The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-04-05

nIs DEATH MURDERED FOL
MONEY BY ONE OF HIS OwN PALa.

MONEY ny ONE OF HIS OWN PALS.
ST. LOUIS, April "A dispatch from
Kansas City says: IL Il now. known that
the taking OF Of Jesse James was the full
| filmenf Of the arrangement between Gov
ernor Crittenden and Bob Ford, and that
Ford was TO receive one fourth OF the re-
ward and immunity. In an interview
with Dick Little and a reporter on Sunday
night last the scheme was foreshadowcd,
but Little said II was not to have been ae-
complished before "Wednesday or Thurs
day. and only then II il was found impos-
sible for Timberlake to capture the bandit
leader alive. Governor Crittenden stated
here to-day that his first meeting with
Ford, 1T st. James Hotel, in this city, was
on February 22d. when arrangements by
which Jesse James was
TO BIZ EITHER CAPTURED OR KILLED
were consummatcd. He met Little few
days later. He was non-committal as Ia
the disposition TO be made OF Ford and
Little, but admitted their ultimate pardon
was not improbable.
Sheriff Timberlakc, Dick Little. and
Mrs. Samuels, the mother Of the dead BAN
dit, passed through this place last night en-
route to 81. Joseph, where they have since
identified the body. The double confess
sion OF Dick Little Il still mystery, and
the officers are endeavoring 90 solve
il and learn which il correct. The
trial OF the Blue Cut robbers Is still in pro-
gress at independence. and the utmost
efforts of counsel are directed toward
proving an abb. Matte Collins, the wife
OF Dick Little, recently showed CORE
spondent letter received about two weeks
M, frnf, IaoSa In tylfch Ha
that he would stay in this country until he
had killed Dick Little, and that then he
and his brother Frank and their families
would put the Atlantic ocean between
them and the United States.
A GOVERNOR AvowING HIMSELF MURDERER's
ACCoNPLICE.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, April 4.-Governor
CrittMden. Who arrived here this morning.
asserts positively that the body il that OF
Jesse James, and that his death was the re-
suit OF IN understanding between the au-
thorites and Bob Ford, who killed him,
and Dick Little, who surrendered to Sheriff
Timberlake at the same time that Ford did.
The inquest at 81. Joseph was concluded
ut noon to-day. Mrs. Samuels, the mother
Of Jesse James, his wife, Dick Little, and
Sheriff Undertake identified the body, and
during the proceedings Mrs. James and
Mrs. Samuels made 4 highly sensational
scene, attacking Little and calling all mar
ner OF curses down upon him for having
COssPIEED TO BETRAY HIS LEADER.
The coroner's jury returned a verdict
OF murder in the first degree against Ford.
and the authorities OF Buchanan county
refuse TO give him up. The body Of Jesse
To will tArn1.aIlty 10 fol-.a =, no al
farm, near Kearney, Clay county, for burial.
The confirmation OF James's death has
created profound sensation in Western
Missouri, and farmers near this place and
in independence, who have not been in
this place for years, rode into the town this
afternoon i'm order TO investigate the ru-
mors. Some denounce Ford rs IN assassin.
whose only object was blood-mOney, while
others excuse him on the ground OF expo
diency.
Governor Crittenden will return to JEFF
ferson City tonight, where some steps will
be taken TO protect Ford, who is thought
to be in danger from ,he friends of the
dead rObber. Cracker Neck" was up on
horseback this morning. and some
THREATS or VENGEANCE
are said TO have been made against the lives
Of Ford and Little. The Ford brothers
reside on farm about two miles from
Richmond, the county-seat OF Ray county,
in tins State. Robert, who did the shoot
ing. is only about twenty years old. Their
house is said 10 have been the rendezvous Of
some Of the James gang, ard it was there
that Dick Little killed Wood lIite, brother
Of Clarence Hite,. who was recently sem
fenced TO twenty-five years in the peniten-
tiary and is now in prison. IL is said that
both belonged to the James gang 1T one
time, but this statement does not seem 10
be verified The family came from Vir-
ginia fifteen years ago. and has been con-
sidcrcd very respectable for some time
past. Both brothers are believed TO have
been in detective service and specially en-
gagged in hunting ont members Of the James
gang.