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19 - Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James by Joseph. A. Dacus · Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James

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  Speaker 1: Section nineteen, comprising chapters fifty, fifty one and fifty two
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  Speaker 1: of Life and Adventures of Frank and Jesse James by J. A. Dakis.
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  Speaker 1: This LibriVox recording is in the public domain recording by P. J. Lando,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter fifty Pursuit of the Glendale Robbers. Shepherd goes south
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  Speaker 1: with the gang. He plans an ambuscade. Failure of his plan,
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  Speaker 1: the robbers suspicious of Shepherd the fight in the forest.
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  Speaker 1: During the days succeeding the robbery, the Marshal had learned
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  Speaker 1: sufficient to satisfy him that the robbers had gone into
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  Speaker 1: retreat in Clay County, and becoming aware of the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Sheppard was working in Kansas City, the officer sought
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  Speaker 1: him out and engaged him as a detective to assist
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  Speaker 1: him in the pursuit. Shephard consented, and it was a
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  Speaker 1: arranged that he should in some way place himself in
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  Speaker 1: communication with the gang. The unfriendly relations existing between Shepherd
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  Speaker 1: and the Jameses presented a serious difficulty. The plan adopted
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  Speaker 1: to overcome this was shrewdly devised. A story was told
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  Speaker 1: and industriously circulated that it was a matter of little
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  Speaker 1: doubt that George w Shepherd was engaged in the robbery,
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  Speaker 1: and that in consequence he had fled to parts unknown.
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  Speaker 1: This was not all. Marshall Liggett had printed on a
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  Speaker 1: slip of paper already printed on one side, an item
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  Speaker 1: to the effect that Sheppard was believed to be implicated
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  Speaker 1: in the robbery. It was reported to have been clipped
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  Speaker 1: from one of the Kansas City papers. What follows in
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  Speaker 1: relation to this enterprise is based upon the statements of Shepherd.
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  Speaker 1: He relates that he went to Clay County, visited the
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  Speaker 1: residence of Missus Samuels, saw that lady told her a
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  Speaker 1: story about his persecution by the detectives about the Glendale business,
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  Speaker 1: showed her the pseudo newspaper clipping, and expressed a desire
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  Speaker 1: to become a member of the gang. That he was blindfolded,
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  Speaker 1: led a long way, and when relieved of his eye bandages,
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  Speaker 1: he found himself in the midst of the gang, confronted
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  Speaker 1: by Jesse James. That his reception was anything but pleasant,
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  Speaker 1: but that finally he was able to convince them that he,
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  Speaker 1: like themselves, was hunted, that he became cognizant of all
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  Speaker 1: their plans, and then sought and obtained permission to go
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  Speaker 1: into Kansas City. After having taken a terrible oath to
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  Speaker 1: reveal nothing and act true in every respect with the band,
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  Speaker 1: he came into Kansas City related all that he had
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  Speaker 1: seen and heard to the Marshal, was furnished of fleet,
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  Speaker 1: horse pistols and blankets, and returned to the gang. Liggott
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  Speaker 1: was informed by Shepherd that they would leave Clay County
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  Speaker 1: at a certain time, that they would cross near Sibley
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  Speaker 1: at a certain other time, and would be at a
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  Speaker 1: certain place at a certain hour where he could see
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  Speaker 1: them if he so desired. Marshall Liggott, acting upon this information,
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  Speaker 1: proceeded to the point desert, and at the hour named
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  Speaker 1: he had the satisfaction of seeing a party of armed
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  Speaker 1: men cross at the previously announced place, and among them
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  Speaker 1: recognized his chosen detective Shepherd. The robbers passed on southward
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  Speaker 1: Rogues Island is in the River Mare des Scene, not
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  Speaker 1: far from Fort Scott. Here the band camped one night.
