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Which brings me to the tourist trap in St. Jo known as the house where Jesse James was shot and killed. Come see the bullet hole the exited out of the head of the Famous Jesse James the American Outlaw.
I believe that this story would take us back to Mrs. Henrietta Saltzman who rented the house to Mr. Howard and his family.
Ripped out the hard wood floors!!! Why Mrs. Saltzman was on a roll. My house was worth $3,000 proir to the killing of the outlaw. Not only was the place shot up and blood stains on the floor but relic hunters picked apart the fence and house not to mention they chipping off peices from the outbuildings. Bunch of ingrade termites! Crittenden was the master plan behind destroying my little rent house and he should be made to pay. Why I have a good mind to sue the Governor of Missouri as well as the state. And that she did.
Mrs. Saltzman rented the home to Jesse James for 14 dollars a month. But the real twist comes only weeks after his death. She moved back into the house where the outlaw was murdered and turned over a handsome profit. So is this to saw Saltzman needed an extra attraction to day her victims into her web. Yes, I need a bullet hole right there and make it good and make it look like it came from the Ford's gun. I shall charge 25 cents a head to anyone wishing to see the bullet hole from the bullet that passed through ole Jesse's head and into the wall. Would you like some fries with that? My oh My this place has paid off for me. I'm making a killing (pun on words). It is estimated that Mrs. Saltzman racked in $1,500 between the time she set up her little shop of horrors in 1882 till Sept. 1883 when a reported did the math. Like Zerelda I am sure she had to restock her splinters of wood and keep the chicken blood handy for her further sales of mementoes to her thousands of visitors to come. I wonder what a thousand pile of splitters would amount to?
Who all owned a bullet from that time frame that was said to have been from the gun of Jesse James?
And so it be
Carol
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