December 1881Joe “Pony” Sawyer
Outlaw and Informer
Excerpt from His Confession
Deposition taken by P. D. Haeffy, Police Commissioner, Kansas City, Mo., this twenty-ninth day of March, 1882.
Haeffy: You started having doubts about Jesse after the Blue Cut robbery?
Sawyer: Not exactly. At Aberdeen—where Ev tried to kill Jess—we’d gotten a lot of grief but no money. Then, we only got $103 each at Winston. Frank and Jess killed a couple of men there, and you know how I hate killing. By the time we robbed the train at Blue Cut, I was sick of hearing Jess complain about his teeth and, besides that, we robbed the wrong train again.
Jess thought there was going to be a lot of money on it, but there wasn’t. I only got $160 and a brass watch for all my trouble. Charlie Ford found a basket of c