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  Speaker 1: Their plan was to rob the bank of Street and
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  Speaker 1: mac Arthur at Short Creek, Kansas. This was to be
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  Speaker 1: effected on Sunday evening, November second, at three o'clock, when
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  Speaker 1: Shepard arrived in the camp on Shoal Creek, about nine
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  Speaker 1: miles southeast of Short Creek. He exhibited his pseudo news
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  Speaker 1: item to Jesse James, and in other ways succeeded in
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  Speaker 1: convincing him that he was also an outlaw, and Sheppard
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  Speaker 1: was thenceforward treated as quote a man and a brother unquote.
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  Speaker 1: He states that the party consisted of Jesse James, Jim Cummings,
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  Speaker 1: Ed Miller, and Sam Kaufman. It has been ascertained that
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  Speaker 1: the person who was supposed to be Sam Kaufman was
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  Speaker 1: one Blackamore. The plan to rob the bank was known
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  Speaker 1: to the authorities, and contrary to the pre arranged measures
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  Speaker 1: for the capture of the outlaws, the guard of armed
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  Speaker 1: men who were to have been waiting at the hour
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  Speaker 1: appointed for the raid, went on duty early in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Jesse James that morning went from the Shoal Creek camp
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  Speaker 1: to Short Creek and was in the town when the
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  Speaker 1: guardsmen assumed their places, and he noted everything. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: this mistake on the part of those engaged in the
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  Speaker 1: efforts to capture them caused the change in the plans
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  Speaker 1: of the gang. Shephard, well armed and mounted, rode to
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  Speaker 1: the camp in the afternoon, after having been informed by
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  Speaker 1: Jesse James of the situation at Short Creek in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: When they met, he found the brigands much alarmed preparing
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  Speaker 1: to break camp. Mike and Tom Cleary, two of Shepherd's assistance,
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  Speaker 1: were to form an ambuscade, but this part of the
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  Speaker 1: arrangement failed because of the sudden movement of the band.
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  Speaker 1: Shepherd was to proceed to camp, provoke a quarrel with Jesse,
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  Speaker 1: shoot him, and flee, when, of course, the other members
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  Speaker 1: of the gang would follow, but the camp was broken
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  Speaker 1: up too soon the ambushers could not reach their place
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  Speaker 1: in time. Shepherd relates that they were riding scattered out
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  Speaker 1: in the woods, that he was riding near and a
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  Speaker 1: little in the rear of Jesse James, and that he
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  Speaker 1: suddenly drew a pistol called out, damn you, Jesse James,
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  Speaker 1: thirteen years ago, you killed my cousin, Frank Shepherd. At
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  Speaker 1: the first word, Jesse wheeled his horse and sought his pistol.
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  Speaker 1: He was too late. Shepherd fired the ball, taking effect
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  Speaker 1: just behind the left ear, and Jesse James fell heavily
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  Speaker 1: to the ground. After firing, Shepherd says no one moved
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  Speaker 1: for a few seconds, when he, suddenly realizing his position,
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  Speaker 1: wheeled his horse around, and, driving his spurs deep into
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  Speaker 1: the animal's flanks, dashed away. At the same time, Cummings
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  Speaker 1: rode furiously toward him, while Miller went to the assistance
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  Speaker 1: of the fallen chief. The pursuit of Cummings was persistent
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  Speaker 1: and rapid. Blackamore soon fell behind in the chase, but
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  Speaker 1: Cummings gained on Shephard, until at last it became necessary
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  Speaker 1: for the latter to make a stand and fight it
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  Speaker 1: out there. As he wheeled his horse to carry out
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  Speaker 1: this resolution, a ball from Cummings's pistol took effect in
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  Speaker 1: the calf of Shepherd's left leg. The firing, which had
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  Speaker 1: been maintained during a chase of three miles, now became
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  Speaker 1: quick and furious, and the result for a time was doubtful.
