Jesse James & Outlaws
The following about the 1883 trial of Frank James is taken from an address given by General John T. Barker for a meeting of The Boone County Bar Association held at Columbia (MO) on August 7, 1952: Witnesses for the State JOHN L. PENN was a passenger on the train....
Jesse James & Outlaws
Jesse James died in the prime of life in a way that could only multiply and strengthen the already internationally-known legend of the James Gang. But what of his soft-spoken brother, the student of Shakespeare? What marked the end of his life in crime? Frank James...
Jesse James & Outlaws
The following conclusion about the 1883 trial of Frank James is taken from an address given by General John T. Barker for a meeting of the Boone County Bar Association held at Columbia (MO) on August 7, 1952. It reads, in part, as follows: Conclusion The trial lasted...
Jesse James & Outlaws
An account published in the Weekly Kansas City Star on Sept. 4, 1940, offers the following description of legal counsel participating in the 1883 trial of Frank James at Gallatin, MO: “Rarely has the legal counsel on both sides of a case been composed of such...
Jesse James & Outlaws
Frank James’s murder trial in 1883 in Gallatin, MO — where a jury found him not guilty — featured legal luminaries on both sides and impassioned references to the “Lost Cause” for which the bandit had fought two decades earlier. The story...
Jesse James & Outlaws
The scars of the Civil War were fading in 1880 as a young Kansas City lawyer and Westminster College graduate named William Hockaday Wallace opened his bid for the prosecuting attorney’s seat in Jackson County, MO. General James A. Garfield and General Winfield...
Jesse James & Outlaws
This personal sketch of C.H.S. Goodman, the judge who presided over the trial of Frank James in Gallatin in 1883, is reprinted from the 1882 History of Gentry County as follows. Charles H.S. Goodman was born at Zanesville, Ohio on May 24, 1843. His parents emigrated...
Jesse James & Outlaws
Frank James took the witness stand on his own behalf. The following report was published on Aug. 31, 1883, by the St. Joseph Daily Gazette (Vol. 39, No. 208): “There was the largest attendance today since the trial began. The principal witnesses were Mrs....
Jesse James & Outlaws
Besides the defendant, Frank James, the chief point of attraction for nearly all those involved in the 1883 James trial held at Gallatin, MO, was Confederate General J.O. “Jo” Shelby. His testimony given on behalf of Frank James was impaired by his...
Jesse James & Outlaws
John Edwards played an influential role in molding the public perception of outlaws Frank and Jesse James. He began to write editorials in The Times contradicting the presence of the James boys in Gallatin on the day of the murder. He printed signed affidavits of...