The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1882-04-13
Jesse James, the Sovereign Brigand,
Shot Dead in Shanty at st.
Joseph, No.,
BY q Former Confederate In Crime
Who Sought But Feared to At
tempt His Capture.
Review Of the Train Robbers Bloody
Career, With His Memorable Re-
verse in Minnesota.

man who killed the expressman Robert was
in the Winston robbery. They say Jesse James
was in the Blue cut robbery, but not in the
Winston robbery. The wife Of Jesse James
was soon at the scene Of the killing, and wept
loud and long over the fate Of her husband
She has two beautiful children, boy Of seven
and girl of four years. The Ford boys have
surrendered to the officers, and are now in the
marshal's custody. There seems to be not q
doubt that this is the veritable Jesse. Men
who know him say they recognized the body at
at once. Many here know the two Ford boys.
ST. JOSEPH, NO., April 3.-Ihe $4,000 reward
offered by the State for Jesse James, dead or alive,
will probably 60 to Robert Ford, who killed him.
There is little doubt that the killing was the result
of plan formed by Robert and Charles Ford
several months ago. Charles had been an accom-
Der, and entirely possessed his confidence Robert,
his brother. joined Jesse near the house Of Mrs
Samuels. mother Of the James brothers, last
Jesse had his wife and two children removed from
Kansas Clty-where they had lived several months
arriving here November 1 8. 1851. ae.
companied by Charles Ford, and rented a house
on the corner of Lafayette and Twenty-drst street,
where they stayed two months. when they secured
the house No. 1913 Lafayette street, paying $14
amonth for it and giving the name Of Mrs Howard
The house is one story cottage. painted white
with green shutters and Economically situated
on the brow OF q lofty eminence east of the city.
East Of the house is deep gulch like ravine, and
beyond q broad expanse of open country backed by
a belt of timber. The house, except from the west
SIDE can be seen for several miles There is large
yard attached to the cottage and stable where Jesse
has keeping two horses hich were found there
this morning.
WATCHING THEIR CHANCE.
Charles and Robert Ford have been occupying
one of the rooms In the rear of the dwelling, and
have nave, secretly had an understanding to kin
time ago, before Robert had Joined James, the lat
ter proposed to rob the bank at Platte City. He
said the Burgess. murder trial would commence
mere to-day, ana MS pan was they could get
the situation Of the Platte City bank, and while
arguments were being heard in the murder case.
whiSh would engage the attention Of the citizens.
proved of the plan and suggested his brother Robert
as companion worthy of sharing the enterprise
with them. Jesse had met Robert at the latter's
house near Richmond three years ago and consented
to see him. The two men accordingly arranged with
Robert to accompany them to Platte City. The
three came to St: Joe on Sunday. They remained
the boys had been with Jesse: they had watched
for an opportunity to shoot him, but he was always
so heavily armed that it was
IMPOSSIBLE TO DRAW UPON HIM
without his seeing it. They declare they had no
idea of taking him alive considering the UNDER
taking h; suicide s The opportunity they had long
over and Ford and Jesse James had been in the
es9 o ride On ssa sa to tie nhSoe GSe
He pulled off his coat and vest and tossed them on
off my pistols for fear somebody will
belt in which he carried the forty-tive calibre re-.
volyers. one q Smith & Wesson and the other
Colt, and laid them on the bed with his coat and
intention Of busting some pictures which hung
a chair, Hi. back was now turned 1 to
sna his and at Motion
Charles, both drew their guns Robert was the
quickest of the two. In one motion he had long
to :as s,' with ss f sss
feet from the back of the outlaws head. Even in
that motion. quick as thought, there was some
I'll thing ba that bd 1 not escape H the e %Se ears
motieS ~ as il to turn his head to
ascertain the cause of that suspicious sound. But
too late. A nervous pressure on the trigger.
