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Show H WOULD MUGANI) 1515 m vouno jrase jambs muit H STAND TniAL. Hj I.e.! to lie Ju, dr., In Head In lllm BJBB Ilia Adteitlre nC tha James lUys H )l.l (nminr NpwtleJ lllm Mr tif BjBBj ttia Jamea Ilia. H nrjBisnsTjBni. " Jr' ltmm Jr LVflH w?1mJ "' hl ll"1"111 '""' H JG pBj"Sol r' ti u iiu. i JBbb ::' ? luBli1 , ' pii'ni th LVbb 9 VVajtrfmr '''' "' KD" t'"r- I i$Pui r.""..r.h"f,i""'. m -MW ,,, ,, D Hi. U rol 1 ry of a M ,wiuri l'i Iflc train HbBJ Sept J!. In tin -rilnT Neck distent W nf Urstern Mlsmirl which hi lather made faraoua Physh-ally tit latino1 H an exct ri railurtlon of Jeaae Jiniew U the rhlar Ji.e Jr wa bora when Hf hl rather In ih prima of hi" B manhood ami at ihe height of III" B csreer an outlaw ll waa nnly M yfil. old when hi. lather waa aeatatln B ai.il but remembers lilm well, fur M when Jeaae Jmnea waa hiding, under H the nam or llowanl Ihl. Ililla boy H used to baje hi. father lo read 10 bin U (ha aihenturra of Ih Jme boys, nad W I lid father alwaya compiled will) lb H bor' requeet, heaping htm In linor- M anee of III Identity until one day H there rame a revelation Jeaae JamM, M Hr, waa murdered ty n traltorou U friend. Hob Ford, and Jet Jamea, Jr , H for the rlrat time knew lliat the hero 9 of hit boyish fane and hi father wa H on and the aatne person Young Jam W waa sent lo school, and until recently j wa regarded aa a modal youth, quiet H and Industrious, for six yrara he 9 waa a clerk fur the Armour Tacking MU company. In Kanaai City, and during U that time managed to aate enough M money to nay for the modeet home at 9 No SIM Tracy avenue, where he rt- UU aide with hie mother and hi sister. M Miry, the latter IS yaara old. and a UU graduate of the Kanaaa Ulty high UU school H Contrary to the wlahea of hla moth- BH er, Jeaae aeferal month ago gave up M Mi pntliion with the Armour company and eetabllahad n rlgar Und In the B I6bby of the court hoiiar. There be H became aniualnted with Jack Kennedy H land other men and fell Into bad cum- J 'pony When Kennedy wa arrctel M In connection with a murder cae, H young Jtmca aHlaleil him In eitabllah- B log an alibi. Jeaie'a frlcnda were not H plcaacd with thli proceeding, and BB alampeil It with their illipteatur. BB Young Jamiia waa auipected of com- B . Midi)' In the crime onn after the MU- B ourl I'acinc iraln robbery occurrnl M ' Kennedy attempted to help Jeaae out B nf trouble by making amdavlta aa lo j hie wherrabouta on the night nf the H robbery, but aa Kennedy waa hlmaelt H under tuiplclon hi crforta In the young man'a behalf had little weight with the H authurltlca, and did lint prerent hi ar- rtit Una than a week after the Mia- eourl Pacific train waa blown up with H (lynainlte, William W UiVe, a iwttch-H iwttch-H man, who had become a fait friend of Jatnea, waa taken Into custody on m- plelon. and It ll claimed that the poIlN hare hit coufeaalon In writing, with algualure attached, and that Ixiwo Ira- plicate oung Jnmea In the crime. The H boy haa many frlendi, who art loth to bellere blm guilty Neither U be lacking In public defender Tbomai H J. Crittenden, who waa governor of illMOurl In mi. and who offered the H reward for Jeww Jam, the elder.whleh . templed the cupidity of Hob Kord, haa H leen tetalned na rwintel for young Jeie Judge l'hlltlpa will nwlit him I Attorney V C Cnrr, an old friend nf H the Jnmea family, la very aetlve In Ihe " young man'a behalf omrlala nf the H Armour Packing company are alio H lending aid Jcene aloully malntnlni bli Innocence, and haa made a atate H inent In which he give hi wherca-H wherca-H bouti on the night of the robbery. H Young Jimet hai been thrice arreatvd, H aa Ihe police were trying to conceal the courea they Inlendeil to puniif H HI lait arreet waa for train robbery, H and be la out under It too ball H The "Janice boyi. the father and H the uncle of Joeee, Jr. were Ihe eon of a rtapeetable llaptltl mlnlater JKSSK JAMtS Jt mf k. frank, the elder, waa bum In Kmtucky W ft In 1111, Jeaae lu Cluy lount), Mo. In B i I MM. The fui bor went to ( .Morula Tu B I IIU and died there In leal ilrtien Ml I aaay from home. It li Mid, by bit wife, K from whom the aoua teem to have In- I berlted their deviltry. During the K r civil war they were member of Quan- K W treU'a bajvd of guerlllaa. and both par- 9 h tlelpatxl la Ih tacking and bttralgg Wi yV ot iAwrenee, Kan, when nearly every W'. malo Inhabitant waa ruthlttilr mur- Bl'm dtrtd, and In the mttttere at Centra- !JL lla, Mo., whera, ntler the village Ittelf m bad been plundered, the guerlllaa . T UU an taatlioun.l train vol -i tb twrgrt tnd fctllcsl u .lr .oldli ra en twite for the HI lunula hoeiilliK bMldea 60 meuibera of a comptny "t Io"a volunteera, who had hnrrlei to the reeciM. When the wtr enl JttM Jamea (led to Teat md fruik to KniiK k) Utile waa beard of litem , until rarly In the prlng of lt" ben J- Jamea acromiianled by ,'",,, "inaer Al' ami Oeorg Hhepherd and Jim ' White dashed Inlo lluatell-vtlle lluatell-vtlle Ky robbed Ihe lank of $11 "00. and -.