The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-05
WEARY How'd know dey was fireworks
in dat bIoOmin' box-car!'

Allowing Cox to gain his position,
Henry advanced, but retreated as soon
as Anderson came out, which ne was not
slow In doing. AnderSOn'S dash quickly
brought him under COXS tire. The gueT-
rlll& leader wheeled swiftly TO me rlShC
70 meet the new danger. Seeing Cox, he
dashed straight at him, with leveled re-
Volver. Cox awaited his coming, and
when he saw Anderson preparing to fire.
sent a pistol ball throueh his heart. An
dersOns horse turned. but ais DOdy
plunged forward. falling so close to Cox
that the latter caugh, the revolver out
OF his hand as ne lell- The death OF
their leader dismayed the gusrrillds, and
as Henry advanced to the attack, they
Oroke ana lied
For ridGing the country of this fiend
in human form Colonel Cox was present
ed with AndersOn's horse and revOlvars.
and by the citizens of St. Joseph With a
handsome sword When the battle was
over. Cox learned that his men were kill
ing the wounded gUerTillas. This pro-
cedure ne soon put stop to, but not I'M
til all but one had been sent to his long
home This man recovered. and after
wards showed many marks of gratitude
to Cox
Bin Anderson had brother named jim.
who was fully as brutal. cruel and blood
thirty = himself. Jim swore vengeance
upon al who had been engaged in the
death of his brother. Several times he,
or d confederate, made an attempt IpOn
the life CT Cox, but the man whose life
/ Cox had saved proved true. ana never
/ failed to give him due warning.
A year or more after the war Jim An
4 deTson wrote Cox a letter, inclosing SO
| asking that his brothers revOlveTs be
/ sent 10 him He closed the letter with
| a threat that he would come and take
/ them by force if his request was not
compiled with. The threat fingered Col
ouei Cox, and. handing the money back
| 70 the man who had brought the letter
| said. Tell jim Anderson thai if nc
1 wants his brothers pistols to come him-
! self and take them"
On Dec. :. 1859, during a fog that was
/ almost fmpenetrable, two men entered
the bank of aRuatin- One of theT1 o.
/ fered the cashier. Captain Sheets, a 81
/ bin and asked him 10 change it. As
/ Sheets stepped to the safe to get the
/ change one of the rUffians drew a re-
I vClyer and shot him dead. There was but
/ one other man in the bank besides the
/ bandits and the cashier, and he effected
/ his escape. though fired upon twice The
( robbers secured Sll6. and. gaining ihsiI
/ horses, escaped, This crime has always
/ been attributed to- Frank and Jesse
/ James. but Colonel Cox is of the firn
] opinion that il was Jesse James and jim
! Anderson and that when they murderel
/ Sheets they believed they were KillinE
/ him cox Sheets and Cox strikingly re.
/ semDled each other and Cox often acfe5
] as cashier when Sheets was absent Re
] James and Anderson were much together
! II was they who lured Ike Flannery to !
lonely place near Glasgow. NO, murdered
carried in his belt.
9 g q
| Poor Flannery was a nephew of GcOrgt
! Shepherd, wisO had been one of the bold
/ est of QUantres S famous band of bush.
/ whackers. II was a long time befOre
I Shepherd learned positively waO had
/ slain his kinsman. Finally he did FIND
| out, and, locating Anderson in Sherman
/ Tex followed him Meeting him at 4
/ hotel where they drank together. he in
/ vited MIN to take a walk Midnigh
/ found them alone under the shadow o
the court house. Drawing a long, keeI
! knife, Shepherd suddenly confronted hi
/ victim and said
You and Jesse James murdered Ike
know it. I've got the proof. What
/ ever you've got to say. say il quick, 10
1 you'll never leave this place alive
( Anderson saw that resistance would b.
/ useless. Shepherd would kill him befor
he could put up his hand. He also knew
I how futile would be any pleas for mercy
He admitted the murder, and Shepher,
sprang upon him like a tiger, 1rew hi
knife across his throat, laying Z Opel
from ear to ear He escaped in the dark
ness.
After the war there were numerou
settings up Of old scores, and many goo
men We're sacrificed to the vengeance O
some Hend, the cause and the dOer re
naming unSOlVed mysteries. In all like
/ iihOOd Captain Hemrys assassin wa
some scOundrel- whose enmity he had In
CURED during the bloody episode Of wa
in Missouri. "a YES Z. PAYNE