Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-20

officers for the capture OF Jesse
The officers say he had given every
evidence OF good faith in the matter
Ford's house has been the rendezvous
for the gang for two years. Jesse and
Frank James were living in Nashville
at the time of Ryan's capture, but
shortly after his wife and family re-
moved to Kansas City and COM
menced housekeeping short distance
east CT the fair grounds, on Four
teenth street, one block east of Wood
land avenue. The house is a small
white frame of four rooms. Jesse
and family lived there for three
months. While in North Carolina
Jesse was known as J. T. Jackson.
In Nashville he was known as How
ard, the same as in st. Joseph. On
the 18th he removed to East Eighth
street, just west of Woodland avenue
near the Woodland school. on the
north side of the street. The house is
a two-story frame. He lived there
during the month of September and
the first week in October, when they
removed to st. Joe.
1t was Jesse James who killed Con-
ductor Westfall at the Winston train
robbery. He also killed a farmer
named Dan Askew. at the inquest
Jesse James wife said: 81 came here
November 9, lived two months on
Twenty-first street; since then, where
my husband was killed. Charlie Ford
lived with us. Last Sunday morning
Robert came. These men were afraid
to live at home. My husband told
them they could stay with us.
81 was married to Jessie eight years
ago the Oath of April, at Kearney.
We went to Texas and staid about five
months, then returned to Kansas City,
where we lived about year. We then
went to Nashville, where we lived
until last March. 1 could tell where
my husband has been when not with
me, but L am not disposed to do so.
We were married by VIM. James, a
Methodist preacher of Kansas City.
Charlie and Robert were in the
Blue Cut robbery, and robbed a stage
between Lexington and some springs"
In answer to the question. "Where is
Frank James ?" she said, 81 know, but
shan't tell" She said Jesse went to
Nebraska recently to find a place to
live where he could go to farming.
She said he never went out without
arms. He had two wounds in his
breast and one in his leg. Henry II.
Craig, Serg't Chas. Ditsch, Officer Nj
gent, Sheriff Timberlake and Dick
Liddil came up to night and tried to
secure the release of the two FOrds.
They were unsuccessful in this, how
ever. Gov. Crittenden will be here in
the morning, and the men will un-
doubtedly be taken to Kansas City to-
morrow.
Numberless wild rumors have been
afloat about the attempt of friends of
Jesse James to take the Fords from
jail, and much uneasiness was felt
there.
Dick Liddil asked to stay in Jail,
where he could be of assistance in case
of trouble. Commissioner Craig, Ser
geant Ditsch and Officer Nugent re-
manned with the body of Jesse at the
undertakers during the night.
Charlie Ford is young man of gen.
teel appearance, dressed in neat gray
coat and vest, black pants and stiff hat.
He has black hair, large, cavernous
brown eyes. and prominent dimpled
chin. Rob't Ford has blonde hair, blue
eyes, and is dressed in grey.
THE JURY
was empaneled as follows: w. H
Chouning, J. w. Moore, Warren Sam
uels, Thomas Norris, VIM. Turner,
VIM. II. George.
The dead outlaw was fully identified
by his mother and others who have
known him. The jury returned the
following
VERDICT:
1--WE the jury find that the deceased
is Jesse James, and that he came to
his death by pistol shot in the hands
Of Robert Ford"
The two Ford brothers are confined
in Jail, charged with murder, under a
warrant sworn out by Mrs. James.
They will not be interviewed, and the
sheriff refuses admittance to all com.
erS.
The FOrds live in Ray county, near
Richmond, where they were born and
raised. Robert, who did the shooting,
is twenty-one years old and Charley is
twenty-fOur. The boys worked on
their fathers farm until the spring of
1880, when Robert went to Richmond
to work in the store of an older broth
er. He left there in July last to en-
gage in the detective business at Kan
sas City. He soon got his credentials
as detective, and engaged in the hunt
for Jessie James. Charles engaged to
help him, and the latter fell in with
James, and when he moved to st.
Joseph with his family accompanied
him hither, passing himself as John
son, nephew of Mrs. James. Charles
has lived here with the family since
November 9.
A little over q week ago Robert
came, and, as he was well acquainted
with Jesse, he, too went there and
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