The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1882-10-21
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The room is a bare "a cherries
looking apartment, wh no iurni-
ture but couple OF elirs, a stove
and a table on which lg the
"JRssE JAMES RI lister.
Please Write Your Nine Within"
A piece of carpet, ayard square
and ragged AZ the edps lay near
the confer of the fer "Here,"
said my juvenile eli rone whose
name was Otto SaltrsI.n, ''hero is
the hole in the seilii Wat the bull
let made which . HresosAl Pss." The
\ hole ia as round'ss. - PAS
drilled. MorbRi- e-rsSs''g fers
have carried away httle c.dt..ss oil
the plaster. "The. haiiet," added
the boy, is still in the wall, We
think it must have talon between
the lathes and the wood Of the wall,
you see, and in sihg-ong tone he
went on to tell me howl osse stood
here, and Bob Ford he'e, and how
when the shot was flied he fell
headlong from the CAR there.
Sweeping up the scrap # carpet on
the floor, be pointed on
THE STAINS WHERE JEssEB BLOOD HAD
FLOWN
upon tho floor. They h,ve not last
cd as they say Rizzio's id In Holy.
rood palace,
The relic hunter has been To
work here too. Llttb spllnters
have been cut out of thu floor in
regular squares of abou, an inch
showing the track where the blood
STAINS have been, rather than where
they are. Still there are three OF
four very good STAINS yet and Ote
Saltzman assures me that thcy are
very merchantable. He can get :
quarter for splinter as big as {
tooth-plck. AT first he SAID that The
visitors averaged thirty and forty ,
day. They have now fallen off Il
about half a dozen. Mrs. Saltzmar
rented the house just after Jesse
was killed, but the people were 81
annoyed with visitors thatthey hat
to move away, and since May IL
the Saltzmnns have ,hnen running
| themselves as q KIND of side-show
They have had some very noted Wis
itors. On the register, under thu
date of June 9th, is the name of
JAY GOULD.
Otto tells me that Jay seemed tt
be intensely interested in the show
He stayed in the house about hal
an hour, and asked all kinds o
questions about Jesse, especially be
fore he was shot, and Gould himsel
took out his knife and cut a larg,
piece of the wood out of the floor II
the center of one of the stones, CIV
ing Otto a dollar for the piece
which he said he was going to hav'
made INTO a charm for his watch
On May 20 occurs the name Of Robt
N, Ford, written IN bold but igno
rant-looklng hand. Next to 1t, BY
some sympathiser of Josse's cvi
IDENTIFY is drawn rude coffin, ant
below 1T the word "coward." OFT,
Saltzman says that Bob came will
Tlmberlakc and a party from Kan
sas City, and made them all stay
outside while he went in alone will
the boy. He planted himself jus
where he stood when he shot Jesse
and went through the motion 0
pulling a revolver and aiming an
firing it. He, too, cut out spin
ter from the floor with a blood.stai
on it. Emma Abbott has been here
and so, by the way, has James Ma
leg, one of the JaAnaA Cramer sn'
poets. About his name are scrit
bled a number of uncomplImentar
eplthets. The Saltzmans regrc
very much that they did not buy il
all the furniture of the room, and 8
make their show complete. 1t
paying them about 81 50 a day no,
at least. T Cor. Post-Dlspatch.