The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1882-04-14

Younger, Jarrettc, Clell Miller, George
Shepherd and others who have been
partners in their robberies since the
war. Both were in Quantrell's band of
two hundred when Lawrence, Kansas,
was sacked, burned and nearly every
male inhabi,ant iuthlessly murdered.
jesse james boasted at the time to have
shot down ,hirty.six The Younger
brothers, who were his boon compan-
ions, were raised in Jackson county,
Mol, within four miles of Independence
Probably no horror of equal enormity
or atrocity was ever perpetrated than
the massacre at Centralia, Mo, a way
station on the Wabash Railroad, in
Boone county. Here, on September
~, 1864, Bill Anderson, assisted by
Jesse and Frank James, killed thirty
two invalid soldiers in cold blood
They first rdided the village and sacked
the stores. Then, waiting for the east
bounc train, they stopped it and rob-
bed the passengers OF their money.
Among the passengers were thirty-two
sick soldiers en- route from st. Joseph
to st. Louis for better hospital accom-
modations These poor wretches were
marched out and 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 emp,ied the one in hand Scarce
had the diabolcal massacre been finish
ed before company of Iowa volun-
teers appeared in the distance, and they
too, became victims to the unerring
aim of these bandits Thus within two
hours eighty slain were piled about the
village Such scenes as these hardened
the James boys and made their latter
day crimes merely trivial in compar-
ison.
MORE DARING DEEDS.
When the war ended Missouri be.
came too hot to hold the guerrillas
Jesse James accompanied George Shep-
herd to Texas, while Frank followed
the fortunes of Quantrell into Ken
lucky. For three yeas the James boys
sank from public gaze. In the spring
of 1868 Jesse James, acc Dmpanied by
Cole Younger, AL. Shepherd, George
Shepherd and Jim White. dashed into
Russellvillc, Ky, and robbed the bank
of $4,000. Their first robbery in Mis-
souri took place in Gallatin, where not
only did they rob the bank, but delib-
erately shot and killed Captain Sheets,
the cashier, after they had collected all
the money. For two years the James
boys hung around the Rio Grande
frontier in Mexico. In 1870 they re-
turned. Corydon, Iowa, prosperous
village near the Missouri line, was in
vaded 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
thrust a revolver through the window
and demanded the money The box,
containing $1,000, was handed out
,, and the outlaws dashed away, firing
their pistols. This daring exploit was
followed in six weeks by the robbery
= of the bank at St Genevieve. Nobody
was killed here, but $4,000 was poured
into the capac;ous mouth of the bandits
saddle bags. They were followed
northwest to the Missouri, where all
trace of them was lost.
! AS TRAIN ROBBERS.
e The next heard of them was in June
p. of 1878. The James boys were recog
e nized around home in Clay county, and
= shortly after their appearance a trair
4 on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
/. cic Railroad was wrecked and tht
e express messenger was robbed of So
s 900. Then came the robbery of al
= Iron Mountain Railroad train at Gad'
d Hill. They took possession of the sta
d ton, switched the train ON side tract
|. and, at their leisure, Clell Miller, Jess
It aud Frank James and jim and Col
a Younger stripped the passengers o
l. their surplus wealth and robbed the ex
# press car of 81 800. Detectives wer
l. sent to hunt them out, but their trap
were never entered by the outlaws an,
the detectives generally lost their lives
- The Youngers were ferreted out b.
& Captain Tull, of the Chicago police
Is and James Wright and Deputy Sherii
= McDaniels, Of OSceola. Their busines
% was suspected, however, and in fgh
a McDaniels and John Younger wer
20 killed and Captain Tull subsequent
!. died. Then the gang disappeared III
70 til 1874, when they robbed train o
10 the Kansas Pacific, near Muncie, an
~ obtained $4,000 and disappeared i
- the woods Clell Miller and Hind
Il were arrested for the Muncie robber,
!, Miller in Carroll county and Kinds 8
70 Independence, the county seat of Jacl
a son county, ten miles fl ON Kansas Cit,
n Miller, after his arrest, captured Ii
~ Sheriff in charge and holding him
~ front of his body bade him send h
,s deputies away, and with a revolv,
;, muzzle in his ear the officer compile,
/ and the bold highwayman escaped; b'
r his end was not many years distan
n Kinds escaped in about the same ma
= ner from the officers of Independent
mr. and has never been heard from.
of IN PURSUIT OF TIE BANDITS.
ut So hot was the pursuit after the Mu
es Gle robbery that the outlaws separat,
~ and the James boys went to Texas.
&c September, 1875, Frank joined Co
ri Younger, Thompson McDaniels and
=, man known as Keen, alias Hinds, al
r. robbed a bank at Huntington, We
d, Virginia. In less than two hours
lg posse of over one hundred men start
ly in pursuit In the mountains, mean
at one hundred miles from Huntington,
90 fight took place between the office
Is, and fleeing robbers Thompson N
dy Daniels was killed and Keen, ali
ng Kinds, captured. Keen was sentenc
in to fourteen years in the penitentia
at and is now serving his time. lie h
ed never told his true name. Frank Jan
rs joined Jesse in Texas and the ha