The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1882-10-28
FRANK JAMES.


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1t has been known for several
months that relatives and friends Of
Frank James we're making an effort to
induce him to surrender to the authori-
ties. Shortly aftec the death Of jesse
James Mrs. Samuels and Mrs. Frank
James visited the Governor Tor the
purpose Of learning upon what condi-
tions and with what hope OF clemency
such surrender might be made. Just
what passed between the Executive and
ifhe mother and .ife of the then fugi-
Tive outlaw neither tho Executive nor
the women have divulged, beyond the
statements already publiahed made 10y
! Governor Cnttenden that ho could
promise neithcy pardon nor clemency
beforehand, but That If Frank James
| desired to surrender he must do so un-
conditiohally, aud stand tripl for the
violation of the laws Of the state of
Missouri.
After living for nearly four years tho
life Of peaceable and to all appear
ances, respectable and law.abid!ng
citizen, aud having a wife and child to
whom he is devotedly attached, he be.
gan to long for peace and domestic
quiet aud grew to feel n repugnauco
toward Il return TO his violent, lawde-
flying life of former days A hope that
after all he might be paidoned, aud a
deep seated feeling shat unless he did
surrender his fate would be similar 10
that OF Jesse, determined the decision
on his part to give himself up. Having
made up his mind to do so he wrote
and sent to Governor Crittenden the
following letter, which is dated from
st. Louis aud was mailed in that city
| juat after he entered the state:
AN APPEAL FOR AMNESTY.
ST.. Louis, No, October /, 1882 -
Hon. Y. T. Crittonden, Governors
YouR EXcELLESoY Time has demon
strated that however carefully l may
follow the path of good citizenship, and
however successful | may BIZ in gaining
the confidence and respect OF those who
associate with me daily and know my
every act, the work of heaping infamy
ON tho name which my children are to
bear goes steadily on and on as it began
so many years ago. Tho greater the
crime which stariles the people Of onr
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bear should assume to possess either
pride or sensibility, have the harii-
hood to lay claim to some degree OF
both. For years tho one desire of my
heart is and has been to regain the
Jars ,1LaI W. yvostorn Nh; go
- bon5 Una .oooinst lie no;al,bn,,S
and to hive a. opn55tIuhhogty II Prov
by my submission to the most rigor.
ons test, that I am not unworthy Of it.
II would avail me nothing at this day
to revert to the circumstances attend
ing my out-lawry, which l and thou.
sands Of others regarded Os extenuatiug
Those who were where they could
observe the events in that little page Of
history, need no recapitulation of them
from me, and those who had no person
al knowledgein the premises have beer
30 pleiudiced against me by reports Of
MY EVIL DoINGs
that they would naturally give no con
sideration to facts of that character
The people at large reason, and reason
logically that where there il
so much smoke there must be some
fire; that although some of the charges
made against me may DO unjust, all ar'
not without ionhuatioh, ana tha' ~
evasion OF tio oin i. Oh .ne Ia" rs , no
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to say that though MS suffering ma
been hundred times greater thanthe.
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greater than the courts Whlen no eVaus'
would have attached TO ms acts Il
recognizes that he mas no nSht TO com
plain OF ms lot tic comes as ma
, who, conscious Of an honest purpose
asks to be permitted TO do whlt a
earnest law-ablding cltlzen may tc X
move from Missouri the odium 10
l. which his name is IN part responsible
He comes as man who, OUTLAW thong
: he is, has for those innocent ones WI
call him husband and father love
: strong, devoted and deep as are foun
9 in mon whose lives are blameless befoi
+ the world, and asone who Is anxious
Z remove from their closet the skeleto
q which has 80 long been its hideous o.
q eeccs.Dcnnisibil}k ftF fuApt ,iQr stle car
Al rather than for that which l di'
Governor Crittenden, You should new
have had 10 nut