Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-22
The James Robbers.

Interesting "Reminiscences of the Daring Western Outlaws and their Comrades.
 From the St. Louis Globe Demecrat.l
 On the 9th of December, 1874, the track i. of the Kansas Pacific railroad at Muncie, a station about six miles west of Kansas City, was torn up, and passage was blocked by two rails being set on end and crossed against each other like the supports of rail fence. Five masked men seized the railroad station, gagged the station-keeper, and then went out some distance and signalled the outgoing train from Kansas City, which carried Wells, Fargo & Go, s Express. On the train con- ing to a stop, one of the men jumped on board the locomotive, disconnected it from the engine, and putting revolver at the en- gineer's head, told him to run on. The loco motive was run forward till it reached the point of obstruction. where, of course, it stopped. In the mean time two men had jumped into the express car, while the other two stood outside and leyelled their revolv- CTS at the head of any passenger that might be thrust out of the window. The express messenger was made prisoner, his iron safe was unlocked and the money and valnables it contained, about $1O,O00 in cash and large amount of valuable jewelry, taken out. The two men who had done this jumped out of the express car, and while their compan- ions guarded them from pursuit, mounted their horses, which were hitched near the K. the gang mounted their steeds, and then the whole five drove rapidly away. A short time after that Bud" McDaniels very much intoxicated. was riding horse in the streets of Kansas City in a very disorderly way Bud" McDaniels was son of @ former we'll known and wealthy hotel propritor, and was well knowo to the residents of Kansas City as Q rather wild young man. He was arrest ed for disorderly conduct, no one suspecting that he had any connection with the then re- cent train robbery. But on being searched at the police station 8 large sum of money and a lot of jewelry were found upon him, which was identified immediately as part of that stolen front he express company. McDan- iels was taken to Wyandotte, Kansas, where, on preliminary examination, he was held over to the Grand Jury, and where he was identi- fled by the conductor and several other par ties as one of the train robbers. He was then taken to Lawrence, Kausas, as Wyan- dotte didn't have very strong jail, and at Lawrence, on the advice of his attorney, he wrote out a confession.
 The confession says in effect that Jesse James came into Kansas City the day before the trip was planned, and laid out the plan of the robbery. which was committed by the writer, his brother, Thomas McDaniels James Kinds, Cell Miller. and Jesse James Jesse James was in Kansas City from a. m to 9>p. m. when they started out on house back for Muncie. None of them were mask ed in going except 'Bnd'' McDaniels, who had shawl tied around his face. On their way back, however, the men wore handker- chiefs abont their necks, drawing them up about their faces when approaching stran- ger. Jesse James rode ahead throughout the journey, sometimes with Bud" McDan- iels, and sometimes with his brother. Thomp- son McDanie1s. After the robbery they sep arated, Jesse James, Hines, and Miller going to Westport, 'sBud'' McDaniels and his broth CT turning back to Kansas City. Before they parted they built a fire in the brush and di- 1 vided the gold dust jewelry, and greenbacks into five equal parts, as nearly as they could l judge
 s'Jesse James, said the confession, ''stop- ped at home when he was in Missouri, and when out of Missouri spent good part ot his time near Paris, Texas.' On their way from the train they passed 8 man on horse l back. Miller remarked that the horse waf nearly given out. Jesse James told him thai
 was good horse Miller said he would take him, and went back and ordered the man of the horse. The man wanted to know wha