The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-12-17
OLD 0UTL.AWRY
IS RE-ENACTED
Exploits of Jesse James
and Dalton Emulated
by 1922 Bandits

..SAs CITY. Missouri.
....u.ng ground of Jesse James ana
..- .im-1n riders the Dalton gang
.rf The Noungers and many lesser
..... of post Civil war banditry ap-
....|fy is experiencing a baCkwash
.t ..uu3lity following another
r... war.
History I'm the show me" state.
....4 to bo repeating itself. lmita-
.... u. the famous bandits OF history
..... ride roads and hills staging
.....ras and bank holdups in all
... .fH-imc flare and glory, except
.... the -wft-foutod horse has given
u.. .o the speeding automobile.
.r.. their sole concession 90 the
..th century All the rest Of the
... ..slIia OF the historic outlaws
-uut-the "six-gun,' the mask,
... -te3lthy gathering OF the gang,
.gIItuE of the Job" and the
.....s.v behind a screen of bla2-
Gums when necessary. Just as
originals used to shoot them
... lo safety.
In old Settings.
Odd. some occasions even the stage
......u. is the same. Recently a band
.. .k -woopcd down upon the First
>....aI bank at Gallatin, Mo, scene
. some OF the most dramatic sltu-
...us iu the lives of Jesse James
..r his contemporary bandits. Here
r.. famous outlaw and his gang
......d one of their most spectacular
....- s8 years ago, when, In 1863,
.... pulled a bank robbery there,
shooting their way ont through the
,uuU.Iug citizenship.
Np. many days ago almost
counterpart of the scene was enact
cd when the twentieth century ban
dE gang dynamited the bank.
vg.ukiug il. and with revOlyers
fhueHt their way to safety. with
$4,000 of the banks money grabbed
Hum the blown safe. Behind them
Uau. three OF the attacking citizens
with bullets iu them.
gHHatiu scene Of old and modern
UuUtrry also was the stage on
which was enacted some Of the trials
of fine u.d-time outlaws. Here several
of them We're tried in days gone by
fur their mi~deeds, and here IL was
tl. Re doors of the penitenrary,
which resulted i'm the ultimate refor-
nation of several OF them, first
opened.
Big HoIdup FoiIed,s
This latest coup of twentieth CEN
ulv bandits followed closely on
tNa heels of what would have been
one of the greatest train holdups
of the Missouri valley, If a chance
conversation overheard in Mem
Plus hotel by a detective had not
revealed st In advance.
As n result one OF the most pie
mosquo bandit figures of history
Was KILLED and well-laid plans for a
- "a VnhhpTN TTllE-
trttod when Jack tQuail Hunter)
kennedy met death at the hands of
United states marshals several
weeks ago
Kennedy. an old-timc train robber
of the older Missouri bandit days,
VINO had staged many successful
ire holdups and gotten away with
Jaam selected Missouri for his come
hack lie and one Of his companions
were shot to death by government
agents i'm attempting to escape after
his plans. were foiled. Reputed as
tho greatest pistol shot Of the west.
his boast being that he could shoot
uglI ON the wing without miss
with a pistol, he fell largely because
fHa i1eUiCiency of his companions.
And herein lies a moral The mod
yu bandit according to old-time
officers. lacks i'm the finssse SO
prominent IN the oldeu outlaws. In
% tight place the modern outlaw
lacks the coOl.headedness, resource
and feaulessness that characterized
the older gangsters. Recruited most
Iv from the slums of the city, they
.HWule when the pinch comes
Kennedy. out of tho game many
years while behind prison bars and
ln the Mexican revolution as an aide
to pancho villa, the rebel chieftain