Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1882 — A Reformed Robber’s Confession. [ARTICLE]

A Reformed Robber’s Confession.

Kansas Citv, April 3. Dick Liddel, one of the old James boys gang, who has been in the custody of the officers for some time, has made a full confession, and told everything connected with the gang, and ’ given full details of all their operations since the olpse of thdwwy* The officers refuse to make t statement ’i public, but it 1 is knowns that he, tells all about who harbored and fed and protected then! during their raids into Missouri. The officers have all the names, and when known they will create a grand sensation. Other arrests will come. After the Blue Cut train robbery, the gang went to the home of the mother of the James boys, in Clay county, where a quarrel took place, and Jesse James killed Ed Miller. Then they went to Kentucky, and stopped with the father of Jeff and Wood Hite. Old man Hite had a young wife, and Dick Liddel became enamored |of her. , Thw led to ■a quarrel between Wood Hite and Liddel, and the former was killed. Wood Hite being a cousin of Jesse James, the latter swore vengeance, but Liddel escaped, and through his Wife opened negotiations with the authorities to surrender. He was promised immunity if he would tell all and assist in looking up the gang. The first result was the arrest and sentence of Jeff Hite to twenty-five years in the penitentiary, for which a reward of $5,000 was paid. Of this reward it is believed the officers have 'given Liddel SSOO. / . ’