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  Speaker 1: At last, Shepherd says, a ball took effect in Cummings's side,
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  Speaker 1: and he turned his horse and rode back through the
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  Speaker 1: woods by the way they came. Shephard rode into short
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  Speaker 1: Creek to have his wound attended to. The foregoing is
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  Speaker 1: Shepherd's account of his pursuit of the Glendale robbers and
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  Speaker 1: contest with Jesse James, but developments since do not sustain
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  Speaker 1: the statements. In many important particulars. The relation appears to
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  Speaker 1: be correct up to the time of the shooting, but
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  Speaker 1: it is now clear that he did not wound Jesse James.
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  Speaker 1: The truth is that Jesse James was at all times
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  Speaker 1: suspicious of Shepherd's motives, and from the time he joined
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  Speaker 1: them he was watched with a ceaseless vigilance. The outlaws
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  Speaker 1: had little confidence in his protestations, and his movements were
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  Speaker 1: carefully observed. They went into camp on Shoal Creek, Shepherd
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  Speaker 1: being with them. According to their custom, they arranged to
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  Speaker 1: remove to another camping place about three miles away. The
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  Speaker 1: next day. It was Saturday night, and Shephard obtained the
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  Speaker 1: consent of his ostensible confederates to go into Short Creek.
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  Speaker 1: One of the brigands, assuming a disguise, followed him for
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  Speaker 1: the purpose of watching his movements. This man discovered that
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  Speaker 1: Shepard was laying a train for the capture of the band.
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  Speaker 1: During Sunday morning, it appears Shepherd met Jesse James, who
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  Speaker 1: informed him that the game was up in Short Creek
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  Speaker 1: and that they had been given away. Shepard agreed in
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  Speaker 1: this view of the situation, and the two separated. Later
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  Speaker 1: in the day, Shepherd went to the camp where he
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  Speaker 1: had left them. It was deserted, but he found their
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  Speaker 1: trail and followed it to where the new camp was established.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that it was not the place which had
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  Speaker 1: been selected in Shepherd's presence ought to have warned him
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  Speaker 1: that his situation was one of extreme peril, but it
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  Speaker 1: appears that he did not consider this evidence that he
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  Speaker 1: was distrusted and approached the camp. The moment he appeared,
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  Speaker 1: Jim Cummings opened fire upon him, and, mounting his horse,
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  Speaker 1: gave chase. Both men were well mounted, but Cummings's horse
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  Speaker 1: was the superior of the two. Shepherd placing the reins
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  Speaker 1: of the bridle in his teeth and drawing two revolvers,
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  Speaker 1: the fight commenced. He received a bullet wound in the
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  Speaker 1: calf of his left leg, and in turn shot Cummings
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  Speaker 1: in the right side, which fractured the sixth rib and
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  Speaker 1: wounded the intercostal artery. Some fragments of clothing driven into
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  Speaker 1: the wound arrested the flow of blood from the artery.
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  Speaker 1: Else the probabilities are that the wound would have proved fatal,
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  Speaker 1: as it was the surgeon who was furnished the above facts,
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  Speaker 1: removed the foreign matter, took out some fragments of bone,
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  Speaker 1: put a ligature on the artery, and in a short
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  Speaker 1: time the wounded bandit went on his way. It is
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  Speaker 1: asserted as a fact that Jesse James was neither wounded
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  Speaker 1: nor killed, but rode away a picture of health and vitality.
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  Speaker 1: The peril of Shepherd was imminent had he not wounded,
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  Speaker 1: Cummings that desperado would soon have caught up with him,
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  Speaker 1: when the death of one or both of them would
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  Speaker 1: have been inevitable. The whole relation but confirms what has
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  Speaker 1: been reiterated in the pages of this volume, that the
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  Speaker 1: resources and shrewdness of Jesse James are truly wonderful, that
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  Speaker 1: in all respects he and his brother are men of
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  Speaker 1: extraordinary capacity, and that in courage, skill, adroitness, and vitality
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  Speaker 1: they are men strangely endowed. What they may yet accomplish
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  Speaker 1: is hidden in the unrevealed future, which, to our questioning,
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  Speaker 1: returns no answer. Chapter fifty one, Alan Parmer becomes a
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  Speaker 1: member of Quantrell's band takes part in the sack of Lawrence,
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  Speaker 1: with Quantrelle in Kentucky. Mary's Jesse James's sister accused of
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  Speaker 1: complicity with the Glendale Robbers. Alan Palmer is a Missourian.
