Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-04-11


killed him. Playing the role of Ark
ansans who had been pressed to serv
in the Union army and had desertei
and were trying to get home, the.
went to q small cabin tenanted by
woman whose husband the Tiger has
: killed. Here he was accustomed {,
!. take his meals. The soldiers were un
!; armed and the Tiger came III q walk
ing arsenal, enough TO make then
shiver without the additional fact be
ing taken into consideration that they
had lain all night in the cold. They
told their miserable tale and besoughf
aid to reach their friends. lie re
piled that Yank or Secesh were the
same to him, he hadn't spared a man
yet and wasn't going to begin then.
They pleaded that they would perish
Of hunger and cold, and he said that
if they were killed at once they would
be saved so mach suffering. Finally
he said that he would wait till he had
eaten his breakfast and then decide
whether or not to kill them. All this
while he had been sitting between
them with his gun on his knees and
no opportunity had presented itseli
for an attack. Suddenly he leaned
forward to take a coal from the hearth
and light his pipe, and the Iowa cav
| alryman seiZing the tOngs dealt mm
| a terribleblow on the head and knock
ed him into the fireplace. His COM
rade seized an iron or "a iron dish--f
write from memory three or four
years old-and both the men throwing
themselves on him pounded his skull
| till it was broken into a dozen places
and his face mashed to a bloody pulp,
so that che was blind-you couldn't
sec where his eyey were. All the
while the woman was screaming fran
ticaIly: xiii him finish him or he'll
butcher US ALL" Finally he ceased
to struggle. The work was done and
the avengers prepared to search his
cavern, but were startled few min
utes after when all was quiet to see
the desperado they thought dead
move, and, all blind and faint as he
was, try to crawl out towards the
bush. This time they made clean
work of it, for with n wOod-axe they
beat out his brains and hewed off his
head. Thus died the Tiger of the
Ozarks, to whose dread account histO-
ry places 126 or 146-I am not sure
which, but the published history
states one or the Other-murders.
Even this tiger in human shape has
not inspired more awe than the YOun-
ger and James brothers. There are
or were-four of the y oungers, who
came of good Kentucky stock. Cole
man and James Younger were educa-
ted in Kentucky before the war broke
out, the Others in Missouri. All are
goodlooking, manly, to a certain de-
gree, accomplished gentlemen. They
would pass muster at any hotel or on
any Mississippi steamer and hardly
be taken for what they are despera-
does without pity or fear. Their IA
ther was killed by gang of bush
whackers in the war at UarTisonville; |
their uncle is Judge Younger, of St !
Clair County, and they have a brother |
who am informed, is a wealthy and |
respectable farmer living only few |
miles from here.
John Younger, who was killed last /
week, was about twenty-fOur years
old, and, as the coolest and most in
tellectuaI of the four, had of late come
10 be their real il not their nominal
leader. He was a handsome, dashing
fellow, affected the beau, and was
quite a ladies' man. st fifteen he
killed his man, but was acquitted. In
1869, or thereabOuts, temporarily So
Ourning in Texas, he shot the Sheriff
Of Dallas County, who attempted to
arrest him for riot, and blew n hole
through a citizen who had tried to as
3ist the officer of the law. The coun-
.ry rose to lynch him, but, riding day
and night, he escaped TO Monegaw
Springs, a little village about twenty
niles southwest of this station, where
.he brothers have their rendezvous,
llive, but with a charge OF buelEsi8otll
n his body that laid him up for ma
ly weeks Immediately on his re-
,overy he set out for the Pacific coast,
killed a man with whom he had a
Iuarrel over a card-table, was arrested
md en- rout for prison and the gallows,
when he "scored another sheriff."
capped from the ears, and escaped.
&c always boosted that he wouldn't
grin through a grating while he was
alive, and he kept his word and died
With his pistol in his hand and his
boots on, as is the ambition of all
good borderers hereaway to die He
t was who is credited with having 4
given n striking display of the con-
.empt for pop-guns which prevails all
the Southwest, where people
put their faith in nothing but navy re-
yolvers and shot-guns. Talking of
5hese shot-guns and their terrible cf-
,ect at short range, let me inject an
Arkansas border county sheriffs mode
IF procedure. He "Wanted" a horse
thief, and received the man in due
course of time from the more fortu-
nate authorities of a neighboring coun-
y. The prisoner was tied on his
horse and escorted by the Sheriff aud
MS deputy. Said the Sheriff: "You
see these trials are tedious and expen-
3ive and very uncertain, especially
when the prisoner Is well connected.
So Just as we crossed the line into our
own county-we were riding, Jim and
[, one on each side of him-we drop
ped back 4 step and each put his gun
lnder the fellows shoulder and blew
iwo holes in him that Won could put
7our arms into him through" To res
iume: A band of half a dozen citi-
.ens, aggrieved at the absence of
horse, went out to hunt the Yonugers,
md called at a house where they were
to resort. John and two
If his brothers happened along a few
after, and with a fine sense
If chivalry resolved to avenge the in
iult upon his friends thus practically
.ccused of harboring horse thieves.
They pursued the pursuers, and halt
d and disarmed them, and John re-
marked on received a small pistol
rom one of his prisoners
"You id fool, if you'd shot me
With that and I'd known Of it, I'd
lave had you kicked out of the coun-
y"
Such was John Younger, who at
present occupies a plot of earth in a
and neglected graveyard at
MOnegaw Springs, over which is heap
ID q mass Of rain-beaten clay.
Fell as he was in heart and mind,
He left no brayer heart behind.
Coleman Younger, the eldest broth
n, is man about thirty years of age,
The nominal chief of the band. There
5 not wholesale murder, nor an out
'ageOus assault on some outlying set
-lement, nor a q train-robbery, that
mas been perpetrated since 1865 along
The line from the Trinity River In
Texas away up to the NiObrara, in
which he has not been engaged, or of
which he has not had fun knowledge.
He has plundered stages in Texas,
stolen horses in Arkansas and the Iii
1ian Territory, robbed trains in Mis-
souri, and Iowa, plundered stores in
and murdered men every
where. He was one of Quantrel's
aids when Lawrence was sacked, and
is said to have shot down in cold blood
fifteen prisoners after the fight. Lo-
cal history tells that amid his spOils
was an Enfield rihe-a weapon of
which he had heard a good account
and whose destructive qualities he
was desirous Of testing. Accordingly