Show A MOTHERS CURSE mr called down vengeance on the iieana of her sons kutrules Kue rules mrs zerelda samuels mother of those notorious bandits train robbers and ex guerrillas the late lamented jesse and the still living but reformed frank james is reported lying seriously ill with but slight hope of her recovery said the buffalo inquirer in recent issue ill never forget said a gentleman recently the beene when she caught the first view of jesses dead face in that little undertakers shop in st joseph where the body was removed soon after bob ford killed the notorious outlaw she had aged years in the short twenty four hours since her boy fell a victim to tho treachery of one he had befriended she seemed stunned by the tragedy here for twenty years and more she had lived in the full knowledge that every hour of might bring her tidings that one or both of her boya had met with a violent death but when it came the shock well nigh shattered her reason the ice box in which jesses body lay was opened and for full two min atea the gray haired mother looked on the face of her dead son then all her vigor seemed to return her bent figure straightened up and in tones which could be heard half a block away she began such a tirade of abuse against his slayers as I 1 never could leave imagined mortal mind capable of framing whether it was in answer to her prayers I 1 am sot prepared to say but certain it is that charlie ford never knew an instant of peace from the day that jease was shot unlike bob he did not even pretend to conceal his real feelings under an air of bravado both boys were in mortal terror every minute until frank surrendered that he would cross their path unexpectedly tome day and that their lives would pay the forfeit bob hid this fear by assuming a blustering boldness which at times he was far from feeling hiis was the stronger character of the two charlie on the contrary passed his nights in restless sleeplessness and his days in terrified expectancy of vengeance even the short period of security which he enjoyed while frank was in custody afforded no lasting peace for him As abon as frank was released the old terror returned with renewed force and so preyed upon his nerves that he soon became mental wreck it drove him to a suicides grave at list |