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Enc. The Story of the FBI Know your... FBI ~ Cooperation--The Backbone of Effective Law Enforcement Fingerprints--The Infallible Means of Personal Identification The FBI Laboratory NOTE: Bufiles contain no record identifiable with correspondent. The information concerning the death of "Pretty Boy" Floyd was taken from the notes in !'The FBI Story” by Don Whitehead. The information concerning the claim of J. Frank Dalton to be Jesse James is contained in Bufile 62-26471. This file indicates that Dalton filed a petition in January, 1950, in the State of Missouri to change his name to Jesse Woodson James, claiming he was the _. real Jesse James, the notorious outlaw. This case was dismissed by a Missouri circuit court judge on the grounds that if Dalton was. - James in the old days anc had never had his name legally changed, "it was impossible to change his name back to the one he had already had. The outlaw's son contested Dalton's action, charged that Dalton sought publicity as a tourist attraction. The fingerprints of Jesse James, with alias, J. Frank Dalton, were submitted by the Lawton, ' Oklahoma, Police Depariment on 5-21-48. This fingerprint card showed that Dalton was. born September 5, 1847, ai Goliad, Texas. _~ Encyclopedia references show that Jesse Woodson James was “« born at Centerville, (now Kearney) Missouri, in i647, and that he died at St. Joseph, Missouri, on April 3, 1882. . i