The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-12-05
OLD OUILAWRy RE-
 ENACTED IN MISSOURI
Exploits of Jesse James and Dalton Gang Emulated by Modern Bandits.
By DOUGLAS G. TINSLEY, International News Service Staff Cor
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 soUri. stamping ground of Jesse James and his crimson riders, the Dalton gang and the YOungers and many lesser lights of post Civil War banditry7 apparently is experiencing a backWash of criminaIty following another great war.
 History, in the show me" State, seems to be repeating itself 1Inita- tors of the famous bandits of history again ride the roads and hills stag ing train robberies and bank hold ups in all the OId-time flare and glory except that the Swift-fOOted horse has given way to the speeding auto mobile This is their sole concession to the twentieth century. All the rest of the old regalia of the historic out laws in present-the "slX-gun,' the mask. the stealthy gathering of the gang, the pulling of the job" and the getaway behind screen Of blaz- ing guns when necessary, just as their originals used to shoot themselves to safety.
 In Old Settings.
 On some occasions even the stage setting is the same Recently band of a.x swooped down upon the First National Bank at Gal-atin, Missouri scene Of some Of the most dramatic situations in the lives of Jesse James and his contemporary bandits Here the famous outlaw and his gang staged one of the most spectacular raids 53 years go, when in 1869. they EtU1ittl ct DdilEA 1ObDeLE LIIt-L C, SLAOAgL-lls5 their way out through the encircIng citizenship.
 Not many days ago almost a cOun- Uerpart of the scene was enacted when the twentieth century bandit gang dynamited the bank, wrecking it, and with revOIVers fought their way to safety. with S4,000 of the bank $ money grabbed from the blown safe. Behind them were three of the at tacking citizens with bullets in them.
 GalIatin, scene Of old and modern banditTE. also was the stage on which was enacted some of the trials of the them were tried in days gone by for their miSdeedS, and here it was that the doors of the penitentiary, which resulted in the ultimate reformation Of several of them, first opened.
 Big Hold Up Rolled.
 This latest coup of tWentieth-Cen- tury bandits followed closely on the heels of what would have been one of the geratest train hOId-ups of the Missouri Valley, if a chance cOnver- satiCn overheard in a Memphis hotel advance.
 As result one of the most pie 1 turesque bandit figures of history was killed and well laid plans for a gigantic mail train robbery frustrat- ed when Jack C"QuaiI Hunter') Ken nedy met death at the hands of Unit ed States marshaI9 several weeks ago.
 
 of the older Missouri bandit days, who had staged many successful train hOlGups and gotten away with them, selected Missouri for his come back. He and one of his companions were shot to death by Government agents in att"Gapting to escape after l his plans were foiIed. Reputed as the greatest pistol shot of the West, his boast being that he could shoot quail on the wing without miss with a pistol, he fell largely because of the inefficiency Of his companions. And herein lies a moral The modern ban dit. aCording to old-tiTne officers, lacks in the fineSSe so prominent in the OIden outlaws In a tight place the modern outlaw lacks the cOOl-head- edness, resource and fearlessness that characterized the older gangsters. Recruited mostly from the slums Of the city. they crumpIe when the pinch comes. Kennedy, out of the game many years while behind prison bars and in the Mexican revolution as an aide to PanchO Villa, thesr srebeI chief tain had overlooked this. It cost him his life.