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  Speaker 1: His boyhood days were passed principally in Jackson County. When
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  Speaker 1: the Late War broke over the country. Alan Parmer was
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  Speaker 1: a youth little fitted to enter the ranks with fighting men,
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  Speaker 1: yet he became a member of Quantrell's band. He first
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  Speaker 1: came into prominence among his comrades in August eighteen sixty
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  Speaker 1: three at the capture and sack of Lawrence Kansas. That day,
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  Speaker 1: Palmer was a member of the squad led by Bill Anderson,
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  Speaker 1: who murdered without compunction and destroyed without feeling. He escaped
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  Speaker 1: with the rest of the band. He was at independence
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  Speaker 1: at Lone Jack, at Camden at Weston, in their lairs
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  Speaker 1: among the snee Hills and along the waters of the Blues.
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  Speaker 1: He was one of the six men who remained with
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  Speaker 1: Todd at Judge Gray's house near Bone Hill, Jackson County,
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  Speaker 1: when Captain John Chestnut arrived in that neighborhood in September
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  Speaker 1: eighteen sixty four bearing a communication from General Price to
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  Speaker 1: the Gorillas, which at once caused a rally of the
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  Speaker 1: Old Partisans, he was selected by Lieutenant George W. Shephard
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  Speaker 1: as one of the picked men, ordered on a dangerous
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  Speaker 1: expedition to the north side of the Missouri. The Gorilla
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  Speaker 1: campaign there was short but bloody. The terrible massacre and
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  Speaker 1: route at Centralia was the crowning event, and Palmer performed
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  Speaker 1: the conspicuous part in that conflict. All through the operations
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  Speaker 1: of the Gorillas, he was one of the most daring
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  Speaker 1: in the band. He was one of the executioners of
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  Speaker 1: Bradley Bond, a militiaman of Clay County. He and Frank
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  Speaker 1: James captured the man and afterwards he was shot. When
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  Speaker 1: Missouri no longer offered a field for operations and Quantrell
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  Speaker 1: entered upon his last campaign in Kentucky, Alan Parmer was
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  Speaker 1: one of the old Gorillas who followed him. The federal
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  Speaker 1: garrison was compelled to surrender at Hustonville, Lincoln County, Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: Thenceforward Quantrell was known in his true character. In a
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  Speaker 1: fight in Jessamine County, George Roberson, and a member of
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  Speaker 1: Quantrell's command, was captured, taken to Louisville and confined in prison,
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  Speaker 1: but subsequently escaped. Afterward, he was captured again, taken to Lexington,
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  Speaker 1: transferred to Louisville once more, and there arraigned before a
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  Speaker 1: court martial, tried, convicted, and sentenced to be hanged on
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  Speaker 1: a charge of murdering the Federal major at Hustonville, who
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  Speaker 1: fell by the hand of Palmer. Roberson was afterward publicly
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  Speaker 1: executed at Louisville. Palmer took part in all the dreadful
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  Speaker 1: phrayse of Quantrelle's Little Band in Kentucky. When peace once
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  Speaker 1: more brooded over the land, he returned to Missouri and
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  Speaker 1: commenced a commission business in Saint Louis with J. W.
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  Speaker 1: Shawn for a partner, under the style of Shawn and Company.
