. Illustrated lives and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, and the Younger Brothers : the noted Western outlaws. partly in-strumental in bringing it about. This belief wasstrengthened by some of the scouts in the interest ofthe Jameses finding a couple of blankets, and evi-dences of the late presence of men among haystacks. To still further confirm themin the belief that Askew assisted the detectives in theattack on the Samuels house, a young man knownas Jack Ladd, who had been in Askews employ asa farmer, departed from the country on the night ofthe assault. It is but justice to t
. Illustrated lives and adventures of Frank and Jesse James, and the Younger Brothers : the noted Western outlaws. partly in-strumental in bringing it about. This belief wasstrengthened by some of the scouts in the interest ofthe Jameses finding a couple of blankets, and evi-dences of the late presence of men among haystacks. To still further confirm themin the belief that Askew assisted the detectives in theattack on the Samuels house, a young man knownas Jack Ladd, who had been in Askews employ asa farmer, departed from the country on the night ofthe assault. It is but justice to the memory of Mr. Askew, tostate in this place that he frequently and earnestlydisclaimed having any knowledge whatever of themovements of the detectives in the employ of But his denials had no weight with thevengeful Jameses. They and their friends continuedto believe that the attacking party were shelteredand led by farmer Daniel H. Askew, and they re-solved to execute dire vengeance upon him. On the night of April 12th, 1875, Mr. Askew went>vith a bucket to a spring some distance from hi§. 314 FARJIEE ASKEWS FATE. 215 residence, and returned to the house with the bucketfilled with water. He had set the bucket on a benchand was standing on his back porch, not having yetentered the house after returning from the in the rear of the house, and within ten pacesof the edge of the porch on which Mr. Askew wasstanding, there was a heap of firewood reaching per-haps to the height of five or six feet. Behind thiswood-heap the assassins found a convenient hidingplace. Whoever they may have been, they had rid-den to the rear of a field, hitched their horses, ai dwalked through the field to their place of conceal-ment. Suddenly the report of a pistol, followed instan-taneously by the report of two shots, rang out on thenight air, and Mr. Askew fell on the floor of theporch and immediately expired. Some members ofthe family, in a great state of alarm, rushed o
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