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Jessie’ Ousht To Be Ashamed - .. UNION, Mo, March 10 (AP). A Missouri circuit Judge today dismissed J. Frank\Dalton's re- que ‘to be known as 5 Jesse.Wood- Bo fames—the notorious 0 outlaw} of 70 years ago.‘ "In ending a one-day hearing, Judge Ransom A> Breuer gave a crowded courtroom a brief oral sermon in home state pride. He said for 25 years in the last cen: tury the James gang went unap- prehended and Missouri had be- come known as a place— - - “Where criminals run at large d go unapprehended. ” ot dge'’s Advice’. 7 He said if the 102 yearold Dal- hn really is Jesse James let him “retreat to his rendezvous and ask his good God to forgive him.” If Dalton is not James, Judge Breuer added, he is “trying to perpetrate a fraud.” .- But, the 80-year-old judge said, “there. is nothing for this court |i to pass on here.” . : Judge Breuer noted that Dal-|! ton's petition asked that his name]; be “changed” to Jesse Woodson dames. But, the judge pointed out: |! “If Dalton was James in the}: old days and hes never had his mame legally changed, it’s im- possible to change his name back _to what he already had. ” Several ‘Support Claim The white: haired old mi feeble but cantankerous, claim in court he was the real Jesse James. They brought. him in on @ stretcher. © History records that James was. killed by ‘a member of his own | gang dack in 1882. - - \ Dalton asked the ‘court to. re-|, store what he contends is his real} name—Jesse.Woodson James. [f - He had several old-timers to. back him up, and-one after an- other testified that he was Jesse, @ man they personally. knew back when he led a band of bank and train robbers.” : Dalton broke his hip two years ego. That’s way he was: on & Jesse E. James of Los Angeles, | who says he is the son Of the out-. _daw, opposed Dalton’s claim én the grounds that it was not made’ “in good faith and was prompted for the sole purpose : : financial ytor financial galt Tolsos__-— ' Ladd. i — Clegg. Glavin, Nichols__ >: "Rosen_. hie Tracy Harbo_. __.” Belmont ' Mobr Tele. Room__ Nease Gandy | <2 AU UI-f = APR 20 1950 Page Times-Herald B35 Wash, “Bost - Ee Wash. News ___ Wash, Star. ___ N.Y. Mirror