lar conclusions were at once drawn by
the Louisville sleuths who were put on the case. Jim and John were at home
at Lee's Summit.

June 3, 1871, Obocock Bros.' bank at Corydon, Iowa, was robbed of $40,000
by seven men in broad daylight. The romancers have connected Jim and me
with that, when as a matter of fact I was in Louisiana, Jim and Bob were
at Dallas, and John was in California.

April 29, 1872, the day that the bank at Columbia, Ky., was raided and the
cashier, R. A. C. Martin, killed I was at Neosho Falls, Kansas, with a
drove of cattle.

September 26 of the same year the cash-box of the Kansas City fair was
stolen. A full statement as to my whereabouts during the day is given in
a letter appended hereto, which also shows that it would have been
impossible for me to be present at the wrecking of the Rock Island train
in Adair county, Iowa, July 21, 1873; the hold-up of the Malvern stage
near the Gaines place Jan. 15, 1874; the Ste. Genevieve bank robbery May
27, 1873, or the Iron Mountain train robbery at Gad's Hill, Mo., Jan. 31,
1874. It was charged that Arthur McCoy or A. C. McCoy and myself had been
participants in the Gad's Hill affair and the two stage robberies.

Nov. 15, 1874, I wrote a letter to my brother-in-law, Lycargus A. Jones,
which was published in part in the Pleasant Hill Review Nov. 26, the
editor having in the meantime inquired into the statements of facts and
satisfied himself of their truth. The parts of this letter now relevant
are as follows:

Cass County, Nov. 15, 1874.
Dear Curg:

You may use this letter in your own way. I will give you this outline and
sketch of my whereabouts and actions at the time of certain robberies with
which I am charged. At the time of the Gallatin bank robbery I was
gathering cattle in Ellis county, Texas; cattle that I bought from Pleas
Taylor and Rector. This can be proved by both of them; also by Sheriff
Barkley and fifty other respectable men of that county. I brought the
cattle to Kansas that fall and remained in St. Clair county until
February. I then went to Arkansas and returned to St. Clair county about
the first of May. I went to Kansas, where our cattle were, in Woodson
county, at Col. Ridge's. During the summer I was either in St. Clair,
Jackson or Kansas, but as there was no robbery committed that summer it
makes no difference where I was.

The gate at the fair grounds was robbed that fall. I was in Jackson
county at the