Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-05-11
JESSE JAMES.
His wife Not Connected with any Publications
OF His Life

Although of the opinion that quite
enough has been said about the late
outlaw Jesse James The HERALD gives
place to the following card lately re-
ceived and purporting to come from the
wife of the notorious bandit:
st. Louis, April 29th, 1SSl:-Many
grleyous circumstances have transpired
during the past month which have
placed me in a humiliating attitude be-
fore the public, and added largely to
my already deeply distressed condition
of mind. While suffering from an over
whelming misfortune, ere the body of
my husband became cold. insinuating
and persistent writers and publishers
intruded themselves upon me and taking
advantage of my perturbed and distract
ed frame of mind, have outraged every
honorable feeling by representing me as
an instrument of accusation against my
cherished husband.
Time and again have | declared in
public print that if Jesse James ever
perpetrated any crime or crimes, of
whatever nature, that | was wholly
unconscious of the facts connected there
with; he never spoke to me about any
unlawful act of his, and | have not the
least knowledge of any wrong doing
with which he has been charged Nv
very soul reyolts at the suggestion of
lending my name or sanction to any
publication of Jesse James career, vet
L have been represented as debating
such book, and coming to St. Louis to
revise such matter as had already been
prepared for the publication. Though
| have frequently and publicly declared
that know absolutely nothing concern
ing any and all crimes charged to the
commission Of my husband, and that
under no circumstances would / lend
my name to any publication descriptive
of his career, yet am again required
to reassert all that | have previously
said, and to also particulsrize the cause
for this repetition. A publisher of
St. Louis, named j. H. Chambers, has
had circulated broadcast an assertion
that he was having prepared by writer
named Frank Triplett, a book on the
lives and career of Frank and Jesse
James, and that all the matter it would
contain would be furnished by me.
This statement is absolutely false, as
am not, never have been, and never
will-because cannot furnish any facts
eliminating either Frank or Jesse
James.
| visited St Louis on the 2Sth of
April, accompanied by my attorney,
Hon. r. j. HARE, of Kansas City, to
attend to some private business; while
stopping at the Southern Hotel j II.
Chambers, previously mentioned, in
truded himself into my presence during
the absence of my attorney, accompan-
led by reporters of the several St. Louis
daily papers, then by conscienceless,
systematic course of philandering and
prompting, created purported inter-
views with me to the effect that he,
Chambers, was preparing work on
Jesse James after my dictation. Dur
ing the entire day that | was so beset
by Chambers and reporters, was fairly
distracted with sick headache, and
was otherwise in such distressed con-
dition of mind as to be almost irrespons-
IDLE for my words or acts. All these
alleged interviews are base fabrications,
and represent me directly contrary to
the determinations and purposes have
always had.
| therefore repeat, that any identi-
fication or connection of my name with
any book or newspaper article whatso-
ever, purporting to record the career of
Jesse James, my dead husband, is who'll
ly and entirely without my permission,
and l trust that the public will regard
me with more becoming charity than to
be deceived by any claims connecting
my name with any book.
Mrs. JESSE w. JAMES.