St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-17
BOB YOUNGER DEAD.
The Baby Of the Triumvirate
of Bandit Brothers Sum-
moned Suddenly.
He Realized That the End Was
Approaching, and Pre-
pared for It.
Cole, Jim and the Faithful
Sister Retta Witness the
Dissolution.
Career Of the Famous Out
law and the Surviving Con-
Wet Brothers.
Special TO the Clone.

Special TO the Clone.
SALTWATER. Mimi, Sept. 16.-BOb
Younger, the Missouri outlaw, died of
consumption at 1920 O'Clock tonight,
at the age of thirty-fOur years, after an
Imprisonment of thirteen years. Death
at last came suddenly, and was hardly
expected under two or three weeks. He
began to feel the end approach at 6
o'clock and told Jim and Cole, his
brothers, also serving life sentences, to
remain, as he had but two or three hours
to live. He sank gradually, kept his
mental faculties up to the last breath,
and bade his brothers and sister good
bye. His remains will probably be
taken to his native county of Jackson,
Mo, for interment. All the Youngers
always claimed that Bob never partici-
pated in any lawless act or excursion
except the Northfield affair.
THE GREAT CRIME.
Bob Younger was born Oct %. 1854,
in jackson county, Missouri, his fathers
family consisting of eight girls and six
boys. All of these grew to maturity eX-
cept three. The crime for which Bob
was imprisoned in the Saltwater peni-
tentfary was his connection with
the famous Northfeld bank rob-
berry in this state, when Cashier
j. l.. Haywood gave up his life.
1t was about p. m. Sept. S, 1876. that
eight or ten horsemen, armed to the
teeth, dashed through the streets of
Mortified, shooting in all directions,
and shouting to persons on the street to
get inside their houses or stores. 1t was
the first bold move for the robbery of the
bank. They halted in frontof the First
National building ard three men Sprang
from their horses and entered, while
the others remained outside to intimi-
date with continuous shooting any one
who might approach. In the bank were
Cashier Haywood, his assistant, a. E.
Bunker. and Mr.. Wilcox, a clerk. The
robbers jumped over the counter, and.
covering the men inside with re-
volvers, ordered them to throw up their
hands. One of the robbers started to 90
into the vault. Mr.. Haywood followed
him and partially closed the door, when
he was pushed back and another of the
robbers approached and struck him on
the head with a revolver. The two
then dragged him toward the vault, and
with curses commanded him to open the
Inside door. Hayward refused, and the
men
DREW THEIR KNIVES,
and one of them drew the blade across
Haywood's throat, making a small
scratch, and commanded him again to
open the door, threatening to cut his
throat from ear to ear il lie did not.
At this moment Bunker, the assistant
cashier. attracted the attention of
the robbers by running from the
back door. and one of them fired at
him, the ball taking effect in the leg.
But Bunker dashed on, escaped from
the building, ahd ran to a doctors
office. The robbers who were working
with Haywood. hearing that the firing
of their comrades standing guard out
side was being answered by the
firing of citizens, and failing to
induce the cashier to open
the vault, sprang outside the
counter and started for the door. As
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with his revolver not more than foot
from HaywOOd'S head, fired. the ball
entering the temple and killing the
heroic cashier instantly. BY this time
the citizens along the street had been
aroused, revOlvers were secured, and
firing at the robbers began. From the
second story window of building across
the street from the bank a young man
named Wheeler shot one of the robbers
through the heart as he sat in his saddle
and then wounded another. The
bandits saw that it was time to retreat.
and they called to the three men in the
bank TO come as they started.
alarmed by the shooting. but before
the retreat began another robber had
been shot. He was picked up, how
ever. ana thrown across in front of the
saddle of one of the hOTsemen. and the
band started in full run on the retreat,
firing their revolvers in every direction
at citizens, one of whom, Nicholas Gus
tavSon, was shot through the head and
died in three days.
THE PURSUIT.
This is in brief the story of the ia
nous robbery that aroused the citizens
Of the entire state, and in which Bob
Younger was a participant. The news
OF the murders spread quickly, and soon
large bodies of men were in hot pursuit
of the bandits, who, it was soon dis
covered. had divided into two
parties, taking opposite directions,
One party was composed of Frank and
Jesse James, and perhaps one or two
others, and the other contained the
Younger brothers. At times their pur-
suers were in sight, and then were lost
sight of. Day after day the pursuit
continued. Men left Minneapolis
and st. Paul and joined in the
hunt. In their flight both of
the bandit parties stopped at
farm houses and got food, and at other
times stole fresh horses, leaving their
jaded beasts in exchange. 1t was a
long, weary chase; but at last, on the
morning of the 21st of September, after
every hope of a capture had almost
been given up, the news was carried to
Madelia, Mimi, as fast as horse would
carry courier, that four men, believed to
be some of the robbers, had stopped
at a farmhouse seven miles north of
there, bought some butter and bread,
and started west on foot. In a few
moments party of fifty men of Ma
della was armed ana hOTSed and in hot
pursuit. They came up with the men
and drove them through slough eight
miles northwest of the village. Then the
bandits gained the open prairie, and their
pursuers opened fire on them. The rob-
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