The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1882-05-03
THE JAMES BROTHERS.
Their visit 10 Waco After the
NOrIhfieId Bank Robbery.

NOrihfieId Bank Robbery.
The Louisville Courier-Journal has the
most lengthy and complete account of the
killing of Jesse james and the exploits of
the James and Younger bows for wears
past that we have yet seen. From infer
nation gathered by that paper it seems
that Frank and Jesse James after their
fight from Minnesota reached Texas and
III their trip across the state reached Waco.
We go back in the narrative AS far as the
time when Frank James Joined Jesse in
Texas in 1876 ard Il nd was made up 10
rob the Missouri Pacific express train near
Sedalla. The train was stopped at point
about twenty miles east of Sedalia, named
Otteville, the spot being deep rocky
cut. The rObbing party consisted OF
Frank and Jesse James, Cole, Bob and
jim Younger, Clell Miller, Bill Chadwell,
Charley Pitts and Hobbs Kerry. All who
have travelled over the road know the
place and can imagine how easily those
desperate men walked off with $1,000
from the express car. What followed up
TO the time the james boys came to Waco
We give in the language of the Courier
journal: The immediate pursuit OF the
Otteryille robbers being given
up plan was arranged for
trip into Minnesota when it was
proposed 20 rob the Mortified bank. Bill
Chadwell, who was recruited to the ranks
OF the Missouri band. from the Indian Ma
ton. was an Outlawed horse thief from
Minnesota. and was undoubtedly the orig
inator of the fatal journey which almost
ended in the total determination OF the en-.
tire party. There were plenty OF b, nks
in Iowa and Missouri as easy OF access as
the one IN Mortified, and Chadwell must
haye used some powerful incentive to draw
the James boys and Houhgcrs on that
fated trip so far from home into state
the topography OF which they knew moth
ing about. Caldwell and one of the
Youngers were sent in advance OF the 9th
ers several days to reconoiteT, the main
body of the expedition leaving Clay cOun-
ty, Missouri, some time during August,
1876. Cole, Jim AMI Bob Younger, Jesse
and Frank James, Clell Miller, Chas. Pitts
and Chadwell comprised the party, the
same who operated so successfully at OF
terville. Kerry being the only absentee,
and he was in prison at a little station near
Northiield The eight desperadots held Il
consultation on September 9th, and on the
afternoon OF the 9TH they entered the last
named town at a furious pace, shooting
their rcvolvers right and lett in order to
intimidate the people on the streets. With
their horses on dead run the party
halted Just in front of the bank, and while
Frank and Jesse James and Bob Younger
entered, the other five remained
outside TO guard against attack.
J. II. Haywood. the cashier. and two
clerks We're in the institution ut the time.
aud for refusing to open the time lock,
Jesse James killed Haywood in wanton
cruelty, by sending ball into his brain,
In the meantime the citizens on the streets
realized what was going on, and opened
fire on the robbers. Chadwell was shot
from his horse, by a man from the court
house window Just opposite the bank,
and in few seconds, Glen Miller who had
escaped dozens OF times in Missouri was
killed. BY this time the firing became
general and it was seen by Jesse James
that he was in the tightest place OF his
life. Jim Younger had bullet in his
mouth and Frank James one through his
lett leg. but the entire six succet ded in
mounting heir horses and escaping from
town and then began Il flight and persuit,
which tor persiStancy and endurance is al
most without prallel. The robbers were in
strange country, followed by fifty arm
ed mCn.and when it was seen that the race
was TO be TO the death, q proposition was
made to separate. Before this time Jesse
James wanted Bob Younger killed, as the
blood from his wound made a plain trail.
but Cole \ ounger would not allow it, and
said he would Kill the first man who dared
to lay finger on his
wounded brother As settlement Jesse
and Frank James went in a northcrly di-
rection while the three \ oungcIs and Chas.
Pitts remained in a body. As on all pre-
Vious occasions luck followed the James
boys; for while they escaped after being
pursued nearly five hundred miles, the
\ oungers were shot down and captured
and Pitts was killed. The three former
were terribly wounded before their sur
render and are serving life sentences in
the Minnesota penitentiary at Saltwater
Jesse and Frank James ter being chased
for weeks, succeeded in reaching Texas,
and at Waco Frank had surgical opera
ton performed upon his leg In cOnse-
quence OF the bullet wound he received at
Northficld The wound was so many days
without care that 1t made Frank a cripple
for life, and detective told your cores
pOndent that Frank James would be cap
tured either in bed OF on horseback, as he
could never walk again for any distance
This is the story of the Younger and
James boys from OtteTVille to Mortified
and we should like TO inquire OF any sur
geon if he remembers having operated on
q man with a bullet in his left leg. 1t must
have been in the latter part OF September
or early in October, 1876. Perhaps the
above may cause some of our physicians
to think OF such case. and if they do,
we should be glad to hear from
them. 1t may be that Frank and
Jesse James visited Texas often, but it is
doubtful if they ever were in Waco, though
they could have been and no one know
who they were. 1t would be interesting
to hear some physician, if that ball really
was taken out of Franks leg here, tell of
the circumstance, where and at what hour
it was done, and how the two desperadoes
looked and lennrtnl thnln snluns