Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-19
Frank James, Old
 Time Outlaw, Dead
ONE OF THE LAST MEMBERS OF
 4 NOTORIOUS BAND.
STRICKEN BY APOPLEXY
Surrendered and Spent Year in Jail, but Was Never conVicted-A Farmer the Past 30 Years.

Excelsior Springs AIta., Feb. 1s.- Frank James, one of the last surviv- ing members of the notorious James gang, died on his farm near here late this afternoon. James, who was 74 years old, has been in ill health for several months and was stricken with apopleXy early today
 One of the last members of @ no toTious Tobber band, whose unpar- alleled career of crime during the Civil war and the unsettled period that fol- lowed kept the people of a dozen states in terror, Frank James, had been Hv- ing the quiet life of q. farmer for more than thirty years.
 Son of a Minister.
 The son of a minister. respected throughout the community. Frank James joined QuantrelFs Guerillas, tc- gether with his brother Jesse, and took part in the sacking of Lawrence burg, Kansas.
 Many Notorious Crimes.
 After the CfuerilIas disbanded the James brothers became bandits. Many notorious crimes of the decade fol- lowing the war have been laid at the door of the James Younger gang, of which the surviving members were Frank James and Cole Younger. the latter Of whom is now living at Lees Summit, Mo. Among these deeds were: Raids on the Commercial bank, Liberty, Mo, in 1866. One bank de fender was killed and $70.000 was stolen. Looting of the Russeuviue, Ky. bank in 1868, for S5o.O00. Bank robbery ct Galatea, Mo, in 1868. in which the cashier, Captain John W. Sheets. was murdered Robbery of a bank at Columbia, Ky in which F. A. G. Martin, cashier, was killed. This was in 1872. Raid on a bank at Corydon. Iowa vr-h hfFnn Tr11 The Wrecking and robbing of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific train near Council Bluffs. Iowa, in 1873. The engineer was killed, the fireman was wounded, and several passengers in- jured.
 Box office in the fair grounds at Kansas City. hfo. was robbed of S900G in daylight in 1873. Detectives surrounded the James home near kearney, Mo. on January 25, 1875. and threw a. lighted bomb into ! the houEe-- thinking to sill the James brothers. It exploded. tearing the arm off their mother and killing their brother Archie.
 Although the James boys partfci- pated in hundreds of role5eries, if is now generally believed that there were also hundreds of robberies charged UT to them of which they were innocent Surrendered at Jefferson City.
 
 shot and killed in his home in St Joseph. Mo-, by Bob Ford. also a ban dit, for q reward of $50, 900. Frank James surrendered in Jefferson City Mo.
 After his surrender James was taken to Independence, Mo. where he was held in jail three weeks and later to Galatin, where he remained in jail a year awaiting trial. The trial was hard fought and lasted several weeks.
 Finally James was acquitted and went to Oklahoma He never was ir the penitentiaTy and never was con victed of any Of the charges against ] him
 III health kept James close to his farm for the last six months His wife and a son were with him at his death,
 Funeral services have been ar ranged for Saturday at the farm home Burial will be in &earney, Mo. the lit tie town which the former outlaw first knew as a boy.