The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-12
OCCUPATION Of
RETIRED OUTLAW
Jim Cummings Earns a Living BY
Breaking Horses in Missouri.

H1aG1NsvnL1, mo-, Oct. 1o.-Jim
Cummings, the only member OF tue Jesse
James band Of outlaws who has not
been killed, captured tried or pardoned.
although he has surrendered four times.
IS engaged In the comparatively paecetct
occupation Of breaking horses In MIS-
souri,.
Jim IL practically the last OF the famous
outlaw Quantrell troopers, and he ID
the only one OF the band who was neitii-.
er killed nor captured and who never
surrendered except when he was not want
ed
The fate Of tho others Is familiar. Jesse
James was shot by Bob Ford. new re-
cruit; John Younger was k!lledi BIZ
Caldwell, Charley Pitts ana Clsll Miller
were killed at North1eld, N1inn.; Cole,
Jim and Bob Younger were captured soon
afterward and sent to prison. where Bob
died and the other two remained fos a
quarter OF century.
Bill Ryan was captured and imprison-
ed, and frank James surrendered, was
tried and acquitted and Is now living In
St. Louis.
Jim Cummings IS undoubtedly the most
successful surrender known. He always
managed to como in whom no was not
wanted He was only once detained and
that was for a night
Tho ex-outlaw grew confidential the
other day and told many things about
himself never before made public.
Jiu:'s first ''come-in" was in 1865. after
Quantrell had been killed in Kentucky.
Fl 1--WE had had fight with some Fed
sra1 troops at the Missouri River near
Lexington he said. ''and Jesse was
wounded-shot In this left breast near
thu heart. We thought he would die.
but we brought him down yonder and
hid him in the brush for day or two.
II helped put him In the wagon and
we drove to Lexington. nine miles. and
surrendered. But. before we went in we
We're assured that the Federal authori-
ties would grant as our liberty, the same
as regular Confederetes. II we hadn't
had that assurance We never would have
gone in.
TINE TO SURRENDER
Ny next come-in was before Jesse
James was tried at GaIlatin in connec-
rioa With the Rock Island train robbery
at Winston. just though I'd better
surrender. was then living at Buffalo.
Wyoming, a new town that has grown
wonderfully since.
r was running shoe shop and maxi
Ing good money-s23 a week clear.
picked up cobbling so that could mend
shoes. and then hired other werkmen 10
help me. I liked that business but I
concluded that IL was about tna to sur
render
80 went to the house OF a r1r-, -rr..r7
I had known since boyhood. He was
from Clay county. Missouri I went in
at mis- back door and told him who T
was. Get out!' he said, you're drunkp
He wouldn't believe was Jim Cum
nings. finally convinced him, and he
advised mo to give myself up. did so.
and the Governor OF Wyoming was noti-
fed
He noffed ths Governor OF Missouri.
Tom Crittenden. and they held me to
await reuuisition papers so that they
could bring me back to Missouri. Tho
people who knew me there in business
said was crank. That's no more
Jim Cummings than am they would
say. Hes either a crank who irnasines
he Is Jim Cummings. or he is sharper
who is trying to work the State for a
free pass to Missouri. II they take him
to Missouri. he'll turn out to be some
body else
TT was really hard matter for me
20 get them to believe was Cummings.
Even the officers at first didn't want to
take charge of me. was ready to come
back with them, ard had sold my busi-
ness for $780, getting 81 pair OF boots