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One of the letters Henry Fuller wrote in an attempt to verify William Columbus Anderson's claim that he was the man called Bloody Bill was to Jewell Mayes of MO.
Mr Jewell Mayes was the founder of the Richmond Missourian Newspaper in Richmond, Missouri, and a relative of
William H Mayes, editor and publisher of the TX newspaper Brownwood Bulletin from 1887 to 1914.
The letter was published in the Chillicothe Constitution Aug 6, 1924, and he asked him to show William C Anderson's photo to Jim Cummings, and "other members of the old time Quantrill band" who rode with Bloody Bill. Jim Cummings was one of the men who rode Bloody Bill, and who delivered the news of Bloody Bill's death to his widow in Sherman TX in 1864. Bloody Bill's brother Jim Anderson brought their 2 surviving sisters to Sherman, Grayson CO TX shortly after Bloody Bill's death. They did not go to or live with William C Anderson and his wife and baby son in Brown Co TX, and were not mentioned in his 1924 Fuller interview.
A photo is widely circulated showing William C Anderson seated in front of his famous, massive fireplace. Parts of the legs of two other men are visible, but they are not identified in the interview.
Not being identified leaves their identity strictly up to the eyes of the beholder.
Had they been famous guerilla/outlaws as some claim, their photos and names would have sold more newspapers than the lesser known Bloody Bill.
Fran
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