Morning journal and courier., 1881-08-22
Price Four Cents

\ was the matter, when James turned around l and told him he would d-d soon show him what was the matter if he didn't get down. | Thereupon the man got down. Jesse James ! informed McDaniels that he was around hone during most of the summer months and two ! or three times year, and when at home, was 1 in Kansas City often.
 After the confession an attempt was made to capture the rest of the gang Is was I learned that Hines was in Independence warrant was swarm out and placed in the hands of the Sheriff. He went into a store | where Hines was. There was only a front | and back door, but the train robber walked | away from MT. Sheriff as from little boy, | the officer being too much terrified to level a revolver at him. It was learned that Cell | Miller was in Carrollton, Carroll county. | Sheriff was placed in possession of a warrant, | aud he and posse of ten men went after | him. They found him at his home in Car \ rollton. Miller was suffering form sprain- \ ed ankle The Sheriff walked into the house, | leaving the posse outside, and told Miller he | had warrant for him. Miller asked the Sheriff to assist him in putting on an over | shoe. Miller took advantage of the oppor- ' tunity to grab the Sheriff's revolver, and, placing it at his head, said: ''You are my | prisoner" Locking his arm inside the Sher- \ ifs he walked outside the house with him. ! He saw the posse, and told them if they made a move their Sheriff was a dead man. In | this way he walked to the hitching post, and then, taking the best animal there rode away. Hines afterward went to California, and ! has ever since successfully defied all attempts to capture him. Bud" McDaniels broke | from jail at Lawrence and was shot in the woods by country boy among his pursuers and killed. Thompson McDaniels subsequent ly participated in the raid on the bank at huntington, Va, wassspursued into the noun tains, and was also shot and killed. Clel Miller was killed in the raid with the Young CT brothers in Northfeld Minn. Hines and Jesse James are the only men of the party that are still alive. These are the kind of men that have followed the James boys in their past undertakings, and in their recent raids on the Rock Island road at Winston Mo.
 It is. therefore, hardly probable that they l will ever be taken. The task is far more difficult than would appear on superficial examination. The ordinary resources of the detective are of no avail in the enterprise. \ In the usual warfare between the criminal ' classes and society, the officers of the law | have generally the active aid, sympathy and cooperation of the community. In the case | of the James boystbe officers of organization ! which undertake to capture them can boast ! no such reliance.
 The James boys have friends, thousands | of them scattered about the wide extent of ! territory in which their name is household ! word. Again, in the chase after the ordinary ! gang of criminals the officers of the law may ! frequently gain, by generous concessions, the | help of other criminals. No such adventit- ! ous aid can come to the men who are ambiti- ! ous of taking the James boys. The friends ! of these celebrated outlaws are cemented to \ them by stronger ties than the ordinary criminal knows anything of. In most enter l prises of this kind again, the readiness of ' some member of the gang to ''squealr against
 | his ''pals" for the sake of immunity is an | important actor upon which the police or ! detective may rely with certainty In the | case of the James boys this is hardly probable, ! even in case of their capture, which is the ! most improbable element of the calcula- ! tion.
 Again, in all ordinary cases the detective | knows the ground better than the criminal ! In the case of the James boys this is reversed ! They are familiar with a tract of country of | which officers of the law know little or noth- ! ing and where the law as law is regarded with little respect. To capture them would require an expenditure of time and money which few men would be wiling to make on an uncertainty, either singly or banded to- gether in an organization for that purpose. The task is one in which the largest detective agencies in the world failed, after expending | a large sum of money and losing the lives of two of it's members who attempted to "get in their work" as spies. Over ten years ! have passed since their first depredations sent an alarm through the country, and so far they have. never been deprived of liberty ,. for dey.
 They were the eutgrowth, to curtain extent, of the war in Missouri When they were out-lawed they retained the symathy of the men who fought for the Confederacy, either in the army or as bushwhackers, and of the thousands who found themselves i'm poverished by the war, and attributed their losses to theigovernment. Hundreds of the men who came home at the close of hostili- ties divested of everything were befriended by the James boys. man might be in need of horse, and gift of that kind from the James boys made them friends for life They would think nothing of giving a man @ $1OO or $500 if he needed it. In the eyes of these people they stand in the light of heroes. They are not ignorant, ignoble desperadoes, as { might be supposed. They are men of native intellect, and are not destitute, by any means of culture or training. Jesse James was at ! at Lexington Mo-, when the war broke out, ! and Frank James is @ man of more than or dinary education. They are smart-smarter I naturally and by training than any detectives | that have been sent against them. They carry their lives in their hands, ,and they know 1t. They scrutinize and measure every man \ with whom they come in contact. To pu your hand upon one of them, even in the l carlessness of a friendly conversation; | would be a dangerous task. They go mo- I where unprepared for an emergency. To ! talk of putting spies on such men without | their knowing it is nonsense To talk of | | surb. The Shy Hills, back of Kansas City | a heavily wooded country, full of ravines and caverns and rocky fastnesses, almost impass- l able-would afford them hiding place for | months.
 ! It is probable that the recent robbery on | the Rocky Island Railroad would never have | occurred had not the friends of the James boys been defeated in an attempt to remove the ban of outlawry upon them. In 1975--76 bill was introduced into the Missouri Legis- lature by member from Galloway County, which proposed to guarantee the James boys from unwarranted molestation, provided they would return to the State and become law-abiding citizens. The bill did not pro- pose to grant them complete immunity for the past, but extensively guaranteed that they should have fair and impartial trial, and should not be arrested and carried out of the State upon mere suspicion. The bill was fathered by Major John Edwards, gallant officer under Gen. Shelby, and a journalist of distinguished ability. It was championed by many of the leading men of the State, but for some reason failed to pass. It is, per haps, significant of healthy growth of pub lie sentiment that $50, 900 is now offered by the Governor of the State for the apprehen- sion of the same outlaws whom 1t was pro- passed practically to amnesty.
 Jay Cooke Makes Amends. When Jay Cooke failed in September, 1878,
 
 bricks there was in a department in his banking house woman named Sarah Marshall who lost all her money in the crash, and next lost her reason. Since then she has
 been an inmate of the insane department of | the Philadelphia almshouse, and for nearly eight years has languished in caged quarters, 1 complete wreck. With the return of flush l times and the development of railroad inter-
 ests Jay Cookes creditors have fared better than was at first thought possible. Time has shown that if the banker had been allowed to l continue his business, all claims could have
 been paid off, dollar for dollar. Fortune has again smile on MT Cooke, and much of his l broken fortunes have been repaired. He | is now credited with mining possessions which have recently made rich developments, and there was mention not long ago of his
 having purchased the great mansion at Chel-
 ton Hill, at which he once dispensed prince
 ly hospitality, and had bought again for the
 | sake of old associations. It was about
 month ago that Mir. Cooke heard of Sarah
 Marshall's case and of her signal misfortune
 He immediately wrote to Dr. Richardson, who -1,1 oaGk1 e