The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1876-10-01

made him not only vengeance, but forever
after quiet conscience by the reply that the
world IL the debtor. Why Did not II
rob him ola fathers protecting care and
s2Vo,OO0 besides, more or less, and how
| degrading Is work to replace the loss which
was cntailed To bring the perpetrators of
murder OF his father to justice, this yonng
man claims he himself spent more than e25,-
600 OF his own, and that much OF his faith
er's wealth went for the same purpose.
But the
TRUE STORY
isprobably easily told. MIR. Russell, who
has known the Younger boys from earliest
time, says before the war they were not
remarkably hard boys, but 10y no means
,traitest-laced Sunday.sehool scholars.
They became members Of Mosby's guerril-
las, whore they were initiated to dee ,is of
blood and violence, and the life or a bush
whacker, and have so lived every since.
the cruelty, the utter disregard OF the
many bloody sights of war, the cold-blood.
ed atrocty OF their deeds made them out
laws, to be hunted after tho wars clio 81,
and therefore to be outlaws slways. To
sketch
THEIR SUBSEQUENT CAREER
Is difficult matter. Accuse them OF COM
plicity In any crime. aud they have at once
an alibi at hand, " it'll reference TO parties lar
away, who will say they were in such and
such place when such and such O crime
was committed. The men who have follow
ed them all these long years, shadow we'd
them all these long years, .hadowed them,
and yet been unable TO take them. can bet
ter tell their story; and 1t will be one black
with wanton murder and the whole catego.
ry Of crime. Should these desperadoes
conllde TO mo the story OF
their lives there IL nothing on
which could be founded belief that the
truth was told. They contradict each
other, tell different yarns, and so lay them
selves open TO be discredited a. to attend
interviews ontheir past career with serious
difficulty. Several parties tricd.yeslerday
to elicit from them something concerning
themselves. Cole did not hesitate to talk,
but when his palpable lies came to the sur
face, anil he himself was driven repeatedly
into the corner, lie refused to talk longer,
and yeXatiou-ly . expressed himself.
case in point will illustrate. The Youn-
ger brothers claim they were not impl.ca-
ted in the Gad's hill robbery.
They state that they were many miles
away some where down in Texas. And
while Cole, yesterday, located them at one
point, Bob locates them At another three or
four hundred miles distant. Olthe party
that visited them yesterday were John l..
Merriam and John r. Lincoln, OF St. Paul.
Both these gentlemen were victims of thst
robbery-Mf. Merriam to the tune of S4OO
and Mr.. Lincoln to a considerably lesser
amount. Mr.. Lincoln il positive Cole
Younger was one OF the number. He gays
he can not mistake the peculiar shape OF
the face, and the head which was exposed
his hat falling near Mr. Lincoln's seat, a. he
gave Mr.. LincOln's own chspeau a re.
vcngfui kick Mr.. Merriam /, not 80 GER
tain, but Mr.. Lincoln is positive he can not
be wrong. Three men wore handkerchlefs
over their faces al that time. not, however,
over the head and neck.
The punishment which may now be me-
ted out to these desperadoes is now being
discussed. Ii must be difficult matter 10
prove on any of these three the shooting
OF Haywood. The murderer Is not of the
party Of captiyes. The dead man, Charley
Pitts, expiated his shot at Bunker by the
loss OF his life. Bob Younger did not shoot
in the bank. Jesse James was the man
that killed Haywood. But the law holds all
men guilty who are implicated in any man
ner in murder. hanging Is not too good
fate for these bloody handed Williams.
Even that cannot atone for. their long list of
Oflenses, and under eur state law they can
be hung iftwelve men will say they are
guilty Of murder In the first degree, and
will recommend the death penalty. The plea
Of guilty eyaded, the court can refuse to
acceptit. Public opinion will justify lit
tie stretching OF the penal code, aud these
men have SO deiied justice, have been such
outlaws for 80 many years, that a little dis
regard of her strictest integrity will be re-
garded with charitable leniency. But say
still, that the man or woman, however bit
ter may be his sentiments, who talks with
these men, will come away less rampant for
bloody revenge upon them for their harm
lessness now, their murdeTOus desire flashes
to the eyes that have looked heartiessly
time and time agan on murder but at other
times these men are apparently complacent
gentlemen, sauye in their manner, and not
telling in their face their terrible watOn-
ness.
There is nothing dissipated about their
looks, very little that would be called bad
at first glance. Cole recognized Mr.. Jumper
yesterday and shook hands With him. told
the numbr Of the room he occupied, asked
il that was not right, and he did not be-
have while there. The reply was yes. The
three in custody, and the one killed were
at the SicOllet, and Mr.. Jumper describes
them as appearing like high-toned tourists.