Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-03-04

pers were taxing their readers severely
with their tirelesa efforts To preserve p
@ strained interest in the career of the
great highwayman." said a prontncnt
citizen of northwest Missouri to . st.
Louis Globe reporter the
other day. "a certain little post-orbit
incident has never found its way into
the press, however, and the reason, no
doubt, is that it has been kept an invio-
late secret among the few who were
given an opportunity to know about it,
for fear of bringing trouble on those
who were responsible fcrit The facts
are simply these: While Mrs. Samuels,
the mother of Jesse james, was watch
ing like lynx every incident connect
ed with the arrangements for convey
ing the dead desperate from st, Joseph
the day after his death to her farm
near Kearney, where he was to be bur-
led, a number of epterprising physi-
Clans quietly removed his brain and put
it in jar of alcohol, in which condition
it is now exhibited. labeled or unla-
beled, at one of the st. Joseph medical
colleges. .....
LAS soon as I heard of the shooting of
Jesse James, continued the narrator,
Il boarded a train and went to st.
Joseph. The excitement was some
thing remarkable. The town was full
Of witnesses, officers and idIers from
Kansas City, Omaha and from towns
two hundred and three hundred miles
away, all bent on seeing the great
niShwayman and the house in which he
WAS shot. One Of the first persons on
hand was Mrs. Samuels, Jesse's mother.
ell, -.
the boys inherited much of their
aTgreSsiveness. She is a general in
Potticoats. Nothing escapes her and
she is everywhere at the same time
The sheriff from Kansas City, think
his name was Timbcrlalse-was to her
special object of aversion, and it wa.
probably due to this antipathy, which
TO a certain extent compelled her to rely
with more confidence upon the st.
Joseph authorities, that the Doctor
owed their golden opportunity to per.
form the operation Eiut sent tie high
wayman braiuless to his grave.
Kansas City was green with envy that
81. Joseph should have obtained the
nubOriety of Jesse james fatal taking
OF, and TimOerlake was anxious to
save as much Tor his town Us he could
by giving orders to have the body sent
there for Identification. so as to make
business f"r the Kansas City hotels and
draw crowds Of curious people from St.
Joseph. Mrs Samuels did not quite
sec it III that light, nor did she com
prchc'-d Undertakes motive. To her
hls""bitrary orders appeared in, the light
OF Il malignant persecution of her son
Zen after death, and she SGT herself to
watch and thwart him at every turn.
The st. Joseph authorities were just as
anxious to prOlong the attending scenes
:" their full capacity of profit In their
own town, and for, this reason naturally
acted in complete accord and sympathy
with the anguished old lady. While she
VAS watching the movements of the
Kansas City crowd to guard against sur
priscS the chief of police of ST.. Joseph
had her permission to prepare the body
for removal. One thing, however, that
the old lady was particularly set on
was that no post-nOrtem examination
hliod!d be made. and this the police au-
tanitics promised i'll good faith, Just
how those DOCTORS managed it is more
.nan can say, but there in u jur on a
shelf, in glass office case, wus the
bandits BRAIN the spot where the bull
lIt had entered being easily distinguish
able by the sufGusion of blood.
The doctor who pointed it out to- me
was u personal friend" the. gentleman
vent on, and he laughed slyly when
asked him how he had accomplished it.
lc invited me to- go with him where
csse lay dead in his coffin, and as [
'oked 1T his face endeavored to dis.
'vcr the marks of the scppel, but III
lii. Wien we were out of the room.
p } asked him how the brain was re-
owed without leaving Il truce, OF the
'itc, and he then told NC that the
>.'"lp had been cut ncEoss tho back part
O.! The head and drawn forward over
t-'' brow, leaving the skull exposed q
t!' action of the saw. The top of the
>hnll was carefully sawed and the
brain was removed. The scalp was