The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1882-10-26
d and HazeltOn, the crowds at both places
being large and enthusiastic,
THE JAMES FAMILY.

Frank james to the GOVernOrofM Missouri
ends the existence of a league whose
members were as desperate, as daring,
and, for years, as compact as any that
was ever formed for the perpertatiOn of
crime. 1t was founded On the spirit of
revenge. Every man in it had a griev-
ance, real or faneied. Every man in it
had gone out from his home feeling that
1T was thecwOrld against him, and that
he had nothing left except to count dead
men: The incarnation of this league
was Quantrell. He inspired it and gave
it the terror which it afterward eXerted.
He was their ideal. He had the face of
acw0man and the heart of tiger. He
was the handsOmest man that ever sat
on hoTse-the most daring rider and
suTest shot. He was a singular admix-
ture. With the unrelenting hatred of
an Indian, he combined some qualities
of mercy as gentle as were ever extend
ed. 1t was this combination which
charmed the border banditti, for it had
an idea of blending certain sort of
chiValry with desperation, and calling
the two religion. Under this they warred
in the night, in the saddle, in the tall
western grasses which covered the trail,
and in the thickets where the OnlyrOads
were bTidle-paths. Jesse James and
Frank James were the kind of men whom
plOits under his career were executed by
them They were. the men whom he
implicitly trusted, and to whom he
turned over his unfinished work when
he died. How well they kept the COM
pact and how terrible and swift were
their reVenges the records of their depre-
datiOns will attest.
The James brothers were born in Clay
county, near Kearney, a station about
forty miles from Kansas City, on the
Hannibal and st. Joseph Railroad. Their
father was a Baptist preacher, their
mother, woman of remarkable courage
and singular force of character. They
we're rebel family, OutspOken and bold.
During the early days of the war on the
border, when there were ordinations
and recriminatiOnS, their father was
taken away from home, tied up to a.tree,
and thrashed. The boys took an oath to
avenge this wrong. And then began a
career which has no counterpart any
where in the history of this country.
There came to their aid combination
which was ready to move at any hour
for spOils. The first depreciation was in
their own native county, when they
planned and executed the robbery of the
Liberty bank. Their cOnfederates were
Andy MCGUIRE, Archie Clemens and Dick
Burns. Mcclure received his share of
the money, stopped on his road out of
the country to talk to his sweetheart,
fell under her pleadings, married her,
tarried to taste of the honeymoon
sweets, and was Overtaken and hung up
to tree. The next one to go was Archie
Clemens, who was riddled with buck
shot in the streets of Lexington, by the
militia of Bacon Montgomery. Dick
Burns was killed by party of harvest
eTs short time after. The James
brothers were left, and at once began to
recruit, for their work was only begun.
The following is a list of the league
which had Jesse James for a leader and
Frank for a lieutenant: George Shep-
| herd, Jim Read, Bud McDaniels, Hobbs
Kerry, Arch Mccoy, John Younger, Cal
Miller, bill Chadwell, Berry, lCharlie
Pitts, Call, Jim and Bob Younger, Tuck
er Basham and the Ford boys. They
scattered, and at various times in the
season came together to hear the report
of each and renew their vows. Shep,
herd participated in bank robbery al
Lexington, KY. He was arrested, con
Victed, and served out his sentence. He
went into a scheme when he came out
to give the James boys over to the au-
thOrities. He attempted, or claimed, tC
lead detectives into the jungles where
the James brothers were. He was shot
ana came DacK. de Is llVlng IN Kansas
City now. Jim Reed, who was at the
Gad's Hill train robbery, was shot later
on in Texas by q Sheriff, Bud McDaniels
who was at the Glendale train robbery
rode into Kansas City few nights after
to give his sweetheart some of the stolen
property, and was captured. He escaped
from jail after year, hid himself in g
thicket, and was shot to death, refusing
to surrender. He had brother, Thomas
McDaniels, who was shot in Hunting
ton, w. Va, while trying to rob bank
Kerry confessed to the '0tterville rob
berry, and is now in the penitentiary
Berry, who participated in robbery OF
the Union Pacific road, was killed by {
Missouri Sheriff. Mccoy was killed il
Texas. John Younger killed Captain
Lull, Of PinkertOn's Agency, who haC
J gone to Missouri to capture him. TIL,
raid on the NOrthfeld, Minn., bank is o
. | raaant dato Millar Nhadxuall Pittc