Connecticut western news., 1876-10-13
A Family of Robbers.

AAo AOuHS0ES aEo pfODaOly most known of the gang who perpetrated the raid as Northfeld, Minnesota. A St. Paul paper says: The father, Colonel Henry Younger, was 8 man of some note and worth. He was born in Crab Orchard, Ky, but at an early day moved to Missouri, and in 1880 married, the fruits of the union being large family of girls and boys, of the latter Richard, Thomas, Coleman, James and Henry, John, and Robert Ewing attaining their majority. Col. Younger figured some what conspicuously in local politics, meantime attending closely to business, and at the breaking out of the war iu 1861 owned large livery stable in liar rlsonville, Cass county, and was also do- ing a good merchandising business.
 Col. Younger espoused the cause of the Union, but, notwithstanding, so bitter was the feeling against him re- sulting from his active participation in politics. that in one of the raids into Missouri in 1861, by the Kansas jay hawkers, led by Jennison, Col. Younger's B livery stable was sacked, and property valued at $20,O0O run off, In Septem Der of the following year. while going to Harrisonville to deposit large sum of money, he was way laid and assassinated.
 From this event 1t is claimed by them selves dates the criminal career of the Younger brothers. Swearing revenge, they joined their fortunes with those of Quantrell. In 1864 Cole joinedv the Confederate army, going South with Gen. Price as captain of 8 company, finally going into Louisiana, where he was when the war closed. Up to this time, 1t is claimed, the brothers had killed all the men supposed to have been engaged in the assassination of their father. After the close of the war, Cole, with picked band of his men, went to Mexico on mission of robbery and pillage, but soon returned to settle in his old home.
 Soon after his return from Mexico, the people and authorities of Missouri begun war of extermination upon Quantren's gang, resulting in soon mak- ing the Younger brothers and others homeless wanderers and refugees from justice. Since then their career has been one of unexampled crime, having been guilty ln an exaggerated degree of almost every crime known to the laws. Large rewards have been offered for their capture, dead or alive, the rewards for Cole alone aggregating $27, Cole, who IS the spokesman for the cap- tlves at Faribault, pleads in attenuation that at first he only sought vengeance, but that after career with Quantrell's s gang he found himself so hunted and charged with hundreds of crimes as to drive him into outlawry. And more, that since the Youngers and Jameses have become known almost every offense of the character of those in which they have been engaged, has been laid at their door, whether guilty or innocent, "Why," he remarked to our reporter, 'tI am accused of enough crimes to weigh me down, not one of which I have been guilty of. With whole country infested with men who make their living as have l, every one of their to me-" Those who converse with the Youngers conclude they are as artful liars as they are reckless murderers, and no credence can be put in the much talk in which they indulge.
 In 1875 preamble and resolution were introduced into the Missouri Leg lslature-the preamble reciting the va rlous crimes charged against the broth oi0' enu OAo IesOluJlou granting them amnesty and restoration to citizenship. The movement was ably advocated, and resulted in most exciting debate, and was defeated by but small majority.
 The third of the bandits in durance at Faribault has been identified as Col. Garter, a noted Texas desperado. He is considered the worst man of the three, and if he isn't he is slandered by his face. He looks it all. He has a wife and children, and the reputation of being the "ablest" horse thief in Texas, which abounds in characters of that class. He has for years operated moro or less with the James and Young CTS, making his house the headquarters of the gang while operating in Texas He was in the Gad's Hill robbery and the Iowa bank robbery.