Re: Sherriff's posseman killed Lexington Mo May 1867 by Jesse James gang?
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Sherriff's posseman killed Lexington Mo May 1867 by Jesse James gang?
P.Fazzini 11/16/07
This is all I could find for May 1867 near Lexington
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James-Younger_Ganghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James-Younger_Gang
That crime began a string of robberies, many of which were linked to Clement's group of bushwhackers. The hold-up most clearly linked to the group was of Alexander Mitchell and Company in Lexington, Missouri, on October 30, 1866, which netted $2,011.50. Clement was also linked to violence and intimidation against officials of the Republican government that now ruled the state. On election day, Clement led his men into Lexington, where they drove Republican voters away from the polls, and secured a Republican defeat. A detachment of state militiamen was dispatched to the town. They convinced the bushwhackers to disperse, then attempted to capture Clement, who still had a price upon his head. Clement refused to surrender, and was shot down in wild gunfight on the streets of Lexington.
Despite the death of Clement, his old followers remained together, and robbed a bank across the Missouri River from Lexington in Richmond, Missouri, on May 22, 1867 in which the Town Mayor and two lawmen were killed. This was followed on March 20, 1868, by a raid on the Nimrod Long bank in Russellville, Kentucky. In the aftermath of the two raids, however, the more senior bushwhackers were killed or captured. This set the stage for the emergence of the James and Younger brothers, and the transformation of the old Clement crew into the James-Younger Gang.
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Today in old West history
http://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove/tiowh.htmlhttp://www.knology.net/~lonesomedove/tiowh.html
May 22, 1867- Richmond, Missouri- the James-Younger gang ride into town shooting their weapons and whooping like drunken cowboys as they rob the Hughes and Wasson Bank. Pedestrians ran in all directions while six men --Jesse and Frank James, Cole, Jim, and Bob Younger, and James White-broke down the locked front door of the bank. The bandits stuffed $4,000 into a wheat sack and then raced to the street to their horses.
May 23
1867- Richmond, Missouri- James Gang robs the Hughs and Mason Bank of $4,000 in gold. The towns mayor was killed in the process as well as the jailer and his son as rebel guerrillas were broke out of jail.
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Re: Sherriff's posseman killed Lexington Mo May 1867 by Jesse James gang?
Craig Carothers 11/30/07