Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-10-14
SURRENDERED.
Frank James %Surrenders to Governor
Crittenden Of Missouri.
''Tired Of Night Riding and Day
Hiding"
v Himself Up.

Kansas City, Oct. 6.--Frank James
surrendered to Governor Crit'enden at
Jefferson City at 5 o'clock this evening
and will be brought here tomorrow
morning and delivered to the Jackson
county authorities. Governor Critten-
den telegraphs that officers leave to-
night with the prisoner. Officials here
express sonie surprise at James action,
as no ovsrtures have been made on their
part toward surrender. They think
Frank became discouraged, having, in
various ways, lost all his old confeder-
ates, and concluded Il was useless to at
tempt no longer live in outlawry and
preferring to trust to the leniency Of the
law in voluntarily giving himself up.
THE PISTOLS.
st. Louis, Oct. Especial from Jeffer-
o City: When Frank James surren-
dered to Governor %Crittenden, he
handed him his pistols, and stated that
he (the governor) was the only man, ex-
ccpt himself, who had touched them for
twenty years. Frank, while at the
Mccartney house this evening held a
reception, and many prominent citizens
were there seeking the honor Of shak-
ing hands with him.
THK LETTER.
A Jefferson City special has a letter
from Frank James addressed to Gov
ernor Crittenden, dated st. Louis, Oct.
lst, and the latter's reply. The letter
from James protfers surrender. 1t is "A
lengthy document. He says he was
prompted to act through consideration
for his wife and children, and desires to
relieve his name from the shadow which
has been cast upon it, and through it
M~issourians. He makes a plea that he is
not as bad as he has been painted. That
an outlaw has thoughts and impulses of
a man, and that his desire is TO return
to his home, and there with his family
pass his days in peace, and thus gain the
respect of his fellow men. He thinks it
unnecessary at present to recount the
history of his life. Those who are his
friends are already acquainted with it;
the public at present is not disposed to
judge him ~charitably. He thinks his
sufferings already has done pcnance for
his acts. He denies the authorship of
any Of the letters threatening assassina-
ton i'll retaliation for the murder of
Jesse, which has been attributed to him.
He submits the question, whether Frank
James humble, ~repentant and reformed
before the world should not be an ex-
ample more fraught with good for the
rising generation, than Frank James an
outlaw and wanderer. He says this
letter is the result Of a determination
formed during the past four years of in
d%ustrious farm life which he has spent.
He asks for amnesty if possible, and
states an answer will reach him through
his wife, who is at Independence, Mo.
On receipt of this letter Governor
Crittenden replied that he could make
no definite promises. but would recon-
mend James to present himself before
the courts, where charges now rest
against him, and answer them as best
becomes a man in accordance Herewith.
James appeared before the governor to-
day accompanied by Major J. w. Ed
wards. of Sedalia, as counsel and former
ly surrendered. He will arrive at
Kansas City tomorrow and have a
hearing at Independence.
AN INTERVIEW.
Kansas City, Oct. 6.-The Western
Associated Press representative had an
interview with Frank James this MORN
ing as he was being transferred by train