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  Speaker 1: This was in eighteen sixty six. It does not appear
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  Speaker 1: that the firm was very successful. Palmer is said to
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  Speaker 1: have lost several thousand dollars in this venture. Later the
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  Speaker 1: business was closed out. Payne Jones and some others, among
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  Speaker 1: them Jim White, a friend of Palmer, were implicated in
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  Speaker 1: a bank robbery at Richmond, Missouri. Mayor Shaw was killed
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  Speaker 1: at that time. Suspicion attached to Palmer as being one
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  Speaker 1: of the robbers, and he was arrested, but on examination discharged.
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  Speaker 1: Then he led a sort of roving life for some years,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes in Missouri, then in Texas, sometimes in Colorado, then
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  Speaker 1: in the Indian Territory. Finally he came to regard Texas
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  Speaker 1: as his home. In eighteen seventy he returned to Jackson County,
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  Speaker 1: where his boyhood had been passed for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: His relations with the James family had been friendly, and
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  Speaker 1: when he came in to woo Miss Susan James, the
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  Speaker 1: sister of Frank and Jesse, she did not deny his suit,
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  Speaker 1: and they were married and removed to Arkansas the same year.
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  Speaker 1: He remained in that state during the autumn and winter,
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  Speaker 1: and in the spring of eighteen seventy one he removed
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  Speaker 1: with his family to Texas. For a time, his wife
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  Speaker 1: taught a school at Sherman. Subsequently, Palmer established a ranch
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  Speaker 1: near Henriette Clay County, Texas, about one hundred twenty miles
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  Speaker 1: west of Sherman. Clay County lies on the Red River,
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  Speaker 1: directly south of the Kiawa Indian Reservation. Here he had
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  Speaker 1: all the freedom he desired, and for some years he
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  Speaker 1: tended his herds and was prosperous. He frequently made trips
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  Speaker 1: to Kansas City, Saint Louis, and Chicago with droves of cattle.
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  Speaker 1: When the train robbery at Glendale took place, the authorities
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  Speaker 1: sought for clues to the robbers in every direction. Mister Grimes,
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  Speaker 1: the express messenger, who was knocked down by one of
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  Speaker 1: the robbers who wore no mask, was able to give
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  Speaker 1: a vivid and minute description of the features of his assailant,
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  Speaker 1: and that description suited the personnel of Parmer. Deputy Marshall
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  Speaker 1: whig Keshlear was dispatched to Texas by Marshall Liggett to
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  Speaker 1: affect Parmer's arrests. He proceeded to Sherman, where he met
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  Speaker 1: and conferred with mister Everhardt, sheriff of Grayson County. That
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  Speaker 1: officer readily consented to assist in the arrest of Parmer,
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  Speaker 1: and proceeded at once to his ranch near Henriette. The
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  Speaker 1: officers effected the arrest without difficulty on the second day
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  Speaker 1: of November eighteen seventy nine, under a requisition from Governor
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  Speaker 1: Phelps of Missouri. Parmer was taken by the officers to Sherman.
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  Speaker 1: He was followed by a number of his friends from
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  Speaker 1: Clay County. There, the prisoner attempted to regain his liberty
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  Speaker 1: by a writ of habeas corpus, but the judge before
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  Speaker 1: whom the writ was returned ruled out testimony and remanded
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  Speaker 1: the prisoner to the custody of the officers from Missouri,
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  Speaker 1: in obedience to the requisition of the governor of that state.
