Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1897-11-18
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"Brother Hunt looked dawn
minute or two at the floor and the,
said : Well, Sister Ssmuels. tina
would try the faith Of saint.s ["
True stsry Of the sons-Thrsvsng.
TINS mother Of bandits put her
white handkerchief to her wrink led
mouth and there was sonesAing
like tearsin hereyes. Young Jesse,
watching his grandmother's face.
said I:
"Tell us about that bomb-thtow-
ing again, grsndma." I"
J .:Well. 60 in and fetch IL ant,
my son you'll find il on the foor
there by the bureau"
The young man brought ID cut.
It was the half Of an iron borib-
shell that had been about eight
inches in diameter. It's wrought
iron shell was one-fourth Of an inch
thick. The edges we're torn aad
jagged by the force Of the expo
sion that had burst it asunder.
While the grandson turned it
around and around in his hands
bis grandmother told this story If
it. pointing often with the stump
of her right arm at the missile
"Wbat terrible lies have been
told and written about me and
mine. | don't suppose there wss
ever family so lied about "a mine
has been. You've read, | dare say,
that the bomb thrown through the
window into my house bv Pinker-
ton detectives was only yarn FIRE
ball that had little powder in IT,.
That's the thing right there, and
you can see for yourself how harm.
less it was.
Fired 70 Conceal Murder.
"lt was long after the war, willis
nv boys were hunted everywher9
and detectives were coming here ev.
cry little while. One dark mid.
night while only me and the does
tor and my colored woman and my 6.
vesr-old son Archie were here alone,
that bomb came crashing through
the kitchen window It was throwh
-siih such force that il smashed the
whole sash out and fell on the fioor.
We ran into the kitchen and there
it lay blazing IL was wrapped
around with cloth soaked in Oh.
We rolled il into the fireplace 10
keep it from setting the house on
fire. Then it exploded. A piece
of the shell struck little Archie in
the breast, going nearly through
him and killing him almost ia
s.antly. Another piece tore nav
right arm off between the wrist and
elbow. We rushed on. doors bat
could see nobody in the darkness.
We fould the house had been set
afire and blazing fiercely, but we
put it out. Those fiends had IN
tended to kill us all with the bomb
and then burn us up. There was
a light snow on the ground and she
next morning we tracked the cew-
ardly hounds and it appeared there
were eight Of them. We fouEd a
revolver one them had dropped, snd
it was stamped with the Pinketton
name"
"Were Jessie and Frank at bone
that night 90
What :" almost screamed Mrs.
Samuels, as she straighteneds up
vigorously in her chair. "My brave
boys at home then : Ab, is was
veil for those eight cowarda that
they were not at home. Igthsy
had been there would heve been
eight less Pinkerton deteciifes IN
the world. / know the honngs had
it published that the Jam9 boys
we're at home and escaped hfough
an upstairs window. Peoplt who
believed that did not know mg boys,
and how they loved their atother.
Not one of that eight wouh u have
escaped alive il either OF 4y boys
had been home, not one. iEither
Jesse or Frank would have tackled
those eight cure single hanged and
wiped them of the face Of The earth,
and they would have deserted IL
Arshis's rrsrhstis asmtsk.
"But that's q fair sample Of lies
told about the James boys Look
at the stuff they print frank al
ways tells me not to resd any OF
the stories written about shem; he
never reads q line Of theia; bat I
read them all. and they asse awful.
Why, | read only little FhiIe ago