The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-05-07
MRS. JESSE JAMES.
Tells Of Her GOurtship and Mar.
ried Life---JeSSe at a Tenn
eSSee Convention and a
LOCKER ON at the
Centennial.

Mrs. Jesse James relates the fol-
loving story OF her husbands career
as a bandit. She is the daughter oil
highly.respeoted parents, who have
lived IN or near Kansas city for over
80 years, and. as she remarked, she
had lived here lever since she could
remember, until she married Jesse. "
Their courtship was a highly roman.
tic one. They were first cousins,
an0 their betrothal was bitterly
opposed by her parents. She
was sentimental, however, and
expressed her determination TO
follow Jesse's fortunes wherever
they might lead, and to prevent
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 courtship lasted 5years. during
which time Jesse frequently visited
his inanorata at the residence OF her
parents 10 this city, and she several
times went to his mothers. Mrs.
Samuels, at Kearney, to see him by
appointment. During one CT these
visits the Two were together in the
yard at the Ssmuels residence when
q party of five men, led by one of
Pinkerton's detectives, went to the
house, and sll the time they were
searching the place Jesse lay Oh the
ground within twenty ieet of the
door,
UNDER THE SHADOW OF A RosE-BUsH,
while his affianced was secreted in a
fence corner. Mrs. James says that
Jesse has frequently said since that if
he had killed a couple OF these men
it might have saved his step-brother's
lie and his mothers arm, but he re-
Trained because he was afraid his
sweetheart might be injured in the
melee. They we're married April
"a, 1874, ct the residence of the
brides sister, Mrs. ". B. ByoWder,
OF Kesrney, the Rev. William James,
g cousin, officiating. and the follow
ing month they went &c Sherman,
Texas, where a sister of Jesse lives.
There Mrs. James passed as a cousin
OF Jesse's sister, without giving any
particular name, and he was in and
cot Of the city constantly, because he
was fearful OF being followed by the
officers Tor the Hot Springs robbery,
which was committed in January of
that year. and the Gad'a Hill robbery
which occurred in the same month.
The fret Of these he was not in, SO
Mrs. James says, but admits that be
was in the latter, and, as both were
charged to him, be deemed it wise to
act as though he had really been
there. At this point Mrs. James
took occasion to denounce the r.
ported estimate Of Jesse's steslings,
which, il true. would have made him
a rich man at his death. She De-
clsres that so far from having had at
any one time 100000. he never had
that sum in all bis life, putting every
cent into the calculation.
THE eAD's HILL AFFAIR
melted about 50. 900, of which be re-
ceived one-6fth, and upon which they
went to Texas for their honeymoon.
Things grew hot in Sherman, and
they moved to Dallas in September.
whsra they remained until the win.
ter OF 1874 and 1875, when Mrs.
James returned to Kansas City and
visited her sister, Mrs. Mcbride, and
other relatives TO- several months.
while Jesse went on a scout. Il was
about this time that the Corinth.
Miss, and Munoie, Kan, robberies
were committed. in both of which
jesse participated, but the amount
secured his wife says she does net
know. When he returned, however.
he had plenty OF money, and they
then moved to Edgefeld, Tenn, a !
small village near Nashville, and re.
manned there until the fall, when
they removed 10 Baltimore. 1t was
in Edgefeld that the boy who now
begins TO look so much like his father
was born, and Mrs. James declares
that the CHILD was but nine DAYS old
when the Huntingdon, W. Va, rob. |
berry took place, and that, instead
Of being there. jesse was with her
and the baby in Nashville at that
time, living under the name Of J. |
D. Howard. They removed to Bal !
timore in November, 1875, and re-
manned there one year, or at least she
did, but jesse was away a good
deal Of the time. and she ssys she
does not know where, except that
be was at the Centennial one wees.
where he saw great many
PEOPLE FROM MISSOURI
whom he knew very we'll, but wnoI
lid not know him. Il was about |
his time that the Baxter Springs |
Kan, and Otterville, Mo-, robberies
we're perpetrated, but she disclaims
al knowledge of Jesse's oomoIioity
10 them. In speaking of the Hum
ingdon affair, Mrs. James backs nm
The assertion that Jesse was at Edg-
ington at that time, on the state
nentr which she says can be verified.
hat about that time he boupht two
ar.loads OF -four from a Nashville
miller named 0. F. O'Neil on gpec.
llstion, and took it to Savannah. /
Ia. where he sold it under the as,
umed name IF Howard From