Life and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the noted western outlawsDacus, J. A. (Joseph A.)
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Life and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, the noted western outlaws
Dacus, J. A. (Joseph A.)
Brigands and robbers; James, Frank, 1844-1915; James, Jesse, 1847-1882
Lie No. 3. He said Frank James was at Mr. Butler's, in Cass
county. I and Frank don't know any man in Cass county by that
name. I can prove my innocence by eight good citizens of
Jackson county, Mo., but I do not propose to give all their
names at present. If I did, those cut-throat detectives would
find out where I am.
My opinion is that Bacon Montgomery, the scoundrel who murdered
Capt. A. J. Clements, December 13, 1866, is the instigator of
all this Missouri Pacific affair. I believe he planned the
robbery and got his share of the money, and when he went out
to look for the robbers he led the pursuers off the robbers'
trail. If the truth was half told about Montgomery, it would
make the world believe that Montgomery has no equal, only
the Bender family and the midnight assassins who murdered my
poor, helpless and innocent eight-year old brother, and shot
my mother's arm off; and I am of opinion he had a hand in
that dirty, cowardly work. The detectives are a brave lot of
boys--charge houses, break down doors and make the gray hairs
stand up on the heads of unarmed victims. Why don't President
Grant have the soldiers called in and send the detectives out
on special trains after the hostile Indians? A. M. Pinkerton's
force, with hand-grenades, and they will kill all the women
and children, and as soon as the women and children are killed
it will stop the breed, and the warriors will die out in a few
years. I believe the railroad robbers will yet be sifted down
on some one at St. Louis or Sedalia putting up the job and then
trying to have it put on innocent men, as Kerry has done.
Hoping the _Times_ will publish just as I have written, I will
close.
JESSE JAMES.
CHAPTER XLVII.
GLENDALE.
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