The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-09-26
THE TRAIN ROBBERS.
Further Opinions as to Their Identity
Are They Missouri Guerrillas2

A well-informed st. Louis gentleman
expresses the opinion that at least two
of the participants in the recent U. 2.
train robbery were the notorious James
boys. He has known them both for the
last twenty years, and tidings of their
whereabouts have often come to him
when the police of half dozen cities
and the whole force Of Pinkerton's
detectives have been off the scent.
'sThe last time 1 heard of the James
boys" he said, ''and that was only a
short timeago, they wereout in that very
section of country. Neither Jesse nor
Frank James has been in Missouri,
except at long intervals, for over two
years. The last time 1 saw Jesse
James was in st. Louis, year ago last
October. He told me that he was
going west. He came here ON informa-
tion that Pinkerton was in the city, and
with the determination of killing him
on sight. The fact is that Pinkerton
cannot set foot in st. Louis, or in any
other part of Missouri, without his
presence being discovered in a very
short time by some friend of 'the boys, )
and that fact being telegraphed, or
dispatched to them in some form, at
once"
81 don't know who they are,' con-
tinued the gentleman referred to, ''but
L haven't any doubt at all that one of
them at least was John Garrett, one of
their old comrades in Gen. Joe Shelby's
brigade, who about two years ago,
moved out to Colorado, and later, so 1
have heard, located farther north, in
Montana. John Garrett is a more dam
gerous man than any of the Jameses or
the Youngers, because he has more
brains than all of them combined. Gar
rett operated after The war in Kentucky,
and was implicated in raid, like that
on the Kansas City fair grounds,
which took place in one of the little
towns in West Virginia. have for
gotten the ma Le-and resulted in the
shooting of several of the raiders. There
was no direct evidence against Garrett
he was too cunning for that-but the
suspicion against him in the minds of
his neighbors was so strong that they
limited to him that he had better Ie-
move from that portion of the country,
and he kindly enough took the hint.
1 think Joe Lee-another one of the
band-is out somewhere. Nothing
would be more natural than for these
men, associated in so many perils dur
ing the war, to drift together when
driven from their homes in the States
out upon the plains.
"There are some things that cannot
reveal. will say this, however, that,
if these men did it, it would have been
executed in a similar way. They
would not have had any drunken men
about them, as the Youngers did up in
Minnesota; every point would have
been carefully thought over beforehand; !;
there would not have been mismove,
and the thing would have been done so
coolly and quietly that no one would
have had chance to resist. If John
Garrett was among them he would
have been. the leader of the whole gang,
and his head would have planned it all.
This job on the Union Pacific bears the
strongest internal evidence in support
of the theory have advanced, not to
speak of econfirmatory circumstances
which were confided to me in secrecy,
and which l can't tell.''