The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-08-22
LAID FOR LITTLE.
The Companion Of Jesse
James Passed Though Sc
dalia Last Night
A Prisoner in the HanCs Of Depu-
ty United States Marshal
OvertOn.

ty United States Marshal
Overton.
On the east-bound Pacific train, last
night, was the notorious Dick Little, a
companion of the late Jesse James, who
was a prisoner in charge of Deputy
United States Marshal OvertOn, OF Ala
bama. He was arrested la Kansas City,
yesterday afternoon, by Deputy Marshal
Douglas, on suspicion of being one of the
three who held up government paymas-
! ter named Smith at Mussel Shoals, March
III, 1881, and relieved him of S5,240 On
that day the paymaster, while riding
quietly along was confronted by
THREE HEAVILY ARMED MEN,
who ordered him to throw up his hands,
without asking the reason therefor, on pen
atty of being riddled with bullets. The
man promptly obeyed, and the robbers,
after securing their plumber, skipped for
Kentucky at breakneck speed.
An armed posse Immediately started i'm
pursuit, but two of the robbers, who were
well mounted, succeeded in making their
escape. One of the three, however, Jagged
behind and was captured by the
pursuing party. The captured robber
PROVED TO BE BILL RYAN,
a noted bandit and train robbeI, one of
the leading members of the Jesse James
gang.
Ryan was held by the Alabama author
tiles and eventually returned to this state,
where he was tried for the Glendale rob
berry, convicted and sentenced to the peni-
Tertiary for twenty five years. All efforts
to induce Ryan to sqUeal on his pals in
the
MCSSEL SHOAL ROBBERY
were fruitless, and he went to the peniten-
tiary carrying the secret with him. For
some reason the authorities believed that
Ryan's two companions were Jesse James
and Dick Little. The men, whoever they
were, succeeded in throwing the officers off
the track, and found safe retreat in the
mountainous regions of the state. On the
4th of this month Overton arrived in Kan
sas City and informed the officers of his
mission.
LITTLE WAS CLOSELY WATCHED
until requisition could be obtained from
the governor, and then the warrant for his
IL
hands of Deputy United States Marshal
Douglas. Little made no effort to escape,
nor did he in any way resist the officers,
but quietly submitted to the arrest
In conversation with the officers, Little
said his arrest was put up job and he
would have no difficulty in proving an
alibi. He said that the Hiles were at the
bottom of The whole business and his arrest
was only part of a general plan to
GET HIM IN TROUBLE
Wood Hite's death still rankles in the
blood of his kinsmen and they believe Lit
tie was instrumental in his killing, and are
bound in some way to avenge his death.
Dick said that he had no fear of any
bodily harm Detailing him, because he
would be in the custody of officers, who
would protect him. He had no fear, either.
that any of the Hites would attempt to get
the drop on him, as they know the readi.
ness with which he handles the pops. Lii.
lie will go armed and will stand his trial
like a man, having no fear Of his ability to
prove his innocence.
THE ROBBERY.
The robbery for which Little is now un-
der arrest is known as the second Mussel
Shoals affair, and was perpetrared upon a
United States paymaster who was on his
way to pay off several gangs of men who
were 'vOrkii & on g v rnmeni canal repai
in Alaboma. The deed was accom- plished
March III, 1881, by three men supposed to
be Jesse James, Bill Ryan and Dick Little.
Five thousand four hundred dollars was Sc
cured. Ryan who ran away from Blue tank
hn L.
Tucker Bassham was arrested, was traced
and finally captured. He, after the rob-
berry, mounted the paymaster's horse-a
hue white one-and with the victims
watch and jewelry, had the hardihood to
ride into a wayside inn across the Ten
nessee line and get very drunk. His con-
duct was such as to raise suspicious in the
minds of those about the house, and the
local authorities we're notified, and Ryan
was arrested.
HE GAVE AN ASSUMED NAME,
but il leaked out from papers upon his
person that he was from Jackson county.
this state, and a description Of him was
sent to Marshal Murphy, who took such
prompt steps in securing a requisitioD.
that he had his man we'll out of the state
before the local authorities discovered his
connection with the robbery in Alabama.
Nothing more was heard of the affair
after Ryan's conviction here, and it was
supposed nothing would ever be done to
vindicaie the law for the Mussel Shoals
outrage, but it seems that the authorities
down there have been quietly waiting
until after :he complicated legalities con-
sequent upon the killing of Jesse James,
and surrender of most of the gang that
had been settled, and then commissioned
detective to come here and get Dick. who
is now the only available member of the
trio who are supposed to have robbed the
paymaster.
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