Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-03-12
Young Jesse James Seems te be Following in the Foot-
 steps of His Father.
THE NOTORIOUS GANG.
Sons of Baptist Minister They Developed an Amazing Ca
 pacity for Crime.

With the Gatietesa Cashier Of q County
 Tair.
 The dominating power of heredity over the individual is once more foreib- ly Illustrated by the arrest in Kansas City, of Jesse James, Jr.. for Inc al- leged participation in the holdup and robbery of Missouri Pacific express train.
 Not yet has the elder generation of the public forgotten the criminal ex- ploits of the famous James Boys, res spectiyely, and father and the uncle of Jesse. Jr., who for quarter of century headed a gang of train rob- befs and bandits that terrofized the Southwest.
 They were the sons of respectable Baptist minister. The father went to California in 1849 and died there in 1851, driven away from home, it is said. by his wife, from whom the sons seem to have inherited their deviltry. The latent evil in them was brought out by the war. Early in 1861 Frank James, who had just reached his majority, joined QuantrelIs band of guerillas, iR which he soon became noted for fefas cious daring Jesse joined year later. and soon ecllpsed his brother and all other members of that gang of murder CTS and cutthroats, masquerading as soldiers. Both brothers participated in the saeking and burning Of Law renee. Kan, when nearly every male inhabtlant was suthlessly murdered and in the massacre at Gentralia Mo. where, after the village itself had been plandered. the gueftllas waylaid an east-beund train, robbed the passen- gers and killed thirty-two sick soldiers en route for the St. Louis hospitals, be- side fifty members of a company of Iowa volunteers, who had hurried to the rescue.
 When the war ended the State be- came too hot to hold the guerillas. Jesse James, with congenial spirit named George Shepherd. fled to Texas. while Frank followed the fortunes of Quantrell into Kentucky, where he es- capped by the merest accident from be- ing in the fight when Quantrel was morta1ly wounded and his band exter- minated
 Comparatively little is known of the Jameses, except a personal adventure or two, from this time until 1868 IE that year they began the life which made them famous as bank and train robbers. Early in the spring Jesse James, accompanied by Cole Young CT, Al" and George Shepherd and Jim" White, dashed into Russellville, Ky, and robbed the bank of S14,000. Part of the party entered the bank. while the others remained outside and began fusillade up and down the street to prevent the approach of help Accomplishing their object. the robbers rode away, and, though vigorously pur- sued, escaped.
 One of their most daring atrocities was committed at Kansas City in the autumn of 1872. The County Agricul- tural Fair was going on, when three men were seen to ride up to the gate of the grounds. They were we'll mounted and wore long linen clusters and wide brimmed hats. On reaching the gate one dismounted, handing his bride reins to his comrades. He approached the ticket office, and, looking through the window, said to the cashier:-"n I was to say I was Jesse James, and 1 told you to hand out that tin box of money, what would you say?''
 I'd say I'll see you in - first, 2 was the contemptuous reply
 Well, that's just who I am-Jesse James-and you had better hand it out pretty quick, or Pll"-and the rest of the sentence was finished by levelling huge navy revolver at the cashier. The box was handed out with it's con- tents of $10,000. Jesse remounted, and the three desperadoes began firing their l pistols, and hurriedly rode off. The alarm became general, and almost im- mediately a pursuing party was organ ized, but with no results.
 Train and stage robberies followed the bank robberies. Tn many of their murderous exploits members of the gang were killed or caught, but such was the terror inspired by the James, es that for more than ten years during which price was set on their heads no one was found to earn the money by betraying them.
 ine oHer or these sums led to the killing of Jesse James in April, 1882. by Robert Ford, lad of twenty, who was in collusion with the detectives, but who had been accepted as a promising recruit by the unsuspicious bandit. Frank James a few months later gave himself up, was tried and was acouit- ted on successive charges of robbery and murder in the teeth of the plainest evidence, but amid the plaudits of a Western assemblage. He then settled down in his father-in- laws home, in h. dependence, Mo. In the fall of 1896 he accepted position as special messen- ger on an express train, his duty being no other than that of meeting train robbers at their own game.
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