The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-31

AFTER the Rock Island train robbery
the Youngers and Jameses scattered in
order to avoid detection. Each took a
peach basket full of gold watches, SO that
he would know what time it was, and
started off in different directions. Curl
ously enough, four of them came to-
gether, viz, Cole, Jim and John Younger
and Moore.
The four outlaws had halted in a thick
grove OF trees to rest their horses, swap
watches, and pray, when late in the af.
-ternoon two deputy sheriffs and con-
stable who were looking for the train
robbers suddenly came upon them. In
an instant Cole Younger took II the sit
uation, and revolvers were drawn and
leveled on 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 goingy'' asked Cole
man Younger in a 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
empaneled jury, but aside from that
had never mixed up much with carnage.
You were!' exclaimed Coleman
Nn11y,nar ss1Nan Il
He was almost morbid on the subject
of prayer, Coleman Younger. He did
much harm, 1 think, by suggesting it at
the most inopportune times, and showed
great intolerance that way.
"What do you mean!n asked the trem.
bling wretch.
81 mean you have just ten minutes by
our large and choice assortment OF
watches to get ready for the other world
and don't want to send any man to the
other world unprepared."
He was always that way. He did NOT
want to see deputy sheriff die in a
crude state. Ten minutes soon passed
and then the men We're blindfolded
They were not far from the steep bluffs
of the Missouri, some of which were SOC
feet high. The three men, with theil
eyes bandaged, were taken to cliff and
swung over it SO that they canght by
their hands. Below was perpendicular
wall
s'Hold on as long as you can," said the
eccentric robber, sand when you fall
fhof will ha fto and Of x-o,,
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 theil
nerveless fingers one after another re-
Taxed, and with deep moan they fell tc
the bottom, distance of nearly foul
feet!
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 ole
war sentiment, and instead of buryine
their sectional animosities they allowed
their strong political likes and dislike:
to warp their better Judgment.
John Younger was less dignifed thai
Coleman. Hewas more apt to be mer
curial, and also impulsiye. One night il
a barroom at Dallas he was feeling quite
clipper under the influence of Texa:
vintages when he proposed to shoot JUS
near enough to brush the nose of an ole
gentleman who sat around the place
John made q bet with another man thai
he could do SO without shooting off the
nose. The bet was accepted, but great
ly to the general regret, q regret which
was also shared by tho old man, JOIN
lost.
The volume contains good, full page
picture of Jesse James taken after death
1t is well worth the price of the book
and has been a source of great comfor
to many people who survive him.
1t is doubtful if this country will evel
again produce the same aggregation O.
highway robbing talent again. Mr.
, Gould, with his active little Western
Union telegraph did much to cut shor
the career of these men, and for this, i
for nothing else, 1 feel for one like taking
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