The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-01-09
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Continued from Sixth Page.
hand committing this robbery was un-
der the leadership Of Jesse w. James;
and his associates, it is said, were
Frank James, Dick Liddil, Wood
Hite, Clarence Hite and Charles and
Robert Ford.
When the proclamation was is
sued, it was said by cavaliers that it
would wholly fail in its objects and
that no good would be accomplished
by the offer of such large sums of
money for the apprehension of those
desperate men. The results which
followed so closely upon its issuance
furnish an ample vindication of the
policy which inspired it. No tie, no
faith in honorable comradeship, is
stronger with an outlaw than the
power of money.
On the 18th day Of February, 1882,
Bob Ford surrendered to Capt. 81.
HI. Craig of Kansas City. On the
24th day of January, 1882, Dick Lid
dill surrendered to J. r. Timberiake,
sheriff of Clay county
On the 18th day of February, 1882,
Clarence Hite was captured in Logan
county, Kentucky, by Capt. Craig
and j. r. Undertake, and was taken
to Davies county, Missouri, where
two indictments for murder of
William Westfall and one for partici-
patton in the Winston train robbery
were pending against him. He
was arraigned under the
Indictment and pleaded guilty
to the charge of robbery. and
was, on the same day, sentenced to
twenty-five years imprisonment in the
penitentiary, which sentence he Is now
undergoing.
On the Sd day of April, 1882,
Jesse w. James was killed in the city
of st. Joseph by Charles and Robert
Ford-his followers and associates in
crime. The Fords Immediately sur
rendered themselves to the legal au-
thorities of Buchanan county and
were placed in all.
An indictment charging them with
murder in the first degree, was pre-
ferred against them by a grand jury,
to which, at the April term, 1882,
they both pleaded guilty in the Buch-
anan county circrit court, and were
pardoned by me on the same day,
upon grounds of public policy.
Frank James voluntarily surren-
dered himself to me, in my Office, in
Jefferson City, on the 9Th day Of o.
tober, 1882. I Immediately delivered
him to the law officers of jackson
county, where he is now incarcerated
in Jail, awaiting trial on one or more
indictments.
On the the 4th day of December,
1881, Wood Hite was killed by some
one of his confederates in crime, at
the residence of Mrs. Bolton, near
Richmond, Bay county, Missouri.
Her house had been the headquarters
and hiding place of the outlaws, in
that part of the state for many
months.
On the 18th day of May, 1882,
Robert Ford was indicted in Ray
county for the murder of Wood Hite.
The case was removed, by change of
venue, to Clinton county where, on
the 26th day of October, 1882, he
was tried and acquitted. He is now
under recognizauce ON charge Of rob
berry, as also il. his brother, Charles
Ford.
On the 9TH day of October, 1882, /
revoked the proclamation of July 18th,
1881, for the reason that the princi-
pal actors in and perpetrators of, the
crimes are either dead or in the custo-
DIV of the laws of the state.
Thus was completed the overthrow
and destruction of the most noted and
daring baad of outlaws known to an
cient or modern history. This grand
result, fraught with SO much interest
and importance to the people of Mis-
souri,, was accomplished by the &C
tivity and relentless energy of
officers and citizens of this state, and
particularly Of those in the localities
in which the outlaws had SO long
found sympathy and concealment.
The policy adopted for the expiration
of those bands received the co-Opera- |
ton of the criminal court of jackson
county and its officers; and thus there
was but little difficulty in securing a |
pronounced enforcement of the laws,
and awakening in the minds of the peo-
pie of that county settled determine
ton to remove the stain placed upon
the county by the depredations ofthese
hands, and to summarily end, at once,
and forever, the crimes and career of