The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 18, 1901, Page 3

—— sse and Frank James were more eee eR ao Fae eee > ; 1 irith i woe eee vesseswesems fight Jailer Griffin and his son were F.J. TYGARD, HON. J. 8. NEWBEBRY, 3.C.CLABK, Y kil President. Vice-Pres’t. Oashier § T t ha ined tt 5 I Cas 5 a I Snceessor to BATES COUNTY NATIONAL BANE « = wee Eatasiiened Dec., 1870. = rag to CAPITAL. $75 00 s A Gene in t rte se raids CAPITAL, $26,000 = be a ee ; 6 i } Bates County Investment.cCo., i : BUTLER, MO. { ‘ | Capital, = = $650,000. i aoe M to loan on real estate, at low re Ab ts of i ae : ; ti to all lands and town lots in Bates county. hoi @ | ne securities nlways on hand and forsale. Abstracts of tit : furnished, titles examined and all kinds of rea) estat 5 papers drawn, Be ps Tyoard How. NEw rene 5. ARK i cS Preetdent. Vice-Preaident Riot Henn cs I 1 Jeo. C. Hayxs, Abstractor. S.F. Wa «x. Notar ¢ | retre z , Y cl ci cininl lle agaeadadatcnsa tania Gucucsk cm eae tieacoacninemomen! Miss B ho pe YOUNGER BOYS { been in Stillwa son u slo : Lag : { The Younger brothers not peo : Freedom For the Famous Ban-| common border ruifians. They did | Tie band went into the train rob 1 bery Un s : not make mur i trade did axe ‘ . 2 dits Comes After Many | notrob that they mieht riot on their | Ve? Seve" 00e eee ts : Re Island train 1 r Council ’ | vains : ae ibs Years’ Confinement. Hoss Bluffs robbery of the Hot PARDON BOARD IS UNANIMOUS. History of the Crime for Which They Passed the Better Part of Their Lives Behind Prison Walls —Outline of Their Careér. St. Paul, Minn., 10.—The state board of pardous to-day ap- proved the parole application of Coleman Younger and James Young- er, who have been in the Stillwater y for the last twenty-five July penitenti: yearsfor complicity in the Northfield, | Minn., bank robbery. They probably will be confined to the boundaries of the county in which the Stillwater prison is located Warden Wolle telephoned the news ofthe parole to the prison and the Youngers were overwhelmed with joy at the To Deputy Warden Glennon, who used to play in the old Comique theater at Kansas City, Cole Younger said: “Well, well, 1 tell you I feel good. Why, [feel just like a Methodist. A Methodist, you know. when he feels good he wants to shake hands with everybody. 1 feel like shaking hands with everybody. I haven't got a news. deadoralive. I tell you ’mhappy.” | widely known | He was twice James Younger stood by, clasping | and unclasping his hands and smil- ing in a foolish sort of way, and echoing his brother’ **Well! well! 1 THE PARDON BOARD'S STATEMENT. The folloy the members of the pardon board, was given out: “Upon principle and judical au- ing statement, signed by | thority we are satistied that chapter | 234 of the laws of 1901 became a law, although not approved by the governor. We also recognize that it is the exclusive province of the legis- | latureto extend the parole system to life convicts and it has done so, sub ject to certain conditions and limita- | tions. We are satist sd that the peti- tionersin the case have, by excep- tionally good conduct in prison for quarter of a century, and the evi- dence they have given of sincere re- formation, earned the right to a pa- roleif any life peisoner can doso. The fer when he was 14 and fought during | Younger was looked upon as one of grudgeagainst anybody in the world, | joined Quantrell and became a lieu- i thing on his place was carried away but when they were in this band Cole Younger was the lead- er. He was the ablest and strongest minded. He hated mur- He ethics and lived And he was a mar der, and yet he killed ruthlessly. bad his own code of up to it Inclination and his parents intend- ed Cole Younger for a minister. Fate made him a robber. There is no mystery in their lives. The father, Henry W. Younger, was a lawyer of the highest probity He was county judge for eight elected to the le years. slit ture. When the war broke out. Judge the richest men in Missouri. He was living with his family of fourteen children upon a large stock farm in Cass county, near Harrisonville. During the Kansas-Missouri troub- les Judge Younger’s home was often attacked by “jayhawkers” and much ofhis property was destroyed. When the border war- virulent. war was declared, fare became Youger lost thirty head of horses and had three of his buildings burned in one raid by the Kansas militia ander more Judge Jennison. It was following attack that Cole Younger, then 17 years old, this last tenant in his band: of guerrillas. In July, 1862, Judge Younger was as- sassinated near his home and every- made | He suspected certain members of Jenni- He killed every man he burned. This murder son, Cole Young or r, an outlaw. son’s band. suspected. r remained with Quan-! Cole Younge trell until the leader died, and then he joined General Jo Shelby’s com- | | Jim Younger joined his broth- | mand. the last year of the war. | When over, the| Younger brothers returned to their] hostilities