The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-12-23

ND track. He was killed and his fire.
man badly injured when the engine
plunged down an embankment.
Frank and Jesse James, Cole and
Thomas Younger and one "Comanche
Tony" ordered the passengers from
the cars and relieved them Of their
yaluables. The mail and express cars
also were stripped. Posses sought in
vain in several states for the band.
Held up Rich Invalids-
On a raw January morning the
band held up the stage coach run
ming from Malvern to Hot Springs,
Ark. Two ambulances flied with in
valids on the way to the Springs also
were held up. The highwaymen leap
ed out from behind the bushes at the
roadside and covered the guards be-
fore they could draw their weapons.
The passengerc were lined up along
the side Of the road and relieved Of
$1,000 in cash, besides much jew
elry.
It Is said that Jesse James took
from Ex-Gov. Burbank of North Da-
kota a fine gold watch which had
been given him by the state. This
watch IS said to have been kept by
the bandit until his death, when it
was returned to the former governor
by the James family.
The country next was aroused by
a train robbery at Godshill, Mo. On
the night Of January 81, 1874, seven
bandits appeared at the station and
locked everybody In the waiting
rooms and set the stop signal for the
night express, which was known to
carry valuable mail and express. The
train had fairly stopped when the
crew were covered. Between $4,000
and $4,000 was taken. There was
an exciting chase, but no captures.
-Four Detectives Killed.
The railroads and express COM
panies now employed Pinkerton de-
tectives to run down the hand. Three
Of the observation-disclosures LII
Frank Daniels and J. H. Whicher-
were killed when they pushed the
bandits too hard.
Whicher had confded to q Liberty
Mo-, man that he was going to the
James homo in disguise to capture
the bandits. Warning reached them
before Whicher and when he arrived
he was shot dead.
The Pinkerton company then or.
ganized a large posse in Liberty an6
4 - 1n rs hn O
where the James boys were staying
But the same old underground sys
tenn sent q warning ahead and the
boys escaped. Approaching the house
the detectives saw several person:
sitting in a front room, and, believ
ing the James boys were there, hurl
ed bomb through window. Mrs
Samuels thought 1t was merely tai
and rags and tossed it into the fire
It exploded and killed her eight-year
old son, Archie, and blew OF mel
right arm and mangled her side.
A Liberty lawyer, who had led the
detectives, heard that ne was to pay
for It with his life, and removed t
| Mortified, MINI. This led to the
faomus Northfeld raid later.
Both Took Wives.
In an interval Of peace both the
James boys married. Jesse welded
his cousin, Miss Zee Aimms, who hac
nursed him back to life after he was
| wounded in one Of his most daring
exploits, and she remained his faith
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Frank, after an ardent courtship
married Miss Annie Ralston, a belle
of Independence, Mo. She was e 80
ciety faYorite and loved gayety, bu'
after her marriage she was ostracizet
by those among whom she had beer
a favorite.
There was a decrease in train rob
berries during the early married life
OF the brothers. But finally the
country was st..rtled by the hold-uI
of night express train in Rocky
Cut, near Sedalia, Mo. The loot was
100000. Hobbs Kerry, new mem
Der Of the James band, was captured
Frank and Jesse James sought re
venge. They led their men, eigh'
| strong, TO Mortified, MINI, and hele
up bank there on September z
1876. Six Of the band held crowd
ct bay while Frank and Jesse held >uT
the cashier, ]. D. Haywood. He re.
fused 70 reveal the safe combination
and was shot down by Jesse.
Three youngers Caught.
q &ho ,,o,o+;,oo ojf;,ano ruoro arm,
ing themselves. The robberies, with
several thousand dollars Of the
banks money, were cornered in q
swamp. One was killed and seyera'
were captured Robert, James and
Cole Younger we're given life sen.
tences in the Minnesota penitentiary
Jesse and Frank James escaped ane
hid in Kansas City and later in Tex.
as. Their escepe was considered lit.
tie short Of miraculous.
They became ranchmen in Texas
and had the unusual experience o!
being robbed themselves by laid.
ing gang Of MeXicans, who drove
away many cattle. The James boys
followed, and there was pitched
battle. The two mer killed afteer
Mexicanc and drove back their cattle
Shortly afterward they held up e
Mexican silver train, escaping with
thousands of dollars.
A $4,000 Haul.
Next they were heard Of at Glen
dale, No., on October Z, 1879. A
few citizens there wore locked in a
railroad station, tho night signal was
set and a night express was stopped
and robbed Of $4,000. They escap
cd only after several pursuers had
been killed.
The band then moved to Kentucky,
all except Frank. In Kentucky a
quarrel between Dick Liddle and Jim
Cummings, gang members, over one
Miss Matte Collins led eventually to
the death Of Jesse James. Liddle
won the girl. Wood Hite, cousin
of the losing suitor, followed them to
Missouri and appeared one morning
at the cottage Of Robert and Charles
Ford and opened fire on Liddle, who