Show I FllAXK JAMES AT 1I03LE The ISimilit Tilling the SoilHe DcclitiCN to lie Au Actor or u nruhcum Fiyjak Dyiiisr of I Consumption I Si Louis August 21 = Frank Jiunes was I I found at the Ralston farm a few miles north of Independence Mo yesterday by a reporter i porter who wont out there to see what had become of the notorious bandit Frank is i no longer the handsome stalwart fellow of old but is in the last stages of consumption Frank said that he was quite poor and that he did not know just how he would get through the long winter To tho question concerning the reports of his adopting the stage as a profession he said Thats only I talk I have received a bushel of letters from managers of firstclass theatres who wanted to get blood and thunder plays written for me and from managers of dime museums who wanted to place me on exhibition but I have paid no attention to their offers Im a little too old to become an actor and I dont want to be made a curiosity curios-ity of These managers all offer me big but I cannot listen to them I have firmly money made up my mind not to go on the I business I have I into museum stage or any chosen farm life and I am going to stick to I it through all the rest of my days I have I been before the public long enough and I dont want any more of it I had a lawyer He told on this subject speak to me once I be profitable thing for me it would a very to on the stage so I told him that I I me would go have a fivecent tragedy written for i both of us if he would agree to star in the play and let me support him Of course he would not agree at time to write an any Do you propose I account of your life No sir If I did it would be so simple would not only be dig and tame that people I intedthey would not believe it I i appointedthey What do you mean I i I mean that so much has been written and their socalled exploits about the James boys i that when I had come to make a plain ploits did and how statement of how little we calm the public j entirely lawful our acts were I there and would say i > would be surprised book was no truth in my books pub Have you read any of the 1 lished about the James boys of them and have some 1 Not one I seen 1 but skimmed over a page or two have j may through Still I I have not read any one and distortions full of exaggerations know they are i 1 tortions of the truth They are reproduced accounts of us the newspaper from largely busi in the newspaper and know being you matter how truthful a correspondent that no spondent ness may be he will be tempted to put to his article the sensa little color on give tional a hue that the readers of his paper want hnsno fear of the Minne hays ho Frank authorities says claiming him for as he sota of evidence not a scintilla puts it they have answered He that having against him says against him m this brought all the charecs ana free to remain in peace State he is now at the farm he proposes ending his days on Independence |