The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 10, 1889, Page 2

RB. “!-2 JEACO ——DEALER IN-— f) HARDWARE AND IMPLEMENTS CUTLERY AND GUNS. IAGEN Wm, DE T FOR ERING STEEL BINDERS AND MOWERS. MINNEAPOLIS STEEL BINDERS, Eagle Steel Wheel Hay Rakes, Buckeye! ” Force 'Pumps, BUGGIES, WAGONS, AND CARRIAGES, BINDER TWINE. BARB-WIRE Ete. R. R. DEACON, Butler, Mo THE YOUNGERS. Visit to the Noted Desperadoes at the Stillwater Prison. Cole Younger Tells the Story of the Northfiela Tragedy—About Jesse James and Frank James—Bob Younger Dying. St. Paul,fJune 29.—The efforts to secure the pardon of Bob Younger, one of the participants in the North field tragedy almost 13 years ego, has awakened interest in that terri- ble crime and again brought it up for public discussion. two brothers, Col serving life sentences in the state prison at Stillwater. A few since, Bob, who is the youngest of Bob and his and Jim, are weeks the trio of desperadoes, collapsed entirely and was forced to go to the hospital. It was evident he had been seriously ailing for:some time, and that only Lis wonderful deter- mination had kept him out of bed. The reports of his dying condition has greatly increased the sympathy felt in certain quarters for the im- prisoned outlaws. displayed during the chase that end- ed in their capture caused considera- | ble revulsion of popular feeling at the time. Recently this sentiment has manifested much greater strength. The Youngers, by their conduct in prison and when meeting visitors, have made many influential friends, whose active sympathy may result in procuring freedom for at| least one of the brothers. Still there remains that feeling of horror over the uncalled for killing ef Cashier Heywood, and the applica- tions for clemency will doubless meet opposition. As yet the move- ment has not taken definite shape, nor have petitions been put in culation. | Cole, the eldest, is 45, Jim 41 and Bob 34 years of age. Aside from his ill-health, the comparative youth of Bobat thetime of the crime is used as one of the most forcible ar- guments. Then, as they were mere- ly accessories to the murder, it is thought that 13 years behind the The great nerve | {but referred the correspondent to i Cole Younger, the elder brother. ;The interview with Cole Younger |is worth reproducing in full and is ' given below: ] } CALLING ON COLE YOUNGER. | “We will now see Cole,” remarked | Deputy Westbey, leading the way to the corridor above, at the eastern | end of which is the library. It is a} | Z \ ly packed with books. There is } from the freshest modern novels to | standard works and theological Many well educated men go wrong, and the prison officials essay have found the demand to cover al-} most the entire literary field. The library is supported by contribution and from the income derived from the prison newspaper, whose pages exhibit an astonishing amount of «d-| The room oc- eupied as a library is 2 larg ont. A big bay win- dow opens on the prison yard, and through the grating of a door at the vertising patronage. p, airy, pleasant aparty eastern end can be seen the verdure- | clad hills and entrancing landscape on the other side of the river. Pre- siding over this department is the eldest of the outlaw brothers. Ev- erything seems to be done to make his life one of ease, and to mitigate as far as possible the irksome restric- tion of imprisonment. Suspended about the library are bird-eages con- taining chirping canaries, whose “tweet! tweet!” echo the convici’s sigh for freedom. They are the play- things of his leisure moments, and have no fear of the desperado whose name was so long a terror to man- kind. Pictures adorn the vacant spots on the walls. Among them are photographs of relatives and of many prominent persons, most of the latter with autographs attached and inscribed with compliments to “Cole Younger, Esq.” At one side isalarge desk. Neatly arranged about are a number of small pictures. Two or three bouquets of fresh flow- ers show the eesthetic tastes of the outlaw, and are pleasant reminders of the friends beyond the walls. These tributes are daily received bars has been sufficient punishment. | and many of them are from ladies All have easy positions at the | who have visited the imprisoned des- prison, and their hfe has been made | perado. His duties are light, in as pleasant as possible on account of | fact, merely nominal. At the dinner H the remarkably good behavior that | hour he makes a circuit of the cells, | and friendship of the generals under lage of St. Peter, a few miles from has marked their confinement. Cole | collects the finished books and de-| whom I