The James Gang was disastrously shot up in their attempt to pull off a bank robbery in Northfield Minnesota. Three were killed outright, others wounded, with arrests following, with posses being made up principally of local volunteers.
Frank and Jesse James escaped, but the raid was the end of the gang.
The raid itself was a really stupid endeavor. The gang members were not folk heroes with a sort of post Civil War partisan ranger aura about them in Minnesota. The local residents, for that matter, proved exceptionally capable in the gun battle that broke out in the town.
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