New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-02-29
I'M YoUNGER's NARRATIVE.

as IOlQ TO tne Messenger, Will be read with
interest
JIM YoUNGER's NARRATIVE.
After minor particulars of the murder of
his father by mob of highwaymen and the
destruction OF their homestead, Jim Younger
said:
In February, 1866, we were run off by
mob, and went TO an uncle in Howard
county It was while was there that the
Liberty bank robbery took place. though
T. that affair was not laid to US until a long
time afterWard, or until after the celebrated
lowe train robbery. [ staid from home until
the fall of 1866 and on the day returned
was captured at the house by the same
supposed mob that murdered my father
escaped from those men within twenty min
utes after my capture by leaping upon q
horse That stood near the door, and riding
for my life. In the spring of 1867 [ went
back to my mother and planted, cultivated
and harvested a crop for her. But while
doing that slept every night in the woods
going to the house after sunrise and leaving
at shutdown. l took that precaution to
avoid being murdered | was not, however,
afraid of meeting ordinary people and was
glad to go often to Independence and mix
with the people there, most all OF whom
knew me well. In 1868 [ went to Texas and
remained ther3 until 1870, when my mother
sent me word asking that should come and
take her to Texas. but she died soon after
my arrival home Upon her death she gave
me special charge, sister Bettle and the old
black woman, asking me to take them to
Texas. l obeyed, and remained IN Texas I'M
til the fall of 1872. During the time lived
there [ drove herds of horses to Louisiana
and cattle to Neosho, Kan, caring for nearly
five hundred of the latter. That was in the
winter Of TIP. In the following winter [
took sister Bette to Missouri, and was visit
ing there with friends when the Iowa train
robbery occurred. and We were accused
of that act. AT that time we were
prepared to return to Texas L
hardly know how to most forcibly or con-
vincingy put my words, but can truuhfully
say that the accusation regarding the Iowa
affair was lie. If there is on the face OF
the ealth a man or woman whose word is
good in the community where they are
known, ana that man or woman will SOL
EMMY say that we are guilty of any otfense
except that committed at Northtield. then l
will admit the truth OF everything charged.
There has never been issued even WIFI IN
connection with any other alleged crime.
After the Iowa robbery we were surrounded
by PinkertOn's detectives One day brother
John and [ were eating dinner at old man
Shutters when party Of these men rode
past We mounted our horses and started
for the house Of our aunt, and on the way
met the detectives in the road We said
to them "Good day." whereupon man
whose name [ now know is Lull pulled
revolver, Which he had kept concealed, and
shot my brother John returned the fire and
Lull died from the effects of the shot, while
John died within q few minutes. | soon went
to Kentucky, remaining there until the
spring of 1875, when l went to California.
ranching. Then I came back and, in way
not necessary to be explained, got at once
into the NOrthteld affair and into the state
prison After the murder OF father, none OF
us were given moment of peace, yet [ was
never afraid of the open day or of any ex-
Cept the secret assassins who murdered my
father for his money. Al Dallas, Tex, 1
moved in the best social circles, took the
school census, was deputy marshal for
time, and when [ left was deputy under
Sheriff Jere Brown All the leading men
knew me well, and no man there can truth
fully Say aught against me. While I was
quartered at NeoshO, Kan. Went under my
right name and mingled freely with people,
attending the balls and parties as welcome
and respected guest
CONFIRMED BY COLEMAN.
The reporter afterward visited Coleman
Younger, librarian of the prison, and having
narrated the substance of his broLher's con-
yersatiol expressed a desire to add thereto
anything he desired in confirmation or ex-
PLANTATION that might occur to him. Where
upon he said:
Well, it was that Iowa train robbery, and
the fact that we were charged with the
crime, of which we were wholly innocent
and ignorant, that brought us into this
prison for lite. AS Jim says, we were then
preparing to go to Texas and be rid of the
bounding in Missouri of which he has spoken
Had we gone our lives would have run on
peacefully and we would not have been
driven into straits and to this place. The
Sunday before the Iowa robbery I was
at Monogram Springs, Mo-, and attended
preaching there. At O'Clock in the
afternoon | took supper with Kelvin Tickle
and Rev. Mr.. Sutton, the preacher. Two
thirds of the people present at the preaching
were originally from New York, Indiana and
Ohio, and were ex-Union soldiers and their
families; most all of them knew me person.
ally, or as ole or Bud" Younger At the
close of the service hel ped many of the
ladi who knew me to mount their horses.
me ton those facts to show how many
PEG, i there are, Northern people, too, who
know where l was on that day After sup
per brother John, who was with me, went to
uncle Frank Younger's at johnson City,
where Jim and Bob were. 1t was right after
Jim came back from Texas, as he has told
YOU. [ staid with friends in the vicinity of
the Springs that night. The Iowa train rob-
ing Monday morning at a point 300
miles from Monogram Springs. The
first knew of the affair was
what / saw in a ST. Louis paper, and the
names of Youngers led in the headlines. as
the main perpetrators The same accounts
said the robbers had been in the vicinity of
the place where the robbery was committed
for two or three days previous to the COM
mission OF the crime. HAD ever been
brought into court charged with the Iowa
business scores of people who were at the
preaching at the Springs that Sunday even
ING would havesWorn as to my whereabouts
The newspaper went on, after the robbery IN
Iowa, and charged us with serious offenses,
many of which / had never even heard of,
or, if l had heard, the recollection OF them
had passed from my mind. And since that
time books, made to SELL have been thrown
together detailing our thrilling so-called ex-
PLOTS None OF those accounts or pictures
lit us any more than they do you
or your best personal friend down
town Why. half of Bob's odium in
public opinion comes from the fact that
those so-called histories speak of Cole and
Bud" The re aders of that sort of literature
fall into the error of the author in thinking
that Cole and "Bud" are two different per-
sons and that "Bud" is Bob" 1t is fire.
,quent custom among Southerners to call
brother affectonately Bud" a sort of short
for brother. am Bud, as well as Cole, and
Bob, the youngest generally speaks of me
now, like he did at home, as Bud You'll see
how the word Bud is used IN Eggleston's
.&Hoosier Schoolmaster." Well, after the tu-
multi OF the Iowa affair our laudable plans
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