Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-08-01

shock hands with the newspaper mel
present, he lighted cigar, and taking
chair, leaned back against the wall, ant
with smile eaid:
"You all seem to be glad to see me
from the crowd that was 1t the dep0
this morning / should think that Bar
NUNS show had come to town"
The rporter then asked him to give al
; account of his wanderings, and he re
piled:
about my case I will say nothing I'M.
til I have seen my attorney, but as there
can be no harm in telling where I have
been, I will say that left Leavenworth
on the Southwestern train Tuesday
morning. November 23d. disguised
myself in no way, and talked with Judge
Brewer and Col. Carpenter, who were
also passengers on the same train.
went direct to Topeka and remained
there all day Tuesday, and on Wednes-
day was given pass over the Santa Fe
road to Kansas City, where I went, hay
ing when I arrived there, some eighty
dollars in my pocket. l remained there
until Thursday night, and took the Mis-
souri, Pacific for st. Louis. At the latter
place went to the hotel, attempted
no disguise, and walked about the
streets at different times during the day;
met couple of detectives and brushed
past them, but they took no notice of me-.
In reading an evening paper l saw q
boat advertised to leave for New Orleans,
and on Saturday morning walked down
to the wharf, and throwing down q
twenty dollar gold piece on the counter,
asked the clerk how far that would take
me. He replied to New Orleans. I
secured passage, and was invited to stay
to dinner on the boat, which I did,"
"Were you disguised or did you change
your name from this timer" asked the
newspaper man.
my name was not Jim Pusey from the
time went on the boat, but did not
disguise myself in any way until we had
been away from st. Louis two days."
What did you to disguise YOURSELF"
while sitting at the dinner table. the
clerk, who was a young dudish fellow,
having very light moustache, said he
would have his shaved off, if I would
mine. After some bantering talk we
both went to the barber shop and were
shaved clean"
did this cause any comment"
"No, some of the ladies thought it
was piece of foolishness, but l did
not"
"How much money did you have when
you reached New Orleans2"
81 had $l.70 and the first place I struck
for room, the woman wanted $50 per
month in advance. 1 hardly could af-
ford this and went to other quarters and
the next morning went to the ex-
position grounds where l obtained
work."
"Did you see any Leavenworth people
at the exposition"
Eyes, lots of them. But none of them
recognized me. l saw Joe Fenlon every
day, also Plummer and there was but
one ever recognized me-"
"How was thatP"
81 met a young fellow from Leaven-
worth on the street one day and recog-
milton was mutual. said to him, don't
give me away. He replied that he
wasn't hunting for me, and that 1 need
have no fear"
Right here, The Times desires to re-
mark that in last February an item was
published to the same effect as the above, |
and one of the tin horn detectives Of
this city was very loud as to his knowl- |
edge Of the whereabouts of Pusey, being,
as he usually is, about fifteen hundred
miles short.
"Did you have any other experiences"
"Well, l should say. One day 1 was
walking on St. Charles street and who
should I meet, face to face, but Fred
Click and Jim crow detective from
Topeka by the name of Parkhurst.
even hit Clicks arm, but the two sharps |
passed on, taking no notice of me, and
was the one they were after"
"Were you kept posted as to what was
going on here?"
Yes, went to the public library ev-
cry evening and read the Times"
"How long did you remain on the ex-
position grounds"
81 was there until there was question |
about the laboring men getting their |
Then l thought of a scheme
and started for Memphis. 1t did not
pan out and went to Cincinnati, arriv-
Ing there in April and have been hard
at work there ever since"
At this juncture large crowd of Pu-
sey's old associates walked into the jail,
and after he had greeted all of them
said: "Boys, I don't want to offend you,
but hope you have not come from mere
curiosity's sake. hope have some
friends here yet, and that I can prove
I am not 80 black as painted"
The crowd responded that they were /
and wanted to see Jim safely |
out of the scrape.
He avoided saying anything about the
Devore woman, but asked Sheriff Keller
to telephone the penitentiary and try to
if his trunk was still there, and !
if it was, to have it sent to him, as there
were some personal effects in it that he
desired to send to Chicago. About this
time the visitors became so numerous
that it was impossible to longer continue
the conversation from the frequent inter-
ruptions, and 80 the interview ended.
HE Is BOUND OVER.
Shortly after the close of the inter-