Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-15
MAS. sAMAs.
ALetter From Her 10 a Citizen
of Nashville.
Also q Fervid Card that Reads
as IL IL Might Have Been writ.
ten By a Lawyer.
American.

ceiYed the following letter, enclosing
the "card" which accompanies it:
KANSAS CRY, Mo, May Z, 1882
Mr.. A. Z. Sneed, Nashville, Tenn /:
Your letter of April 10 received and
contents noted, and will answer your
question with pleasure. | am the
same person, without doubt, that
boarded at Mr.. Kent's under the as
sumed name of Josie Howard. |
would have answered sooner, but |
have had so much to look after | could
not do so, | have received several
letters from friends in Nashville since
the death of my husband, and am
sorry that could not answer them
promptly. Mary, my little girl, has
not forgotten you yet, although she
was quite small when there. j esse
(alias Tiny often tells her that Dr.
Sneed is her sweetheart. Jesse is the
boys name. Enclosed fad a card
which l would like to have published
in the Nashville papers. 1t it will
not be asking too much ofyOu would
like to have you hand it to the editor
and ask him to publish it for me.
This man Chambers has bought off
the leading papers Of Missouri, and
l can't get anything published here
at all. 1t looks though as if every
body was trying to swindle me. |
will send the same card to the Courier
Journal. Please accept my thanks
for your sympathy. My heart is
almost crushed with grief. | can't
write any more at present. Hoping
to hear from you again soon.
Very respectfully,
Mrs. JESSE W. JAMES.
3l6 East 18th St., Kansas City, Mo.
THE CARD.
There are cards being published
throughout the country purporting to
be that of j. II. Chambers & Co., of
St. Louis, Mo-, relating to the forth
coming publication of book entitled
the Lille and Times Of Jesse James"
and, without repeating the contents
Of said card, which was first published
in the Post Dispatch, of st. Louis, on
the LIST inst, | wish to say, and over
my own signature, that the same is
false as false can be.
l never dictated one word or line of
said book. never furnished to Frank
Triplett, or any one else, single fact
for said book. | never saw the con-
tents of said book, and as a witness TO
the truth hereof Ireter to j. r. Hare,
ESQ, of Kansas City, who, as my at
torney, is cognizant of the facts. l
never signed, caused to be signed or
read the receipt published in said
card. | never accepted or received
the fifty dollars or any portion thereof
as therein stated. 1t is false in toto,
and | hereby caution the public
against the imposition sought to be
practiced by said j. H. Chambers &
Co., and all others claiming to have
received from me any statement
whatever regarding the life Of my late
husband. As a wife mourning the
untimely loss OF a faithful and loving
husband; as a mother praying and
seeking for the welfare and happiness
of my two infant children; as a woman
of enfeebled health, so heart broken and
crushed beneath the weight Of sorrow
so recently fallen upon me as to cause
me to expect peace only upon the ar
rival Of the messenger of death, l pub
licly and most soleml1y enter my pro-
test against the systematic and
unmanly course taken to enrich an
entire stranger by making it appear
that l have so soon forgotten all wifely
duty and love, betrayed another's
trust, and built upon the ungrassed
grave of murdered husband a tower
ing monument of my sins to the last.
ing shame and disgrace of my loved
children. May God forbid, and all
good men, true wives and loving moth
ers lend no aid TO such foul conspir-
acy is lin sorrow and sadness) the
prayer Of Mrs. JESSE JAMES.