Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-20
NOTED OUTLAW BERRY PICKER
Frank James Mt seventy Il Indus
trious Enough 90 Earn His
Own Living.

IneFe mas peen UnuCn IN ire lOht
don't want 10 think of-would TO God
could forget It. Years before I quit
the old life | was as tired Of IL 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 @. w.
Glazenbrook's grocery store in Tacoma
the time, this week.
we got into II. and II was our lives
against money" said James.
Suffer- We have been hungry with
cur pockets full OF money. We have been
hunted like the wolves OF tho prairie.
couldn't write the history OF my life
In five years. ] have only a short time
to live, anyhow, and money is no mage
to me than dust under my feet. I am
going 10 live a quiet life"
The first l knew that Frank James
vas in this part OF the country" said
Mr.. Glazenbrook. the grocer today was
v hen / received crate OF berries with
+. e. James written on the end.
asked Mr. HilGgren. the rancher. about It,
and he said he would take me out TO see
James any time / wanted to CO.
we found James sitting In tho door OF
/ Ia cabin. dressed like logger. As we
came close he stood up. I am very glad
TO SEQ you SIR he said. as Mr.. Hildgren
introduced us. After a while Mr.. Hlldgren
left. ! told him ! was from Kentucky
and he seemed to know how TO take me
then. This was two weeks ago Sunday.
Last Friday he came into Tacoma and
spent five days with me
Il asked him how he got started in this
work. lie said It was the abuse he had
received at the hands of the men who
had killed his father-all through suspi-
cion they were harborng southern SOL
diers. lie said he and Jesse got twenty
one OF them and that God Almighty got
| the other
/ 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 would
do II they met the James boys.
1--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 theil
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 ur
on the shoulders and tell us to come
along" he said. "They never got back"
or all their work." Frank James con-
siders the Northfield robbery the biggest
Two banks were lifted" and more than
$4,000 in cash taken. The two Cobt
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 Il
September OF 1882 while hanging up
picture OF himself and Frank In thel
. house. Frank surrendered in October
1889, and after two years was released oil
parole
Several years later. disguised as
e cowboy. he met Bob Ford In Kansas
3 City dance hall He offered 20 treat tn
d crowd and stepped up to the bar. Tel
l. dollars was laid down on the counter
Ford returned $3.50, Frank James toll,
:. him who he was. What followed Is
Q matter OF history.
n James told me that when he was il
e Tacoma two years ago some men aske
Z him to take charge of blowing the safe
r OF the National Bank OF Commerce an
the Fidelity Trust companys bank &c
told them" said James. that did no
l. want TO have anything TO do with tn
4 work; that I had never been in It 10
money and that had given all that u
4 years ago"
Il James always speaks OF his adventure.
as being on the trail" He says that In
!. stead of using masks they had a darl
n stain. After the Job was over they ne
- moved the stain quickly and change
= clothes. often Joining in the pursuit OF tn
/, bandits.
4 They never robbed OF abused women
- children or the poor James says Will
N many a piece OF stray jewelry or none
N has been found fastened TO the doorno
= OF some house. They confined their a.
!, tentions mainly to train and bank robbei
"A les after the war was over.
Frank James will be 70 years old mex
=, March, he says He has wife, four mar
!, RED children and a l6-year-old daughts
living at Blaine During the winter h
a works as donkey engineer In the loggin
a, camps near Tacoma. In summer he pick
berries.
He is slim. has a gray mustache,
six feet tall and is cool and collected, slo'
spoken and apparently eAsy-going. II
- seems 10 have very little Of the Mlssou
dialect. He is courteous hut reserve,
- and while friendly does not force him
- self forward New York World