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  Speaker 1: Parmer took exceptions and appealed. Marshal Liggett, however, had sworn
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  Speaker 1: out a warrant for his arrest before a United States commissioner,
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  Speaker 1: charging him with interrupting the United States mail, but this
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  Speaker 1: was unnecessary for on hearing the case, the state authorities
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  Speaker 1: of Texas discharged the writ and remanded the prisoner again
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  Speaker 1: to the custody of the Missouri officers, who at once
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  Speaker 1: set out for Kansas City, where they arrived with their
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  Speaker 1: prisoner Sunday morning, November twenty third, and Palmer was promptly
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  Speaker 1: incarcerated in the Jackson County jail. He emphatically denied all
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  Speaker 1: complicity in the Glendale affair or any knowledge of the
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  Speaker 1: parties who accomplished the robbery, and after four weeks imprisonment,
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  Speaker 1: he was discharged by the Grand jury the authorities failing
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  Speaker 1: to connect him in any way with the Glendale affair.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter fifty two, Jesse James still a free rover, the
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  Speaker 1: sequel to the fight with Shephard. Jesse and his wife
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  Speaker 1: visit relatives and friends in Kentucky. An unsuccessful attempt to
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  Speaker 1: capture the outlaw. Still fate, regardless of a mortal's woe,
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  Speaker 1: may have reserved for him a cruel blow, a blow
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  Speaker 1: more dreaded than the passing breath of the grim specter
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  Speaker 1: men called gloomy death. It required no ordinary sagacity to
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  Speaker 1: escape the environments which his daring deeds had created for
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  Speaker 1: him after the robbery at Glendale. Had Jesse James been
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  Speaker 1: other than a man of extraordinary capacity in great emergencies,
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  Speaker 1: his career would have been brought to an inglorious close
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  Speaker 1: before the clock of time would have indicated the commencement
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  Speaker 1: of the new year eighteen eighty. But the destiny which
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  Speaker 1: seems to guide him once more manifested itself, and Jesse
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  Speaker 1: James the Bandit rode through difficulties and dangers and a
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  Speaker 1: way to repose and freedom on the far off plains
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  Speaker 1: of Texas. There were many persons who believed that the
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  Speaker 1: reported death of Jesse James was true, that the account
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  Speaker 1: of the bloody duel between George W. Shephard and Jim
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  Speaker 1: Cummings was confirmatory of the statement of the former that
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  Speaker 1: he had shot Jesse James. It is probable, after that
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  Speaker 1: fateful Sunday in the deep recesses of a southwest Missouri forest,
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  Speaker 1: and the terrible peril to which he was there subjected,
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  Speaker 1: that Shepard really believed he had shot Jesse. But be
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  Speaker 1: that as it may, there were many people who resolutely
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  Speaker 1: insisted upon it that Jesse James rode away unscathed. Time
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  Speaker 1: has disclosed the fact that they were correct. Several circumstances
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  Speaker 1: combine to show that Jesse went away from the vicinity
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  Speaker 1: of Short Creek after the coming Shepherd conflict in the
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  Speaker 1: enjoyment of perfect health. A few days after Christmas, the
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  Speaker 1: newspapers of Kansas City announced the arrival in that city
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  Speaker 1: of Missus Jesse James. From what point they did not say,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps because they did not know. Missus James visited relatives
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  Speaker 1: and friends in Kansas City for several days, and her
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  Speaker 1: conduct was not at all like that of a recent
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  Speaker 1: bereaved widow. After spending some days pleasantly in the city,
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  Speaker 1: she proceeded with missus doctor Samuels to the residence of
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  Speaker 1: that lady near Kearney, Clay County, which fact was duly
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  Speaker 1: gazetted in the Society Notes of the Saint Louis and
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City Journals. Missus Samuels herself, though professing to believe
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  Speaker 1: the reports concerning the death of her son, yet did
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  Speaker 1: not act as though the conviction had taken a very
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  Speaker 1: firm hold upon her mind. Missus Jesse James remained some
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  Speaker 1: days at the residence of her mother in law, and
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  Speaker 1: then suddenly she concluded to visit her relatives and friends
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  Speaker 1: in Logan and Nelson County's Kentucky. These movements of the
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  Speaker 1: supposed widow of the late dreaded leader of the Glendale
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  Speaker 1: Robbers does not appear to have attracted any great amount
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  Speaker 1: of attention from the officers of the law. Indeed, it
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  Speaker 1: appears Marshall Liggett had not yet abandoned the opinion entertained
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  Speaker 1: by him that George W. Shephard had shot and seriously,
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  Speaker 1: if not fatally, wounded the noted outlaw. One day after
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  Speaker 1: the middle of January eighteen eighty, a young man of
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  Speaker 1: respectability residing in Kansas City, who had been entrusted with
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  Speaker 1: a certain message to deliver at Russellville, Kentucky, called upon
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  Speaker 1: another young gentleman of his acquaintance and invited him to
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  Speaker 1: accompany the first mentioned young man to Kentucky. It was
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  Speaker 1: a mistake on the part of the message bearer, for
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  Speaker 1: the young man was no admirer of the methods of
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  Speaker 1: the chief of the Glendale Band, and after revolving the
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  Speaker 1: proposition in his mind, he came to the conclusion to
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  Speaker 1: acquaint Major Leggett with the facts in his possession. This
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  Speaker 1: he did. The Marshal urged him to accept the invitation
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  Speaker 1: and proceeded to Kentucky with his friend. It is intimated
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  Speaker 1: that he supplied the necessary funds to enable the young
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  Speaker 1: gentleman to make the journey. The two men started there.
