The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-06-27

prisoner to Independence after this r,
markable fashion--the prisoner havin
both guns-and il there was any protec
ion to be offered Farr would be the pre-
tected.
"The train they boarded was crowde,
with excursionists, and Farr, who was
pronounced humorist, said finally ate
much thought:
WANTED TO SEE A TRAIN ROBBED.
"'Mr. James, don't want to let yor
think for moment that you know any
thing about such matters, but I've never
seen train held up and am simply
dying to witness the operation, especially
If can do so from the standpoint of a
disinterested spectator. You've got the
guns; now suppose you try it, just for the
sake of little excitement
"James retorted!-'Farr its more than
evident that you don't understand these
matters. These people have been down
to st. Louis, and you ought to know that
they haven't got dollar in the crowd.
A man couldn't make enough money off
this train to pay the interest on a mort
gage on yaller dog
"When the party reached Independ-
ence there was big crowd to meet them
including Frank James wife and moth
er. 1t had been understood between the
Governor and Frank that friend of
Frank should be ready promptly to offer
bail. The friend was there, and after
a short parley he asked Marshal Murphy
to whom he had been turned over, what
was the amount of the bail.
"'Oh, there's no bail in this case,' re-
marked Murphy, coolly; this is murd-
er case. This man is indicted for the
murder of Billy Westfall, the conductor
of the train that was stopped in Blue
Cut
'Westiall was the man who led the
Pinkertons to the James house the night
that his tiger of mother had her right
arm blown Off with a hand grenade.
Farr overheard Murphy and saw in a
minute that there was likely to be trou-
BILE, especially as Frank had those two
Colts He tried to restrain Murphy and
tell him the situation. But Murphy re-
Piled
" Il don't care il he's got an armory.
He's going to stay right here and he
will never get out as long as l am Mar
shall. He may get me, but my brother
John is a good shot, too, and l think be-
tween us we will have the gentleman
when the row is over
"James seemed in a second like anoth-
er man. He gripped his guns and look
ed as though about to make a break for
the outside. His mother jumped up ex-
citedly and cried: Shoot your way out,
Frank; shoot your way out; there amt
no marshal can lock up my boy Frank ?
Mother replied Frank, as he hest
tated, Il have not found your advice
always for the best; there's somebody
else interested here; now what has she
got to say?' turning to his wife. He
bent oyer and told her that he had two
guns with him, and added, I've been in
tighter pinches than this, and / think /
am just few too many for that bluff
over there, pointing to Murphy. The
wife sat down on the proposition, and
turning to Murphy, Frank handed over
the two revolvers, and then fishing down
in his pockets, produced to more that he
had had on him all the time. In a mo-
ment more Marshal Murphy had placed
behind the bars the last OF the James
gang.
LIDDLE DIED IN NEW JERSEY.
"Such is the authentic story of the
break up of this famous band. Dick
Liddle, who started it all, came East and
ran horses over here in Passaic and
afterward died there. Bob Ford was
killed about two years ago in the fight at
Creole, Charlie Ford committed suicide,
shortly after the killing of Jesse James,
by blowing his brains out. He had gone
mad through fear of vengeance. Char
ley Dietch, who had planned the capture,
shot himself in Kansas City because he
was short in his accounts Jesse James
widow and little boy live in Kansas City,
where the youngster is growing up in a
very decent way. After series Of trials
and disagreements and short imprison-
ment Frnak James was set free and lived
for long time in Dallas, Texas, where
he was clerk in a shoe store. Mrs.
the mother OF the James boys,
a veritable tiger in petticoats, was at last
accounts living quietly in Northern Mis-
souri,.
at is a strange thing to say, but it is
nevertheless true, that il Governor Crit
tenden had never made his fight against
the James gang and thus incurred the
he did he would now easily be
United States Senator and one Of the
most prominent Democrats Of the West"
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