The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-02-05

| a cigar stand in the corridor Of the court
| house. His mother opposed this, on the
| ground of evil associations, but young
| Jesse persisted, and while there he mace
| the acquaintance of the young men VINO
| got him into trouble.
| Among his many friends was a switch-
man on the Missouri Pacific, and he also
knew several of the trainmen. One OF his
acquaintance was William w. Lowe,
| switehman.
Five days after the Missouri Pacific train
was blown up by dynamite Lowe was ar
| rested on suspicion, and he made full
confession. This statement, which he sign
ed, implicated young Jesse James in the
robbery.
Young Jesse was arrested, and so strong
| was the evidence against him that he was
indicted by the grand jury.
As soon as this occurred anthropologists
phrenologists and such wise folk began an
| alyzing the boy and showing why he be-
came criminal. His head was pronounced
the type Of all that was evil and each
feature indicated his horrible nature.
| Now comes the confession of Stowelb
which says that young James was in no
way concerned in the robbery. That the
young man, handicapped with a bad name,
has-on account of that name-suffered
the horrible experience of being sentenced
and imprisoned for a crime of which he
| was innocent.
IF he had borne a different name it
|
| said at the time.
Jesse James can now go back to his home
| and take up the thread of his life What
| will be his future? Will he find himself so
| hampered by the name of his father that
| he cannot obtain position? VIII he find
| business doors closed to him and places OF
| trust out of the question? VIII he, now
| that the doors of the prison are opened to
| him through no fault of his own, turn into
desperate and pursue the career which
nod FOR hfVNah xr ~ q
| by fate?
Few can blame Jesse James if he does.
The elder Jesse led a wild career from
| 1852 to 1882. For twenty years he was the
most famous bandit of the world He
started by joining Quantrelrs guerillas.
Here is the story of the career of the ia
Their of the young man, from the beginning
until his DEATH
1S62-Frank James, brother of Jesse, joins
Quantrell's band of guerilas. Jesse James
joins the band several months later.
July, l63-Frank and Jesse James, with
Captain George Todd's company of Guam
trelPs guerillas, meet Major Ransoms
federal cavalry on the Pleasant Hill and
Blue Springs road, and several federals
are killed
July, 1S63-Frank James and other gueril-
las surround a house four miles east of
Wellington, Lafayette county, and kill ten
federals
August 81, 1S69-Frank and Jesse James
III the SACK OF Lawrence, kan.
July, 1S64-Jesse James and Arch Glenn
ents shoot four federals in an apple or
chard.
August u, 1S64-Frank and Jesse James
kill seven federals in Ray county.
September q, 1S64-The massacre of Gem
tralia. Frank and Jesse James and other
guerillas take twenty-eight unarmed fed
eral soldiers and four citizens from a train
| of cars stand them in line and kill them.
October, 1S64-Jesse James goes with
| George Shepherds band of guerllas to
| Texas.
May, 1s65-Jesse James and Arch Glenn
ents, returning to Clay county from Texas,
capture old man Hardness, a federal sym
pathizer in Benton county, Missouri, and
cut his throat from ear to ear. Jesse James
kills Duncan, in Kingsvle Johnson coun-
ty.
May 1S65-Members of Quantrelrs band
surrendering at Lexington, Mo. Jesse
James refuses to surrender and joins his
mother in Nebraska.
Autumn of 1S65-Horses stolen in Ohio.
Frank James, on his way from Kentucky
to Missouri, is suspected and surrounded
at at Brandenburg, o. He shoots two of
the posse and escapes. Frank James re-
turns to Missouri and finds he is pro-
scribed because of the Centralia massacre.
February IA, 1S66-Frank and Jesse James
and their band of outlaws commit their
first great robbery. Commercial bank in
Liberty, Mo-, robbed of $4,000.
February Is, 1S67-Five home guards sur
round the home of Jesse James near Kear-
ney, Mo-, and demand his surrender
Wounded and in bed he gets up, kills two
of the home guards and wounds two more
Jesse James escapes and goes to Ken
lucky, where he meets his brother Frank
March 20, 1S6S-Bank at Russellville, KY,
robbed. George Shepherd is given three
years in the Kentucky penitentiary for
this crime. OIL Shepherd, his brother, is
killed in an attempt to escape. Frank and
Jesse James escape to Missouri.
June 8, 1SS9-Jesse James sails from New
York on the steamship Santiago de Cuba
for California by way of Panama Frank
James goes overland and meets him there.
In the fall of that year they get in a fight
over a game of cards in a mining camp at
Battle Mountain and kill three men and
wound four.
December 16, 1S69-Robbery of the bank
of Gallatin, Mo. The cashier, Captain
John w. Sheets, murdered.
April 20, 1S72-Robbery of the bank of
Columbia Ky. The cashier, r. A. c. Mar
tim murdered, because he recognized
Frank James. Jesse and Frank James,
Cole, Bob and Jim Younger are supposed
to have committed this robbery.
June 2S, 1S73-Robbery of the bank at
Corydon, Ia; $4,000 stolen. Eight men
| were in this robbery. Among them were
| Frank and Jesse James, Jim Cummins,
! Charlie Pitts and Ed Miller.
| July 20, 1S73-The James gang does its
| first train robbery. Said to be the first
| train ever held up and robbed by bandits
| The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
| train wrecked by the robbers fifteen miles
| east of Council Bluffs, Ia. The engineer
| killed and fireman wounded several pas
sengers injured. The safe in the express
| car robbed of large sum.
1S73-The box office at the fair ground In
Kansas City robbed of about $4,000 in
broad daylight.
January 81, 1S74-The James gang COM
| mits its second train robbery on more i'm
! proved methods than it followed In the
first. This time the train is not wrecked