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Show NOTED BANDIT CALLED. Frank James Dies on Missouri Farm at Age of 74. Excelsior Springs, Mo. Frank James, one of the last surviving members mem-bers of the notorious James gang, died on his farm near here Thursday. James, who was 74 years old, was stricken with apoplexy early Thursday. Thurs-day. One of the last members of a notorious no-torious band, whose unparalleled career ca-reer of crime during the Civil war and the unsettled period that followed kept the people of a dozen states in terror, Frank James had been living the life of a quiet farmer for more than thirty years. Although the James boys participated partici-pated in hundreds of robberies, it is now generally believed that there were also hundreds of robbpries charged charg-ed up to them of which they were innocent. |