were | homes, or rather what had been their | | shunnedas outlaws found themselves Moreover, they | The homes They were without resources fath- | ler’s estate had been swallowed up. question of the propriety ofextending | the parole system to life convicts is not for us, but has been determined by the legislature and we are dispos- ed to gi Pose, The evidence presented estab- lishes the fact that the prisoners are entitled to a parole under the pro- visions of the law. In of the facts we must either consent to their parole or arbitrarily refuse to give effect to the act. It doubtful whether the duty of acting in the Matter of paroling prisoners can con- stitutionally be imposed by the legis- lature upon the chief justice as a Member of the board of pardons, but view is ‘t to this declared pur- | in view of the great importance of | the question he has decided not to Taise the question at this time ” TWENTY-FIVB YEARS IN PRISON. The Youngers were sentenced the state penit in Minnesota in the fall of 1876 and have therefore been nearly twenty-five Years. Their prison record is clear. The exploits of the Younger broth- ers, greate almost dream For twenty to tiary contined t of modern bandits, have number of a aded into the ive years they have Every hand was turned against the Youugers save those of a few follow- had the war with them ers who been through inthe peaceful country town in south- ern Minnesota was crowded with ;}money as are all the banks in the FROM GUERILLA TO BRIGAND From guerilla warfare to down- right brigandage is no at step. Cole Younger was 22 he was the leader of the gang of whom were old enough to be his father. He was leader by virtue of his strength, his capacity, his dar- years old, yet many ing, and above all because he was a natural commander He organized his band with care. He planned his raids as a general plans a battle, leaving nothing to | chance that could be arranged for. charged to the hat of the Clay The first raid Younger gang was County Sav Ss association on Feb- ruary 14, 1866 the bank at Liberty, was rob- bed, and two of t Bill Rey- nolds and N. P. Hayes, were killed In October the Two months later Mo.. gang, Lexington bank was March, the voted robbed, and in 1867, Savannah bank was | led the fourteen » Richmond, Mo., f Ht & Mason ttempted Peyton Jones robbed the b of $4,000 and tt oners contined in the to re- I be- In the lease pr eause of soutt 1 sentiments | him mortally. j able. | sisters, seeing that they were proper- > Tron Mountain Springsstage and th train followed This brief recapitulation of some of the of the gang is necessary that an idea may be gained of the territory covered by earlier crimes Younger its operations and ics remarkable scope. No one of them was captur ed. Cole Younger insisted that his men should avoid bloodshed unle it was “necessary and indeed until the Northfield affair there was little killing arned but five Asnearly us can be | death the The country rang the the band, the man who planned it all was not wide- ly known. Of all eat of outlaws, Cole Younger the only one who did not court noto- riety. It drink to Jesse James, but Cole Younger shun- men met raids 1874 daring deeds of m up to with but leaders perhaps, was meat and ned it. Robbery with Cole Younger was 2 business. The train robberies caused the Pinkertons to be set upon the trail of the gang. Captain Lull, a former police officer in Wright and a former deputy sheriff, E. D. Daniels, traced the Youngers to their retreat near Osceola, Mo. They had no sooner penetrated a settlement which the Youngers fre- quented than they were stopped by JimandJohn Younger, who had nev- er played a very important part in the of the robberies. The detectives were halted. W away. Daniels and Lull were made to drop their belts and pistols. Lull drew a pistol from his pocket and Lull’s horse ran Chicago, James histor. shot Jim Younger. Jim Younger jumped on his horse, rode after Lull and wounded Then he returned and uway. killed Daniels Surely no gang of everso successful as these. outlaws In allthe were land no men rode finer horses or car- | Reality bathed | ried better weapons them with a brighter glow than romance tinges the deeds of the knights of old who took to the road But the day of reckoning was to come. It was Bill Chadwell who suggest- ed the Northfield bank raid. He had lived Minnesota. He the National bank in First formerly knew that wheat growing country at that of year, to pay for the crops. Cole Young in his calm, judical mind and advised it. The others all favored awnst it,z to be persuaded against his better He has spent twenty-on judg years in regretting the blunder and now asks pardon for the ‘‘mistake It may be that Cole Younger had made up his mind to retire from the road. He had saved a large sum of money from the robberies. In Mis- souri he had made himself respect- He cared for his brothers and ly educated, and that they wanted for nothing. Possibly the longing for respectability was strong