The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-05-05


pick a row with Frank he quarreled
with Dick Liddell and drew his re-
volver. He would have killed Dick
but / stepped between the two and
prevented it. Jesse told me that day
that he believed his brother, Frank
wanted him to be killed. Jesse said
that if he was dead and out of the
way that Frank would then surrend-
er and ask pardon nthe plea that
Jesse was the real bad man of the
| two and did most of the robbing and
| killing. And sure enough not long
after Jesse was killed Frank did sur
render and did contend that Jessie
and | were responsible for most of
the robberies.
"Talk about Frank James being a
hero. If Frank had been the right
kind of a man, he would have aveng-
ed the death of his brother. He
would never have rested until he had
killed Bob and Charley Ford. If
they had killed Frank, you bet your
life Jesse would have killed them
both. But Frank was intent only on
saving his own life.
"Now, Pm going to tell the inside
facts in my book. I am going to tell
the truth about the part Jesse and
Frank took in Mortified bank rob-
berry in Minnesota.
Frank and Jesse James, Cole and
Jim and Bob Younger, Cecil Miller
Charley Pitts and Bill Caldwell.
Frank always denied that he was in
that raid and insinuated that l was
in it. But I know who was there.
They all met in Kansas City and
planned the raid; they went over to
the home of ME- Samuel's, the
mother ofthe James boys nj Clay
county. From there they rode to
Mortified. Miller, Pitts and Cald-
well were killed outright in the street
fight in front of the bank. The 9TH
ers got away and hid in the timber
in a creek bottom. They pretended
to be fishermen. Cole Younger for
aged out and got couple of horses ;
but his brother, Bob. was wounded
and couldn't ride, and Cole wouldn't
| leave him. Jesse wanted to kill Bob
and leave him, as he would hinder
their escape. Jesse and Cole quar-
relied and Jesse and Frank took the
horses and rode off. They barely did
get away across a bridge as the posse
came up which captured the Young.
erS.
Frank and Jesse had a hard time
getting away. Once they rode for
miles in the covered wagon of sew
ing machine man.
They returned home by round
about way that took them out IN
Arizona and New Mexico. They
nearly starved and ate raw rabbit
and roots. They finally got back to
Clay county and from there they got
away to Kentucky. Tyler Burns
drove Frank James wife in a cover
ed wagon and Frank rode on horse
back.
When they came to a town, Burns
would drive through and Frank
would ride around it.
Jesse James and wife went in the
same way, and the wagon being
driven by Johnnie Samuels. After
they got down in southern Missouri
the two parties joined company, but
rel and separated.
AFTER Jesse James and | had been
| together for years, facing death to-
gether, we fell out, and I tried to
kill him and he tried to kill me- Our
Qudrfel was over inc I1urOef Oh my
friend, Ed. Miller. Miller was with
Jesse James in the Glendale train
robbery in Jackson county in 1879.
At that time Frank James was liv-
ing under the name of Ben Woodson
on the Pike road three miles from
Nashville, Tenn.
Jesse James wife was boarding
in Nashville. Jesse got a lot of
money in the Glensdale robbery and
Jesse and Ed. Miller bought a race
horse, "Jim Malone" and took him
around to different race meets, but
went broke on him. Meantime Tuck
er Basham had been arrested for the
Glensdale robbery, had turned states
evidence and told that |, Jesse, Ed.
Miller, Bill Ryan and Dick Liddell
were in that robbery Of course he
lied about me. l was not in it.
Neither was Frank James.
After Jesse and Ed Miller went
broke on their race horse, they