn l,oy whn Wa ‘fin allVi wh,Ii pi,'C(' nf Chalk-used for markm • aand what means, the Boys had | this book came to be written bulletin board was discovered On'nnifL OW knew only i was told that As bury Good- top of the safe Cole proceeded tomaton wT°vrs 'n r ‘”U,.Hunt: K,u«ht knlt;‘w « «reat deal about the draw a circle, then gave it everv-ZZL th!, f,r;St day °f OtterUlle robbery If he will talk thing he had. The safe withstoodS2 000 a °U W 1 lwund he Wa a farmer livin:; thr on*xlaught a few moments, then ITh.„ U1 ,, ... ... , three miles south of Sedalia. 89 year gave up the ghost. Coie put his handof the nTsse Hut hi T ? j °W B,lt 1 inte!'vicwed him at the into the hole Someone brought forth1of the posse B t this tune one of Missouri State Fa.r in Sedalia not the trusty grain sack and Into ithe gang wax kUled-not by a mem- at the farm, where I had mi. ed went the safe s treasures^ LatwUiev 1er 1 th***!’. tWU farm‘ h,m First hC vvarned mlt;' about th( were fou»d 'n total $14,000er who thought the men looked spelling of his name Jesse James and one of the othersuspicious and ordered them to Yes. he had known Jes-e James robbers went to the smoking car to kdled i Jnntl'V,The robber AMd that wa about all he .aid. de- call on the passengers The other ferruit k r*?1 SpiU‘ Pnir-rU' P^bing.- He did. man walked ahead, holding the bagLi detectives, who had i however, add one detail about the out enticingly. Jesse came behinddoiK vuch a »u*ar-and-water Otterville robbery that had not been holding out hi- pistol also entirhi'bus,„e„ ror » lornrl.n.11, «,c0m. known In.hr ........ ........Kr!lil''J“i XP something, rhey arrested a through sale; tin- meant it was tri ad ionssuspect known as Keene and sent j locked, with no key for it. The ah one m (he passenger* when hrhimi to prison_in West Virginia for ■ was only shea-won, but heavy a,w the ai.de-woiKers c.mir into thehe^i'p.yCTi otl»*r bandiLs had ' enough to ervc ordinary purpose-, cai ol under his .seat But arrangeintruders Innc-eii a a h,. ronld. one h.oiI still extended out into the passageway. Je.s e. who was closely following his fellow worker, did not see the j foot and stumbled over it. Immrd-| iately the owner sat up, quaking i with fear.I didn't mean to trip you, sir. he quavered. Honestly I didn't. Please don t shoot me. I beg a thousand i pardons Make it two thousand and I won t, said Jesse James, and then, still laughing, walked on down the i aisle.During the course of our talk, Mr.| Good-Knight said, There’s one j other Jesse James man in Sedalia You ought to go to see him. He was iJes.se James s last letter-carrier. And then he gave me hi; name Jes.se James s last letter-carrier!'llid Horses in TimberI found Jacob Din k in his home at 407 North Summit stree t, Sedalia He was 84. The letter-carrying had taken place when he was a boy liv ing on the Warsaw Road, east of Brownington. Mo. He said that, when pressed, Jesse James hid his horses and men in the timber; no one could approach without being seen or heard, and there was always more i than one way out of the timber. Jesse met him one day on the road and asked him if he would like to enn.v icMci lor him. Hlt;* .aid hewould pay well.At this time Jesse was being hunted by the detectives and did not dare use the mails Dirck agreed to 1 help, for no one would suspect him. Hu' i \ would stroll along the road, .civr- a whistle, then go into the thick timber There Je e would hand him a letter and tell him where to find the man addressed Then Jesse would give him $g,,10. Whenever Jesse was in that section he would call on the boy to carry letter; and would ask 1 him the news.I found him a fine man to deal with. aid Jake Dirck reminiscently I never attached any wrong to eeret vm-h. e dotiathe aim if they had a chance, es-peeiallv they would on account of the bank Nobody liked banks. I mistrust banks to this day. . .• Copyrighted by Homer Croyi To Be Continued.Iroup life in-a p. lor employees by the -firms in 1913.Nobodywheel,civihxatiol-i who invented the v« without it industrial i would be impossible.Askew Did he know? Did he sus-pect? Those must have been ten.se : days for him.A little less than three months after the explosion, on April 12. 1875. he took a bucket from the shelf in the kitchen and went down to the spring to dip a pail of drinking water He got the water and was carrying it back when there was a rustling behind the woodpile. Three shots rang out When they picked him un, there were three bullet, hole- ! in his body.There were no arrestsWas he guilty? Did he know? My own opinion is that he did know. There has always been a local belief I that the night of the explosion his voice in the yard had been recognized Anyway, the now-desperate Boys were not taking any chances Lii* wlt;( dosing in There had been easy, carefree days on Uncle D W’s ranch in California, but those were gone Would they ever return? And the two wives, what did they think? 1 How did they feel? What kind of! flife stretched ahead of them? 1 The country wa' immeasurably shocked by the Pinkerton attack and murder Sympathy went to (he James Bovs, dangerous and bloody a they were. People in this Middle We.t section felt the Jamese.* were ; a product of the savagery of the j Border Warfare, and were willing to overlook some of their acts. And j although they didn’t say it openly, there was that private and personal feeling about the uncontrolled banks and greedy railroads.! At this point the State of Mis-| souri got uy as weird a document as ( could be found in a day's ride on a i dogsled. It was proposed, in the ■state legislature, that if the James Boys and their associates’ would come in they would be pardoned byTo give you aFINER CIGARETTELUCKYSTRIKEITS TOASTEDLucky Strike maintains America's t s -^7~\FINEST CIGARETTE LABORATORY
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Maryville Daily Forum
Maryville, Missouri, US
Thu, Jun 30, 1949
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