Jesse James inferfered as their leader and warned them not to quarrel over a woman and go to killing each other when the gang needed all its resources for mutual aid and protection.

Jesse heard of this, rode to where Miller was, met him near a camp which they had been using for a general rendezvous, and shot him dead in his tracks without giving him a chance to defend himself.

[4] According to some sources he was killed for talking too much about the Kansas City Fair robbery, which took place in 1872.

Others say Miller became drunk one night and told a marshal about a train robbery that was to take place in the near future.

It is considered possible that the members of the gang have given rise to this rumor for reasons of their own, but it is hardly probable that the shooting took place almost in October.