The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1875-09-30
NOT JESSE JAMES.
THE PINE HILL RoBBER.

has succeeded In identifying the deceased
member of the gang who robbed the Hunt
ingtor, w. Va, bank. He writes:
reached Pine Hill on Monday, having trav-
eled night and day under your instructions
70 seek out and identity, if possible the
wounded robber of the West Virginia
bank. The capture, and when l ar
rived, the death OF the robber were
the chief topics of conversation, and
excitement ran high. So far as their course
has been traced it appears that after rob-
hing the bank, the circumstances OF which
were almost identical with the robberies OF
the banks at Russellville, Kentucky, Ste.
Genevieve. Missouri, and Corydon, Iowa,
in recent years, the robbers rode away with
their booty, about $4,000, into Kentucky,
bv the way of the mountainous country IN
Morgan county; thence they passed into
Lee county and through Clay
county into Jackson. stunning
the settled portions and finally
4 into IsureIl county. There they were a
week ego Yesterday, having dstaDced the
West Virginia sheriff and his posse. The
only brush the robbers had with the Hun
| tiugt0n pursuers, was on Friday. the tenth,
| when party of thirteen surprised them.
| The pursuers were armed with double-bar-
! relied shot-guns and Spencer rifles. and for
few minutes lively fusilade was
4 kent mp until the robbers finally
| abandoned their horses and took TO the
| brush. That night, however, they stole fresh
| horses aud came on to Jackson county,
where, early Sunday morning, they met a
DartV of ten men, exchanged shOts, and one
| of the robbers, il is said, was winged. They
| were forced again TO leave their horses, and
tried during the day to reach Livingston
station. Fooled in this, they again
| TOOK TO THE BRUSH.
Their presence in the vicinity was known
and people were continually on the watch
for them. Among others who remained up
late Tuesday night, just week ago were
| the Dillon boys. two young men who deal
in coal here, and live just outside of the
town with their mother. About midnight
one of them happening to look out saw, in
the moonlight, four men coming up the
road. As they ueared the house two
of the men left the road and went into
the woods. The other two came Up
toward the house. The Dillon boys tool
their pistols and went down and opened the
door, accosting their visitors. The latter
made no reply but suddenly fired. The Dill
/ ions returned the fire and one OF the men
dropped with a cry. The other left. While
the firing was going on ia front noise was
heard in the rear, and one OF the Dllllons
going back, found that the othor two men
having made q detour through the woods
were trying to force an entrance. Shots
we're exchanged and the robbers drew off
Since then, the whole country has been
secured, far and near, by mounted men, but
without any su 3cess, and the trail has grown
cold The wounded man was taken in by
the billions next morning, and cared for
but died Sunday evening at the house of g
Mr.. WOodsOn. He was very guarded in his
conversation, and gave several names anC
locations, evidently as mere blind. With
out making known my mission, picked uE
. these facts and then started for Wo0dsOn's t
! see the corpse. a hundred times L had beer
| assured that
THE DEAD NAN
, was no other than the famous Jesse James
of Missouri. Bligh, the Louisville detec
tive was here, passed pretty much the whole
, night at the bedside of the dying man, and
assured everybody that it was Jesse James
! beyond all question of doubt. The people
here had kind OF an idea that there was
rrice on Jesse James's head in Missouri spC
that the corpse ought to be forwarded like &
VOLTS scalp to secure the bounty. They hao
applied to Bligh, however, who is theil
oracle, and had been told tt
5 went into the house the BODY haf
been laid out decently for the grave. There
were other visitors at the same time, and
confess my nerves had been wrought up sc
that there was a slight tremor. The sheet
. was drawn down and as 1 expected the tea
| lures DOEO no likeness 10 those OF JESSE
James, whose face years ago was as familiar
to me as the face of daily acquaintance
| Thera came an unex pected shock, however
for like a flash l recognized the face o
Thompson McDsniels, desperate known
TO thousands Of people in western Missouri
Thompson McDsniels has not been in thu
papers much. but be has a terribly despe
rate record of it 10 Western Missouri. HI
| vas a bushwhacker of the worse type
during the war and the brother of Bud OF
{. Bill McDaniels, who was killed in Kans2!
no. long ago. Thompson has been viz
tuaily an outlaw for nearly ten years III
1867 be was arrested in Lafayette county
2 Missouri, or taking bOrses, but got off by
turning states evidence and bstraying his
partners. Sometime after that he sho
! without provOcstiOn an old man named
Seth Mason, and only escaped lynching by
f fleeing from Missouri. He spent some
time in Texas, where he will be well remem
bered as
THE SLAYER OF COLONEL NICHOLAS,
an ez-confederate officer of Shelby's famous
brigade. Bill McDaniels will be readily
remembered by your readers as one of th'
FIVE who robbed the Kansas Pacific train al
, Muncie on the Sth of last December anC
pluudered the express car of thirty thou
sand dollars in greenbacks and gold dust.
Within few days after the robbery h<
ventured back to Kansas City where he hsC
, lived and being arrested on trivial charge
was found to have on him some of the
. plumber. He was indicted tor the rob.
berry, and, it is said, in partial confession
implicated his brother Thompson in the rob
! berry, with three other desperadoes, who hao
come up from their lurking places IL the In.
dian nation especially to do this job
!, With the recognition of McDan
iels, the explanation of Bligh't
false suppositions came TO me in
stantly. He says that while he sat by the
1 dying robber, the latter in his delirum cried
Ou: "Hsve they got Bud, my part
ner?" Bud was the nickname of
Bill McDaniels, and he was known
by that to all his intimate friends. Evi
IDENTIFY the dying mans mind wandered
back TO the chase of the Muncis robbers and
the capture of Bud, his brother. The latter
it will be remembered, broke jail a few