(rfd Similar mnk robberle. Iirn arrampanlnl by Ih" murder ot Inn ranhlert or other officiate, lurked lurk-ed the career of the Jamea boy during dur-ing the earning year, but u wtt In 71 at Kanttt City thtt on (if 'heir moat daring itrorltle wtt committed. Three men rode up lo Ih gtt of the gilcaliurtl fair, and Jet Janet, dlt-mntintlng. dlt-mntintlng. atepptd up to Ibe ticket window and at the point of bit plttol demanded the ctah bot. which wa handed over to him It contained . ooo At Jem remounted the three deaperaduea began firing their ptetolt, and hurriedly rod oft The ahum became be-came general, and almott Immedtelely a puraulng party waa orgtnbjed, but with mi retail In many of their murderou exploit, wlil h Ineiuded train and tltge bold-up, bold-up, at well at bank robberle, rntm-here rntm-here of the gang were killed or caught, but tuch wa the let tor Ineplred by the Jam that for more than ten yea re during which a price waa act on their head no on wa found to earn Ibe money by betraying them In Atiguit, 1870. Jetet and Prank, with ill confederal, con-federal, rode Into N'tirthBeld, Minn , at t furloua pare, hooting their revolver re-volver right ami left In order to Intimidate In-timidate the people In the trrcta, and halted In front of the Kink, and whlln Prank and Jeeee Jamea and "Hob" Younger entered, the other five to-nulneil to-nulneil outalde to guard agalmt attack at-tack J U Haywood, thecaahler, and two clerk were In at the lime, ami for rcfuelng to open the lime lock Jeeee Jamea killed Haywood In wanton Till! TUACV AVKNUIl HOMll. (Which Jctie Jamea, Jr, Hougbt fol Hla Mother) cruelty. In the meantime the cltlicn. having recovered from tbclr attonlah-ment. attonlah-ment. opened fire on the robber. Two were alruoat Inatantly killed, another received a bullet In the mouth, anil Prank Jamea waa thot through hi left leg, but all the alx aurvlvor urredd In mounting their hnrtca and escaping from the town, followed by flftj armed men. A on prevtnu occasion, luck followed the Jatueie, for while they eaeaped after being pursued nearly COO mile, three ot their companion were hot down and captured and a fourth was killed Jewe and Prank Jamea after being chased for week, succeed-ed succeed-ed In reaching Teia. and at Waea Krank bad a surgical operation performed per-formed upon hi leg The wound was to many day without rare that It mad lilm a cripple for life When the Jameee returned to their old haunt In Clay county In the fall ol 1879 they organlaed a new gang, and on Oct I, 1878, detcended upon tho little lit-tle atatlon nf (llendale, aevefltcen mite from Kanaa City, on the Chicago and Alton railroad, It waa evening when Ihe attack waa made. After battering down the door of tho expreta car, Jratn Jamea and "lid" Miller entered with revolvcra In their hand and compelled com-pelled (Irlmet, the motacngcr, to unlock un-lock the tafe and give up Ihe content, variously istlnutid at from I !G,000 to 130,000 About this time the authorities authori-ties of Mlseourl oftsred 10.000 for cither cith-er Jesse or Prank June, dead or alive, and (1,000 for any other member rl the gang The otter ot thee aums I I to the killing of Jease Jamea hi April. 188:. by Itobcrt Kord. n lad of twenty, who wa In collusion with the detective, detec-tive, but who hid been accepted aa a i promising recruit by the unauaplelou bandit. Prank Jnmea n few month later gave himself up, waa tried and was acquitted on iicce charge ot robbery and murder He then Mt- I tied don at hi falher-ln-law' home, . In Independence. Mo. In the fall of 189 bo accepted a position a special meaaenser on an eipree train, hi duty du-ty being bo other than that of meeting train robber at their own game Jesse Jamea bad been married In 1171 to hi ooustn, Miss Keralda Mltumi At the time she waa a public school teacher teach-er In Kanaaa City After her husband a death she returned lo Kanaa Oily with hr ton. Jeaae, Jr. then a boy of ill year, and a daughter. Mary, now ID year of age. Indictment against Jesse Jamea. William A, I)we, the peU-confcaaed train robber; fharlea Polk, Andrew Ityan and Caleb 8tone for holding up ami robbing the Muwou-rl Muwou-rl Pacific train bare been found, and other arrett are to follow. |