Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-09-14

captured by w. A. Pinkerton in
Council Bluffs, after they had robbed
the county treasurer at Glenwood,
Ia, of $4,000. They escaped from
Jail and went to Canada, where they
were arrested and brought back to
New Albany, Ind. A vigilance COM
mittee entered the Jail and hanged
Frank, Sim and William Reno, and
a fourth member of the gang.
Story of the James Boys
Mr.. Pinkerton then took up in de-
tail the history of the gang of which
Frank and Jesse James were the
leaders and which terrorized West
said:
ern Missouri for so many years. He
Among the Kentuckians who set
tied in Clay county, Missouri, before
the war, were DR.. and Mrs. SamueIj
and their IONS, Frank and Jesse
James, who were sons by Previous
marriage, who, when the war broke
out, Joined the Quantrell band, car
rying on a guerrilla warfare. After
the war the James boys, under the
leadership of Bill Anderson, with
some other members of Quantrell's
organization, began providing
through West and Southwest Mis-
souri, and Eastern Kansas, looking
for what spoils they could get.
From that time until April g.,
1882, on which date Bob Ford, for
a reward of $40. 600, offered by Gov
ernor Crittenden for Jesse James,
dead or alive, killed him in his home
at st. Joseph, Mo-, and until October
3, 1882, when Frank James surrend-
cred to Governor Crittenden in JEFF
ferson City, Mo-, these outlaws, op-
eratin with Cole, Jim, John and Bob
Younger, Clell and John Miller,
Charles Pitts, the Tompkins broth
ers, Jim Cummings, Dick Liddell,
Bill Anderson, and other members of
Quantrells band, committed a series
of the most despicable crimes of that
period in Missouri, Kentucky and
Minnesota, holding up with force of
arms banks in the day time, robbing
trains at night, numbering respect
able citizens who attempted to ar
rest them.
The published tales of their deeds
of daring were r%idiculously over
drawn and misleading, and contained
many glazing misstatements."
jesse James First Job
The first robbery undertaken by
the James and Younger brothers is
thus described by Mr.. Pinkerton:
June 8, 1871, the James and
Younger brothers on a raiding ex-
petition visited Corydon, Wayne
county, Iowa, having learned the
taxes were collected about this time,
anG intended to rob the county treas
urer, whose Office Jesse James en-
tered, requesting that a 800 bill be
changed, but the clerk informed him
that the county treasurer, who held
the combination of the locked safe,
was attending a public meeting on
the outskirts of the town, where a
proposition to build a new school
house was being discussed.
Just as James was leaving the
building the clerk told him that he
might get the bill changed at the
new bank GRO the square, which
had been opened that day and had
one-half of its capital on deposit.
Hearing this James consulted '
his associates, and the robbery of
the new bank was agreed upon.
When James offered the 500 bill
the cashier opened the safe to change
II, but, facing the new customer,
found himself looking into the muz-
zles OF two r%evolvers.
Other members of the band had
meanwhile entered the bank, all
forcing the president and cashier
into a back room, emptied the con-
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a s~addle-bag, and, Just as they were
leaving the bank, they met a new
depositor, a negro preacher, with a
handful of money and ordered him
to drop his money in the saddIe-bag,
which he did.
THE robbers then mounted their
horses and in fleeing from the town
passed the public meeting where the
new s%choolhouse proposition was be-
ing discussed. began firing their re-
v%olvers and rifles in the air, inform
ing the committee that the Corydon
bank had just been robbed II that
they had better get back in town and
start a new bank quick"
Kill Chicago Detective
The first train robbery by the
James and Younger brothers was on
July 20, 1873, when they robbed a
Rock Island train fifteen miles out
OF Council Bluffs, and murdered the
engineer. In January, 1874, they
robbed an Iron Mountain train of