The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-10-26

Bassham, the Glendale Train
Robber, is Interviewed.
He Repeats His Confession to
. Reporter.

.. He Repeat. His Confession t
in . Reporter,
p And Gives the Only True Accom-
h. OF the Robbery.
Of
" The Names Of Three Of the Rob
bers Authenticity Announced.
Kan <a. e. = star. .rc. ~.
:. Al Last. after weary ws~ks OF wstehius
planning anst plotting, = reporter hss ss~s
J. AMI ts.krd ~uh Tucker h .--hs,n, the Gen
q dele train rvbt~r. since the Glendale
train robbery that October night \ veal
ago. the subject hss b~~n q fsvorite on.
with Newspapers. NO,hiug was known
. stont u except the bare fact that the ,rsin
e Vas rohb~d. and ~ il vs. believed that the
truth would never cu@e to light, il iur
nisi~d . side field for imagination to run
riot In. There Gas ~ much rumor, alleged
fact and downright falseho0i published in
. regard TO this robbery o. there was abou,
the Charley Ros. abduction until the peo-
Ule became stated. Disguised OF indignant.
The truth
Has xEvEs HITHERTO APPEARED.
snd we have the pleasure Of giving To the
public the only true account oil the robbery
- obtained from the lips Of one Of The
noted b.ndirs.
II hAs b~en the desire of every newspa-
per reporter IN the city, sipce she arrest OF
Tucker Rasshsm, to iniesvies him bat the
d 'Ors Of the jill have b-en jealously ga ard
ed. Rssham made Confession, which j.
nov in she hands Of County Attorney Peak.
The confession has be~n even more ie.l-
ously guarded than 'h- III, and to the plead
ing. Of inierviesers Peak has always Turned
. cold ear.
After thoroughly working him Yesterday
unsuccer-fuliy. [. rrporie srroiled down u
the jail vith . note To the ismous forser
Lyman Towpkins. Ate. come d~mur .
deputy msrshal admitted the re.
porter. the door Of the iron corridor svune
op<n end the reporter walked in. There
go only one very fortunate circumstance
connected With the r~portef's visit, and
that vss shss Tompkins' cell va imnedi-
siely
ADJOINING THAT oF BASHAN.
The deputy marshal watched the scribe |
closely. bat in :ev minutes he was called /
up stairs to pilot some visitors down, and |
in . pecond the reporter stood in front Of |
Bss-hsm's cell and called:
AIR. B~sshamr
"i-s, air." came the quick response, ard
. w-il-buiit. pale, dark complexion u man
stos 1t the b,rs. The reporter looked Q,
'he onls train r"bher ever c-ged %, Of the
Glendale robbery, with great deal ri Gu
rio~,ty, aud opened BY telling Ba-~hom lust
whs he sss and What he wanted. B,ss-
ham positively refu.ed to talk and the ,e
por'es vas obliged to argue the case With
him for some tim. Finally h said:
"YEs MADE CONFESSION
relating to the Glendale train rpbaery, but
l dvn't propose To tsay anything 10 nybody
bot NV lawyers"
"dave you any obi .c,ion TO telling how
the -obb-sy sss committed p
"fes. have great objection. I wont
talk"
The reporter -rxu-d again while B..--
ham paced his cell Ike . Gagged fion.
Finally some sophissry in the srsument :
caught him and he turnsd vi'h an angry $
mop and the exclamation, "Y--. the pa.
pers haze lie.i about me and l'li tell vcu q
part Of the truth. What do you VANITY
"rell me 6s.t how you w-re drawn into
The robbery?"
The STORY TOLD.
swell, jesse james, Ell. Miller ard three .
,sbe'. Of their gang s.opp~,i =, my hou-e a
lay and . night jast before the robbery and i
Ialken me into il. wss partially induced 4.
10 70 In BY the hope Of getting big morev =
- my share. but was more iua fenced BY
he fear that il did not 20 in I would b. u
killed by Jesse Jsmes, Who knew that I un- <
iers,ood their plsn'. and would put bull c
ct through me u keep me quiet" :,
"HOs Was the robbery committed -
I've oil met ss Ton Sesver's school
,vuse. three miles south Of Glendale, II cl
lark end drove frolo there to 6iendsI ,s
vh~re we captured the town, the telegraph
6ice, and piled stone on the track; hut
on known all about that.
THERE were SIX OF Us
u soon .. the train came ny he began q
ring. and tired about thirty shota IN all.
oybody. We wouldn't have killed any.
bat vss the Undertaking" "
'WhO entered the express csr and a. q,
'nded To Grimes. the nesenser! N
"rhsi "a. Jessie james and Ell. Miller. W
end the three other the" stayed outside %
nd fred away in the air" VI
~ here did yoa 20 after the robbery ?" IL
I've vent TO . vscsnt house on the \.
resre- John-on farm, and there we divided -,
'e money"
HOW MUCH MAS nT TO
81 don't knrv, ex.ctly. J.s.s Jsmes %
'un,sd the money on, and got $500 for Oh
" share" I'M
"Whst hspDsnea after 'hnT
."W- ell spu.,et J--s. James told
Joe ~hc w-r- living in .ck.on county, Oh
ore around G.sndai~, To GO nome and 20 AL
vose and m one sould ever suspsct oil
em, nd TIA, he ~onid xHsrsn'ee that NO IN
,sm should ever hs,p-n ;hsm."
"Hss Smith, -FOUR hsif-bro,h~r. Who gave "e'
~ awsy. any thing G sin-t youy' m
II DON'T kn"s anything sboai that" bu
"Wn-n r. vonr trialr'
. The fourth Monday in Novenbef."
snow, Bss.h. an. Won have told me shst s"'
~ J me-, F.. Miller and yourself vere ~
that robb ~. il i,
VII, ARE ~ orHERs?" ;oh
81 wont tell that" ."
"wer James and Samuel Kaufman IN
Il don't knew INV such men" les
'-Wa. George Sheppard in fr
"No."
''W.s Greenwood in ii?"
~ don't know Greenwood" w
Might not one Of the Ksuffm,ns or ~
'eeovood have bsso 10 and you not know vi
!" VI.
"No. / know every man that Vas in tn
>, ~
'sWhst Hind of u.>o veee shs,y"
"rso OF rRHN O."
. part Of the Jesse james gang and the no,
her - respsctable." ~,
''were any Of then out Of the Hudspesh -
iehboshood - ~
-Yes." tor
swell, vhy doa't you tell ne their y