Lexington weekly intelligencer., 1876-08-19

rode together. Bill Chadwell and Cole |
Younger were together. The rest had
not caught up with u.s. We four went |
to Mr.. kelly's, brother-in-law of Cole
Younger, and got there at daylight next |
morning, We staid there all that day |
and started out about daylight, or after |
breakfast next morning. Before we
started away, Bob Younger and Charlie |
Pitts came. They had been to man
named Butler, l think, where they met |
Frank James. Then we started out
next morning and rode some five or six
miles. There were me and Cole |
Younger, Charlie Pitts and Bill Chad
well, Clel Miller and Bob Younger
stopped at Kelly's and waited for Frank |
and Jesse James to come up. We rode
five or six miles further, and stopped on
the roadside. | mean we four. They
soon overlook US. l mean the rest. We
EIGHT IN NUMBER.
and all that were connected directly or
indirectly in the robbery. 1 did not
know then what 1 was going to do, or
they, not particle. They talked
while. Cole Younger and Frank James
and Jesse James and Bob Younger did
the talking. Judged that the James
boys were leading the party, because l
heard Cole remark once that "you fell
lows suggested this" He was then talk
| ing to Frank and Jesse James, and he
said, and was just going with you"
We al got on our horses and Started,
four in crowd. Me and Clel Miller,
Cole Younger and Charlie Pitts went
together Bill Chadwell, Bob Younger,
Frank and Jesse James were together.
We met aSan OIL don't know what
day it was-at California, on the Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad. We came into
California on that day 1t was
| THE FOURTH OF JULY.
| -Four of US were at DuvaPs on Sunday,
and at California Tuesday. We met the
other four about four miles north of Cal
ifornia on the night of the 5th. 1t COM
menced raining very hard, and we staid
there all day, and on the 9th we started
back west. Me and Clel Miller went to-
gether. Frank and Jesse James went
together. Bill Chadwell and Bob
Younger and Charlie Pitts and Cole
Younger. We met about two miles from
the Lamine bridge, on the east side,
about 2 p. M, on Friday, the 9TH. Clel.
Miller and l stayed at house Thursday
night. We got there about p. M.
Clel and had no dinner on Friday. We
stayed at the pointI spoke of, two miles
east of Lamine bridge, until about sun
down, and then there was Bob, Clel and
Charlie going down to take the watch
man at the bridge, and we started up
and rode up to the end OF the field, in
the timber, and tied our horses; then
they told me and Bill to say there. 1t
was twenty or thirty minules before they
brought up the watchnnn. AS they
passed with him heard linn say:
"YOU AMT GOING TOT HURT ME?''
| One of the party said : "What do we
want to hurt you for? We want that
money. That is all we care for" Then
the men walked up the track from the
tank. Probably 4 half hour elapsed be-
fore the train came. do not know what
kind of an obstruction they had before
the train. l did not see it. When the
train passed us, Chadwell picked up a
piece of rail and showed it under the
track The train had passed this point
The train stopped, and heard shooting
did not know what the shooting was
about. We stayed in the rear of the
train. expect it was an hour before
they started off and came down where
we were. We were on the bank, in the
oatIfield. near the track. There was but
one shot fired where we were. l do no.
know who fired that one. They came
down where we were and we all got oul
horses and started off. We went abou
twenty miles, and got there about day,
light to q point where we left the road
and turned to the right. Clel. Miller
carried the bag with the money In it par
of the time, Cole Younger and Jess
, James also took turns in CARRYING il
, We stopped several hundred yards iron
s the railroad and
DIVIDED THE MONEY.
They tore all the envelopes open an,
f put the money in pile. Frank Jane
! counted the money and gave each on
his share. We left the envelopes there
Some one took the sack along. The
gave me about 81 200. We all scattere
from that point. l, Charley and Bi
were together. My horse was gra
+ horse Charley rode a dark-gray. an
: Bill a little bay mare. Cole was on
v chestnut-sorrel with flax name an
tail. Bob Younger was on black horse
Jesse and Frank James both had sorrels
Clel rode q tall bay. Charlie, Bill and
n kept together and rode all day Saturda
u and forded Grand river Saturday Nigh
g at place where there is ferry. lie
It Charlie and Bill there We slept t.
S gether in the bottom before we separ:
e ted. went from there to station o
n the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Raj
n road, MOntrose is the name of the plac
P | left my grey horse ot grand rive
1t and abandoned it. turned him loos,
}, l left the saddle in the bushes. l do NJ
l. know where Charlie and Bill went
s suppose they had rs much money as
e had We
~ HAD NO UNDERSTANDING
p as to meet again. There was son
Il jewelry in the sack. but none of it W:
"a given to me. l went from MOntrosc
q Fort Scott. ate supper there and wei
q form there to Parsons, on the railroa
J. staid until the next morning in Parson
70 and went from there to Vinita next NOR
-e ing, leaving there at 4 a. m. went fro
W there to CRANKY, on the Atlantic al
ID Pacific Road, l stayed there fro
m Monday July 10. until the followir
il Saturday, and then went to Joplin.
went back home on Monday evenir
following. | saw Bruce Younger
Joplin, and Tuesday, July 1S, start'
lie to the Nation to see my brother. La
er Saturday returned. i got OIL the ira
le ut Eufala, in the Indian Nation. \
~ brother lives about ten miles from ther
le His name is Albert Kerry. Ispent son
e money at CRANKY
AMONG THE BOYS,
Ia don't rem ember how much May be
.d hundred dollars. | then went to Jopli
N | lost at one place and another abo
ID $i00. Ike Ivory was running Il faro ban
Id Tom Blackwood and johnny Waugh;
id and Henry Tects and some Visions
70 man, John Harper and Sidney Mile
h. | believe that is all the faro banks
m played against. | also played pok
le Sunday night. | was playing with /:
d. Italian, whose name don't know, +,
London and two or three others. ! h;
$40 when | was arrested. | lost abo
$125 in poker. | loaned Dick Stal
lie 800. / don't know what l spent
~ drank a good deal. Clel Miller lives
le Clay county. give this statement vt
III unfairly, of my own free will, witho
IN any hope or promise of clemency
m [Signed HoEEs KERRY.
* Sworn to and subscribed before Il
4. this, the fourth of August, 1876
III presence of James McDonough and
to nj. Thatcher.
We Signed w. NJ. DUvALL