Hope was for two terms sheriff of Jackson county, Mo., in which is
Kansas City, and Capt. J. M. Tucker was sheriff at Los Angeles,
California. Henry Porter represented one of the Jackson county districts
in the state legislature, removed to Texas, where he was made judge of the
county court, and is now, I understand, a judge of probate in the state of
Washington. "Pink" Gibson was for several years county judge in Johnson
county; Harry Ogden served the state of Louisiana as lieutenant-governor
and as one of its congressmen. Capt. J. G. Lea was for many years
instructor in the military department of the University of New Mexico,
and, I believe, is there yet. Jesse Hamblett was marshal at Lexington,
and W. H. Gregg, who was Quantrell's first lieutenant, has been thought
well enough of to be a deputy sheriff under the administration of a
Republican. Jim Hendricks, deputy sheriff of Lewis and Clark county,
Montana, is another, but to enumerate all the men of the old band who have
held minor places would be wearisome.

19. A DUEL AND AN AUCTION

I left Missouri soon after Judy's raid for Louisiana, spending three
months with Capt. J. C. Lea on what was known as the Widow Amos' farm on
Fortune fork, Tensas parish. We then rented the Bass farm on Lake
Providence, in Carroll parish, where I stayed until 1867, when chills and
fever drove me north to Missouri. When the bank at Russellville, Ky., was
robbed, which has been laid to us, I was with my uncle, Jeff Younger, in
St. Clair county, and Jim and Bob were at home here in Lee's Summit.

At the time of the Richmond and Savannah, Mo., bank robberies, in which,
according to newspapers and sensationalists, I was largely concerned, I
was living on the Bass plantation, three miles below Lake Providence, in
Louisiana. Capt. J. C. and Frank Lea, of Roswell, N. M., and Tom Lea, of
Independence, Mo., were living in the same house with me, any one of whom
will vouch for the truth of my statement that I was not anywhere near
either of these towns at the time of the robberies in question, but was
with them at the plantation referred to above. Furthermore, right here I
want to state, and I will take my oath solemnly that what I say is the
truth, and _nothing but the truth, notwithstanding all the accusations
that have been made against me, I never, in all my life, had anything
whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri_. I could
prove that I was not i