The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-10-11

DrOgraHlLue IN ever lnstauOci an sA'
trail led straight to Missouri. The Hunt
ington wv. Va Bank we t next. anc
then the Missouri Pacific train at Otter
vile last summer.
BOOTY AMOUNTING TO $250,000--THS
FATE OF THE BAND.
This is the record of the principal rob
beties down 10 the Mortified affair. In
every instance the booty was taken
VARYING in smount from $1,000 to $40
600 q quarter OF million the total ag'
gregates. Not man was killed or cap.
lured until the Muncie affair, when Bal!
McDaniels. arrested 10 Kansas City on
another charge, was found in procession
of part of the Wells, Fargo & 20. plum.
der. In trying TO make his escape he
was MORALLY wounded, out died without
revealing his coniederates. Jim Read
was killed in Texas and confessed his
connection with the gang, but was mute
as to his partners, In the flight from
Huntington, Thompson Mechanics was
MORALLY wounded, but never spoke q
SYLLABLE to his death. Jack kean was
captured and is now serving out his term
in the West Virginia Penitentiary; but
his lips are closed, like the others, by q
solemn oath which all have taken. Clell
Miller and Bill Stiles were killed IN the
attack on the Mortified Minnesota
Bank. Charlie Wells was killed in the
FIGHT near Madelia and two of the
Youngers-Cole and Robert-wlth Cal
vim Carter are now prisoners. In fight
with the PiAkerton detectives near
Osceols, John Younger was killed and
James Younger crippled for life The
gang of nearly score has been within
two years narrowed down to Frank and
Jesse James, Bill Kinds and John Jar
retle. the last brother-in-law of the
Youngers. In all probability they will
never rally again, and the career of the
Missouri bandits may be said to have en-
ded with the Mortified fight and fight.
THE LAST OF qUASTRELLs GUEEILLAs.
These men are the last of the Guam
trell band of guerillas, the few survivors
of those who sacked Lawrence,
Kansas, and who waged war
of extermlnation along the border. The
fire and sword which Jennison and his
Javhawkers brought into Missouri, they
carried back into Kansas. Both bands
were so atrcciously cruel and blood
thirsty that Federal and Confederate au-
thorities were both loath to recognize
them as allies or belligerents. They
were land pirates and carried a black
flag;
Cole Younger at seventeen led one of
the companies Of QuantreIls command
at the attack on Lawrence. Strange as
il NAV seem nine-.enths of the members
of this gang of cut-throats and desper-
ADDE'S were only boys in years. The
Youngers Joined the guerilla leader, one
after the other, before they were fifteen
wears old Jesse James was with him at
sixteen, and Frank james two years
older. 1t was the same with the others.
The camp became their school and col
lepc. 1t was the warfare of the savage
that they carried on; rarely, almost
never, square stand-up fight. but forced
marches and unexpected descents on un-
protected settlements. Naturally enough
thew graduated from such training rs
this into lifelong outlaws and robbers
In the war the James boys and the
Yuungers had won the title of leaders,
and It was in their brains that this series
of bank and train robborles was conceived
and planned. The others were common
desperadoes. | have sketched hastily
the career of these men since the war
FOR every one of these outrages is but s
chapter in their respective lives. Of the
desperate. bloody deeds in their wal
record volumes might be written. Wood
craft ridlog and craftsmanship have
been their studies since boyhOod, but the
truthful events OF their lives seem almost
Incrediblei
WHY rHEJAMES BOYS BECAME OUTLAWS
Jesse and Frank James are the sons o.
the Rev. Thomas James, Baptist
preacher. He WAS graduate of George
town College, Kentucky, and alter mar
rying Miss Zerelda Cole, of Scott county
Ky., settled in Clay county, Mo-, where
the mother OF the James boys still lives
the wife of DR.. Samuois. The father Of
the James boys was one OF the founders
of William Jewell College, of this state
and became leading man in his demon
nation in the West, but died before the
war.
At the very beginning of irrepres
sible conflict Clay county became the
bloody debatable ground. Frank James
eighteen years old, joined Quantrell. One
day company OF militia visited the
farm. and taking cut old DR.. Samuel:
put rope about his neck and ran hin
up three or four times letting him down
in time to save his life. They took Jesse
from the plough, put rope about hi
neck and led him around, beating hin
with the fat of their sabres. They Their
went away, saying this was warning mo-
to harbor bushwhackers. Jesse joined hi
brother with QUantrell and from that
time out was an outlaw. Both OF thes'
bows. with Cole Younger were IN at thu
sack of Lawrence. Later, band o.
twenty-seven of the guerillas, headed b,
the James boys, fell upon detachmen
Of the Fifteenth Kansas Cavalry at CabiI
Creek IN the Cherokee nation. Their
were thirty.two OF the cavalry men ant
the guerillas killed twenty-nine of tn
thirtv-two. Jesse James disposing wit
his own hand of the Captain, Goss, ant
the Chaplain of the Thirteenth kansa:
Rev. L. Z. Gardner.
THE CENTRALIA SLAUGHTER.
Joining Bill Anderson. another guer
lila chief. Qantrell's men, with the jaime
bows and the Ioungers, for the latte
Joined the band as fast as they becom
old enough to carry weapon, they wer
At Centrala, Mo-. when train wa
stopped. The cars were full OF soldiers
most of them unarmed. They surrendere
and the guerriias led them out and she
them down till not man was left. The
they burned the town, and, turning on
full head of steam, send the tran
tearing down the track toward SIuI
rron. the next station A detachmcn
| Of 800 Federal troops, under Mslo
/ johnson. came down To avenge this out
rage, and they fell int" an ambush an
were slaughtered, barely score escaping
Jesse James claims to this day that h