DON'T LET THE PARANOIA GET YA: That's what should have been etched on the tombstone of Jim Murphy. Jim was a 200-pounder with a red mustache and chin beard—features only outdone by his watery, small blue eyes that seemed to dart everywhere at one. That was a clue to his inner child. Jim rode with the Sam Bass gang, robbing trains (although never getting much in any one haul), until the Texa


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