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  Speaker 1: Lives in Kansas City, a gentleman who has known the
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  Speaker 1: James Boyce and who is not their enemy even now.
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  Speaker 1: This gentleman received an intimation of what was going on
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  Speaker 1: and learned definitely the aims of the Marshal. In half
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  Speaker 1: an hour, a message, it matters not what words were employed,
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  Speaker 1: they were significant, was sent to Louisville to a friend.
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  Speaker 1: That friend received it, understood it, and a message was
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  Speaker 1: at once sent to a person in Russellville. Meanwhile, the
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  Speaker 1: conscientious young man and his friend journeyed in the ordinary
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  Speaker 1: course of travel toward Russellville. Arrived there, the message bearer
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  Speaker 1: cut his companion of the journey, and the latter could
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  Speaker 1: learn nothing to report to the Marshal of Kansas City.
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  Speaker 1: The person to whom the message came understood precisely what
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  Speaker 1: it meant, and the person whom Pinkerton and his employees
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  Speaker 1: have often sought once more found a quiet retreat where
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  Speaker 1: he cannot be readily discovered. There are several stories afloat
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  Speaker 1: with regard to the course taken by Jesse James after
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  Speaker 1: the Coming Shepherd conflict. The following is understood to be
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  Speaker 1: a correct narrative. Sunday night, the party of robbers separated,
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  Speaker 1: each man taking a route of his own selection. Cummings
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  Speaker 1: was first cared for and left in a secure place.
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  Speaker 1: Jesse James made a detour toward the east and then
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  Speaker 1: turned northward. He remained in Saint Clair County two days
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  Speaker 1: and came into Jackson County. While the attention of every
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  Speaker 1: one was directed to the Marshal's posse, pushing down through
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  Speaker 1: the Indian territory to Texas. In Jackson County, he remained
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  Speaker 1: for some days, and when it suited his convenience, he
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  Speaker 1: proceeded to Texas by a route of his own selection,
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  Speaker 1: without molestation. Afterward, he desired to enjoy a little civilized
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  Speaker 1: life and went to Kentucky, where he was joined by
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  Speaker 1: Missus James. But when the Marshal's agent arrived in the region,
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  Speaker 1: he was not there. Thus the great outlaw roves at
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  Speaker 1: will over the country, and all the skill of men
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  Speaker 1: clothed with authority to entrap him has for so long
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  Speaker 1: a time proved unequal to the task. But it is
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  Speaker 1: said by those who are in a position to know,
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  Speaker 1: that he longs to retire from the business of an outlaw,
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  Speaker 1: make peace with society, and prove by an exemplary life
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  Speaker 1: in the future that his nature is not wholly bad.
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  Speaker 1: End of section nineteen. End of Life and Adventures of
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  Speaker 1: Frank and Jesse James by J. A. Dakis