Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1882-04-27
MISSOURI OUTLAWS,
Ssoriss "f Jesse James end his
sAsyers The Han diVs Family
Other Criminals Following the
example OF James.

| "ASe VI J0uo0 James 0nd nj
slsyers-Ths han diVs Family
Other Criminals Following tn
example OF James.
The Chicago Times says Mrs. Tess
james rela,es the following story of 9
isband's career as q bandit:
Mrs. James is the daughter of hghl,
respected parents, who have lived in O
near Kansas City for about thru year
and, as she remarked, she had live,
there ever since she could remembe
until she married jesse"
The,r courtship was a highly roman
TIC one. They we're first cousins, and
their betrothal was bitterly opposed b,
her parents. She WAS sentimenta
however, and expressed her dstermi
nation TO follow Josse's fortunes
wherever they might lead, and to pro
vent an elopement the old people con.
sented to the engagement. This was in
1869, Just after Jesse had been made an
outlaw under the civil code and a
price set upon his person Their court.
ship lasted five years, during which
time Jesse frequently visited his ina
morata at the residence of her parents
in that city, and she several times went
TO MS mothers, Mrs. Samuels, at Kear-
ney, to see him by appointment.
A SOFT HEARTED LOVER.
During one of these visits tho two
we're together in the yard at the Sam
ueis residence when party of five
men, led by one of Pinkerton's detec-
tlves, went to the house, and all the
time they were searching the place JeG.
Sc lay OIL The ground twenty feet of the
door under the shadow ofa rosebush,
while his aftianced was secreted in a
tence corner. Mrs. James says that Jes-
se has frequently said since that if he
had kiIled a couple of these men it
might have saved his stepbrother's life
and his mothers arm, but he refraired
because he was afraid his swCe heart
might be injured in the melee. They
were married April "a, 1874, at the
residence of the bride's sister, Mrs w.
Browder, of kearney, the Rev. William
James, cousin officiating, and the
TO lowing month they went to Sherman,
Texas, where a sister of Jesse lives.
it'i J . VI
Mrs. James took occasion to de.
nounce the reported estimate, which, if
true, would have made him o rich man
" his death. She declares that 80 far
rom having had at any one time $780,
)OO he never had that sum in all his
lie, putting every cent into the calcu
ations. The Gads Hill affair netted
about $1,000, of which he received one
nth, and upon that they went to Texas
or their honeymoon. Things grew hot
Il Sherman, and they moved to Dallas
II September, where they remained
lntil the winter of 1874 and 1873, when
drs. James returned to Kansas City
nd visited her sister, Mrs. Mcbride, |
nd other relatives for several months,
ehlle y e,se went on Il scout. 1t was
bout that tlme that the Cornth Miss J
nd Muncie (Kan robberies were
in both of which jesse par.
lCipated.
BANDITS STEED.
The Chicago Inter Ocean says:-Very
Nv people know that the handsome
ay horse now owned by Captain Ben
'ulwinkle was formerly the property
the most noted bandit of modern
mes-J esse James. The horse is the
teal OF a perfect saddle animal. He
,ands fully sixteen hands high, not too !
savy for service and small enough to l
o quick, while his powerful muscles .
nd eyes OF fire tell the story of the !
reat reserved force and the singular
ltelligence of the horse. Nearly every 7
ody knows the attachment between u l
ian and his horse when they share l
lngers together and the mans own
tnds smooth the glossy coat and make 4
le equlne's toilet. Between them both
lere Is the most perfect trust and con.
ience. This noMe horse is appro- n
riately named Jesse James" About
IS grand breast and neck are numer.
is scars of bullet wounds, and there
one cash of sabre that must have
ought him near to death. His nose,
ce and upper neck are filed with II
ri shot. Through what dangers and r.
'sperate enterprises must not this a
'rse have carried his dare devil rider. ,
ut men are always ungrateful to their il
ute friends, and Jesse James sold II
ls horse. 1t was not for need of money
lrtlcuIarly, nor for any stress of cir l.
but for nothing more ro- G
antic than the attraction of a circus
vt the night rider sent away from him tt
is one truly faithful friend.
After giving an account of several n
bberies and of how her husband and
Q moved about to Nashville, Bati. Fl
Ore and other places to evade the
iGers OF jnstice, she said she did not Fl
empt to d feLd d her husbands crimes
t declared that he was charged with b
thousand offences he never commit. d
|, among which were the Kansas
ty Exposition robbery and va;ious k
lge robberies in Colorado and Texas.
Jesse's dress she says that he and G.
brother were always tasty and in
ned to be stylish in their attire, hut st
1t Jesse never were frock coat, as
was said 10 have done while living B
70. His coat was short, and for that
'son he usually carried but one 70. M
ver when on the street to prevent it II
ng noticed. His arms she now has
etully slowed away where no one ID
see them. When asked about II
ank and others OF the old party she st
Jared she did not know; that Frank
) at their house,'once or twice during th
'ir resi- ence in Tennessee, but she pl
not seen him for two years. The vi
ers, with the exception OF the Hite Oh
hers, who were her cousins, and IN,
TX Llddle, she never saw in her life.