Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1892 — BOB FORD GETS HIS QUIETUS. [ARTICLE]

BOB FORD GETS HIS QUIETUS.

The Cowardly Slayer of Jesse James Finally Dies a Violent Death. “Bob” Ford, the slayer of Jesse James, was shot and killed by Deputy Sheriff Kelly in Ford’s dance hall, at Crede, Col., Wednesday afternoon. Kelly and Ford had a quarrel in Pueblo last year, and ill feeling had existed between the two men since. Kelly was standing in the doorway of Ford’s hall, wh£fl an Unknown man was seen to hand him a double barreled shotgun, after which Kelly stepped inside the hall and shouted “Bod.” Ford, who was about five feet away, turned around, at the same time reaching for his hip liocket, Kelly raised his gun and fired a oad of buck snot full in Ford’s neck, and severed both the wind pipe and jugular vein. The desperado died instantly. Kelly gave himself up and refuses to talk.