The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1914-08-26
FRANK JAMES IS
NO OUTLAW NOW
But Simply a Modest
Berrypicker.
sSAYS CRUELTIES TO PARENTS
During the Civil War Drove
z Him and Brothers
To Crime.
HE NEVER BOTHERED THE POOR

uOn WANT 10 tnlnh Ol-WOuiu W
God could forget it. Years before
quit the old life was 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 berrypicker at Edgewood,
. Wash. The place was G. w. Glaze
brooke's grocery store in Tacoma.
I'VE 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.
II could not write the history of
nay life in five years. | have only a
short time to live, anyhow, and
money is no more to me than the
dust under my feet"
1.-The first | knew that Frank
James was in this part of the coun-
try" said Mr.. Glazebrook, the gro
Ger, was when | received crate of
berries with r. +. 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 go.
I'VE found James sitting in the
door of his cabin, dressed like
logger. As we came close he stood
up. 81 am very glad to see you, SIR"
he said. as Mr. Hildgren introduced
me. After a while Mr.. Hildgren left.
told him | was from Kentucky and
he seemed to know how to take me
then.
II asked him how he got started
in the old career as bandit. He
said it was abuse he received at
the hands of the men who had killed
they were harboring Southern sol
diers. He 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
'the James boys dressed as cowboys
and overlook the men. They asked
them what they would do If they
met the James boys.
I'VE would stick them on the end
of our guns" the men replied.
You are talking to Jesse James
Frank, standing over 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
here, put us on their shoulders and
tell us to come along" he said.
"They never got back"
"Of 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 there. Jim Younger was Sc
riously injured and Frank James
lost the most of his hand.
Jesse James was killed by Bob
Ford in September of 1882, while
hanging up picture of himself and
Frank in their house. Frank sur
rendered in October. 1882. and after
two years was. released on parole.
Several years later, disguised as
a cowboy, he met Bob Ford in a
Kansas City dance hall. He offered
TO treat the crowd and stepped up
10 the bar. Ten dollars was laid
down on the counter. Ford return
ed So. Frank James told him who
he was. What followed is a matter
of history.
James told me that when he was
in Tacoma Two years ago SOME men
asked him to take charge of blowing |
the safes of the National Bank OF
Commerce and the Fidelity Trust
Company's bank. II told them"
said James. that | did not want to
have anything to do with the work;
that had never been In 1t for
money and that had given all that
up years ago."
James always speaks Of his adj
ventures as being on the trail" He
says that instead OF using masks
they had dark stain. After the
job was over they removed the stain
quickly and changed clothes, often
joining in the pursuit OF the bandits.
"They never robbed or abused