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Show Jesse James Manhood. "Jesse James, the Missouri bandit, pofwwiscd many manly qualities," feelingly feel-ingly exclaimed Uncle Dick Henderson at the Brunswick hotel. "I knew hiia well. He was turned into a Nemesis after the Pinkertons threw that bomb through the window of the Samuels residence resi-dence and blow off the arm of Jesse's mother. Ever aftor that occurrence both Frank and Jesse declared war to the knife on the Pinkerton men. The killing of Jesse James by Bob Ford was the cowardly act of a treacherous, ungrateful un-grateful fiend. Bob wasn't 'eating regular' reg-ular' when Jesse took him to his home, gave him shelter and food and treated him well. One day, when Jesse was dusting off a picture and had his back turned, Bob shot him from bohind. Of course you know that but very few people peo-ple ever learned what picture Jesse was dusting off when he got his death wound. It was the large picture of his dear old, white haired mother, whom he loved dearly. "In one robbory at Blue Cut, when the James gang went through a train, Jesse led the way and relieved the passengers pas-sengers of their valuables. Ho came to oiio woman in black, who was sobbing bitterly. Jesse stopped and inquired the cause of her sorrow. As she handed Mm $70 in greenbacks she cried out convulsively: con-vulsively: 'It's all I have in the world. My husband's corpse is in the baggage car.' Tears came to the eye of the train robber. Going into his pocket he returned re-turned the $70 and added two crisp $100 bills to it, which he forced the widow to accept. He never would rob a cripple, or an old gray haired woman, eithor. He once took an overcoat off his own back in the streets of Liberty, Mo., and gave it to a poor, shivering old man that had been turned out into the cold by an ungrateful son-in-law. I could name many other instances." Denver Republican. Repub-lican. . |