![]() ![]() James noticed that a picture was hanging crooked on the wall, and turned his back on Bob to adjust it. After breakfast, they moved into the sitting room to discuss Jesse’s plan to rob the Platte City, Missouri Bank. On April 3, 1882, the Ford brothers met James at his home in St. However, by March 1882 members of the James Gang had dwindled, so James agreed. James didn’t trust the Ford brothers, especially Bob. To murder James, Ford needed his brother Charles to convince James to make him a fully-fledged member of the gang. Wikimedia Commons Ford was promised the $5,000 bounty once he killed James, but received only a fraction of the amount when he did. Ford was also promised the $5,000 bounty placed on James’ head. Crittenden assured Ford that he would receive a full pardon for the murder of Hite and James. ![]() But soon he was released on one condition –that he murder Jesse James. Nonetheless, the crime was discovered, and Ford was arrested. Hoping to conceal the crime, he buried Hite’s body a mile from the house. Now there was a problem –Ford had just killed Jesse James’ cousin. The wounds were superficial, but Ford retaliated and shot Hite in the head. Things escalated when they both drew their guns and shot each other. In January 1882, two James Gang members, Wood Hite and Dick Liddil, got into an argument while hiding out in the home of Ford’s sister. One such occasion marked a significant turning point in Bob Ford’s life. Their biggest function was turning their home and those of other Ford family members into safe houses for gang members escaping the law. 7, 1881, the Ford brothers did mostly odd jobs including holding the horses on raids. He was just 18, and along with his older brother, Charles, he joined the James Gang.Īlthough Charles allegedly took part in the James Gang’s final train robbery on Sept. However, when Ford first met James in 1880 he was an admirer of his exploits. At the time, James was already mythologized as an “American Robin Hood,” while Ford was viewed as a “traitor” who turned on James for a bounty. When Robert Ford pulled the trigger of his six-gun killing Jesse James, he hadn’t killed an outlaw, he had killed a hero. Wikimedia Commons Robert Ford posing with the gun he used to kill Jesse James. ![]()
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