The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-05-13

killing of the child and the manning OF Mrs.
Samuels. A week alter this Askew was
killed. talked with numbers OF the neigh
bors and one or two of the members OF Mr..
Askew's family. and they incline to the be-
lief that in some way ho met his death at
the hands Of the dreaded detectives OK their
allies. Having acted son the square" with
these people, whatever their bias in seeking
Information on this all-absorbing topic OF the
James boys, your correspondent appealed to
an old confederate, whom he had some
reason to believe was on friendly
TERMS WITH TIE OUTLAWS,
and boldly asked for an interview with
them wherever they might be. "I'd take
you to Jesse in a minute il could" said
he, 'Jessei Is the most talkaiive of the boys,
and he'd give you a hsap of information
which would make some mighty interesting
reading. He'd like to talk with you, i
know. These Missouri papers, most oil
them, have lied on the boys and printed all
sorts of stuff. But the truth is, it would be
two weeks ride down through Kansas and
the nation, and not altogether safe. seeing
those Cheyenues are off on the war path
again. It's near about planting time, toe.
III tell you what will do, though. Oue of
the boys has just come NJ from the cattle
range, and he saw Frank and Jessie not
more han three weeks ago. Neither of the
boys has been home since just after the de
tectives killed little Archie Samuels, bat
alter the cattle drive, and when the leaves
get out good. if you're down here then
think can fix you an interview as you
call it. with the outlaws" S0we rode over
into Jackson county two weeks ago, and, at
the house of farmer known TO be friendly,
your correspondent was made acq1aintsd
with enc of Quantrell's old gusrillss, a bush
Whacker during the war and now bull
whacksr. Pinkerton's men kno y him, al
though they spotted him withon: any help
4 $50
hope, by following his movements, to get a
clue as TO the whereabouts. He had Just
come up, he said, from the cattle range on
the Eeadwat rs OF the A kansas, and when
he left, Frank and jesse James were both
there. He had just
HEARD OF THE AsEgw MURDER,
bat said it was an impossibility for Jesse or
Frank to have done it, for he had been with
them constantly for nearly month tending
cattle. Whatever their friends might have
done. he was certain the boys had MOI had
any hand in it. They were very bitter, he
said about the attack made on their mothers
home aud refused TO say much about it.
When he left them they were about 100
miles southwest of Pueblo, the country was
occupied by ranches. and every herdsman
was an outlaw or a desperate borderer.
They were all banded together, he said, and
much show among them as a keg of pow
der in a burning house. 1 asked
him If the Jameses were likely TO come
back TO Clay county before long. "Not
until the leaves get out, at any rate" he re-
piled. When the foliage is on. In full they
could come and go, and nobody, not even
their old comrades, would know it. 1 in
quired after the Youngers, and he said
Jesse James told him he had not seen Cole
or Jim for oyer year, but had heard that
they were in Mexico, over near the Pacific
coast-either in Sanalva or Sonora. He also
said that there was no doubt among the
cOlOniZed borderers that Arthur Mccoy HAD
died, aud been buried near the San Marcos
river. The conversation then turned upon
other noted despeTsdoes, and the old bush
whacker talked long into the night of the
secret history of Quantrell, Todd, Bill An
derson, and other famous guerillas, giving
much interesting Information which hops
TO lay before the readers of the Times upon
some future occasion.