Show eife jacora held 11 of ia alie bino grass state for abbat years be owned the stagecoach lines between a mammoth glasgow and mammoth cave cheso lines all through tho troublous rou blous times of abo civil war of course ho haeft harrowing harro winy during the time and which ho liboa to tell Probably iio connected with career is thrilling than tho hold up of ono of his stages by jesso james and three of hia pals timo back in the seventies this incident is in ono of tho stories of that notorious highwayman it occurred early one the stag ewaa about half way between and mammoth cave conr men aprans out from tho sided of tho and ordered tho driver to halt ono of tonight the horses nud tho other arco and hold them at the heads of the driver and passengers tho driver of course did as ordered and tho iaan proceeded to search the passengers everything ery thing of value warf taken one of tho men robbed was a mm named roundtree Round who was well known at that time he had a valuable gold watch which james confiscated for his own use ther timepiece was held very dear by as it had been presented him by governor ex knott who was at that tima a young man tho notorious jesse carried this watch during tho rest of his life louisville dispatch |