fought, and they will tell | St- Paul, that we made our rendez- has charge of the library and Jim is|livers those for which application | you that I rendered brave and effi- | V°US- Northfield, you know, is some the prison postmaster. Until his] has been made. health gave way Bob was book-keep- | is spent receiving callers or in at- er to the steward, and it is said he|tendance on his sick brother. His has developed rare abilities as an| visitors come almost in a stream, accountant and business man. The | and they hail from the country over. penitentiary officials speak in the] Asthe Enquirer representative cross- highest terms of all three, and will] ed the threshold Cole was entertain- do everything within bounds to se-] ing a gentleman and two ladies from cure favorable action by the govern-| California. Scacrely had they left or. before a party of five from Portland, [The correspondent found Bob|Ore., were announced. The visitors Younger in the hospital, apparently merely wished to see the noted out-| dying of consumption. Jim Young-]} law and hear him talk. Rarely is a 3 er is postmaster of the prison and | eference made to Northfield. has a good record for efficiency. Neither will talk about the crime for which they were incarcerated, A PEN PICTURE. While the outlaw chatted with his California visitors the Enquirer rep- } {ideas with references to his extensive large, well-lighted apartment flanked | Se 5 s on three sides by high shelves close- |” an} extensive range of reading matter, | ie | lady's handwrit The rest of the day | | resentative took a good look at him. ‘head is bald except for fringes of | lredelish hair on either side. His | _ brow is broad and expansive. Clear, blue eyes beam from slightly over- | hanging brows. A large, long and | | pointed nose, rather flaming, is the | most notable feature of a very florid |face. Hislips are thin, generally pressed together, and indicative of a | determined nature. Before his ar- rest Cole wore a mustache and | beard, but, of course, under prison regulations, these had to be removed. The only concession in this regard made to Younger was in permitting him to growa faint trace of side whiskers. Otherwise his face is kept cleanly shaven. His hands are white, soft and delicately moulded, not those one would select to handle a heavy-calibre revolver. He wears the striped pants of the convict, but his coat is a dark summer jacket, without the badge of disgrace. A neat black tie partially hides his linen collar. Clad in a clerical garb, the noted convict might easily be taken fora minister of the gospel. His large, broad face, while showing | all the signs of strength and mental power, yet bears a kind expression. His voice is musical and his language couched inexcellent terms. He con- verses readily upon almost any sub- ject, and frequently illustrates his f A fashionable straw hat of | high Derby shape rests on the win- | dow, and at the withdrawal of the ladies he politely requests permission it. as the draft is a little too or his unprotected pate. ‘travels. to dou ‘efully bows to the ladies to leave, aud extends a ion to cali sa knock ¢ messenger enters wit some bouquet. The is places the tribute on his de with others he hus received during the day. “Cole, letme introduce you to a representative of the Cincinnati En- quircr,” says Deputy Westbey, and the noted convict extends his hand {in cordial greeting. The outlaw’s levee continues, and the interview is frequently interrupted by the brief ealls of visitors, who with all the courtly gr received a lier. Leaning back with elegant ease, |in his comfortable chair, and puffing the train robber chief for the first affair. late the details of that terrible crime of penance in prison. POPULAR OPINION. “People have thought I had horns,” he prefaces the tale, ‘“so many have been the outrageous stories told about me. 1 owe a debt of hatred to those bookmakers for the diabolical stories they have told of my war career and the lying charges they have brought against me since. Many of these stories were absurd on their face, and none of them have I deemed worth deny- ing. Could there be anything more time tells the story of the Northfield | we seemed. It is only after much persua-| from our minds. sion and misgiving that the time is} circuit of the resorts we landed in not yet come that he consents to re- | St. Paul. which caused the loss of halfa dozen | Merchants’ hotel. lives, untold suffering and 13 years | Northfield affair? bed of every ff alue that could ing of = = -_ The desperado chiefis a large mag- | be carried off. He went to Kansas |nificently proportioned man. His | City to remonstrate with the military | authorities, and while returning was | brutally murdered in his buggy. | This furnished me a motive of re- venge, and was really a turning point in my life. Moreover, my family was pursued with all the brutal fe- rocity those freebooters—you could not call them soldiers—were capable of. When the war was over our plantation lay in waste, and under the iron-clad law we couldn't even get an administrator to take charge of my murdered father's estate. When I wanted to settle down as an honest man they wouldn't let me, but drove me from my home and kin. Seven of my 21 wounds were received at the hands of the mob that undertook to kill me, and did make me an exile. Detectives have hounded me, murdered my brother John, and would have sworn away my life for rewards and for crimes that I knew nothing whatever about. IfI have beer. not as good as I might have been, it was not alto- gether my fault. My home was in Cass county, and, although not many miles from where the James boys lived, I did not know them intimately until after the war. Jesse I met casually prob- ably half a dozen times during the struggle. Frank I did not know un- til sometime afterward. THEIR LAST EXPLOIT. “The Northfield affair was a very foolish piece of business. I at first opposed it, but my advice was overs ruled. It was an accident, the off- and the $a mere Our party on the Minnesota consisted of Seven of us had left uri by train. At Council Bluffs He had I not seen him for overtwo years. spring of a sudden impuls selection of that town w: matter of chance. arriyal in ight men. we accidentally met Jim. been in California with my uncle. VYhe meeting was a surprise to both of us. After some urging Jim con- sented to go with us, the trip being merely for afew weeks of pleasure among the lake resorts of the north- west. We had in our pockets a féw $500 or 3600 to each man. We visited ¢ ber of these summer places. Every taken for wealthy visitors from the south, as we were thousand dollars—probably huin- where we were lavish with our money and wore the clothes and had the speech of that section. All of us were well dresszd, and, as we were polite and wellbehay- away at a choice Havana selected | ed, no one suspected that we were from anumber left by his visitors, | not traveling under our proper were not what Robbery was furthest After making a names and that we Some of us stopped at the Nicollett house and the rest at the What led to the Gambling and drinking. We were in St. Paul near- ly two weeks. Some of the boys got to drinking and playing cards for high stakes. One day we real- ized that we were far away from home and comparatively broke. It was then the idea of robbing a bank was suggested by some of the party. We looked around at some of the ad- jacent towns and finally the choice fell on Northfield, two scouts having made a favorable report, It has been stated that we brought our horses with us, and that they were Ken- absurd than the story that I formed tusky thoroughbreds. ‘That's e xnie- a company of Jayhawkersin a square to merely see if my men could shoot throughthem? My war record was honorable. I still retain the esteem cient service. e. They were Minnesota horsess Four of them we bought at Red Wing, two in St. Paul and two in St. Peter. It was at this little vil My family has been 40 miles south of St. Paul. and on reyiled, though it was of the best the railroad. Early on the morning stock that left the Carolinas, and my grandfather, Judge Fresto, long a leading jurist of Nashville, Tenn, earned distinction under Gen. Jack- son at the battle of New Orlears. My near relatives have been highly respected and frequently honored | by their fellow citizens. Force of | circumstances and vindictive pursuit made me what Iam. My father of September 7, 1876, we left St. Peter, and a few hours’ ride brought us to the outskirts of Northfield. Then we separated into couples and This was about After having breakfast, we sauntered about the town and re- turned to our horses. At 2 o'clock (the hour agreed upon) we dashed up the street and in front of the bank from different directions. Three entered the town. noon. press ee eae HOG a eee of us (Bob and two others) entered jand Cass counties, Missouri, and a| ine pank. Land the others remain- j wealthy man for those parts. He | ed outside, and, ordering the people | was astrong Union man. In 1863 | to clear the streets, began to empty his plantations were raided and rob- Continued on next page. 1 : —AT SPOONER ea 1854 THE KANSAS CITY JOURNAL. ABLE, EVTERPRINI\G, RELINBLE. 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