Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-07

the James boys found congenial spirits
in Cole and Jim Younger. Jarrette, Clell
Miller, George Shepherd and others who have
been partners in their robberies since the war.
Both were IN Quantrell's band of 200 when
Lawrence, Kansas, was sacked, burned and
dered. Jesse James boosted at the time to
have shot down thlrty.six. The Younger
brothers, who were his boon companions,
were raised in Jackson county, Mo, within
| four miles of Independence. Probably NO
horror ofequal enormity of atrocity was ever
perpetrated than the massacre at Centralia,
1 NO., a way station on the Wabash railroad,
Bill Anderson, assisted by Jesse and Frank
James, killed thirty-two invalid soldiers in
cold blood. They first raided the vii
| lage and sacked the stores. Then, wait
| ing for the east bound train, they
| stopped it and robbed the passengers of their
money. Among the passengers were thirty
two sick soldiers en- route from st. Joseph to
st. Louis for better hospital accommodations.
These poor wretches were marched out ant
aligned by Frank and Jesse James, and Bill
Anderson, with his own hands, shot and killed
every man of them, pistol being handed him
by either Frank or Jesse as fast as he EN- cited
the one in hand. Scarce had the diabolical
massacre been finished before a company of
Iowa volunteers appeared in the distance, and
aim of these bandits. Thus within two hours
eighty slain were piled about the village.
Such scenes as these hardened the James boys
I and make their. latter-day crimes merely
trivial in comparison.
MORE DARING DEEDS
When the war ended Missouri became too
hot to hold the guerllas, Jesse James accom-
panied George Shepherd to Texas, while
Frank followed the fortunes of Quantrell into
Kentucky. For three years the James boys
sank from public gaze. In the spring OF 1868
Jesse James accompanied by Cole Younger,
Al. Shepherd, George Shepherd and Jim White
dashed into Russellyi)le, KY, and robbed the
bank of $4,000. Their first robbery
in Missouri took place in Gallatin, where not
liberataly shot and killed Captain Sheets,
the cashier, after they had collected ell the
money. For two years the James boys hung
around the Rio Grande frontier in Mexico.
In 1870 they returned. Corydon, Iowa, q
prosperous village near the Missouri line, was
invaded and the bank relieved of $4,000.
Then the boys kept quiet for two years more,
when they suddenly appeared with Cole, Jim
and John Younger, at Columbia, KY, robbed
the bank and shot down the cashier. In the
fall of that year the boys rode up to the box
office of the County Agricultural Fair, held at
Kansas City. Jesse James thrusta revolver
through the window and demanded the money.
The box, containing $4,000, was handed out
the outlaws dashed away, firing their pistols.
This daring exploit was followed in six weeks
| by the robbery of the bank at ct. Genevieve.
| Nobody was killed here, but 81 900 was poured
| into the capacious mouth of the bandits sad
| die bags. They were followed northwest to
| the Missouri, where all trace of them was
| lost.
AS TRAIN ROBBERS.
| The next heard of them was in June of
| 1878. The James boys were recognized around
| home in Clay county, and shortly after their
appearance train on the Chicago, Rock IS
| land & Pacifi C railroad was wrecked and the
express messenger was robbed of $4,000.
| Then came the robbery of an Iron Mountain
railroad train at Gad's Hill. They took pos
session of the station, switched the train on q
| side track and, at their leisure, Clell Miller,
| Jesse and Frank James and Jim and Cole
| Younger stripped the passengers of their sur
| plus wealth and robbed the express Car of
! Sill 500. Detectives were sent to hunt them
| out, but their traps were never entered by
the outlaws aud the detectives generally lost
their lives. The Youngers were ferreted
| out by Captain Tull, of the Chicago
police, and James Wright and Deputy Sheriff
| McDaniels, of Osceola. Their business was
suspected however, and in fight McDaniels
and John Younger were killed, and Captain
| Tull subsequently, died. Then the gang dis
appeared until 1874, when they robbed
| train on the the Kansas Pacific, near Muncie,
and obtained ZOO and disappeared in the
woods. Chill Miller and Kinds were arrested
| for the Murcie robbery, Miller in Carroll
county and Hinis at Independence, the county
seat of jackson county, ten miles from Kan
sss City. Miller, after his arrest, captured
the sheriff in charge, and, holding HIM in
front of his body, babe him send his deputies
away, aud with revolver muzzle in his ear
the officer complied. and the bold highway
man escaped; but his end was not many years
distant. Kinds escaped ia about the same
manner from the officers of Independence, and
has never been heard from.
IN PURSUIT OF THE BANDITS.
So hot was the pursuit after the Muncic
robbery that the outlaws separated and the
James boys went to Texas. In September
1875, Frank Joined Cole Younger, Thompson,
McDaniels aud man known as Keen, alias
Kinds, and robbed bank at Huntington,
West Virginia. In less than two hours posse
of over one hundred men started in pursuit.
In the mountains, nearly one hundred miles
from Huntington, fight took place between
the officers and fleeing robbers. Thompson
McDanels was killed and Keen, alias Kinds,
captured, but, as usual, Cole Younger and
Frank James escaped. Keen was sentenced to
fourteen years in the penitentlary and is now
serving his time. He has never told his true
name. Frank James Joined Jesse in Texas
and the band was increased by the addition of
several out laws from the Indian Territory.
In July, 1876. their plans were completed and
the east bound passenger train on the Missou
ri Pacific railroad was robbed at point about
twenty miles east of Sedalia, called Otterville.
The train was stopped by distractions and
the outlaws captured SIS, 900 in the safe in
the express car. Hobbs Henry, one of the
robbers, was captured and confessed, and of
all concerted only the Jamss boys escaped.
Three of their companions were killed,
FIGHTINGIN THE STREETS.
A trip was next planned to Mortified,
Minnesota. Bill Caldwell, a horse thief,
Joined the band, which included Cole, Jim and
Bob Younger, Jesse and Frank James, Clell
Miller, Charley Pitts and Caldwell. This
was in September, 1876. On the afternoon OF
the 7th the desperadOes dashed into town,
shooting their revolvers and hating in front
of the Mortified bank. While Frank and
| Jesse James and Bob Younger entered, the
other five remained outside to guard against
attack. j. L. Hayward, the cashier, and two
clerks were in the institution at the time.
For refusing to open the time lock Jesse
James sent ball through Haywood's brain.
Meantime the citizens on the streets realized
what was going on and opened fire on
the robbers. Caldwell was shot from
his horse by man from the
court house window, just opposite the
bank, and in few seconds Clell Miller, who
had escaped dozen of times in Missouri, was
also killed. BY this time the firing became
general, and Jesse James was in the highest
place of his life. Jim Younger had a bullet
| in his mouth, and Frank James one through
his leg, but the entire six succeeded in mount
| ing their horses and escaping from the town.
Then began a fight and pursuit, which for
persistence aud endurance is almost without a
parallel. The robbers were in strange and
unknown country, followed by fifty armed
men. When 1t was seen that the chase was to
be to the death proposition was made to
separate. Before this time Jesse James wanted
Bob Younger killed, as the blood from his