The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1906-07-25
|IESsE JAMES, JR,, IS
| 4 MODEL YOUNG MAN
OMITTED TO BAR WITH
oup HIGHEST HONORs.
suOpOH1s WIDOWED MOTHER
lanes Has No Bad Habits,
Hos worked Hard to Live
Down the Bad Named Left
by His Father.

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Down the Bad Named Left
by His Father.
o lanes, son of Jesse James the
,, 'v outlaw, is now a full-fedged
1.2 ror Last week he passed a sue
' ''.fnI examination before the state
"ard Of examiners and was enrolled
.' ,bo courts of the State as an attor-
ney at law
,.mos stood first. His average in all
sa.ncbes was 81 per cent. Henry A..
,.hIav chairman of the board of ex-
.miners said after the examination
.hot Jesse James had the brightest le-
r,I mind of any young man who ever
snoesred before the board.
Tasse James is a self-made man.
Pc was handicapped as few boys are.
The son of an outlaw, he was left an
o,nb8n at years of age, without
money and with a bad name to live
down Soon after the burial OF his
father his mother came to Kansas
ritv and made a living for herself and
her two children by sewing. Jesse
vent to school until he was II years
old. when he decided that he was old
enough to work for his mother. One
Sunday he saw the following adver-
fsement in a newspaper:
! Wanted-An Office boy. I. I. Crit
tendon, Jr.
Jesse answered the advertisement
/ the next morning. Twenty other boys
answered it, too, and Jesse was the
Youngest of them all. Mr.. Crittenden
at his desk looked over the crowd of
boys and beckoned to the smallest of
them.
What do you wish, my boy?" he
asked
u want to be your Office boy"
What is your name?"
Jesse James, Jr."
Like Father, Like Son." Not So.
Mr.. Crittenden was surprised, He
vas the son of T. T. Crittenden Sr.,
governor of Missouri, who offered
reward of $50, 900 for the capture,
dead or alive, of the outlaw, Jesse
James, To get the reward Charlie
and Bob Ford killed Jesse James.
And now here was the son of the dead
bandit asking work of the son of that
governor.
Crittenden hired the boy, and he tes-
tiled that lie was faithful.
few years later Jesse went to
Armour'S packing house as a clerk.
de studied at home. His mother was
Dis teacher. After a few years in the
packing house he opened cigar store
IN the county court house. He wrote
book in defense of his father, and it
was published. It sold we'll. When
ne was q years old he had $500 in the
Oank, and, owned a cottage in which
us mother and sister lived. He then
opened cigar store in the business
center of Kansas City.
AT this period of his life, when he
was on the road to prosperity and to
an hOnored manhood, he was arrested
lor the crime of train robbery. 1t was
charged that he, with accomplices,
uao held up Missouri Pacific train
aad robbed the safe in the express car
VI S59,999. 1t was a dramatic train
'oooery, as much so as was any OF
VIC ro0berieS of a similar nature
"nIch had made his fathers name
notorious throughout the world. He
''S 'rled, was ably prosecuted, and
'"S acquitted. But the criminal
,"arge against him was serious set
'"eN 10 his hopes and ambitions. 1t
lao taken all his savings to hire, law
'eES 10 defend himself, and the worry
-au caused his mothers health to
I'LL Soon afterwards she died.
Living Down Bad Name.
Jesse worked harder than ever at
lis business. He had chance to sell
1DIIt' and did so at good profit.
men ~ ne opened a pawnshop and mar
lea. But he wished to be lawyer