The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-02-13
LA WEEKLY BAZOO. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY ID, 1885,

the Davies county Jail? That would be
the simple result of going out on bail new.
| No, he knows what he is about. Every
move he makes is by the ADVICE and con.
sent of his three lawyers-Messrs. John +.
! Philips, Charles p. johnson, and ]. H.
Slower. of Independence"
as il true, as the Globe Democrats cor
respondent says, that the brother Of Witch
er. the detective who was killed, has
written to Frank letter of anity aud for
xiveness ?"
eyes. in every particular but Witcher's
brother has nothing to forgive ss far as
Frank is concerned Probably two hun.
dred men in Jackson county know who
killed this detective, or, if they do not
know precisely just who did kill him, they
know that Frank James did not, and that
he was not in 500 miles of the place where
he was killed. This could easily have
been brought out ut the trial, If there had
ever been q trial
"What about Minnesota"
Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof The French have . proverb which
YOU, rs q newspaper man. should learn BY
heart. Freely translated, it is thus !:
Most men, when placed face to face with
an impOssibility, ask nothing from des-
tiny, from enemies, or from friends, but
time 1t is impossible for Frank James to
get Justice now in Minuesots, consequently
all that he can ask is time"
"What does Gov. Crittenden say about
the various indictments against James"
$50 far as I know, Gov. Crittenden does
| not say anything. He certainly never has to
me. believe he means to let the law take
its course am sure that he has not seen
| this prisoner since he surrendered TO him,
nor had any communication with him.
Gov Crittenden simply did what any one
of three other governors might have done,
received the surrender of the last of what
was supposed to be the most formidable
band Of bandits ever organized on earth.
With this difference, however, the band vas
in the full tide of its strength. cohesion,
and audscity when 1t proposed to three
governors to surrender, STIMULATING only
for fair trial and protection against mob
violence. No attention Was paid to these
offers, and the raiding and rebbing went
on. FINALLY, Crittenden came, and you
know the result. The band is extern,inAt-
ed. Those who are not dead are in prison
Since the downfall OF the men i'm ques.
train robbing, in various parts of the coun-
try, especially in Missouri, and the result
has been instantaneou pursuit and iDstan-
taneous determination. Therefore, If there
is any one man in this country who has the
right more than another to do what he
pleases with Frank James, that man il
Gov. Critienden. Without taking a dollar
from the State treasury, he has done what
Il \ IL -
to do, DESTROYED band of robbers, whose
capacity to commit deeds of deyilment, and
get away from the consequences, seemed al.
most abnormal. This he did, and it is al
most sure thing, because of that no one
will ever see railroad robbed again in
Missouri, by armed men, or a bank At
tackled in daylight and plundered."
"Will Frank James ever give to any one
true history of his life p
"His war history he has already given.
His history since tie war he will never
give. He says that he las none to give
nothing that the world would care to know
about an average man who tried to get
along and fulfill his destiny the best he
knew how"
"How do you account for the great curl.
osity manifested by so many people to see
Frank james"
THE newspapers are mainly responsible
for this-the newspapers and the dime nov
els published about him and Jesse. He has
been described as monster, who murdered
women and children; as an ogre, a giant,
blood drinker, wild beast, and such an
array given of his ferOciOus deeds as TO
make all who believe these publications
extremely anxious to see just what manner
of man or beast. or devil, he really is.
Hence the crowds that visit him at the Jail.
But his calm bearing and his modest de.
meanor astonish all who expected to look
upon monstrosity, and many 60 away his
friends who had before clamored for his
life But then such is human nature"
There is one question 1 would like TO
ask YOU, and it is this: Where did Frank
James come from when he came to surren-
DER"
81 decline to answer"
"How much was on his head"
"Just $4,000. The State of Missouri Of
fered $4,000, and three express companies
S.. 600 each"
"Were the pursuit and the hunt for him
| hot?"
Perpetual and persistent. He saw de-
tectives daily; touched them, talked with
them; was before, behind. Ground and
about them but they never suspected him
for a moment. He could have been safe
forever where he was when he concluded to
give himself up"
"Did those who knew " here he was know
also of the big reward for him.
Perfectly we'll, but what Of that
Some men could not be bought for all the
millions that Vanderbilt has. Some men
do not know what the word treachery
means. 1t is not i'm their vocabulary. u
was few of such men as these that Frank
James trusted. Hence the complete isola-
ton of the man while the hunt went on.
and hence the absolute secresy connected
with his hiding place"
SHOULD he ever he free man again
free to go and come-what will he do ?
You must know