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Show LIST HOP BUT WILL 0OESPECTE0 KANSAS C ITY, Feb. 19. The body of Frank James, the former outlaw, who ! died yesterday at his home near Exi-pI-sior Springs, Mo., will be cremated in St. Louis and the ashes kept in a local safety deposit vault, relatives announced an-nounced today. This was ouq of his last wishes, it was said. Also at his own request there will be no religious tervicea at the funeral, to be held on his farm tomorrow. John F. Phillips, a former federal judge, who defended James when he was tried for murder and acquitted in Gallatin, Mo., will deliver the funeral address. Several years ago, at the funeral of General Joo O. Shelby, under whom Frank James served in the confederate ranks, and whoso funeral address Judge Phillips delivered, the judge promised the former bandit to officiate at his funeral. Frank James did not explain why he preferred to have his ashes kept in a safety deposit box instead of in the cemetery at Kearney, Mo., beside the bodies of his mother and his brother. Jesse, but relatives asserted he wished to avoid the constant procession of morbid mor-bid persons who visit the grave of Jesse James. Jesse James's boriv was buried in the doorvard of the old homestead near Excelsior Springs until thirteen years ago, when it was removed to the cemetery at Kearney. James's estate consists of the farm near Excelsior Springs, upon whitdi he lived and died, and another farm of K0 acres in Oklahoma. James frequently refused to buy things on credit, asserting assert-ing that debt is one of the biggest causes of human troubles. The estate will be divided, it was Paid, between James's one sou, Eobert, and the widow, wid-ow, whom he married in Omaha in 1875 ; when there was a price of $50,000 on his head. j |