New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-05

am not sure which, but the published hi
tory states one or the Other-murders.
Even this tiger in human shape has not il
spired more awe than the Younger an
James brothers. There are-or were-fou
! of the YOungers, who came of good Kentuck
stock. Coleman and James Younger wer
educated in Kentucky before the war brok
out, the others in Missouri. All are goo,
looking, manly, to a certain degree, accOn
| plished gentlemen. They would pass mu!
| ter at any hotel or on any Mississippi
| steamer, and hardly be taken for what the
are-desperadoes without pity or fea
Their father was killed by gang of busl
whackers in the war, at HarrisOnville; thei
uncle is Judge Younger, of st. Clair county
and they have brother who l am il
formed, is wealthy and respectable farme
living only few miles from here.
John Younger, who was killed last week
was about twenty -four years old, and. a
| the coolest and most intellectual of the four
had of late come to be their real if no
their nominal leader. He was hand
some, dashing fellow, affected the beau
and was quite ladies' man. A
fifteen he killed his man, but wa,
acquitted. In 1869, or thereabouts, tenn
porarily sojourDing in Texas, he shot tn,
sheriff of Dallas county, who attempted tt
arrest him for riot, and blew a hole through
q CiuiAOA " ~ h1u UAlCu. W dSSlSt lie OlllC0l
OF the law. The country rose to lynch him
but riding day and night, he escaped tC
Monegaw Springs. little village about
twenty miles southwest of this station
where the brothers have their rendezvous
alive, but with a charge of buckshot in his
body that laid him up for many weeks. I'm
mediately on his recovery he set out for the
Pacific coast. killed man with whom he
had quarrel over a card table, was ar
rested and en- route for prison and the gal
lows, when he scored another sheriff"
leaped from the cars, and escaped. He al
ways boosted that he wouldn't grin throug b
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 it
was who is credited with having given a
striking display Of the contempt for pop
guns which prevails all through the South
west. where people put their faith in
nothing but navy revolvers and short
shotguns. Talking of these short shot.
guns and their terrible effect at
short range, let me inject an Arkansas Dor
der county sheritf's mode of procedure He
wanted" horse thief, and received the
man in due course of time from the more
fortunate authorities of a neighboring
county. The prisoner was tied on his horse,
and escorted by the sheriff and his deputy
Said the sheriff: "YOu see these trials are
tedious and expensive, and very uncertain,
especially when the prisoner is we'll con-
nected. SO just as we crossed the line into
our own county-we were riding, Jim and
l, one on each side of him-we dropped
back step, and each put his gun under the
fellows shoulder, and blew two holes in
him that you could put your arms into him
through To resume: A band of halt a
dozen citizens, aggrieved at the absence of
horse, went out to hunt the Youngers, and
called at house where they were &C.
custOmed to resort. John and two of his
brothers happened along a few moments
after, and with fine sense of chiyalrv re-.
solved to avenge the insult upon his friends
,hus practically accused of harboring horse
thieves. They pursued the pursuers. and
halted and disarmed them; and John re-
marked on receiving a small pistol from
me of his prisoners:
"You id fool, If you'd shot me with
hat and I'd known of it. I'd have had you
licked out of the county,
Such was John Younger, who at present
occupies plot Of earth in a struggling and |
neglected graveyard at Monegaw Springs,
ver which is heaped a mass OF RAIN beaten |
lay.
Fell as he was in heart and mind,
he left no Drawer heart behind.
Coleman Younger, the eldest brother, is a |
IAN about thirty years Of age, the nominal |
hief OF the band. There is not a wholesale
murder, nor an outrageous assault on some
utlylng settlement, nor a rainrObbery,
nat has been perpetrated since 1865 along |
ne line from Trinity river in Texas away up
the NlObrara, in which he has not been
ngaged, or of which he has not had full ;
nowledge. He has plundered stages in
exas, stolen horses in Arkansas and the In
ian territory, robbed trains in Missouri
nd Iowa, plundered stores in Kansas, and
murdered men everywhere. He was one of
uantrelFs aides when Lawrence was
acked, and is said to have shot down in
Did blood fifteen prisoners after the fight.
Ocal history tells that amid his spoils was
Enfield rife-s weapon of which he had
card good account and whose destruc-
We qualities he was DESTROYS OF testing.
ccordingly he placed six prisoners in file,
,nvict fashion, each with his hand on his
le leaders's shoulder, and, putting the J.
uzzle OF his rife to the back of the last
an, killed four at one discharge. The
her two brothers are Robert, aged twenty,
Id James, about twenty eight. They have
le courage and ferocity of their more dis
nguished relatives. and have participated
all their exploits, but not having been
aders or lacking originality in devising or
Iecuting crime have established no special
dividual regulations for themselves.
hese are the YOungers, who haunt the
cinity of Appleton City, Monegaw Springs,
ola, Roscoe, Osceola and Kearney.
About 100 miles north of here are the
ines brothers. their allies and rivals in
'sperate deeds, ON whose heads a price
's been placed, but who treat the law and
officers much as the leviathan the shak- ,
g of a spear. On the map you will see q
wn called Liberty, about fifteen miles
nth OF Kansas City, on the st. 10 road.
IN miles above that is Kearney, a little {
~ station. Near this, in Clay county, [
re the James brothers, with their mother, {
no has tho reputation of being as able and I
ling to shoot as either of her boys. They
we great many friends, some of whom {
We been acquired by the lavishness with
lich, after robbery, they scatter their !
mons, while others have been cOerced t
TO aiding them. RumOr even has it that
Q authoritles-Or at least some of them i
We shared in their spOils, and 80 been &
ught to leave them unmOlested or to warn ,
en- of danger These two men are like 9
9 man-eating tigers of India, one of which {
II, by the terror it inspires, desolate 6
d depOpulate a whole district. The
mes boys have made land worthless in
ay county, business is at standstill, and I
migration has been checked. They have c
1T the country tbereaway several millions G
dollars direct loss, and several lives, ]
ongh they have not been as deeply stained t
tn blood as their confederates to the | t
lthward. When they make a haul they +
ire to St. Louis, New Orleans, Memphis.
even Kansas City for debauch and a /
milling carnival, and, their money spent, 7
urn home to plan another raid. 1t was q
> Jameses and Youngers who last year 4
rev passenger train from the track at t
ton, Iowa, shot the engineer, and robbed 6
mails and safe in the presence of six or /
zen car loads of passengers. The coun-
rose to pursue them, but they made i
cir way safely home, and, after a day J
two at KeaEney, went South. Following a