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1882 newspaper Outlaw JESSE JAMES is betrayed by his gang members for the BLUE CUT TRAIN ROBBERY at Glendale MISSOURI - inv # 4F-308
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SEE PHOTO(s) - COMPLETE ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the New York Sun dated March 30, 1882. This original newspaper contains an inside page "stacked" headlines: "IMPLICATING JESSE JAMES / One of the Blue Cut Train Robbers Turn States Evidence". This contains a detailed account of several members of the JESSE JAMES outlaw gang pleading guilty and implicating Jesse James in the 1881 BLUE CUT TRAIN ROBBERY near Glendale, MISSOURI.
This report came out just 4 days before Jesse James would be killed by gang member Robert Ford at James's home in St Joseph, Missouri
The James Gang was an outlaw band led by Jesse James, who robbed stagecoaches, stores, and trains throughout the Midwest from 1879 to 1882. The gang was established by Jesse James three years after the demise of the James-Younger Gang.
On September 7, 1876, eight members of the James-Younger gang tried to rob the First National Bank in Northfield, Minnesota. Two died on the scene, while the rest of them escaped. However, on September 21, a search party caught up with the Younger brothers and Charlie Pitts. Pitts was killed in the ensuing gunfight, and the Younger brothers were captured and sent to prison. The James brothers successfully evaded the search party.
For the next three years, Frank and Jesse James lived peacefully in Nashville, Tennessee, where Frank seems to have thrived. However, Jesse was restless. In 1879, Jesse began to gather up new recruits, formed the James Gang, and returned to a life of crime. Over time, the gang’s members were comprised of Ed Miller; brothers, Robert and Charley Ford; Bill Ryan, Dick Liddel, James “Windy Jim” Cummings, Tucker Basham, brothers Woodson and Clarence Hite; and Frank James.
On October 8, 1879, the gang robbed the Chicago and Alton Railroad near Glendale, Missouri, making off with about $10,000. Afterward, Tucker Basham was captured by a posse and named his accomplices. The gang robbed two stores in western Mississippi that same year, making off with $2,000 cash in the second robbery. These robberies were the first in a spree of crimes as the gang continued to rob stagecoaches and trains in Missouri, Kentucky, and Alabama.
But the new gang was not made up of battle-hardened guerrillas like the James-Younger Gang. As some of the outlaws were captured, the others grew suspicious of each other. Their last train robbery occurred on September 7, 1881, when they robbed Chicago and Alton train at Blue Cut, near Glendale, Missouri making off with $3000 in cash and jewelry taken from the passengers. Jesse James killed Ed Miller, allegedly for talking too much the following month.
In November 1881, Jesse moved his family to St. Joseph, Missouri, and intended to give up his life of crime. However, gang member Bob Ford killed Jesse James in his home on April 3, 1882.
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