New Britain herald., 1914-08-14
FRANK JAMES IS
 NOW BERRYP|CKER Reformed Outlaw Wishes He Ceud d
 Forget OId Life.

Tacoma Wash, Aug. 14.-'There has been much in my life that I don't want to think of-would to God I could forget it. Years before I quit the old life I was as tired of it as the other people, The speaker was Frank James, modern Robin Hood, brother of Jesse James, the outlaw, and at pres ent berrypicker at Edgewood, Wash. The place was G. w. Glazebrook' s grocery store in Tacoma
 We got into it, and it was our lives against money said James. Suffer! We have been hungry with \ our pockets full of money. We have been hunted like the wolves of the prairie.
 1T could not write the history of my life in five years. I have only a short time to live, anyhow, and money is no more to me than dust under my feet"
 The first I knew that Frank James was in this part of the country" said MT. Glazebrook, the grocer, .'was when I received a crate of berries with IF. E. James written on the end. I asked MT. Hildgren, the rancher about it, and he said he would take me out to see James any time I wanted to go.
 Started by Killing of Father.
 We found James sitting in the door of his cabin, dressed like a logger. As we came close he stood up. am very glad to see you, sir, he said as
 
 a while MT. Hi1dgren left. I told him I was from Kentucky and he seemed to know how to take me then.
 T asked him how he got started in the old career as a bandit. He said it was the abuse he had received at the hands of the men who had killed his father-aH through suspicion they were harboring southern soldiers. He said he and Jesse got twenty-one of them and that God Almighty got the other
 Settled the Detectives.
 After six detectives, as James calls them, had thrown a bomb into their house, killing his younger brother and Wounding his mother, the James boys dressed as cowboys and overlook the men. They asked them what they 5.
 "'We would stick them on the end of our guns the men replied
 "'You are talking to Jesse James right now and that is my brother, Frank, standing there said Jesse. They pleaded for their lives, but the James boys told them they had shown no mercy to their brother or their mother.
 Frank James smiled when telling of the detectives. They thought all they had to do was to come over here, put up on their shoulders and tell us to come along he said. They never got back
 "Of all their work, Frank James considers the Northfield robbery the biggest. Two banks were lifted and more than sSO.000 in cash taken The two Cobb brothers and man named Mitchell lost their lives. Jim Younger was seriously injured and Frank James lost the most of his hand
 Declined to Join Bank Robbery.
 Jesse James was killed by Bob Ford in September of 1882, while hanging up a picture of himself and Frank in their house. Frank surren- dercd in October, 1882, and after two years was released on parole
 Several years later, disguised as cowboy he met Bob Ford in a Kan sas City dance hall. He offered to treat the crowd and stepped up to the bar. Ten dollars was laid down on the counter. Ford returned S2. Frank James told him who he was. What followed is a matter of history.
 James told me that when he was ;x, asked him to take charge of blow ing the safes of the National Bank of Commerce and the Fidelity Trust comrany's bank. T told them. said James. that I did not want to have anything to do with the work: that I had never been in it for money and