American citizen., 1876-08-26
m'st be thy Code, thy county's, and Truth's." :
A LITTLE ROMANCE.

A LITTLE ROMANCE.
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HowiFrank JAmes Won Pretty Anni'
Halston-The Mysterious Flight OF tn.
i Lsvin9 Couple-Why the Detective
/ Overturned Things at q Certain Farm
House. s
q fFr1,m the Kansas City Times.l $ -
'a;An brave men love the e'women, and
in their love seldom hesitate at ths
means they take to- accomplish; theil
ends. The James ,brothers-wh are
with the Younger boys creating SO much
stir just now0have had a love-scrape,
or at feast one Of them has But this
love aRairb is Ediffsrentt from all other
sffairs.' TT would not be the work OF
Frank James, ifsit ewas not, for their
work is so wild, reckless and bold shat
people sesmto recognize it only byrits
startling accompaniment and strange
surroandings. No one who knows any
thing of the career of the James broth
rs would expect them TO Woo, win and
marry like other people. The marriage
OF, Frank James might havep remaihed
enshrouded in the private obscurity Of
every day country life had it not Been
for the recent startling raid Of ST. Louis
and Cincinnati detectives into this vicin-
iity. The visit of the detectives to the
house OF MI Samuel Ralston, about seven
miles east Of this city, q few nights ago,
brought to Light the following facts,
which throw another CLEAN of light up
on the life and characteristics of these
notable knights of the road. ,,x.rs.; -
Where and how. Frank James be-
came acquainted with Miss Annie Ral-
,ston is among the other mysteries of
the wild young mans ife.s She. lived
with her father, well-knoWn. and very
respectable farmer, about seven miles
from Independence. Frank James had
not been q frequent visitor to the house,
and had not been on intimate terms
with the family. 8a3 10 73vF1ss1ssass''s
But it appears shatlaa loving court
ship had been going on for3some time
between Miss Annie Ralston and the.
dashing and daring young Frank James.
The parents had not the least idea that
their daughter loved and had been won
by the bold train-robber, and It was not
until several months after her efope-
ment that they realized the true facts
IN the case. F.e 80. ~. .tcr..f -,
80. HER FLIGHT. ~ M
Early in the month of July, 1875,
Annie Ralston proposed to her parents
a visit to her brother-in-law, Mr., Ezra
Hickman, residing in Kansas City. Her
parents, suspecting nothing wrong.
and on the following day
she started, with her little trunk and
yalise well PACKED, on, the
train for Kansas City. .la It trans
pired e, aftewards 3 that Frank
James was on the train to receive her, |
and that the elopement had been pre-
arranged. She was met. at the Kan,
sas City Depot by her brother in-law,
Ezra Hickman, who offered to assist her
from the train. She laughingly refused
saying she desired to see a
friend inside the car, and would follow
liinl up to the house in a hack. She was
'een only one time afterward by her
riends on the train, on the way over to
A Mr.. Connolly, son of ex
Iov. Connolly, of New Mexico, and
brother of the young man taken from
aalston's house by the St. Louis detect
We, saw Miss Ralston on the train and
poke to her. That was the last seen
# the romantic girl She went on west
yard, and Is supposed to have gone di-
ect to the rendezvous of the James
,rcthers, in Kansas, and with them pro-
eeded to Omaha; at least, this is the
tatement of Frank James himself.
- SEEKING THE LOST CHILD
OF course the parents had no idea that
annie had left her home for al time to
ONE. Their surprise may easily be
when they received q brief
lote from her q day or two after her de
'arture tor Kansas City, saying. ese-s
DEAR MoTHER:s i am married and going
Vest. t.f- ,yf ANNIE REYNOLDS.
They knew of no person named Rey- Ii
lolds, and were puzzled to imagine
vhere their girl had met with. a person
4 that name. Mrs. Ralston, while in
lansas City, soon afterward heard of
,amblerF of that name, and received
UGH news as led her to believe her girl
ad gone off with gambler. Mr.. Raj
ton wrote to his son, who at once made
earch in st. Louis, without success.
he other sons were put on the trail.
hey inquired diligently for their lost
ister, and had about given up the
earch, when one of the boys made a
tartling discovery by accident. He
7as in Kansas City when he was ac-
osted by one of the uncles of the .
ames boys, who inquired whether he ,
,as not ga Ralston. - He replied that
e was. s.Well," said the uncle, 81
N, rlad to r,aet Won NV nenhew