The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-26
BANDITS, RECORD.
Amount Stolen by the james and
Younger Gangs.

Amount Stolen by the james and
Younger Gangs.
San Francisco Examiner: In 10 years
and one month the James and Younger
gangs of bandits stole S1,03S0o0. These
figures are believed to be thoroughly
trustworthy, and are furnished by Doc
Miller, a man whose knowledge of the
matter no one who knows him disputes.
The dime novel Ananas and the builder
of western train robbing stories have
both given the impression that the men
whom the James boys and Bob and Cole
Younger led could have bought out Wall
street occasionally. sub-treasury and all,
panieS have sought 10 give the impression
that, so far as they were concerned, their
principal loss was damaged cars, and
what they paid the surviving relatives of
unfortunate employees. AS to the banks
that were robbed the railroad people were
ltra-communicative.
Thus it is that the public has had to
choose between several sets of alleged
facts. No one ever knew just what to
believe, but as romance had placed several
golden halos around the bandits exploits.
they were credited with having possessed
at various times vast wealth.
When Jesse James and Bob Younger
were in their bandit prime they had no
surer place Of refuge outside of Kansas
of Doc Miller. AS a matter of fact, the
famous Mortified (dinn.) bank robbery,
the Waterloo of the Youngers, was
planned in Miller's house. Naturally, he
was in a position to know the bandits
intimately. His Information is more
trustworthy than any FrankeJames could
give, for Jesse never trusted his brother,
and the Youngersi openly scorned him
DOC" or H. S. Miller, is now a deputy
under Joe Shelby. United States marshal
for the western district of Missouri, and
it was a long time before he could be in
duced to reveal what no one has ever
tol hefa 1u he
was nothing to be gained by secrecy.
Jesse James is dead. Frank is a guard
on the Missouri Pacific railroad. The
Youngers are in the Saltwater peniten-
tiary. Dick Little is periodically reported
dead in Mexico or Arizona, but generally
once in so often turns UP alive at INDIE
pendence. Mo. This being the situation:
there is no one left whom the facts will
injure. That is why they are made public.
One of the most interesting of his reve-
lations concerns the revenue enjoyed by
the daring adventurers who followed
the lead of Jesse James and Cole Younger
as we'll as the dates3 locations and NUM-
Der of bank, train and stage robberies
from the time of the famous Richfield
raid, led by Frank James, in August, 1898,
to the last one led by Jesse James, in
September, 1881, when all Missouri was
startled by the robbery of the Chicago
& Alton express at Glendale, which closed
forever the career of these outlaws and
their associates as land pirates.
From first to last the period covered
by the operations of these land pirates
was 10 years and one month. During
that time the total number of robber-es
| chronicled by the various historians is
| "a, classed as follows: Banks II, trains Z,
stages 8, town looted l, fair ground gate
receipts l, steamboat 1.
| The proceeds of the robberieS, as given
| in statements previously published ana.
according to the figures Mr.. Miller fur
nishes. differ widely. Here they are.
1 compared: