Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-04-06
JESSE JAMES.
The Noted Bandit and Tram Robber
Killed, by One OF lis Own Gang at
st Joseph. NO.

The Noted Bandit and Tram Robber
Killed, by One OF His Own Gang at
st Joseph. NO.
ST. LOUIS, April 3.-Infornaation has
just reached here that Jesse James, the
notorious train robber, was killed to-
day, at or near st. Joe, Mo. Particu-
lars have been sent for and will be
forwarded as soon as received.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
ST. LOUIS, April "a brief dispatch
from st. Joseph, says: Chas. and
Robert Ford, who at one time be-
longed to the James gang and were
engaged in the Winston and Blue Cut
train robberies, have been In St. Joe
for weeks for the purpose of arresting
Jesse James, but being afraid as is al
legged to make the attempt, shot him
down at Thirteenth and Lafayette
streets, and then surrendered them
selves to the authorities and were
lodged in Jail. There is tremendous
excitement over the affair, several
thousand people being on the streets.
The wife of the desperate was on the
spot in few minutes after the shoot
ing was done, and wept copiously over
his remains. The body of James was
taken in charge by the police. Con-
siderable ammunition and several weap-
ons, including a pistol and rife, was
found in the house where James had
been stopping.
ANOTHER DISPATCH.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, April 3.--A great
sensation was created in this city this
morning by the announcement thai
Jesse James the notorious bandit and
train robber had been shot and killed
here. The news spread with great
rapidity, but the most of people
read it with doubts until the investiga-
ton established the fact beyond ques-
ton, then the excitement became more
and more intense and crowds of peo-
pie rushed to the part of the city where
the shooting took place, anxious to
view the body laid out and learn the
particulars, in q small frame shanty in
the south part of the city not far from
the Worlds hotel, where Jesse James
had lived with his wife since some time
in November last. Robert and Charles
Ford, two of his gang, have made
1t their headquarters at his
house, and Charles, it is said, had lived
with him IN that shanty ever since
November. Robert arrived ABOUT ten
days ago, and the three have been
making preparations for raiding ex-
petition, on which they were to start
tonight. James and the two Fords be-
hr oh al l.
this morning, the former took off his
belt and laid his pistols on the bed, and
was preparing to wash himself when
Robert sprang up behind and sent
bullet through his brain. The ball en-
tered the back of his head at the base
of the right brain, coming out over the
eye. The Ford brothers at once made
known what they had done and gave
themselves up. They are now
under guard at the court
house. The body of James was
conveyed to an undertaken, where
it was prepared for burial and where
photograph was taken. James wife
has telegraphed to his mother the
news of his death. A number of men
have identified the body, and there is
no question about it being Jesse James.
A Herald reporter viewed the body
at the undertaker's, when it was being
photographed. He was fine looking
man, apparently 40 years old, with
broad forehead, and his physiogomy
was that of an intelligent as well as a
resolute and daring man. The house
where he lived, and in which he was
killed, has the appearance of an armo-
ry. A number of guns and pistols, in
Guiding q repeating rifle and needle
gun and navy revolvers, with a good
store of ammunition, were found there.
Jesse was in the habit of wearing two
belts, with a brace of very fine re-
volvers and twenty-five extra cartridges,
and in a small stable near by were dis
covered several fine horses, the prop
erty of James.
The Ford brothers claim they are
detectives, and that they have been on
James track for a long time. 1t is be-
lieved they were with James in the
Blue Cut robbery, and they were infiu-
enced in killing him by hoping to get
the rewards which have been offered
for James, dead or alive, by the COVER
nor and by the express and railroad
companies.