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=== Outlaw Years === After the war, He and his brother Jesse formed the "James Gang". During his years as a bandit, James was involved in at least four robberies between 1868 and 1876 that resulted in the deaths of bank employees or citizens. Then they went to robbing trains. The most famous bank robbery was the disastrous Northfield, Minnesota, raid on September 7, 1876, that ended with the death or capture of most of the gang. He was tried for only two of the robberies/murders – one in Gallatin, Missouri for the July 15, 1881 robbery of the Rock Island Line train at Winston, Missouri, in which the train engineer and a passenger were killed, and the other in Huntsville, Alabama for the March 11, 1881 robbery of a United States Army Corps of Engineers payroll at Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Among others, former Confederate General Joseph Orville Shelby testified on James' behalf in the Missouri trial. He was acquitted in both Missouri and Alabama. Missouri accepted legal jurisdiction over him for other charges, but they never came to trial. He was never extradited to Minnesota for his connection with the Northfield Raid. His New York Times obituary summarized his arrest and acquittal: ==== Last Years ==== Frank James the thirty years of his life doing various jobs. Such as a Shoe salesman, a telegraph operator and a horse trainer. In his final years, James returned to the James Farm, giving tours for the sum of 25 cents. He died there on February 18, 1915, aged 72 years. He left behind his wife Annie Ralston James and one son. [[Category:Partners in Crime]] [[Category:Deceased]] [[Category:War Criminal]] [[Category:American Civil War Villains]] [[Category:Criminals]] [[Category:Male]] [[Category:Tragic]] [[Category:Murderer]] [[Category:Teams]] [[Category:Thief]] [[Category:Destroyer of Innocence]] [[Category:Fighter]] [[Category:Honorable Villains]] [[Category:Karma Houdini]] [[Category:Supremacists]] [[Category:Xenophobes]] [[Category:Misogynists]] [[Category:Mass Murderers]] [[Category:United States of America]] [[Category:Misanthropes]] [[Category:Animal Cruelty]] [[Category:Modern Villains]] [[Category:Early Modern Villains]]
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