Dali
There was no cutlery, just swaying of the body.
and il fell heavily bask upon the CARPET The shot
Charey's revolver, still directed at James head,
could not have more eectually decided the fate of
the It bandit and fire. that
was ia the kitchen when the shooting was done.
divided from the room in which the bloody
heard a1' the shot and dropping her household
duties ran into the front room She saw her hus-
band lying on his back and his sayers each holding
the fence in the rear Of the house Rob
ert had reached the enclosure and was in
the act Of scaling it when she stepped
this; come back" Robert answered: Il swear to
God did not They returned to where she stood.
Mrs. James ran to the side Of her husband and
asked II he was hurt it seemed to her that he
wanted to say something. but could not.
THE INQUEST.
At 3 o'clock the remains were moved to tho cir
cult court room where the inquest was hed: M h
having previously left her two children, aged
seven and three, a boy and girl. Ct the house:
Of Mr. She the
aepco Of the love she bore the desperado-
Nothing in tho appearance OF the tremens lndi-
many bloody scenes of which he had been an
actor. Only the lower part of tho face
the sqdare cheek bones, the stout. prominent chin
Closed lips in measure betrayed the determined
man. 4 further inspection Of The body
the breast within three inches of the nipple bull
let wound in the leg and the absence OF the middle
finger of the left hand After viewing the the
coroner repaired to the court .oo or xthef
Craig and the two. Ford boys, both heavily
armed, followed. They were kept In separate
apartments until the jury announced themselves
we're Mrs. James the Ford boys and James Little.
The inquest will be continued Tomorrow.
The James boys were reared in Clay county.
Jackson county, within four miles Of Independence
There is something suggestive in the names Of
their homes, for liberty and independence with
inal license Frank James was born in Kentucky
: IN 1871; Jesse in Clay county. Missouri. In le4h
Their father was the Rev. Robert James, prom.
courteous gentleman, possessed of more education
than was common with the minister's OF his church
in tho frontier days Of 1843 in Missouri, when the
H. was one of the first trustees Of the
and though resident saa Of that Y ,.;t
kindly Remembrance Of himself .mone tho old st.
tleTE m me latter-named year he won't to Cali:
forna, and there died in 1851. To this day the old
settlers about the James home say, and It has b.
driven from home by his wife. The James boys
mother is still alive and vigorous and resides on
ell-cultivated farm four miles east OF Kearney,
station ON the Hannibal & St. Joseph railroad,
seventeen milesnortheast Of Kansrs City. She was
though sue 0Q0 attained tho ADVANCED ago OF uICy"
eight she the traces still of what in her young
womanhood must have made her the famed beauty
In all the country round about Her neighbors say
that Aunt Zerel, As she was commonly called. has
transmitted to the boys" all the devtry they pos
sess. It 20. what an exuberant abundance she
must have had in her day. She is 1fty-efght years
old. well preserved. vigorous in body q we'll As In
spirit Her haif Is gray, quite white. her eyes .
slatey blue, her face Is . long oval, 80 of by q
firm. determined expression about the mouth,
marked by few lines of age and flushed with q
ruddy glow Of health. In figure she is . command
ing woman, weighing fully 10 pounds, and is six
feet highway above the average run OF woman.
kind. 6he 10 shrewd. has dauntless courage. and
displays devotion for ''the boys" that can be
likened to nothing but q tigress and her cubs.
After six years of widowhood she married DR.. Reu-
ben Samuels, respectable CITIZEN and he Is still
under her dominion. At the breaking out OF the
rebellion Frank and Jesse James
JOINED QUANTRELL's BAND
Of guerlas and soon rose to eminence by reason OF
their personal hardihood and daredevil reckless
ness. They wore absolutely regardless. Of life.
either their that OF any else, and in con-
sequence Of their ability and daring they wore each
promoted to tho command Of company.
banding Of bis force in 1865, tho James boys
retur ned to their homo in Missouri. where they
lived quietly for two years when, having effected
sort OF pArtnefIhfn With the Younger brothers who