. Illustrated lives and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, and the Younger Brothers : the noted Western outlaws. ments, whilethe other perfected the remaining details. Jesse saw no imminent danger in remaining atKansas City, but he knew the officials were on thealert, and he feared that some of them might acci-dentally stumble upon him. Accordingly, on the3d of November, his household effects were placedupon a wagon and with his family, accompanied byCharley Ford, he set out for St. Joseph. Theyarrived there on the 9th, and rented a house at thecorner of Lafayette and Twenty-first streets, J
. Illustrated lives and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, and the Younger Brothers : the noted Western outlaws. ments, whilethe other perfected the remaining details. Jesse saw no imminent danger in remaining atKansas City, but he knew the officials were on thealert, and he feared that some of them might acci-dentally stumble upon him. Accordingly, on the3d of November, his household effects were placedupon a wagon and with his family, accompanied byCharley Ford, he set out for St. Joseph. Theyarrived there on the 9th, and rented a house at thecorner of Lafayette and Twenty-first streets, Jessetaking a receipt for the first months rent in thename of Thomas Howard—it was the last of hismany disguises. On the day before Christmas theymoved to a neat frame cottage of seven rooms onLafayette street, near Thirteenth. The house waspainted white, with green shutters; there was apretty yard around it, and a stable for two or three DEATH OF J:ESSE JAMES. 433 horses. It had been built some two years before bya solid citizen of St. Joe, an aldeiman, and stoodon the brow of a lofty eminence, commanding a. Jesse Edwards James, only son of Jesse James. view of the city and surrounding country in threedirections. On the west the plateau stretched awayto a belt of timber, whither escape would be easy ifdanger threatened. A block or two away was the 434 rRAlNTK AND JESSE JAMES. World Hotel, and the neighborhood, though not themost fashionable, was occupied by many of the bestand wealthiest citizens of St. Joseph. A less au-
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