Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1889 — Pistols in His Pants. [ARTICLE]

Pistols in His Pants.

“Frank James, the brother of the dead outlaw Jesse James, is afflicted with consumption, and it is only a question of time until he dies,” said Charley Buckthorn, a traveling man. “I have just returned from Dallas, Texas, where I met Frank. The strain apon him must be something terrible as he is ever upon the alert, nob knowing at what, time or from what direction trouble may come to him. He told me that he trusted no man living. “When introduced, he invariably places his hands in his pataloon pockets, and simply bowing,acknowledges the introduction by saying: ‘I am glad to know you, sir." When his hands are shoved into the pockets they grab two ugly guns. They are always in his pants pockets. His eyes are small and piercing. Hot long ago he went into a saloon in Dallas,owned by Tom Angus, a gambler and sport. Tears ago, James claims, Angus gave the James gang* away to thepolice. James, with his bands in his pockets, walked np to Angus, and such a scoring I never beard in my life, and all the time Frank James’ eytm fairly glittered like a cat. He watched every move of the man and Angus weakened, and l did not blame him, either.”