The suburban citizen., 1902-09-13

whom this country has produced.
Quantrell was the first Of the modern
outlaws. He began on the Southwest
epn border before the war His orig
inal band. formed in 1859, was com
posed of eight men. But in six months
it had grown to thirty men, OF which
Cole Younger, OF the dreaded Younger
brothers, made one. Coles brother got
in later, and it was not until the pres
tge of Quantrell had been dimmed
that this precious pair gained wide no
toricty.
Quantrell graduated several delecta-
bic pairs of outlaws from his band.
OF trese the best known were Of course
the James boys. One day when Jesse
James was sixteen years Of age and
his brother Frank was eighteen. some
militiamen conceived it TO be for the
good of the community that they
should publicly chastise the brothers.
They caught the boys ON their moth
er's farm in Clay County, Kentucky,
and whipped them well.
The immediate effect OF the punish
ment was to cause the James brothers
to enlist under Quantrell from whom
presumably they learned much that
stood them well in the many pursuits
of which they were the object. The
whole world heard OF their daring eX-
ploitS, of their many escapes, often
when capture seemed to be certain; of
the raids carried on by them long after
Quantrell had retired from the field
and the Younger brothers had ceased
to be notorious, how it was found i'm
possible TO capture them until the day
when Bod Ford, relation and in their
confidence, shot Jesse from behind
while the latter was busting a picture
on the wall of his home.
The Southwest breathed easier when
Jesse James fell, for his death put an
end to the long career and pursuit of
his brother Frank. as well as himself
Frank James settled down in st. Louis
and to his great credit led thereafter a
respectable life
more nearly approXimates that of
Tracy than did that Of Jesse James
Billy, whose right name was William
Bonne, whose deeds and mlsdceds have
supplied subject matter for more than
one penny dreadful, was a New York
waif. who. while still young, was taken
TO Indianapolis, where he was raised.
He ran away from home one day, and
ever after gave himself up to that
thirst for notoriety which character
lied him. His first enemy" was John
Chisum, his employer, whom he swore
TO Kill for trifiing matter of a dispute
over wages.
In the East he, at his age, would
probably have been cllpped into jail
along with Jesse Pomeroy and other
youngsters with thirst for blood, but
| on the edge of Deaths Valley men
rather believed in the right of the ven
dettist TO create his own laws, He be-
came the most feared man in the
| Southwest, and he was careful to fos-
ter his reputation.
His vanity was great, and it con
stantly fed upon itself, until almost no
risk was too great for him to run. He
walked into towns, killed his men, ana
openly deficd arrest. General Lew Wal
lace met him while the authur OF "Ben
Hur' was Governor OF New Mexico,
and arranged to have him testify at
coming trial. He submitted to arrest
and was placed in Jail heavily hand.
cuffed at his own request. This was
either vanity or desire for obvious
reasons to contribute TO the desperate
character Of his reputation.
None of the jailers was in the secret
of his arrest, yet ono day be announced
that he was tired Of Jail life.
The handouts dropped from Ms
wrists, the doors opened, and he rode
away. They said it WAS hypnotism
but later, when he was actually cap
tured in earnest by Sheriff Garrett ant
confined to Lincoln County Jail, New
Mexico, after being sentenced TO death
it was not hypnotism that got hin
of.
Nine men stood guard over him, ant
there was not moment when at leas
one was not watching him. When h
was sentenced he told the Judge b,
would never hang, and IL was so. ON
day lie caught the sentinel who wa
Supposed to watch him Off his guard
II was at meal time on Tie day bcfOr
that set for the execution.
The one man at dinner with hin
leaned over TO pick up something. Bill.
Drained him instantly with his man
acles, and picking up the dead man
revolver, marched boldly from the jail
Again he began his rowing life. defyini
pursuers right and left, and yet appai
emily not taking even ordinary precau
ton. Some time alterward he wa
shot and killed by Sheriff Garrett, wh
had sworn to take him dead or alive.
Another career similar to that o
. Tracy's was that Of Newt VOrce, wh
J got into shooting scrape with Deput
1 Sheriff q. B. Hollingsworth near Dee
: Trail, Col. in 1887. The shooting O
q thp Sheriff and of anOthpr man nar1p