Show JESSE JAMES jamesa BRAIN Socrat secretly ly removed in a very ful manner alow ow the th doctors d the dead watchful nother mother and left no gracce Tr tic of their work A preat many things have bave been written about jesse james and at times it has seemed to me as if the pa pers were taxing their readers severely with their tireless efforts to preserve a strained interest in the career of the great highwayman said a prominent citizen of north northwest west missouri to a st SL louis globe democrat reporter the other day A certain little post orbit incident lias has never found its way into the press however and the reason no doubt is that it lias has been kept an inviolate i secret among the few who were riven given an opportunity to ickow about it i for fear of bringing brin ping trouble on those who were responsible for it the ille facts are simply these while mrs samuels 1 the mother of jes jesic so james w WP pa w watch LV ai ing like a lynx every incident connect cu with the arrangements for convey ing the dead desperado from st joseph the day after his death to her farm near kearney kearncy where he was vas to be buried a number of enterprising physicians quietly removed his brain and put pui it in a jar of alcohol alco liol in which condition it is now exhibited labeled or unlabeled at one of the st joseph medical colleges Sol leges eger at ab soon boon as I 1 heard of the shooting of jesse james continued the narrator 1 I boarded a train and went to st joseph the excite excitement went as some bome thing remarkable the town was full of witnesses officers and idlers irom from kaniah city omaha ane anc from froin towns two hundred find and three hundred miles away till all bent on cecin k the great highwayman and the houar ia which lie he was behot one of the first persons ou oil hand band was mrs airs samuels Sai nuels jesses mother you know she is a woman from whom the boys inherited much of thorf aggressiveness she in ia a general iu petticoats nothing escapes her ario arid sho she is everywhere at the same time the sheriff from lanqua ats city t tiling h his name was timberlake was to her a special object of aversion and it was wa s probably due to this antipathy which to a ferta certain iiA extent compelled her to rely with more inore confidence upon the SL joseph josep authorities that the doctora doctor i owed their golden opportunity to perform the operation that sent kent the highwayman brainless to his grave kansis kansas city was green with envy cavy that st joseph should have obtained the notoriety of jesse james fatal taking ol 01 olf and timberlake was anxious to save as much lor his town as lit he could by giving orders to have the body sent there for identification so BO as to n make ake bu business sineas forthe for the kansas city hotels and draw crowds of curious deop people le from st joseph mrs birs samuels did not quite see it in n that light nor did she comprehend pre liend rao motive tive to her his arbitrary orders appeared in the light of a malignant persecution of bar son even after death and she sot set herself to watch and thwart him at every turn the st joseph auth authorities authority w were re j juat t a as anxious to prolong the attending scenes to their full capacity of profit in their own town and for this reason naturally acted in complete accord and sympathy with the anguished old lady while she was w watching the movements jents of the kansas city crowd to guard against surprises the chief of police of 81 joseph had lier her perm permission I 1 ou to prepare the body for resu removal oval one tiling thing however that the old lady was particularly set on was that no postmortem post mortem examination should be made and this the police authorities ties adi promised pro in good faith just V doctors pors managed a d it t i B more i 4 MA yi d 1 7 than I 1 can q say out 3 there I 1 g in a jur jar ou a r shelf 11 elf ia a gliss domce case was the bandies brain the spot where the bul lot had entered being easily distinguish able by the suffusion of blood the doctor who pointed it out to me was a personal friend the gentleman went on and lie he laughed slyly when I 1 asked him how hov lie had accomplished it lie ile invited me to go with him where jesse jcsse lay dead in liis his coflin coffin and as I 1 looked at liis his face I 1 endeavored to discover the marks of the but in vain wien when we were out of the room I 1 asked him bial how ta brain was removed m I 1 0 e d wi without leaving a trace atlace of the ian knife ile and lie he then told me that the scalp had bee been n cut across the back part of tile the head licad and drawn forward over the brow leaving the skull shull exposed to the action of the saw the top of the skull was waa carefully sawed and the brain was removed the scalp was then drawn back into its place over the cap of the skull and when mrs samuels next gazed upon the pale face of her son his appearance was not altered in the least but his brain was in n a glass jar that is now nearly ten years yeam ngo I 1 never again heard beard my frient friend the doctor refer to the matter nor haa any other person ever spoken of it to tome me which shows alio s how jealously the secret has bus been kept |