The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-07-06

from real or imaginary wrongs. IN strenu-
GUS times. into a life Of outlawry-
A. a border fighter Jesse James was given
his second burial. and his former COM
raGes In Quantrel's band. who acted as
pa;lbearers. seemed to bring an echo OF
that interstate strife IN which Jesse was
trained as a rough rider. There. perhaps.
he lost the sense Of fear. and received the
training which made his career OF ad-
venture conspicuous IN history.
II George. now a Deputy Sheriff OF Jack
son County. who enlisted Frank and Jesse
James in QIantrelis band. may be taken
as a type Of James's early companions.
Rugged. fearless In speech and manner and
a dead shot, he speaks Of desperate fighting
In the same jolly way that he tells OF hav-
ing TO cat dog meat on a campaign. Upon
joining his fellows on the veranda OF the
Burlington Hotel at KeFrney last Sunday he
called: Lookout for scoutsi'
The way In whoieh he said Il seemed TO
his hearers as though he would be as will
Ing 20 ride rains a body Of enemies Wit
his bridal rein in his teeth and shooting
with both hands. as he would 10 sit quietly
and tell q Joke. Frank Gregg. another pail
bearer, who was one OF Quantrelrs cap
tains. gave the same impression.
Stern COmradeship of Those
Who Had Fought Together.
During the proceedings Incident to the re-
Interment q certain grimness marked the
bearing OF these men They gave the i'm
preston that no regrets were to be ex-
pressed. No matter what Jesse James was.
o. was not, he was their comrade in the
border warfare, and 81 that warfare had
anything TO do with leading him into his
subsequent career u was not a matter 20
lament; he was still their comrade.
To Frank James and each other they
were 'Bovs" Their conversion in
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sick while TIE body OF jesse was being eX-
huned az the farm. four miles away. re-
lated back 10 war times. Not e reference
was made to the years WREN the James
boys were on the road. Frank never dis
cusses this subject.
Even when the funeral party, composed
OF the pallbcsrers. members of the family
and newspaper correspondents. arrived at
the house in the afternoon, Frank RETAINED
from calling attention to the old port holes.
or the bullet scars In houses or trees. He
pointed cut the room In which his little
half-brother Vas killed by detectives. and
where his mother was manned.
And that is the direction in which they
he said. waving toward the Hill west
OF the house. HIS eyes showed an unusual
CLEAN, and for the first time his voice re-
vealei d trace OF feeling. For a second only
the expression OF the "maTksman's eye"
was intense
NlslLgES ElIsIu4laE VIII the nlSNDEg pA
the Samuels farm found II difficult to real
ize tina amid such a scene took place n
part OF the James series Of tragedies. That
here Jesse was born and his family lived.
When the sun came out in the afternoon
the landscape surrounding the whitewashed
farmhouse was the essence Of pastoral
peace. BilIowy fields OF corn and crimson
clover scintiliated with drops OF water like
diamond dust upon folds OF green satin.
Dark clouds formed the background, shad-
owing the deep ravines that lead from the
farm into the branches Of Clear Creek.
Pool Where the Boys
Learned to Swim.
Along the bluffs Of this creek the funeral
cortege passed, and from a high elevation
Frank James pointed out a swimming
hole which he and Jesse frequentsd in
boyhoCd. Beneath these same bluffs detec-
tives afterwards hid, Just as they also con-
cealed themselves behind the mock-orange
hedges. where row wild roses. elder and
h~ollyhocks are blooming. Midnight races Of
pursued and pursuers. dead shots and des-
perate riders. a score Of years ago. took
place on the road over which the silent
funeral procession slowly passed.
From the roadway one could see the
homes Of Mrs. Mary Barr. Jesse JameSs
daughter: John Samuel. his half-brother.
and his half-sisters. Mrs. William Nichol-
son and Mrs Joseph Han, all OF whom
have neatly Kept cottages. surrounded by
fertile fields, in the black soil OF which
grow abundant crops OF grain. II is a
garden spOt-Clay C~ounty-and visitors are
shown extreme courtesy
ON the way to the Samueis farm tbs