The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-09

90 lin Ouantrell when the war broke
ont. instead Of enlisting III the feSu-
lar army.
we knew he was not very me
| chara cter." he explained, put We
we're like the followers Of Villa or
tfnerta: he wanted to destroy the
| folks that wanted 10 destroy us, afo
we would follow any man that Woulo
| show us how 10 do il. Besides, / was
| Young then. When a man is young
| his blood is hot: there's a million
things he'll do then that he won GO
when he's older. There's story
about a man at = banquet He was
offered champagne TO drink, but he
said: T want quick action. I'll take
! Bourbon whiskey. That was the
yay I felt That's why ! joined
| Quartrell: TO get quick action. And
Ii got il, too. Jesse and We're with
Ouantrell until he was killed in Ken
lucky"
John san4uels, a half brother Of
the James boys, told 1.e the story OF
how Jesse James came 10 join @uan-
Jesse was OUT ploughihs in a
field" he said, when some Northern
soldiers came TO the place 70 look for
frank lanes Jesse was only 10
years old. They beat him up. Then
they vent to the house and asked
4 r1'NN>
didn't know, but the soldiers wouldn'
believe them. They took father OUT
and hung him by tile neck TO a tree.
After o while they took him down
and gave him another chance TO tell.
OF course he couldn't. SO they huns
him up again. They did that three
times Then they took him back 70
the house and told my mother they
> were going TO shoot him. She begged
them not TO do it, bot they took him
off in the woods and fire@ their guns
= so she'd hear, and think theyd done
it. But they didn't shoot him. They
:, just took him over 10 anpther tow
; and put him in jail NY mother
q | didn't know until the next day tba
y he hadn't been shot, because the
= : soldiers ordered her t. remain in thF
> | house If she didn't E-9cIlt to get she
= too.
'"That was too much for Jesse. II,
= said: NAV. I cant stand il an,
longer; Im going to join Quantreli.
And he did
After The War.
~ After the war the wilder elemen
- from the disbanded armies and suer
! rilla gangs caused continued trouble
: | Crime ran rampant along the borde
between Kansas and Missouri. An
: for many crimes committed in tn
"A neighborhood in which they lived tn
- James DOyS, VINO were KNOWN To
- wild, We're blamed.
Mother always said" declared NJ
Samuels, that Frank and Jess
RI | wanted to settle down after the wa
tn but that the neighbors wouldn't Il
I'd them. Everything that went wror
he around this region was alwa!
n charged to them, until, finally, the
TO were driven to outlaWry."
lg How much truth is there in II
nf RI gt Of H. n r
of train robberies committed by them
on | asked
ng II don't know" he said "Of cour
as they did a lot Of things. But we nev
he knew. They never said anythin
las They'd just come riding home, eve
Lrd now and then, and stop for a VIII
oys and then go riding away again. '
nix never knew where they came frc
he or where they Went"
er, It has been alleged that even aft
in a reward Of 10000 had been offer
Of for either of the Jameses. dead
'ell alive, the neighbors shielded The
ian when it was known that they We're
ate home. l spoke about that to an
man who lived on a nearby farm.
an "Yes," he said, that's true. Or
7er. when the Pinkertons were hunt
to them 1 met Frank and some me
pom hers OF the gang riding along
18th road, not far from here. I CO
ner | nave tOl0,. DuC UlOn want 90.
self wasn't looking for any trouble w
He the James gang. Suppose they
caught one or two Of them? Their
7er- be others left TO get even with
re- and 1 had my family to think of. T
hat is the way lots Of the neighbors
thy about il. They were afraid to te
heir Raps Cheap Novels.
eS- / spoke to Frank James about
,nce old nickel novels
on "Yes." he said, "some fellows pr
two ed a lot Of stuff. I'd have stopped
able maybe, if I'd had as much money
kill Rockefeller. But what could I
h a tell you those yellow back DO
? in have done lot of harm to the 70
At Of this land-those and the lno1
rick pictures showing robberies. S
he things demoralize youth. If had
his job Of censoring the moving pictu
ured they'd say ] was q reg'lar Rol
rich pierrei"