within him for fifteen years he had lived amc bloodshed holding minute of the time plunc an life E in his hands every THE NORTHFIELD BANK RAID. Cc right rode | time | r weighed the matter nd the leader permitted himself He was only 32 years old, and | mett wast and ex their rs —S were Jesse | {Charley P 1 vithout roar, horsemet Jmain street came the fora hundred. In from other was a rapidl “Off as possi the streets howled tt bber: r in the sleepy town with bade ther amazeme n seek coy ensued, Jesse Younger walked 1L. Hayward cox and A their muzz “Open the sa es of revolve James Hay that it was a Cashier le not. The outer door open and Jesse Jar the ir forward r door tried and Bunker broke for Younger fired lerk vers Tw struck tl The reve snappingand bark ng. all the fi {not wholly unprepz “Hur! out he drawe 22 hurr od for | James, who was th jand star | reaching for a volver spoke a dead. } It was I | fieldever h i : A ed to shooting good about apt their gu icken season From a co ier house Dr. and chatt revolver, w it unt James ard there, iedly nes st to ured it’ oe j fail to perform their functions regu-| jlarly a the blood solver. James’ re-| comes contar ad with impuritie markat In the panic and excitement BRAVE CASHIER HAYWARD arte Hayward } was not the robbers who were doing Frontier citi warning IV ransat securing very little money the door Fas 1 | thecounter, he saw Cashier Hayward vault it jumped was | te » try Ye t him in. ing hot | 1+ voice. ked the} pe As Jesse | 1 over | selves o1 aimst ot if these h to fly like t 3. six d ed in timber pint was g o escape f the stomach, | return fire | Bill ¢ Springtic and ti Reba O' Ha Manning oO ithe sidewalk Ch jopen. He k day to | was jing away, and brought down O Hair | Bob Yo er’s horse, which wasshel-| concocted a | tering its rider 30b sought the arrest « and aimed at ing but a bull hand er fired by Dr the Seriver i law's shoulder. | Younger st | other hand and | Wheeler's the side |and took their rev | Meanwhile other t lich 1, Was pr from | shatte oO they started off. Jit pistol t lair we these men went on ring purpose overw! } avs atte The Plot Laid by an Illinois Girl at - \ v ss v-8 Bs = x 5 s i Ke s seed XN ke ST } ing i aca ess q six w \fo 1 s WwW € I ou vas b s Younger had ther rid each man’s hand |] Now — ist r vhict e as | double The de ed posse 2 | jalarm and Ww out r ol on your lives 400 me s, and i stood | } e dr il tlyi “oe ws that er 1 bee t Withi Pitts and Bob] hours 1 yusand men bank. J.] were a e heim : Frank Wil-} SUFFERING OF THE ROBBERS clerks, were at B 9 ut thet i be ost. What »v looked up into the] . ean i uit these men pos : | sessed t could mceal a trial the commanded Jesse . sonest farmers and sheriffs could not eonceive retu fi = Suffering i ld tortures—the lock and ; gnawing of hunger and rain addedto the sting and fever of their wounds igrim, unfal v were battling thousand and we t their s they would hav the door. Bob] pursuers. But wey in sore o shots and one|straits in the should | Jim Younger was staring hisdeath guns we now|in the face He no longer had ing outside, and it | str to move. Because of his condition these men, who were used sfound them- of September the raid. surrou Mankato. Every re seemed to liver ID OF A SUITOR. Fin Exposed. 10.—Miss j r of Ellsberry ng near yester- Miss liott in 2 farm To-de that she and E resulted t. and is night Miss step onscious, ind bowels | to Septem! HUMAN FIEND IS CAUGHT ONT »y form of tobacco usin EMEDY CO., Chicago or New Yor! Woman and aad ‘ is t an wn _ i ' to d over s . to i th 1 hey sina vacant TOBACCO SPIT and SMOKE Your Lifeaway! fuilot ell, strong, ma: ic and vigor by taking MO-TO-BAC, akes weak men strong. Many gais ds in ten days. Over 500,000 d. All druggists, Cure guaranteed.” Book- 1 e FREE. Address ST Dying For Want of Water. Vinita, I. T., July 11.—Reports re- ceived by cattlemen from the north- w ormsection of the Cherokee Na- tion to the effect. tl cattle are dy- ing off rapidly in that section for want of water Verdigris River is reported to be the only water left, all of the smal streams having gone dry. The corn crop in this secti dup and un n isshriv s rain comes within the next week will be a total loss i Chis signature is on ev the remedy that eure y box of the genuine Laxaiive Bromo-Quinine taviets n cold tn one day Jessie Morrison Sentenced Eldorado, Kas.. July 6G —Jessie Morrison, convicted of manslaughter in the second degree for Wiley was to-day lara 1900 at confi nent hard the murder Castle on June sentenced to years iu the penitentiary in close labor. Miss Morrison took the sentence calmly and returned to her cell with steady » Aikman motions fo pment preme Court. overruled a new ynement of sente succes- trial, for we and forar Court adjourned Miss Morrison's attorneys will file a bill of exceptions r. when No E ‘xternal atone up a weak and ind take an appeal to the State Su- no skin The g a variable escribable ss of flesh 1 of the blood has E yetable mime k 1 ice i