Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-04-05
JESSE JAMES DEAD.
He IN ShOt by One OF IIia Own
Gang get the Rewards offered
by the State.

! by the State.
: ST JOSEPH, Mo, April The fol
: lowing are the particulars of the shoe
y ing Of Jesse James yesterday:
a After having eaten breakfast Jess
! James and Charles Ford went to tn
$ stable to curry the horses and on re-
4. turning to the room where Robert For
was Jesse said; OTIS an awtully no
3 day. He pulled off his coat aud Yes
r and tossed them on the bed. Then H.
said IT guess III take off my pistol
for fear somebody will see them if
, walk in the yard.
he unbuckled the belt in which h,
carried two 45-Calibre revolverS, one ;
ISmith & WessOn and the other Colt!
land laid them on tire bed with his coat
and vest. He then picked up a dust
ing brush with the intention of dust.
ing some pictures which hung on the
wall. In order to do this he got on a
chair, his back being now turned to
the brothers, who silently stepped be
tween Jesse and HIS revolvers and at a
motion from Charley both drew their
iplstols. Robert was the quickest OF
Tine tNo. In one motion he had the
long weapon on level with his eye
with the muzzle not more than four
fteJ from the back Of the outlaw
head. Even in that motion quick as
thought there was something which
| did not escape the acute ears Of the
| hunted man. He made Il motion as if
to turn his head to ascertain the cause
Of thst suspicious sound, but too late.
There was quick flash, a sharp re-
port and the well directed ball crashed
| through the outlaws skull. There
was no outcry-just swaying of the
body-and it fell heavily back or the
carpeted floor the ball having entered
the base of the skull and made its way
out through the forehead over the left
eye. 1t had been fired out OF a Colts
forty five" improved weapon silver
mounted aud pearl.handled, which
had been presented by the dead man to
his slayer only a few days ago.
Mrs. James was in the kitchen when
the shooting was done, separated from
the room in which the bloody tragedy
occurred by the dining.room. She heard
the shot, and dropping her household
duties, ran into the front room. She
saw her husband laying on his back,
and bis slayers, each holding his revol-
verin his hand, making for tLefence in
the rear of the house. Robert had reach
ed the enclosure aud was in the act of
sealing it when she stepped to the door
and called to him, Robert, you done
this! Come back" Robert answered, !
81 swear to God | did not" They
then returned to where she stood. Mrs
James ran to the side of her husband
and lifted up his head. Life was not
extinct, and when she spoke to him it
seemed to her that he wanted to say
something but could not. Sue tried to
wash away the blood that wa3 coursing
over his face from the hole in his fore.
head, and in her arms jesse James
died.
CRIMES OF JAMES AND HIS GANG.
Jesse James was the elder of the two
} ames boys. Frank, the younger, is
30 be living in Texas under
an assumed name. He is married and |
They were the sons Of Baptist C ergy- |
man of Kentucky, and were educated |
at Georgetown College, Scott county,
Ky. Jesse was born in lS4l and Frank |
IN 1870 In 1875 the Rev. James re.
moved to Clay county, Mo, where he
purchased farm aud performed min
lsterial duties for small congregation.
In 1S49 he went to California and died
there. In 1851 his widow married DIR.
Reuben Samuels, a physician Of Clay
Mo.
When the war opened Jesse and
Frank endeavored to enlist in TIE
Confederate army, but were rejected
rs being too young for the service. 1t
s stated that DR.. Samuels was once
ierribly beaten by party of Union
men who came TO the house, and that
+ was a desire for vengeance that start
I'd the boys on their career as deSpera.
loes. At any rate they joined q IAN
jrelps gue-illas, and took part in the
nurderous work of the gang. Jesse
James had made a brag ofthe number
If people he kille at the saCking Of the
own of Lawrence In 1865 Quantrell
vas killed in fight with body of
Federal troops, and the gang was brok-
~ up, the James brothers returning to
heir homes in Clay county, Mo-, " here
hey lived quietly.
In 1868, with the younger brothers
ind George Sheppard, who had been
with them in Quantrell's band, the
James boys went o the races at Licking
on, Ky. On their way home they Wis
ted Russe.lvil!e, in that State, robbed
! bank Of Sl4 900 and fed to Texas.
la December, 1869, they resumed
operations, and robbed the +.
,ank at Gallatip, Mo-, in connection
With the Younger brothers and others
# old associates in guerilla warfare.
lere they murdered several persons,
nd again went to Texas. s
In May, 1870, the two brothers had a
sht with some Texans at dance q
ouse, which resulted in several mur. +
ers, the victims being men of their q
wn profession, and the result was l
hat they were compelled to fly with $
heir lives. They returned to their old ]
ome> in Missouri, and again assumed Y
gricultural pursuits. }
In the spring of 1870, together with v
ne Younger brothers, they made raid II
ito Iowa; entering the town of Cory
on, where in broad daylight, they s
ashed up to the bank on their horses, T.
sven in number, and finding the cash II
II alone, demanded all the money he Y
adj The safe was open, and the cash ST
# was totally poweress. After they h
ad emptied several thousand dollars
ito sack, they quietly remounted ft
leir horses aud rode away. They "
ere followed for q hundred miles or o
ore by posse of citizens, but they g
and were not seen again N
# several months. b.
In the latter part of the same year ii
10 two James brothers and the four et
ounger brothers again attended the o,
Ices in Kentucky, and there conceived b;
10 plan of robbing o bank at Colum. b'
Is. In the afternoon, after spending W
% day around the tavern in that town, q
10 six men mounted their horses, rode 10
'er to the bank, which was only few t te
de- distant, and entered the building, E