The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-02-06
He Says the Action Taken in
the jackson County
Court is q Farce,
And Charges the Whole Pro
eeedings are the Carrying
Out of q Programme.
He Alleges that Cooper County ie
the Place Where Frank
Fears Trouble,
For There the Testimony Will be
Furnished to Bring About
Conviction.

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Furnished to Bring About
Conviction.
The action taken in the cases of the State
versus Frank James, which were called in
the Jackson county criminal court, was a
surprise to nearly every man in Missouri
There we're three old indictments against
James in the Jackson criminal court and
rs fast rs they were called they were dis
missed by Proses ufin2 Attorney Wallace,
Who was forced to admit that he had been
unable TO secure testimony that would con-
vict Frank. Affairs took different turn,
however, when
NEW INDICTMENT.
charging Frank James with completely
In the Blue Cut train robbery, was read.
Frank simply pleaded not guilty his bond
was placed at 81, 500. he made no effort 10
give it, and complacently MARCHED back to
his quarters at the indie pendence Jail. Now
here is where the surprise came in. Every
hcdy supposed Frank would be anxious TO
give BAH and be released from Jail. where
IL has been reported, he WAS dying
BY inches with ennui; and as every body
knew tina: he could Gil bond equal to
that given by the State Treasurer, without
going ont Of Jackson county. people won
dered why he did not fill such an insignifi
cant bond as that required-s3, 500-and
70 hence to enjoy his freedom once more.
The Kansas City Times, the day after
the trial, after saying James could give
bond,
BUT WOULD NOT.
gave q short interview with resident O!
Independence and an ek-county official, in
which the citizen made the following re-
marks to account for James action:
"Frank does not care to give bond because he
would be arreste1 the charge of the murde of Capt
Hheets. the cashier who was killed wh, the ban
at 0aiIatin. Daviess county, robbed, and there
q Also an Indictment against HIM in that county
For oomDcity in the v inston train robbery, and
Ter killing man, stone mason whose name do
MT emeinber, who was pa senger on the uain.'
"He would only be inca cerated i'm the Davies
county Jail to await hi trial there would he not ?''
Eyes, but that is just what n es OF wa t..
Ne will be taken care of in the Jail al Independ-
pie live ut Independence, If he taken to Gal
hiin he would be stuck IL ia there q charge OF
murder in the first degree, which is not bsable
sAense, and tn Jail tn Re wo,fd suppose N, Z be
- comfortable As the one il shich he is. He
does not want 10 leave jackson county"
No doubt tte gentleman who gave vent
10 the sbove expressions thought he was
telling the truth, but a gentleman. who
spent I'VE days in this city during the past
week, and IS IN position TO know whereof
be speaks beius su attorney for
CERTAIN EXPRESS COMPANIES,
takes an entirely different view Of the
matter. He SAYS that these proceedings in
the Jackson county criminal court are
simply farces, and that the action taken
was mapped out before Frank James ever
surrendered, and that it is a part of the
prograEsme 10 dilly daily in the Jackson
county court until such a bill! OF costs is
run up as Ia deter other counties where he
is indicted from enterihg into a prosecu-
tion. This talk about James being taken
10 Davies comfy 10 be tried Tor The a. ur-
der of Captain Sheets, is all bosh, for the
case would be as sun,marijy dismissed al
were The cases IN the Jackson county Grim
inal court Had az been caught immedi
ately after the
MURpEA OF CAPTAIN SHEETS,
conviction sould have been possible, hct
today it would be a matter of absolute ini
possibility. No, it is not the deviln,sut
Frank James did in Jackson or Dasiess
counties of which he has any
fears. but il is in Cooper that he fears rel
ribution, and we'll he may, for whene vel
he appears before the bar of justice there
he is just SO sure to go hence t. the peni-
tertiary as the sun shines That is nv
business here-the accumulation of tesIi-
Mony against James TO be used i'm his trial
at Bconville. We do not propose to leave
this IA after to the county attorney alone
but will put the testimony in bis hands by
which he is bound to bring
ABOUT CONVECTION
The express lawyer was becoming de.
sidedly emphatic and the repo, ter though,
4 about time to say something, SO modestly
inquired where the attorney expected Ia
get witnesses to bring about conviction
IN Cooper county, as probably not a dozen
men saw the highwaymen who robbed the
Otter Vile train, and it was not at all prob.
able they would be able to identify Frank
James at this late day
THAT is all very well, )" replied the law
yer, but when you return to your Office
If you will look over your back files YOU
will 6nd in the BAzOo of August 22nd the
CONFESSION OF ONE HOBBS KERRY,
who was a member of the James gang, and
Who would h ow Frank James the second
he would see him. Kerry suffered fol
his participation in the crime, and was
pardoned, under the three fourths rule
His testimony will be good in the courts
and We know exactly where to put oul
hands on him"
This did not end the converse ton by an,
means, but rs the reporter, upon his return
to the office, referred to the back files O
the BAzoO and found the article referred
to, it is here given in full:
THE CONFESSION.
First OF all, 1 lett CRANKY and went L
Joplin in the first part OF winter or the LAT
ter part OF fall, and there got scquainte