'Meet me in Kansas City tonight or tomorrow. James was parnoid after a life on the run and had invited Ford and his brother Charles to live with him and his wife Zee and protect them. Jesse managed to slip away and live in St Jo under a false name, unaware there was a $10,000 bounty on his head.īut one morning, as the 34-year-old Jesse climbed on a chair to straighten a picture, he was shot in the back of the head by gang member Robert Ford.įord cut James down as he stood to adjust a picture in the parlour of his home. Cole Younger later recalled: ‘We suffered in those fourteen days a hundred deaths.’ More than 1000 men chased them across marsh and woodland. With a large bounty on his head, Jesse James was eventually shot and killed by Robert Ford, a member of his own gang They left, six men on five horses and for the next 14 days evaded capture in what became the largest manhunt in US history.
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The gang’s haul totalled just $26.60 ‘in coin and crip.’īob Coles had been hit. Bookkeeper Joseph Heywood had a bullet in his head and another local had been killed in the frenzy outside. When it was over robbers Clell Miller and Bill Chadwell lay dead in the street. Keeping watch outside, panic growing Cole Younger signalled the retreat: ‘For God’s sake,’ he shouted. Mr Gardner states, ‘While the townspeople were shooting to kill, the outlaws’ shots were really meant to frighten, to scare away, to buy time – at least in the beginning.’ The gun battle lasted less than ten minutes – panicked the gang members who had been keeping watched dashed to and fro amid bullets and rocks that arced through the air as locals fought with anything to hand. All their money was held in that building – all uninsured. The town was alerted to the raid taking place. In the smoke and confusion a colleague though he had been shot and made a run for it,bringing more shots from the robber. Frustrated, Frank James fired shots above bookkeeper Joseph Heywood’s head. It just meant that all the money in town was in one place and if there was enough of it to make it worth investing in a such security there was enough to make it worth robbing.Īccording to a detailed account of James' life by the historian Mark Lee Gardner, the day they rode into Northfield, September 7, 1876, they were ‘at the top of their game.īut the bank staff resisted. They reasoned the threat of a gun would be enough to persuade most men to unlock a vault. They had chosen the Minnesota town because it was small and thought to be peaceable but most importantly there was only one bank and recent newspaper stories had reported that a new safe and time lock and two heavy doors for the vault had just been added to First National’s building. Jesse's fate was sealed following a disastrous bank robbery in Northfield, Minnesota, when many gang members were captured or wounded. Jesse James rose to notoriety during the American civil war when he and his brother Frank led a Confederate guerrilla force against the Union in their home state of Missouri.Īfter the war they fell into a life of crime robbing banks, stagecoaches and trains as they riding in different gangs. He Is a wild west legend and one of the most famous American outlaws of all time. The auction will take place in Los Angeles on November 24.Ī wedding portrait of legendary outlaw Jesse James taken before his marriage in 1874
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'Bidding could easily go into the millions.' 'We have set an opening bid of £250,000 but we have no idea where it will go from there. 'Put simply, it is one of the most important firearms ever to appear at auction. 'This sort of provenance with a gun like this is unheard of, and that makes it a very special gun indeed. 'Ever since Jesse Jnr gave the gun to the doctor the James family have been trying to get it back and there is a folder of correspondence from them to back it up. 'From him they passed to congressman Frank Boykin who owned them until 1975 when his son sold them to a collector. 'They surfaced several years later in the hands of Harry Hawes, a senator from Missouri.
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'Before the suit came about the doctor died and the guns disappeared. Vice President John Nance Garner points two revolvers, including the Jesse James gun, at Harry Truman in 1938.