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Jesse jam Jack "Quail Hunter" Kennedy, no torious train robber slain Friday b: officers near Wittenberg, Mo., seemet to know the psychology of the humai mind when it came to framing at alibi says Kansas City Star. "I remember Jack well." Joseph B Keshlear, 3611 Broadway, count: marshal twenty-six years ago, sait last night. "I was the first officer t( arrest Jack for the robbery of < Chicago & Alton train back in 1896 The loot totaled $32,000. And fo: two years afterward I tried to sent Jack to the penitentiary for various train robberies near Kansas City, bu 'he was acquitted whenever he facec a jury in this county. Jack's defense was invariably an alibi and he was ? past master at it." A Rival of Jesse James's Career. IMr. Keshlear. now a guard at the Federal Reserve Bank, recalled his experiences with Kennedy, whose bandit career in Jackson county rivaled that of Jesse James. "Saloons were generally the settings for Jack's alibis," Keshlear said "Before robbing a train Jack planned his alibi. He would saunter into some saloon, then loudly order a round oi drinks for the crowd, so as to attract attention. "Jack then would noisly sit at a table and join in a game of cards. He bought drinks so often that many of the card players would become drunk. After an hour or so drinking and card playing Jack would quietly saunter out of a side door and once outside the saloon, would leap on a ihorse, then speed to where his gang was waiting. "Then would come the train robbery, after which Jack would hasten back to the saloon resuming nis same seat, pick up an abandoned hand of cards then noisily shout for more liquor. His Witnesses Believed It. "And do you know there were ? many men who would honestly testify on the witness stand that Kennedy was in such and such a saloon throughout the night of the train robbery, playing cards and drinking with them? "Several incidents arose after the Chicago & Alton robbery which caused the arrest of Kennedy," Keshlear continued. "First we learned that on the night of the hold-up Kenedy went on a drunken spree in Kansas City, spending several hundred dollars on women and booze. I recah he bought a rocking chair for the wife of one of his friends. The nexl day he bought several suits of clothing, discarding his old, tattered suit Then he purchased seven hats, which he gave to friends. "Second, we learned of Jack's visit <to one of his favorite loafing spots, 2 fire station at Fourteenth and Penr etrodt? the dav following the trair hold-up Jack entered the fire statior all drunk and dressed up. Talked Too Much to Fireman. "One of the firemen remarked 'Say, boy, wasn't that a big train rob bery last night!' Kennedy shoved om his chest, then drew from -his pocke: a roll of bills. "I should guess ther< was a hold-up!' Kennedy laughingl} remarked. The sudden display o] wealth caused one of the firemen t( tip off our office. "And another bit of evidence was information we received from a gir named Madge, who lived on a farn near Kennedy. Jack, the day aftei the Chicago & Alton hold-up, visitec Madge, telling her he was prosperous now and able to marry iher. But sh< turned down the proposal. Jack thei shoved a handful of jewelry into i pocket of the girl's apron, saying fo: her to keep the presents and mayb< later she might change her min( about him. The girl told us abou Jack's boasted prosperity and sin gave us the jewelry, which was late identified as having been stolen in th train robbery. " Madge, now dead, was a witnes against Jack at his trial. The stat introduced all this evidence, togethe with confessions of two other men ar rested in connection with the robbery The confessions implicated Kennedy "Well, the results of the Chicago 4 Alton hold-up arrests were that th two men who confessed receive prison sentences, and Kennedy wa freed by a jury. Kennedy used a alibi that he was in a saloon at th time of the robbery. Announces a Reformation. "I met Kennedy at Missouri avenu and Main street in 1912, the sam year he was released from the stat penitentiary, when he served twelv years of a 17-year sentence for rol bing a Frisco train near Macomb. Mr in Wrirht county. "I asked him how he was gettin along and he said fine, that he wz going to reform, that he planned 1 enter the motion picture business an merely play train robber before tl camera, instead of the realtiy. " 'That prison jolt made a man < ___^__I es s Rival -i me,' Kennedy said. 'From now on 71 I'm jusl going to live a good life and iiearn ihonest money. Going to make 11 my poor old mother proud of her son i[from now on?you bet.' "Kennedy was in a sentimental . mood. He had been drinking. We 7 stood on the corner and discussed old 1 times. Finally he said he must hurry 3 out to his mother that she had dinner i ready at G o'clock now and he joking. ly remarked he had missed many din riArs aw?v from home in the twelve 1 years previous. As he shook my 5 (hand, Kennedy smilingly said: t " 'Joe, you had me right on that 1 Chicago & Alton offense. But I beat j the case.' ' i "It was a Frisco train Kenneuy rob- 1 bed near Macomb, the crime for 1 which he received the 12-year senj tence. The Frisco company pressed : j the case hard too. It was a Frisco : > train Kennedy robbed just before he . was killed Friday. 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Pursuant to an order in the case of MacMurphy Fertilizer Company, et al., Plaintiffs vs. J. M. Kirkland, Defendant, in the Court of Common Pleas for Bamberg County, the undersigned receivers for the defendant in said cause will sell at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, at Ehrhardt, South Carolina, at the store building in said Town, formerly occupied by the said J. JI. Kirkland, on the 20th day of November, 1922, between the hours of eleven, A. M., and twelve, noon, on said day, all of the accounts, open and secured, of the said J. M. Kirklad. W. D. KINARD, J. M. KIRKLAND. Receivers. November 4, 1922. 11-16 TAX NOTICE. The treasurer's office will be open for the collection of state, county, school and all other taxes from the 15:h day of November, 1922, until the 15th day of March, 1923, inclusive. From the first day of January, 1923, until the 31st day of January, 1923, a penalty of 1 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the first d<-; of February. 1923, untu tbr 28th day of February,1923, a penalty of 2 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. From the first day of March, 1923, until the 15th of March 1923, a penalty of 7 per cent, will be added to all unpaid taxes. The Levy. For State purposes 7 1-2 mills For county purposes 7 mills Constitution school tax....3 mills For highway purposes ....1 1-2 mills Total 19 mills Special School Levies. 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