The border bandits : an authentic and thrilling history of the noted outlaws, Jesse and Frank James, and their bands of highwaymen : compiled from reliable sources only and containing the latest facts in regard to these desperate freebooters . r, who kept soon separated from Chadwell, who was hiscompanion, and went to Fort Scott, and from there toParsons, Kansas, thence to Joplin and then to Granby,where he remained for nearly a week, spending agreat deal of money in gambling dens, and in hisdrunken moments let drop such remarks as led tothe suspicion that he was a member of the
The border bandits : an authentic and thrilling history of the noted outlaws, Jesse and Frank James, and their bands of highwaymen : compiled from reliable sources only and containing the latest facts in regard to these desperate freebooters . r, who kept soon separated from Chadwell, who was hiscompanion, and went to Fort Scott, and from there toParsons, Kansas, thence to Joplin and then to Granby,where he remained for nearly a week, spending agreat deal of money in gambling dens, and in hisdrunken moments let drop such remarks as led tothe suspicion that he was a member of the gang thatrobbed the train. He next made a trip into IndianTerritory, but after a short stay in that country hereturned to Granby; there he was arrested in thelatter part of August. The authorities had no dif-ficulty in obtaining from Kerry the full particulars ofthe robbery and the names of his confederates. De-tectives from all parts of the country, stimulated bythe large rewards offered by the express companyand Governor Hardin, set out in search of the ban-dits. Every State was penetrated, every suspiciouscharacter put under surveillance, and all the ingenu-ity that could be devised by experienced hunters ofcriminals was 9< THE BORDER BANDITS. The James and Younger boys and Clell Miller,finding the pursuit at an end, returned from the Na-tion, whither they had first fled, and by stealthy nightmarches succeeded in reaching Jackson county,where they retired to the robbers cave and werethere safe from pursuit. THE FATAL ATTACK ON A MINNESOTABANK. The efforts of the detectives to capture the out-laws seemed to be chiefly confined to the south-western States, and learning this the bandits, after re-maining within the seclusion of their undiscoverablehaunts for a few weeks, grew tired of the inactivitysuch life imposed, and a%,Bill Chadvvell was well ac-quainted in Minnesota, it was decided to send BobYounger out to find him, and through him to perfecta plan for ra
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