The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-31

watches, and pray, when late in the af-
ternoon two deputy sheriffs and a con-
stable who were looking for the train
robbers suddenly came upon them. In
an instant Cole Younger took in the sit
uation, and revolvers were drawn and
leveled OF the officers, says the nara
tor, while with terrible threats and oaths,
indicating that if they did not hold their
hands as high as possible they would,
almost at once, look like the zodiac man
in the front of the almanac, they were
halted.
Where are you goingT' asked Cole
man Younger in rich Union depot
voice.
I'VE are hunting for the Youngers.
who robbed the train on the Rock Island
road" said the deputy, who had once
empan4led jury, but aside from that
had never mixed up much with carnage
You were" exclaimed Coleman
Younger well, d-n You, pray!"
He was almost morbid on the subject
of prayer, Coleman Younger. He did
much harm, think, by suggesting it at
the most inOpportune times, and showed
great intolerance that way.
what do you mean?' asked the trem-
bling wretch.
Il mean you have just ten minutes by
our large and choice assortment of
watches to get ready for the other world,
and l don't want to send any man to the
other world unprepared"
He was always that way. He did not
want to see a deputy sheriff die in q
crude state. Ten minutes soon passed,
and then the men were bhndfolded.
They were not far from the steep bluffs
of the Missouri, some Of which were 800
feot high. The three men, with their
eyes bandaged, were taken to cliff and
swung over it so that they caught by
their hands. Below was a perpendicular
wall
Hold on as long as You can" said the
eccentric robber, land when you fall
that will be the end of you"
With that the helpless men were left,
and above the tumultuous beating of
their own hearts they heard the clatte-
Of retreating hoofS. You can dimly i'm
agine the horror of such a situation.
The cold, glittering stars looked down
upon them, but they saw them not.
With bandaged eyes and sinking hearts
they chung to the verge Of life until their
nerveless fingers one after another re-
Taxed, and with deep moan they fell to
the bottom, distance of nearly four
feetl
AS soon as they recovered they went
home with feeling toward the Younger
boys which almost amounted to resent
ment.
The book is full of interest, and shows
that the James and Younger people re-
gard themselves as more sinned against
than SHINING. They always excused
themselves for killing people on the
ground that society had not treated them
well. They foolishly kept alive the old
war sentiment, and instead of burying
their sectional animosities they allowed
their strong political likes and dislikes
to warp their better judgment.
John Younger was less dignified than
Coleman. He was more apt to be mer-
curial, and also impulsive. One night in
a barroom at Dallas he was feeling quite
clipper under the influence of Texas
vintages when he proposed to shoot just
near enough to brush the nose of an old
gentleman who sat around the place.
John made bet with another man that
he could do so without shooting off the
nose. The bet was accepted, but great
ly to the general regret, regret which
was also shared by the old man, John
lost.
The volume contains a good, full page |
picture of Jesse James taken after death. |
It is well worth the price of the book, !
and has been a source of great comfort |
to many people who survive him.
1t is doubtful if this country will ever
again produce the same aggregation of |
robbing talent again. Mr..
Gould, with his active little Western |
Union telegraph. did much to cut short
the career of these men, and for this, if |
FOR nothing else, l feel for one like taking