The Ouachita Telegraph - John Jarrett Shot in Northfield Raid

Date: Jul. 2000
Submitted by: Lora Peppers <lpeppers@ouachita.lib.la.us>

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The Ouachita Telegraph
Friday, November 24, 1876
Page 2, Column 3

IDENTIFIED.
        The photograph of the check-shirt robber shot at Northfield,
Minnesota, and reported to be Clel. Miller, was not identified by any body 
until a few days ago, when an old lady in St. Charles county, on seeing it, 
fell to the floor in a fainting fit.  On her recovery she said with tears 
in her eyes that the dead man was her own nephew, John Jarrett, a 
brother-in-law of the Youngers.  It is said that Jarrett’s family reside 
somewhere in the vicinity of Lake Providence, Louisiana.  
– Kansas City Journal of Commerce.
        The person alluded to above lived, we believe, some two years ago,
near Delhi, where he was visited, since the war, by one or two of the Youngers,
his brothers-in-law.  He was compelled to leave that vicinity because of
being suspected as one of the murderers of a German stock-trader near Delhi.
  He was, we believe, a member of Quantrell’s partisans during the war.

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