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Robert Salle James (July 17, 1818 – August 18, 1850) was an American Baptist minister and one of the founders of William Jewell College in 1849 in Liberty, Missouri. He was the father of the outlaws Frank and Jesse James .
Major Raymond Lisenba (March 6, 1894 – May 1, 1942) also known as Major Lisby, Robert Sherwood James, "Rattlesnake James" or the Rattlesnake Murderer, [1] was the last man to be executed by hanging in California. [2] . He was charged with murdering his wife, Mary Emma Busch, to collect her life insurance benefit.
Robert S. James, also known as Major Raymond Lisenba and \"Rattlesnake James\", was sentenced to prison for mistreating his niece in 1936. He was also a suspect in the murder of his wife Mary Emma James by snake bite and drowning.
When Robert James filed a claim to collect on his wife's insurance policies totaling $21,400, he launched a chain of events that would lead to his downfall. After further investigation, it was determined that he and another man, Charles Hope, had concocted an elaborate scheme to murder Mary Busch.
29 de dic. de 2017 · Robert S. James was a con-man and suspected murderer who hired a friend to kill his wife Mary with rattlesnakes in 1935. He then drowned her body in a fishpond and tried to collect the insurance money.
Robert S. James, also known as Major Raymond Lisenba, was accused of killing his wife Mary Emma James by snake bite and drowning in 1935. This is a black and white photograph of him walking in a hallway, taken by Los Angeles Times photographer in 1936.
He was known as Robert S. James during his marriage to Mary Emma Busch James and at the time of her death in 1935, and, after her murder by rattlesnake bite and drowning, as "Rattlesnake James." Caption. Handwritten at edge of negative: Robert S. James. Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 1738, NITRATE, Aug. 22, 1935, 3 negs.
