The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-09-29
JESSE JAMES ALIVE!
AID Seen In Cleveland Last
Week.
Frank James Also In The
City
The Noted Murderers, Highway
men and Outlaws Seen And
Recognized by Two Old
MissUurians.
Clevelsud Ohio Sun.


e Will wonders never cease? Citizer
e of Cleveland will be surprised TO lear
n that they have very recently enre
Z tanned a notorious character unawarei
very much uDawares indeed in view {
the fact that the person in questio
a has been considered dead and CON
o fortably buried for some three year
past. This stranger within our gate
was none other than
COL. JESSE JAMES
the noted Missouri bandit, who wa
supposed to have been killed by Boz
Ford of Ray county, Missouri, Apri
2nd, 1882 and a few days later wa
buried in the doCr yard of his mother
farm near Kearney.
One morning last week Sun re
porter encountered Two old triend
from Missouri whom he had not seer
before for some years. As the Tepor
ter came up they were discussing q
mysterious vision which one of them,
whom we will style The major, had
seen.
81 was just telling the colonel,
said he, "that saw NO less a person
age than Jesse James few minutes
ago. You may laugh if You please,
but knew Jesse back in war days,
and / knew him too well to ever for
get him. / know II has been the
general belief that Jesse was killed
three years ago, but I have always
had nav doubts of il. In she first
place know the Fords WE'LL and L
don't believe that either Bob, Charlie
or Cap Ford would ever have con-
scented to have any connection with
eitrer the
ARREST ca KILLING eE JBssB.
He had been too good a friend Of
theirs for years back. 1 know Mrs.
Bolton, their sister, would never have
consented to the arrangement, and l
am dead sure it Was put UP job all
around to hoOdwink the officers and
secure the reward. When [. heard of
Charlie Ford's committing suicide my
belief in this theory was strengthened.
Undo ubtedly the man who was
killed was ala innocent victim to their
helllsh plot. I. believe that the
whole thing Sc. weighed on Charles
mind remOrss at.kiliing an inoHensive
party, heightened by dissipated habits
which he afterward acquired, and
fear of the consequences to himself
should their conspiracy be discovered,
that it drove him to take his own life.
BY CAD, sir do you suppose that.
Bob Ford would have lived this long
if it really was Jesse who uss killed 2
Not by 8 d--n sight. Ill just
give it solid that if it had been Jesse
they never would have had trial. L
know it to be fact that Frank was
in ST. Joe
TIE NIGHT cE THE KEELING.
and saw the body. He had plenty of
friends with him, and if it had really
been his brother who was than lying
there he would have blown. the Jail
from its foundations, if necessary, to
get at the Ford boys. Them, too,
Mrs. Samuels did not express any
surprise when she received the new;
she even declared that she had warned
Jesse against the Ford boys. Now
what earthly reason could she have
had for such a course as, that? She
knew that the entire Ford family was
deeply attached to Jesse, and had
protected his interests for years"
"Tne Major and | are going down
here to catch a glimpse of his mys-
terious man." said the Colonel.
"Will YOU join u.s."
The reporter gladly attached him.
self TO the expedition, and in a few
minutes the major pointed out his
man, sitting
IN A NEIGHBoRING BILLIARD ROOM,
where be was having his boots black
ed by a street Arab. Tall, finely
formed, wearing a suit of dark clothes
and a Derby hat, he wore the general
appearance Of respectable country
merchant. His face was adorned
with a thin brown beard cropped
short, which barely yelled the heavy
set jaws and firm set mouth. His
ewes were deep set, and Of that pecu-
liar piercing Kind which seem to take
in everything which is going on
around him. His nose was rather
prominent, and slightly crooked, as
thou Oh it had been broken or injured
by blow. Across his knees lay an
overcoat, and apparently noticing
the attention he was receiving from
the trio, he took from one of the
pockets a paper which he apparently
began to read. The repOrte: noticed
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