Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-08
THE JAMES BOYS.
Jesse has been a Citizen of the king
dom OF Galloway" for Some Time.
but At Last was Tracked.
and had TO Clear Out
PiDkertOn's Gang after him Come with
In a Day or Two OF Catching him
at EultOD-Weary OF Wander
ing, he Courts and COvets
Death.

Fulton, Missouri, special to the st. Louis
Republican: For some time it has been whis
pered around that Galloway had been hon
ored with visit from no less distinguished
person than Jesse James, one of the most
notorious bandits and train-robberS that this
century has produced. Your correspondent,
thinking there might be something In it for
the hungry public, took up the slender thread,
and has by diligence, unraveled the story.
It seems that some three or four months ago
Jesse James, under the alias of James Frank
lin, came into this county. He has been stay
ing a few miles east of this place. There are
a number of ex-Confederate soldiers living
in the neighborhood or where he has been
staying, and no doubt Jesse was acquainted
with some of them during the war, and con-
cluded, as ne has had to change about very
considerably since his wonderful and almost
miraculous escape from his Minnesota expe
dItion, that Galloway might be a safe place
to rest his weary and shattered body,
for he is wreck physically. The lead that
was shot into him by that posse of Norwe
gians who followed him day and night after
his murderous raid on the quiet, peaceful VIII
lage of Northfeld, have told on mis- once Wig
Orous and wlry frame. Jesse James will
never be the terror to country bank cashiers
or express messengers that he has been. To
return to my story. After taking up his
abode among us he by some means became
aware that the detectives had tracked HIM to
his new home. 1t became necessary fer him
to raise some money, so that when the time
should come when he would be compelled to
change his rendezvous, ne would have some
of the needful to help him through. AS his
case was a desperate one he concluded that
the only way he could raise money was to
make himself known to a few and rely upon
the fact that he had trusted them with his
secret and beg them for aud. This he did and
was successful. He told the party to whom
he made himself known that life was becom-
inc hos
this great continent that offered him any shell
ter or protection; that he stood no better show
than the wild beast which Is hunted to his
death, and that ere long he would make
his final stand, and sell his life as dearly as
he could. His hatred of the detectives Pink
erton's in particularly is akin to feroclty, and
unless he is completely surprised, some of
those who attempt his capture are going to
the bar of the final judge with him. Last
Monday a week ago, when our county con-
vention was held, he spent the day in our
quiet and peaeeable city. He was in the
courthouse during the session of the conven-
ton for several hours. Vi course no one
know it save the one who bore his secret.
This is the last visit he made Fulton. A little
over week ago a nobby-looking turnout
drove into our town and put up at Powell's
livery stable. There were two men on the
box of this wagon. 1t would have been taken
for a patent medicine or circus advertising
told you that corn mills, spice-mills, coffee
mills, and all other kinds Of grlnding-ma-
chimes were to be sold by the genteel- looking
agents that accompanied it. The two gen.
tlemen put up at the Pencil house, and
talked the virtues of their grinding machines
in such eloquent style that many granger
dreamed that the day of mill tails had
departed, and that he would no longer
have to throw his bag of corn on his
mare, or on his wagon, and trudge off to mill;
that for a comparatively small investment he
could provide himself with a mill that would
do all the grinding in few hours that large
family could consume IN month. A day or
two after the arrival OF the wagon two more
keen eyed mill men arrived. They must
have come by rail. A few days later a couple
more dropped IN, making IN all SIX stalwart,
sharp-looking gentlemen, all connected with
this celebrated mill outfit. Now, these mill
vendors have made several trips in the neigh
borhood of where jesse James was supposed
to be staying. The country is broken and is
known as the tobacco growing portion of our
county; but still these mill-sellers neglected
the corn producing portion of our county and
persisted In pressing the merits OF their cele-
brated mills on the tobacco growing region.
Three or four would go together. They would
come up to house, one or two in front and
one in the rear, as if by accident, and pre-
tend they had lost their way, and after salts
flying themselves that their man was not
there, would move on to the next house, always,
however in the neighborhood of where the
bandit was supposed to be hiding. As there
were no sales of mills, people began to doubt
the sincerity of the genteel mill agents, and
all kinds of surmlses and coDJectures were
whispered as to what their real business was.
Some thought one thing, some another. Your
correspondent, being in possession of the in
formation that jessie James was or had been
in the county, soon dropped" on them, as
the cops say, but kept his own counsel, as he
did not want to throw any obstacle in the way
of these minions of the law. They were too
late, however; the bird had flown, and all
their shrewdness was of no avail; their dream
of reward has vanished, for Jesse James in all
probability is now hundreds of miles away
from the mill-venders. The James toys' ca
reer as train-robbers, ETC., is DER. l am sat
isfed if they were permitted to, they would
settle down and become aw-abiding citizens
but they are outlaws, and nothing but the
fate that is certain to overtake them-death-
will relleve them from their ceaseless wander
mos