Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-05-11
MRS. JESSE JAMES.
4 Pen Picture Of the Bandits " lido "
Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.

Special to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, May 6.-The register
at the Southern Hotel this morning bore
the names of r. J. Hare, Kansas
City; Miss Blake. Detroit; Mrs. w. Jay,
Chicago; ordinary names enough; little
likely To attract attention, but to your
correspondent they were significant,
when he remembered that K. ]. Haire is
the attorney of Mrs. Jesse James. Haire
was found and after some little persua-
sion he was induced to escort the writer
to the rooms of the ladies. Mrs. James
does not correspond with any hitherto
published description of her. As she
greeted the correspondent to-day he
saw before him a woman of about med
ium height, with slightly stoopin &
shoulders, apparently about thirty five
years of age, though much suffering and
the ordeal she has recently passed
through give her features carewoIn
expression that makes her look five
years older. She wore neatly fitting,
plainly-made, cashmere dress. She is a
blonde with very light hair ard blue
eyes. Her face appears to e.t'nped, and
her features show her to be woman of
high order of intellect. The lines about
her eyes, and more particularly the
mouth, show her to be possessed OF
considerable force of character, and q
Judge of character would Immediately
pronounce her capable of keeping q
secret. Her movements would show hei
to be q woman who has not been used
to polite society, and her languag g,
confirms this impression. She talks
slowly ana without the least regard fol
the rules of grammar.
| Mrs. James would not talk of hei
husbands affairs. She is under contract
with ST. Louis publisher, by which she
and the bandits mother, Mrs. Samuels
bind themselves not to talk to any
newspaper man on the subject of Jesse's
| life and career. Several newspapers
have printed alleged interviews with
Mrs. James but she took occasion to
say to your correspondent; Il ham,
had no interview with no news
paper man. She was emphatic in her
assertions that interviews heretofore
published were false and purely imagin
alive. When asked as to the whereabouts
of Frank James she said she did no,
want to talk about him, refusing positive
ly to say whether or not she knew OF
his Whereabouts. The bandits widow i.
in town, she says, to attend to her private
business, which means the publication
of a biography of her late husband
soon to be printed. The identity OF
"Miss Blake" is ..conundrum. During
the conversation with the widow Miss
Blake" occupied a rather elevated posi-
ton on small table, with two dainty
feet perched on the window-sill, and a
morning newspaper across her lap. She
was alfred in suit of green ladies'
cloth, the skirt of which was fashioned
after the Mother Hubbard pattern, but
the waist was closely-fitting and taste
fully decorated with large buttons.
"Miss Blake" could make pretensions
to beauty. She possessed lovely black
eyes, black hair, and a complexion tn 1T
many society bellies would envy. There
are different stories as to who she is, bat
the probabilities are that she is Mrs.
Allen Palmer, Jesse James sister, and
wife of a former pard of ,he great
bandit. 1t is known that tbs lady recent
ly made the trip from her home in
Texas to sec her mother-in-law, and
nothing is more likely than she should
accompany her brothers widow on her
TIP to st. Louis.