Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1881-08-04


came unmanagable, and before he
could get control of tn. animal the re-
naming Younger shot him through
the back. This was the close of the
battle. Lull was carried TO Chalk
Level by some colored people who
found him few hours after the fight.
Allan Pinkerton sent r. ]. Linden,
now superintendent of the Philadel-
phia agency, to take care of Lull; and
Linden changed the doctor and brought
an old army surgeon from a point twen-
ty miles distant to attend him. The
wounded man got along nicely, and
was on the road to recovery, when he
caught cold and
from congestion in a few hours. We
were getting ready to bring him home
when the change in his position accur-
red. The living Younger said the cap
tain should never leave the country
alive. The body lies in the Masonic
burying-ground near this city.
'SOOn after this the express comma
mics, concluding that the robbers had
been frightened enough to behave,
withdrew from the prosecution of the
case. Allan Pinkerton then took I'D
the matter and expended 10000 of
his own money trying to bring the
marauders to justice.
THE next exploit of the gang was
to rob the Office of the treasurer of the
Kansas City fair grounds, in 1874 or
1875. They rode up to the Office in
broad daylight, presented their revolt
vers to the heads of the men in charge,
and took the receipts of the day,
amounting to about $1,000. There
were probably ten thousand people on
the grounds at the time. Capt. d. L.
Hall, superintendent of the Chicago
Driving association, was manager of
the fair ground association, and he
must have lively recollection of the
adventure.
upon the heels of this occurred the
robbery of bank at lCOrinth, Miss.
and of train on the Kansas Pacific at
Muncie, small station near Kansas
City. The Youngers Robert having
joined the gang in the meantime), as
sisted by some of their old guerrilla
friends robbed the Corinth bank, and
made their escape into the Missouri
swamps, and the Jameses did the Num-
Gle train robbery.
"The gang next turned up in West
Virginia, where they
ROBBED THE HUNTINGTON BANK
of $4,000. They took to the noun
tains soon afterward. John Mexican,
one of the lot, was taken with $2,40O
of the money on his person, and was
given fourteen years. Tompkins Nc
Daniels, another member of the gang,
was shot and MORALLY wounded by
James Dillon while resisting arrest.
''Some time subsequent to the Gad's
Hill robbery an effort was made to ar
rest the James brothers at their home,
near Carney. Their house was sur
rounded by party of men said to have
been Pinkerton's detectives. A ball of
fire was thrown into the house from
the outside to light it up. The premi-
ses were searched, and when the party
left DIR. Samuels threw the ball of fire
into the fireplace, where it exploded,
injuring a son of Mrs. Samuels by the
doctor so that he died, and tearing one
of Mrs. Samuels' hands of. 1t has
been charged that led this expedition.
This is not true. The court records
establish the fact that 1 was in Chicago
at the time as a witness in an import
ant case. will say right here, too,
that none of Pinkerton's men were
there. The men who did take part in
it would be in danger Of their lives If
their identity were known, and to pro-
tect themselves they gave the credit of
the act to PinkertOn's agency. The
Jameses were led to suspect that Dan
lei Askew, who lived on an adjoining
farm, had furnished the invading
party information. and soon after the
attack he was shot down while going
from his house to spring for a pail of
water. 1t has been said that Conductor
Westfall, who was killed on Friday
night, was the man who ran the train
for the accommodation of the raiders
on that occasion. We know nothing of
Westfall, and never heard of him.
1.-THE JOPLIN BANK ROBBERY,
perpetrated by the Youngers and
Jameses, and Hobs Cary, Bill Stiles
and Clel Miller, when $4,000 was
taken; train robbery on the Atlantic
and Pacific road, and several stage rob-
berries are included in the list of out
RACES from 1876 up to the time of
THE NoRTHFIELD BANK ROBBERY.
This job was undertaken under the
guidance of Stiles, a desperate charac-
ter, well acquainted in that locality.
They rode up in their usual style and
took possession of the bank. Jesse
James killed Cashier Haywood in cold
blood for refusing to open the vault. 1t
happened to be in the midst of the
chicken-shooting season, and every
body who came to town was armed
with a shotgun or rifle. The outlaws
had considerable difficulty in getting
out of town, and for the first time
they met with something like organ
lied resistance. Clel Miller and Bill
Caldwell were left dead in the street
and several others were hurt. They were
pursued into swamp where Stiles, alias
Pitts, was killed, and Jesse James and
all three of the Youngers were wound
ed. Frank and Jesse James made their
escape into Dakota, but the Youngers
were captured. Jesse was seriously
hurt, but he managed to pull through,
and eventually the brothers made their
way back to Missouri. The Yopngers
pleaded guilty, and are now serving
life sentences at Saltwater. They have
recently experienced religion, and ex-
pect to get out soon. The particulars
of
TIE GLENDALE ROBBERY
are fresh in the minds of the Times
readers, and nothing need be said about
that. This is, in brief, all know of the
tribe, though Mr.. Warner and myself
might work in enough details to ill a
volume about them. Jesse James is
about the only active member Of the