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of #300 for the epprehension of 6 etininal, Governor Crittenden planned | to have the railroad companies traversing Missouri put up the money for | ‘reward, as they were the greatest sufferers. The railroads agreed to pat “Up the reward money, and $5000 wss offered forthe: capture of the Janés.*/ brothers, and an additional €5000 for ‘their “conviction... The ‘proclamation _decued by the Governor did not say "dead or alive.® After the proclamation: “Bob end Charles Ford made an agreement with the Governor that, they would bring in Jesse Janes ,:alive if they could but dead if necessary, since. “) at would be their lives or his. . It was agreed that they would receive @ _Berdon from thé Governor if thoy did ‘this... 0572 | + os uy.” There’ seems to be some disagreszent ‘as to whether Bob Ford, ‘Who wee but twenty years old at the tize he killed Jesse Janes, hed ever _ actually been a member of the gatig or not. * Charles ‘had been with Jesse _«, for about. eix sonths, end both Bob and Churlas hed known his’ for some ” time. Jesse was planning to rob the Platte City bank, and needing anot ? (Ran, Charles sent for Bob to join them to assist in the raid.. According "to Bob Ford's own account of the metter, Jesse wan suapicious of ‘bin ; from the time he came to St.'Jéseph to join the gang. Bob and Charles watched every opportunity to kill Jesse,’ but the latter also watched thea ' eerefully ‘and riever took ff his pistols. On the eday. of the proposed | . Platte City robbery, the newspapers carried the story.of the ‘Surrender : ~- @f Dick Liddle, a member of tha’ gang. Jesse became tiore than ever "* Buspicious of Bob, and according to Bob's Story, Jesse no doubt would have shot him that night on the way to Platte City. However, for sone .» ,. Yeagon, probably to alley Bob Ford's fears, Jesse tyok off his pistols a ;-, thet morning in Bob's presence and got up on a chair’ to cust off a pictures S557 _- Seizing the opportunity, Bob ehot him in the beck of the head “immediately >, Some time later, Frank Janes surrendered to Governor Crittenden, was tried: for murder, acquitted, and dived quietly thereafter Hare GB BA Ogio The fined scene ‘in ‘the moving picture of Jesse Janes’ 6 _® crowd gathered around his grave, where his old friend, the wnacle of 3 his wife, is unveiling « esamment,. ‘The following are not the exact words “used in the picture, but are very close to.4ta0% eee . "Jesse was @ criminal ‘and an outlaw.’ Even tho . cannot get sround that fact. «But we are ‘not-ashamed of his.” ow ft -Gon't believe even dmerica ia Asbaned of Jesse Janes, -I don't iniow shy. ‘Meybe 4t was because he was bold and dawless as all ‘of ua would ‘like “tod _Bowetines. Maybe it's because for ten years he .icked the.tar out of five States.” Maybe it's because he wesi!t altogether to blanc for whit the dimes made of. him. Maybe it's because ‘he was #0 00d at what be did. don?t know; The monument which be. unveiled bad the following inscriptions ).°In loving 2.4 renenbrancé, Jesse Woodson Jakes, Died April 3, 1862, Aged 34 years, 6 ‘months _ 28 days. “Murdered by a ‘traitor and ‘@ coward whose name is not. worthy to - -