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1883 newspaper EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT- JESSE JAMES GANG Rock Island Railroad Robbery

1883 newspaper with an inside-page headlines and a1st HAND eyewitness ACCOUNT of the JESSE JAMES GANG robbery of a train at Blue Cut, MO near Glendale, MO. The eyewitness testimony was given by gang member Clarence Hite - inv # 8I-421

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SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Chicago Daily Tribune (IL) dated September 10, 1883. This original newspaper contains prominent inside page "stacked" headlines and a detailed eyewitness description from gang member Clarence Hite of the BLUE CUT , MO railroad robbery by the James-Younger gang, near Glendale, Missouri in 1881.

One of the longest and most detailed contemporary eyewitness account of the Jesse James gang train robbery by one of the participants.

The Blue Cut Train Robbery by the Jesse James outlaw gang took place five years to the date of the failed Northfield Minnesota bank robbery which turned out to be the start of the decline of Jesse James and the James Gang. The Blue Cut Train Robbery took place near Glendale Missouri on September 7, 1881. The robbery itself was not a big event as far as what was stolen. Reports were that this new James Gang stole something between $1,000 and $3,000 from the train's express car depending on which news report you believe along with personal items and money from it's passengers. Some historic reports claim that the money stolen was quite larger.

Regardless, reports were that Jesse thought there was quite a bit more money on the train than there actually was. No one was shot during the holdup. At the end of the robbery Jesse exclaimed to the express agent that the James gang would ruin the Chicago & Alton Railroad. The Blue Cut train robbery was nothing like the violent crimes in years prior involving Frank and Jesse James. The gang wasn't the same. They weren't the violent pro-Confederate holdouts of the James-Younger days. The Younger brothers were in jail for the shootings in Northfield Minnesota and the law was after Jesse like never before. Blue Cut proved to be the second turning point in Jesse James criminal career.

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