Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-04-01
IHE JAW d HERED|TY.
Young Jesse James Seems to be Following in the Foot
 steps of His Father.
THE NOTORIOUS GANG.
Sons of Baptist Minister They Developed an Amazing Ca
 pacity for Crime.

siag Their Speciality Allowed Nothing
 Co stsnd tn Their way-Their Adventure
 wlth the GuiIeIess Cashier of County
 Fair.
 The dominating power of heredity oyer the individual is once more forcib- ly illustrated by the arrest in Kansas City. of Jesse James, Jr., for the aI- &eged participation in the holdup and robbery of a Missouri Pacific express train.
 Not yet has the elder generation of Gne public forgotten the criminal ex- 121ohs of the famous James Boys re- =gpectively, and father and the uncle of Jesse, Jr.. who for quarter of a century headed a gang of train rob oers and bandits that terrorized the Southwest.
 They were the sons of a respectable E8aptist minister. The father went to California in 1849 and died there in 1S5I. driven away from home, it is said, by his wife, from whom the sons seem a9 have inherited their deyiltry. The latent evil in them was brought out by the war Early in 1861 Frank James, rGn0 had just reached his majority, Joined Quantrell3s band of guerillas. in which he soon became noted for ferGD sctosas daring. Jesse joined year later. 9Z1d soon eclipsed his brother and all other members Of that gang of murder CTS ana cutthroats, masquerading as soldiers. Both brothers participated in the saeking and burning of Law fenee. Kan, When nearly every male iuhabitant was -uthlessly murdered, :aad in the massacre at Centralia, Mo, afa3ae. after the village itself had been ptunaa7ad. the guerllas waylaid an east-bOazfE train, robbed the passen- @era andFHTgd thirty two sick soldiers ca route for the st. Louis hospitals be- side fifty members of company of Iowa volunteers, who had hurried to ehe rescue.
 When the war ended the State be- .camettsp Hsea to hold the guerillas. .,Eesee James, with a congenial spirit uyamed George Shepherd, fled to Texas. while Frank followed the fortunes of G1uantren into Kentucky, where he es- capped by the merest accident from be- tug in the fight when Quantrell was nsartaily wounded and his band exter- minated
 Comparatively little is known of the .Iameses. except a personal adventure c1r 1wu, from this time until 1868 In Chat 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 -'.sEi1nr White, dashed into Russellville. Ky. and robbed the bank of $14,000. Part of the party entered the bank. while the others remained outside and iaagan a fusillade up and down tho ss4reat to prevent the approach of help. Accomplishing their object. the robbers rode away, and, though vigorously pur- eued, escaped.
 One of their most daring atrocities vag committed at Kansas City in the autumn of 1872. The County Agricul- eural Fair was going on. when three men were seen to ride up to the gate of che grounds. They were we'll mounted and wore long linen dusters and wide 5rimmed hats On reaching the gate ,aue dismounted, handing his bridle rsins to his comrades. He approached che ticket office, and, looking through ehe window, said to the eashier:-"Ii was to say I was Jesse James, and told you to hand out that tin box oi nRouey, what would you say?"
 ''T'd say I'll see you in - first. was the contemptuous reply
 Well. that's just who I am-Jesse 5ames-and you had better hand 1t out Yxctty quick, or I'll"--and the rest oi rho sentence was finished by levelling n huge navy revolver at the cashier The box was handed out with it's con cents of sl0,000. Jesse remounted, and Che three desperadoes began firing theii pistols. and hurriedly rode off The alarm became general, and almost i'm msdiately a pursuing party was organ, Ized, but with no results.
 Train and stage robberies followed tehe bank robberies In many of thei, su1urderous exploits members of tn, yang were killed or caught, but sucl
 Eas the terror inspired by the James saa that for more than ten years durinl which q price was set on their head
 1a one was found to earn the none, ay hetraying them.
 The offer of these sums led to tn Killing of Jesse James in April, 1882, b Robert Ford, lad of twenty, who wa xn collusion with the detectives. bu
 sahn had been aecented as a nrnmisin