El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-10-17
LOVES CONFESSION
lmpIicatinu Jesse James, Jr.

duplicating Jesse James, Jr.
A Kansa, City dispatch Oct. 13 says:
The arrest of Jesse James Jr. for COM
plicity in the Missouri Pacific train
robbery at Leeds continues to be the
sensation of the hour. The police late
last night made publ c the confession
of W. W. Lowe. one Of the robbers,
who was formerly Santa Fe switch
man. The confession is as follows:
II planned this robbery myself, hav-
ing gained information that on cer-
tain date the Missouri Pacific would
carry q large sum OF money out OF
Kansas City. I went over the ground
myself several times and marked care
fully the exact spot where the engine
of the eastbound Missouri Pacific train
stopped for the Belt line crossing 1t
Leeds. 1 marked the exact tie, 1t be-
ing tweuty-pine ties from a certain tel
egraph pole. On two occasions took
Jesse James out " ith me and we came
back on freight trains.
''Jesse arranged for one of the bug
gies at Sells baru, friend hiring 1t
for him and leaving It at point just
south of Jesse's house, where there ts
small clump of timber. Polk obtained
the other buggy at livery stable,
near his house, 1712 Harrison street.
AT O'Clock on the day of the rob
berry we got information that the big
swsg of money would be sert out that
night. Jesse and I went out on . car
together and got off near Goodloe &
McMurry's livery stable at Thirty
third street and Troost avenue. Jesse
led me to the buggy, q one-sea'ed AZ
fair with one horse attached to 1t, and
then went away. l drove around the
block several times and finally met
Jesse again. He had sack with him
this time which contained dynamite
A. I'D II q
waited for Ryan. Polk, Evans, the big
fellow, and Old man Stone. The latter
went along to hold the horses. Polk
hanGled the dynamite. He did not
say, and do not know where he OBJ
tanned it. 1 do kno~ he obtained It
somewhere. James, Ryan and myself
occupied the oue-seated buggy, driving
south on Troost avenue TO- Thtrty-hfth
street. We led and the others followed.
"When we reached the little station
james smashed the operators tele-
graph instruments while Ryan covered
him with q revolver. We took him
along.
"Wheu the train came to . standstill
James was the first man In the express
car. Ryan covere the messenger and
Polk attended to the dynamite. The
first attempt TO explode the dynamite
failed and 1t was come time before
Polk again was able to complete his
preparations and explode the dyna-
mite Evans and 1 climbed into the
engine and covered the engineer and
dre man.
"After the explosion Evans ran out
to look for the money. He found . big
package, which he supposed was money
and placed it in the sack James bad
brought along. l do not know how
much money Evans picked up, but we
1ad Information that there was SlSO.OOO
in the safe. What Evans got he kept,
for we have not seen him since. Be-
tween US we foun nd S29. which We have
not yet divided
1--WE were all pretty much excited
after the explosion, but managed to
gather our CLOTH iug. weapons and
masks together and burn them in the
irebox of the engine.
1--WE came back to town the same
way we went to the scene OF the rob-
berry. At Thirty-third street and
TrOost avenue we turned Selfs borse
loose and started it toward the stable.
What became OF the horse and buggy
hired by Polk l do not know. Ryan
and 1 walked to Twenty-eighth and
Holmes streets, where we took Q car
for town. We left the car at Four
teenth and Grand avenue, walked to
Main street, where We bad drink ana
then separated. w. w. LOWE"
Young James, who was released On
81, 500 bail yesterday sfterr CON, is do
ing busine SIS at his cigar stand In the
court house building today.