The Butler weekly times., 1895-11-21
A Visit THE YOUNGERS
THE son OF THEIR FATHERS OLD
;FRIEND TELLS OF IT.

Re collections of the Old Days Called up
by HIS Presence How the YOun-
gers Saved Stephen B. Eikin's
Life and John p st. Johns.
A few days ago 1 was in st. Paul
for brief stay and, remembering
that Cole and Jim Younger were still
confined in the penitentiary at Still
water, only eighteen miles out, I
went out to see them.
When 1 reached the prison 1 learn.
ed that visitors were allowed to go
through every half hour, but as 60
ing through the institution and get
ting perhaps glance at them would
not answer my purpose, l asked the
warden for the favor of personal
interview with the Youngers. l
found the warden very pleasant
gentleman indeed and when / had
explained to him that 1 was an old
Missourian, raised in the same town
with these boys, and that my father
administered the estate of their faith.
er, old Harry Younger, he took me
through an iron door into a hallway
locking the door behind US. He
then Unlocked door to the left and
ushered me into good seized room
and remarked to clerk sitting at a
desk: This gentleman will have an
interview with the Youngers.
The warden then disappeared,
locking the door again,and the clerk
gave me chair and placed two more
directly in front of me. After wait
ing perhaps fifteen minutes the door
was again unlocked and Jim Youn-
ger came in, followed shortly by
Cole. I shook hands with them, re
marking: "This is Jim-and this is
Cole for I knew ,nstinctively which
was which, although I bad not seen
then since l was little boy.
They are both tall, fine looking
men, with large, bold eyes and way
OF looking you square in the face
that imagine might be right EN-.
barrassing under certain circum.
stances.
They we're dressed in neat suits OF
gray, put on, 1 suspect, for the oc.
casion Cole is much the heavier
and better preserved and seems tc
be in reasonable spirits. Jim seems
discouraged and has evidently giver
upIc-pe He~plainly shows the eff
feet of his wounds and close confne
ment. Large rings under his eyes
and his nervous movements show
him to be in bad physical condition
"And so you are a son of Captain
West" said Cole. Il remember yor
when you were little shaver. Lets
see, did you go to school to Stew,
Elkins at Harrisonville?"
NO; l was hardly old enough ,bu
my brother did
"Well. we went to him-Jim an(
John and l. They say Steve has go
to be great man now"
"Yes," I said, she was Jim Blaine
right hand man and is now senate
from West Virginia, with barre! o
money"
Here Jim Younger smiled and said
swell, he never would have bee
senator if it had not been for me-
"Hows that!"
well, the professor you kno,
always called him 'professor-go
tangled up in the Confederate line
down In Cass Co., at very ticklis
time and found him gong througl
the woods on foot, when they wer
full of bushwhackers who woul
have killed him on sight. 1 calle
to him. Hello professor. What n,
you doing here.'
~ am trying to get out of her
son, he said. but it looks like the
won't let me-
Il told him to get Gu my hors
and would ride behind. NO /
said, i will ride behind. That
good enough for me and you kno
the roads better than do So
took him up and carried him out
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