The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-04-14
A TERRIBLE GANG.
THE FATE OF ALL THE FOLLOWERS OF THE
NOTORIOUS JESSE JAMES.

Sometimes it has seemed as if there was no
retribuJiOn for these men, who shook their
bloody hands in defiance of Justice while
. they shouted over their work. A apitua-
tiOn of the manner in which they have, one
by one, met a terrible fate, will 90 far to-
ward establishing the correctness of the idea
that, every now and then, time takes hold of
these matters himself and, in his own way,
gets even.
Dick Little. who was one of the saddle
gang, tired out, killed Hite, his most init
mate companion, and then turned over the
whereabouts of JEFF Hite, a brother, to the
authorities. This Hite was sentenced a few
days ago to a term of twenty five wears in
the Missouri penitentiary. Little has come
off lucky by resorting to the process known
as "squeaing."
john Younger was shot dead by Captain
Lull.
Bud Mcdaniel, who was at the Winston
robbery, was handed over TO the Kansas al
thOrities and escaped from jail He was Sc
creted in swamp by an old negro, who
gave him away, and he was shot down like a
mad dog. He fought until he fell. His
brother, Tom Mcdaniel, was tracked by two
Kentucky farmers, and killed for the part
he took in a bank robbery.
Bill Berry was killed in Mexico. Mo. by a
sherih's posse and one of Pinkerton's 5 men.
a squad of soldiers and deputy United
States marshal overlook Joe Collins and Bill
Heffren near Buffalo, Kansas. A fight en-
sued, and the two outlaws were left dead on
the grass.
Andrew Johnson was snapped up by a
bullet fred by citizen of Denton, Texas.
Sam Bass had a shot that cut off his exist
ence, in Round Rock, Tex.
Henry Collins was oveTtaken in Sherman,
Tex. and killed on the street by the sheriff
On the northern boundary line of the Uni
ted States Billy Collins came face to face
with Deputy Marshal Anderson. The two
fired and fell simultaneously.
In the raid into Minnesota, where the
yUh MI
James received wound from which he has
never recovered, Bill Chadwell, Charlie Pitts
and Ciel Miller were killed.
Ed Miller, as stated, was left for the coffin
by Jesse james, and now the header of the
most fearless banditti of modern times is
tucked by one of his own company to
whom he administered the bandits oath !;
to whom he presented the weapon that did
the work to whom he profferedtlIe hospital
ltles OF his home, and dies in the arms of his
wife.
There are in the penitentiary Pipes and
HerHdOn, for ninety-Eine years in Albany
for rObbing the mails in Texas Jack Keene,
serving out fourteen years sentence for
bank robbery in West Virginia JEFF Hite,
twenty-five years in Missouri for a train
robbery, and Tucker Bashan and Billy Ryan,
twenty-five years each tor the same Offense.
-Four are on trial in Independence, Mo, for
lain rObbeTies, and two are awaiting trial
in the same place. Arthur Mccoy is the only
one of this band WHO has died a natural
Frank James, it is believed, is not in KeE-
tucky, but in the pan handle section of Tex
as, where he ana Jesse invested in ranch
some years ago.
One of the most vivid pictures which some
writer will have to portray one of these days
is the ride of Frank James from the borders
of Minnesota To Kentucky tied to spirited
horses of which there were relays, his life
blood staining the grasses of the pTairies
and the leaves of the woods as he dashed for
life TO his old haunts. From the effects of
this wound and ride he has never recovered.
Chicago Times.