The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-17
THEIR LIFE IN JAIL
CITED by INFLUENTIAL FRIENDS
OF COLE N JIM
YOUNGER,
TO SECURE THEIR RELEASE.
EX-GOVERNORS AND UNITED
STATES SENATOR'S SAID To
HAVE ENLISTED.
APPLICATION YET MADE
TO SECURE THEIR RELEASE
} APPLICATION YET MAD
To the New Board of PardOns, Al
though One Is Expected Almost
Any Time.

The exploits Of the Younger brothers,
| greatest of modern bandits, have al
most faded into the nimbus of a
dream, n it may be hat the two
still living shall go free again, says the
New York World of Sunday.
For tWenty-one years they nave been
in Saltwater prison under a life sem
tence. Bob, the youngest, died there.
Cole, the eldest, who is now fifty-three
years old, and Jim, who is forty-seven,
have never lost hope of pardon.
Powerful friends are working for
these men, who were once the terror Of
the Mississippi valley, senators, gov
ernors and men of great influence. 1t
is said that Gov. Clough, of Minnesota,
has lent a willing ear. He is me- pledged,
as former governors have been, not to
liberate these middie-aged men who are
still called boys.
There were eight men in the North
field bank raid, Cole, Jim and Bob
Younger, Jesse and Frank James. Ciell
Miller, Charley Pitts and Bill Caldwell.
h methods pursued show how care
full was Cole Younger in his prepare
NOS "H0 PAd MS lOTiEI6I successes.
More than a month before the raid
the. Sang appeared in the Vicinity of
Mortified. They posed as surveyors.
as indeed they We're. They studied the
topography Of the country for miles
ABOUT Mortified, particularly to the
south and southwest. They marked
places where thsy could make a stand
II 1t should prove necessary. They laid
the course they would take to gain q
place of safety.
Nhen the band of robbers appeared
III 81. Paul Sept. 5. 1876. the members
TPpedFeu 10 De em!neE',ly respectable.
Ihey bought eight OF the finest horses
they could find, animals that had
Strength and speed. Then they rode
lelsurely to Mortified that the ami
mails might not he tired.
II was at noon Sept. Z hat three
men roce quietly up to he First Ma
tlonal bank and hitched their horses~
They We: e well-dressed and the:r f .neS.
were bronzed like those of honest
These men were Jesse
James, BOB Younger and Charley Pitts
AS d cyclone comes without warning
n with a roar. horsemen dashed
Town the main street at full speed
fnlee came from one direction, two
from the other. They made noise
enough for a hundred. In each mas
haEd was a revolver which he fred &C
rapid as possible.
OH the streets on Your lives -
howled the robbers, and the people
s pa[alyZed with amazement until
fyIng bullets bade them seek cover
IN ire panic and excitement which
ensueo' Jesse James, Pitts and Bob
Younger walked. into the bank 7 r
Hayward, the cashier, Frank Wiicox
ana a: Bunker, clerks, were at their
oesks. Ihey looked up into the muZ-
zles Of revolvers.
open the safe" commanded 1o..o
James. Jesse
cashier Hayward refused. saving
that 1t was a time lock and he coulS
not. "e oouiO
The outer door Of the vault was onen
anu Jesse anne started to try he
nnS uooI. Jumped forward
ana trled to shut him in. Pitts stonnn6
the cashier n men Bunker broke far
the door. Bob Younger fired two shots
ana one struck the clerk in the shouI6S
er.
The r%evolvers and guns were now,
and barking outside. and If
was not the robbers who were doino oil
the firing. Frontier citizens were nor
wholly unprepared.
hurry up there, it's getting hot out
mere houte a warning voice.
me three hurriedly ransacked the
uIaWers secured very little money and
Suaateu Ior the door. AS Jesse James.
counter, he saw Cashier Havwsr6
reachlng for a revolver. Harvard
dropped dead. ""iu
from a corner room in the Damnier
mouse, Or. Wheeler first opened the
return fire. He caught Bill Chadwen
dead. "i Ae1i
Manning. a. tOwnSnan ctooa
sidewalk and fought from the omen
He Killed Clell Miller as he was ridinr
away, and brought down Bob Yo1ng.
ers horse. Another by DIR. Wheeler
shattered the outlaws shoulder.
shifted his pistol to he
Wheeler's cheek. Cole Younger cooilv
walked to the side of his fallen men
and took their revolvers from them
Nicholas Gustafson, a Norwegian. was
Kllied, probably because he did not un-
derstand English n the to
get OH the street. Cole Younger or
qered a retreat. AS they started off
Jim shouted: Boys, don't desert me.
I'm shot" "H'
Cole Younger lifted his brother onto
his horse and rode after the others.
Every outlaw left a trail of blood. At
Dundas, three miles from Mortified.
they stopped to dress their wounds
Then on again.
They met a farmer named Empey
driving a pair of fine horses. They cut
the trace of his horses, cut off the
harness and took his team, leaving
their wounded ones instead.
Cole Younger had a bullet in his
thigh. Jesse James was not badly
hurt. Frank James had a bullet woun1
in his leg. Jim Younger's mouth was
partly shot away and his arm was
broken by a bullet. Bob Younger's
shoulder was shattered and he had
other Wounds. Pitts bled freely and
was growing weak.
Within a few hours the whole coun-
try knew Of the raid. For 500 miles
around the telegraph told that the
etate offered $1,000 for each of the gang
dead or alive; the Mortified bank 500
and the Winona & St. Peter railroad
$500.
The six wounded men plunged along
FOR four days without interference.
Then a posse Of fourteen overlook them
in a ravtne near Shieldsville. They
were driven back, but one outlaws
horse was killed.