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Jesse James Granddaughter Sets Out Facts of His LifeWoman Who Turned fo Banking While Her Grandfather Robbed Them, Soy* He Was a Grand Two-Gun GentlemanLOS ANGELES, July 11—(AP) book, was no more lawless than —Jesse James robbed banks; his his agegranddaughter Is a banker. What- His father was a preacher and ever the judgment of his own he wanted to be a man of peacebloody age. she calls him a two- But he grew up. of Kentuckian gun gentleman. ' family, on the Missouri battle-Gentleman? ground of the slavery Issue.He carried a Bible in his pocket As a boy plowing in the fields,and was unsurpassed in prayer. Jesse was horse-whipped one day He wore a brace of six-shooters by federal militia. So he went offin his belt and no one ever beat to Quantrell s guerrilla, him on the draw. If the confederacy had won, heThey sang ballads about him on might have been a schoolbook he-the middle border. When he died, ro. The conquering north grantedit was with a bullet in his back, him no amnesty. He tried to come fired bv a false friend. He had back and work his farm. He washis boots on. accused—unjustly, his friends saidJo James, a comely, blue-eyed —of various crimes. He becamebrunette, still treasures these an outlaw.boots. They are neat black and Helped Impoverished*jzc 7—almost as small as a wo- ! Bank robberies, to Jesse, wereman’s shoes. The scripture-quot- i “putting money on deposit.” He ing outlaw kept them carefully I would help an impoverished jpolished. southern family pay off its mort-Wrile Biography gage to a carpetbagger. Later, heJo Is the escrow expert in a ' would draw” the money out of branch of the Bank of America, the bank.She lives in a staid old westside Train holdups were educa-Los Angeles home with her fath- ;tional enterprises.” Jesse learneder, Jesse James, Jr., retired Kan- (how to unload a gold shipment gas City lawyer. With his en- ! from a baggage car without wak-couragement, she started four ling up the train pasengers. years ago a biography of the | jror jg years he was a fugitive,grandsire slain before she was but much of the time he wasn’t born. in the saddle. He lived quietly forIt’s nearly ready for the print- I long periods in Kansas City, Nash-er now, this story of and by the ville, Tonn., and St. Joseph, Mo.Jameses. A Hollywood studio ■ Desperadoes traded on his rcpu-bought the screen rights to makeitation and bragged to victimsit into a super-special western they were Jesse James, Once, the this fall. [real Jesse rode with a posse inFor the picture, Jo won’t takejtheir pursuit, responsibility, but for the biogra- He was a black-bearded, pros-phy, she says: j perous cattle broker in St. Joe“It’s time somebody got the I when he made a fatnl mistake. Hefacts straight after a half-century stood unarmed, with his back to of blood-and-thunder dime novels j a camp follower, Boh Ford.about my grandfather. I don’t j Most of the townfolk, who wish to glorify him, but I do hope iktiew Jesse as the church-goingto show that, right or wrong, he “Mr. Howard,” mourned at his; had a reason for everything he bier.did.”Efficiently catalogued are theEven when he was in his grave, impostors cropped up at least 17reasons and the deeds Miss James j his granddaughter estimatesand her collaborator, Rosalind Shaffer, have collected. They went after “angles” the world thought buried with Jesse James in 1882.First, they got some jotted-down memoirs from “Uncle Billy,” last surviving member of the band. He held the horses when the Northfield, Minn., bank was robbed in 1878. Here in California, his past unknown, he carved out a prominent niche as an attorney. He died not long ago. j Frank Kept HimThey got sideshow Jobs and publicity. But they steered clear of the .Tames family. There was only one Jesse James.Frank Moore Wins Medal in PGA Meet(Continued from Page 5)I broke par, paced by Harry Cooper's 87. Today thirty-one rang j changes on the same Ihemr, again I with one 67 in the field, this time Most of those who rode with by blond “dark horse” Harry Net-Jesse James kept mum, including telbladt, of Farmingham, Mass. his brother, Frank, who explain- 143 for ifort Smithed:That was the day’s best round“If I say I took part in a hold- and put Nettelbladt, 33, into up, I’m a scoundrel. If I say I second-piace tie with the otherwasn’t there, I’m a liar. When I surprise scorer, Marvin Stahl, 25, they ask me questions, I don’t Lansing, Mich.answer.It was Frank, however, who once quashed a legend a certain cave was the James hideout. Jle •hook his head and winked.“No sirree, that wasn’t our cave. ,We never went into any place we couldn’t leave by the back door.” Frank mellowed with years. He •tood trial In three states and was acquitted each time. He liked that. He said it vindicated Jesse’s memory. He died without boots on, In 1915.Jesse James, Miss James and rs. Shaffer set forth in theirFor the complete 36-hole route 17 players bettered regulation figures—or, arithmetically speaking, posted scores of 143 or better. Behind Stahl and Nettelbladt came slugging Sam Snead, with 69-70 for 139. Then came Byron Nelson. Ray Mangrum and Henry Picard at 140. They were followed by an all-star quintet of former Champion Paul Runyan, Cooper, who kited to a 74 today; U. 8. Open runner-up Dick Metz, home Pro Jimmy Thomson and veteran Ed Dudley at 141. Young Jimmy Demaret of Douston, Tex., was next at 142, and Horton Smith, 1935 Champion Johnny Revoltn,US w
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Jefferson City Daily Capital News
Jefferson City, Missouri, US
Tue, Jul 12, 1938
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