The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-13

granted he inclined to the opinion that
the board had not heard from the peo-
pie of the state. The law was made
to protect the communities. The men
had been sentenced to life imprison-
ment, and that they were permitted to
live was about all they could ask. Mr..
Anderson presented and read letter
from Charles Parson, president of the
State Bank of st. Louis The writer of
the letter, Mr.. Anderson stated, was
president of one of the largest banks
in st. Louis. and had for years been
president Of the National Bankers as
ISOLATION. The letter was under date
OF July 10. and was as follows:
see there Is an effort to get the Younger
party pardoned. Now it seems to me the de-
lberate preparation of scheme to rob a
bank, commencing It with threat to murder.
and finally with murder should have met
as its punishment death. If your laws were
so made that this penalty could not be visited
then the life punishment ought not to be
changed. The only safety of many banks In
small towns and cities must be the fear of
punishment and while | do not feel reveng-
full, yet / am for the enforcement of laws
and for making the way Of the transgressors
hard. Living at all, Is all these men who
set out on raid of robbery and murder ought
to expect. l trust they may serve out their
sentence and that the good people of Mime
sofa who want life guarded. will go against
the pardon. This is not intended for publ
cation. but I wish you would give the Ideas
to the board of pardons and the governor
as being the sentiments of a great many
good citizens outside of Minnesota.
Mayor Noble, of Mortified, stated to
the board that he headed delegation
from that city TO oppose the pardon of
the YoungerS. The protest was in no
spirit of VindictivenesS or revenge. In
the interests of morality and humanity
they should be kept just where they
had been sentenced, and for the length
of time for which they were sentenced.
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tendency to foster and encourage in
the citizens of the state a disposition
to execute the laws themselves. He
called attention to how a mob was
prevented from going to Faribault the
time of the capture Of the men and
executing them at that time. Many
statements made about the YoungerS
and the peaceful manner in which they
had acted at Mortified were wrong.
They and their companions were to
kill if they could not secure the money
they were after without doing So. Any
one would be pretty good in prison,
and if they had reformed since their
arrival it was the best thing for the
state and the people at large to let
them keep on being good at the same
place.
G. P. Carpenter reviewed the scene in
the town of Mortified on the morning
Of the raid and murder of two of the
citizens. That the prisoners had been
exemplary for the past twenty years
was admitted. They had been so good
that the citizens of Mortified and Rice
county were in favor of their continu-
ing. Those who advocated the pardon
OF the IoungerS claimed that they did
got kill nor try to kill any one. He
was prepared to show by affidavits
that the Youngers were seeking to Sc
cure a pardon under false pretenses.
Mr.. Carpenter read an affidavit from
. j. Whitney, which set up that Cole
Younger had charge Of the gang who
were ca the outside of the bank dur
ing the raid. He heard Cole tell peO-
pie to get in out Of sight, and witness
was ordered by Cole, who enforced his
order by shooting at him. He saw
Bob and Jim Younger attra cking Man
ming, who was across the street firing
at the men on the outside of the bank.
They both shot with elaboration. He
heard Cole tell them to shoot through
the stairs behind which Manning was
standing. Cole also told them to shoot
a man who was standing in a second
story window.
Mr.. Carpenter said this was directly
at variance to the statements made by
Cole Younger and recently published
in the newspapers. In that statement
Cole had said he never shot to kill
any one, but simply to scare persons
on the street at the time. The affida-
Wit of Mr.. Whitney proved Coles
statement to be untrue. -s,
The affidavit of p. S. Doherty was
read by Mr.. Carpenter, which was to
the effect that the man who shot the
Swede was the one who went to the
bank door and ordered the gang to
come out, as the game was up. This
Mr.. Carpenter said, according to the
recent statement of Cole was none
other than himself.
The affidavit from John Morton,
read by Mr.. Carpenter, was to the eff
feet that the man who shot the SWede,
a block away from the bank. was the
one who rode up to the dead body of
one of the gang and took off the pis-
tolls and ammunition on the dead rob-
ber According to the recent state
ment made by Cole Younger he was
the man who did this.
An affidavit from Ellen M. Ames,
which stated that she was told by one
of the robbers to get off the street or
she would get killed. The one who ac-
costed her was the same one that shot
the Swede, and she afterwards recog-
nized him as Cole Younger
f. j. Wilcox, who was in the bank at
the time of the raid, presented an affi-
davit, which was read by Mr.. Carpen-
ter. This set up that, as soon as the
men entered, one of them struck Cash
Ter Haywood with a revolver and then
dragged him to the vault door, The
cashier refused to open the vault, but
made no attempt to do anything to
the robbers. Some one came to The
door and said: Come on, boys" At
this the robbers left, and the last one,
as he stood on the desk of the cashier,
turned and shot Haywood in the head.
While they were trying to get Hey
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knife across his throat and pounded
him over the head with a revolver.
These facts, Mr.. Carpenter said.
showed that the efforts to secure a
pardon was based on false pretenses,
as the Youngers themselves, in the
light of the recent statement by Cole,
end the affidavits he had read did not
jibe at all. Men sentenced for murder
under extraordinary circumstances
and for imprisonment for life, should
stay there, and there was no reason
on earth why they should be pardoned.
There was an excuse for murder COM
mitted in the heat of passion, but these
men had coolly and deliberately
planned and effected the robbery and
murder They started from Missouri
on the raid with the same feeling one
would start on a holiday excursion.
For weeks they had planned and final
ly decided where to strike. They might
have had no malice, burt they were
determined to get the money in the
bank, and, if necessary kill men to
carry out their plan. 1t was repugnant
to reason that men not STEPPED in
crime could do as they did. Missouri
did not always produce bad men, as
State Auditor Dunn would prove. The
only thing that prevented the Young
ers from hanging was the law
providing that when men pleaded guilty
the punishment was life imprson-
ment. Since then one man that he
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