Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-15
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PICKS BERRIES
IN WASHINGTON
Frank James, Leading Quiet
Life, Tells of Days When His
Name Spelled Terror

There is much in my life that
don't want to think of-would to God
could forget il. Years before ! quit
the old life 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 present a
berry picker at Edgewood, Wash The
place was G. w. Glazebrook' grocery
store in Tachoma.
I'VE got into it and il was our lives
against money" said James.
Suffer We have been hungry with
our pockets full of money We have
| been hunted like wolves of the prairie.
Il could not write the history of my
life in five years. | have only short
time to live, anyhow, and money is no
more to me than dust under my feet. !
am going TO live a quiet life" r..
Betrayed by a Berry Box. .@.-... r.
THE first knew that Frank James
was in this part of the country" said
| Mr.. Giazebrook, the grocer, today,
was when received a crate of berries
with f. e. James written on the end.
! asked Mr.. Hildgren, the rancher,
about it, and he said he would take me
| out to see James any time | wanted to
60" says a correspondent in Tacoma.
I'VE found James sitting in the door
of his cabin, dressed like a logger. AS
We came close he stood up. I am
very glad to see you. sir he said as
Mr. Hildgren introduced u.s. After a
while Mr.. Hildgren left told him
- -
know how to take me then. This was
two weeks ago Sunday. Last week he
came into Tacoma and spent five days
with me. ...... ~.
Il asked him how he got started in
this work. He said it was the abuse
he had received at the hands of the
men who had killed his father-all
through suspicion they were harboring
Southern soldiers. He said that he
and Jesse got 81 of them and that
God Almighty got the other.
After six detectives, as James calls
them, had thrown a bomb into their
house, killing their younger brother
and wounding their mother the James
boys dressed as cowboys and overlook
the men. They asked them Just what
they would do If they met the James
boys
I've would stick them on the end
of our guns, the men replied
"They Never Got Back"
You are talking to Jesse 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, pat
US on the shoulder and tell us to come
along, he said. They never got back
H0f all their work, Frank James
considers the Mortified robbery the
biggest. Two banks were lifted and
more than $4,000 in cash taken. The,
two Cobb brothers and a man named
Mitchell lost their lives Jim Younger
was seriously injured and Frank
James lost the most of his hand
Jesse James was killed by Bob Ford q
N September of 1882 while hanging up
/ picture of himself and Frank in their
rouse, Frank surrendered in October,
1882, and after two years was released
IN parole
Several years later, disguised as a
cowboy. he met Bob Ford in Kansas ;
7ity dance hall He offered to treat
be crowd and stepped up to the bar.
Fen dollars was laid down on the
counter. Ford returned $3.50 Frank /:
Iames told him who he was. What fol-
owed is a matter of history Il
Turns back on Old Life.
James told him that when he was q
n Tacoma two years ago some men s
sked him to take charge of blowing /
be safe of the National Bank of Com.
nerce and the Fidelity Trust Com.
any's bank I told Them said lanes,
hat | did not want to have anything |,
D do with the work That had
ever been in it for money, and that !
had given all that up years ago.
James always speaks of his adj. ,
entures as beng on the trail. He
avs that instead of using masks they 5
ad dark stain. After the job was
yer they removed the stain quickly ;
nd changed clothes, often joining the
ursuit of the bandits. IN
They never robbed or abused I
-omen, children or the poor" James 4
avs, while many piece of stray q
ewelry or money has been found fast D
ned to the doorknob of some house.
hey confined their attention mainly
, train and bank robberies after the o
ar was over.
Frank James will be seventy years v
Id next March, he says. He has A
life, four married children, and a a
yteen wear old daughter living at N
laine. During the winter he works D
) donkey engineer in the logging a
amps near Tacoma In summer he Il
cks berries. -.s.:
He is slim, has gray mustache, is
X feet tall, and is cool and collected, r
ow spoken and apparently easy go b
e. He seems to have very little of b
lie Missouri dialect He. is courteous T
Id reserved, and while friendly does a
ot force himself forward" IL
He-They say, dear, that people who r.