Search for Jesse James Safe in Waco, Texas - 1992

[Texas Jay]

Search for Jesse James' Safe in Waco, Texas - 1992

Last week, I finally got around to photographing a few articles from a scrapbook that was given to me in 2007 after my interview about William C. "Bloody Bill" Anderson appeared in the Brownwood Bulletin newspaper. The title of the scrapbook is Jesse James Treasures Down Under ? I'm attaching photos of the cover page and the first article in it to this message.

~Texas Jay

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[CONFEDR8]

I take it this "hunt" was abandoned?

 

[Texas Jay]

It continued on for a period of several weeks at an estimated cost of $300,000 before it was abandoned. I'll share more articles on this site in the days ahead that tell of the work they did.
~Texas Jay
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[CONFEDR8]

Damn..... You have to wonder if someone found the gold, and kept it on the down low.

 

[Peyton Manning]

$300k to find jesses' treasure? I bet he never saw $300 k in his life

 

[CONFEDR8]

Maybe not at the time. But if all he stole was gold, it could be worth a hell of a lot more.

 

[L.C. BAKER]

If you could prove he touched it the price would surely raise quickly.

L.C.

 

[CONFEDR8]

Thats for sure. If you find a safe, in a place that was supposedly where Jesse James hid it, it is going to be hard not to prove it. But the trick is finding that damned safe .

 

[Texas Jay]

Here are photos of the second article about the search for Jesse James safe in Waco. I'm also adding a photo that Dewey Millay, whose father owned the land where the search for the safe was at, sent me that shows the kind of safe that's supposed to be there.
~Texas Jay

 

[CONFEDR8]

Well now I can see what that guy poured $300,000 into. And for one man to hide a safe of that caliber.... Either Jesse had a little army to help him bury that safe, or maybe there wasn't a safe to begin with.

 

[Texas Jay]

Jesse had plenty of men to help him. He had the entire Knights of the Golden Circle organization to choose them from.
~Texas Jay
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[CONFEDR8]

Touché.

 

[L.C. BAKER]

And more than a handful of judges, law men, bankers and politicians in high places!

L.C.

 

[Rebel - KGC]

And more than a handful of judges, law men, bankers and politicians in high places!

L.C.

Most or ALL... KGC!

 

[Texas Jay]

Article #3 - Search for Jesse James' Safe

I'm attaching the two-page third article from the scrapbook to this message.
~Texas Jay

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[Rebel - KGC]

Well, Frank James & family were living in Lynchburg, Va. (where I am) when Brother Jesse was "killed" in 1882; they had kin in Southwestern Bedford County (James & Dalton) in the Stewartsville, Va. "area" near Roanoke County, and visited there as kids. They lived here as James Warren & family, near the Arlington Hotel, not far from 5th Street. Frank was REBEL doctor from Tenn.

 

[Texas Jay]

Article #4 - Search for Jesse James Safe

Here is the 4th article about the Waco, Texas search for Jesse James Safe in 1992.

~Texas Jay

Home - William C. "Bloody Bill" Anderson
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[Texas Jay]

Article #5 - Search for Jesse James Safe

This is the photo of the 5th and final article that I will be posting from the scrapbook Jesse James Treasures Down Under. I don't believe the search for the safe was ever resumed.
~Texas Jay

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[Texas Jay]

It's been awhile since I've visited this forum but I hope to spend more time here this winter when it's too cold to treasure hunt or do field work. I invite you to view my two related websites.

http://knightsofthegoldencircle.webs.com

http://bloodybillanderson.webs.com

Happy Hunting!
~Texas Jay

 

[Rebel - KGC]

It's been awhile since I've visited this forum but I hope to spend more time here this winter when it's too cold to treasure hunt or do field work. I invite you to view my two related websites.

http://knightsofthegoldencircle.webs.com

http://bloodybillanderson.webs.com

Happy Hunting!
~Texas Jay

TY, TJ... you have done VERY well!