The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-12-29
RETURNED BANDIT LIVED THAT
H MIGHT WIN PUBLIC RESPECT
'''i Ea1 ssG 3@ clay Ry'q G9d in Ess Ss1 and u 2mssss On HI.
Band Terrorized The West-Brothhewre hsy Years His

near the little village of Sn1;lev u.
ihey We're cornered there bv a s,ne
iiof iorce and nearly annihilated moi
~ psihs Killed. Frank James al
ne Line was on g visit home
AFTER The war Frank 1amae -
manned in Kentucky some tina n.
escape threatened vengeance f.
some OF his Missouri ventures Sud
oehiy ne appeared near his home and
mace the statement: I'm going down
70 see Alvas Daley
DALEY was found next day with
"a puise.s hoies in his head. He
mao incurred the ennity of the James
Boys during the war. The kflinr 90
not liked upon Frank at the time but
ne confessed it years later.
t. 1nere was much of horse stealing
~ iAehtucky then and former Guam
uell men were suspected. About the
lime FRANK James was passing
u1ousn Brandenburg severIl horses
were stolen there. A posse was or
gained and a trial led them to
Frank James. Four deputies ap-
proached him while he was sitting
on the amanda of g. hotel They told
him he was under arrest.
on, L couldn't think Of it" re-
phed lanes as he drew his revolver.
0eVeral shots rang out. Witnesses
a1terWard declared five persons were
vi lIlc Dc1SOI1S We're KILL
ed. Two of the deputies lay writing
on the ground, a third was dying
me fourth, after firing q shot through
the bandit hip, FLED.
FRANK James stood leaning against
a table. his pistol extended, srnokine
IN front OF him. a crowd surrounded
i'm crying for vengeance. Frank
/, James, with q bullet in his hin
laughed.
l Stand back there" he shouted
: III shoot the first man thai draws
: Then as the crowd hung on II
!, word he called out: Look whats
J coming! jump"
> All turned to see what was m enac.
; ing them. There was Lothing. ant
= they turned back. The WOUNDED
, bandit was not there. How he dis
appeared nj where he went he
never has revealed. Months paSset
before his wound healed and it wa.
! several years before he entirely re
. covered
Southern SyInpathizcrs.
When the James boys returned L
Clay County, Mo, a few years afte
the war, they were idols Of the
e Southern symrathiZers. The resident
believed that i'll treatment by Unto
Y troops had driven the James boy
e into the Quantrell gang, and this sym
l. pathy for them afterward aided theI
e many times in escaping capture 70
is train and bank rObberies. From. thi
is time, it is said. Frank James did nc
e appear in public for years except i
n disguise.
Ie Jesse James was at his home nea
d Kearney in 1857 re~cuperating fror
[e wounds received in IN exploit Whe
d five men came TO arrest him. Rea,
ling that capture probably NEAR
q death. he fired at them through
d door. Two men were killed, tW
a fatally wounded and the fifth fle'
S. Jesse took the wounded men into n
at home and gave them every care unit
t, other men came to attempt the cal
ty ture; then he fled to Kentucky, whel
he was joined by Frank.
Sc In March, 1858, a gang Of arme
" men rode into the town OF Russell
m vile, Ky, ordered the residents
ly remain indoors, rifled a bank
500, 600 and then rode ava,
in Pursuers followed them throue
lis Tennessee, but they escaped into Nj
1g souri,.
Killed California Sheriff.
Frank and Jesse James were ne
=, heard Of in California, where tn
=. were living ''in funds" Soon, hoy
n~-cver, they were in trouple again,
quarrel in q gambling den ended
"a al SSSo IlOOtlIS oAN
drawn a knife. The sheriff W
- PLAYING at the same table. He polI
&c ed a revolver at the band1ts pTea
and ordered him to surrender. Jes
,n slipped from in front OF n Weap
and the sheriff fell dead with a bul
- in his heart. There was q gehel
mix-up. Lamps were overturned a
IL friends fired on friends IN the CO
.iv fusion. Frank and Jesse escap
.S during the melee, leaving Dehlno
y dead and eight seriously wounot
d" They fled TO the Mountains ana spe
;, much time with h Indians peIt
e makjng their way back to missouri
e They then r~eorganiZed their 2
al ,nq and soon the bank at Gallat
Mo. was robbed, the cashier 'ohn
sheets. being shot q
Ter Colnmbi a little villege III Al
COUNTY KY. was the scene OF IN
M next operation. It was in Aprii, - !.
'rhe gang entered the village IN ,
sections from opposite sides meet
TO at the Deposit Bank, r. 4. {. M
~ tin. the cashier, was kiilea "nen
49, -o.o~l tho com DlndI1Oi