The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-14

were still a number of the opponents
OF the Youngers' release to be heard
When the board met early in the morn
ing.
Mayor A. D. Keyes. of Faribau1t
opened the argument against the re,
tease, insisting that no pardon should
De issued to the Mortified raiders I'M
I'll the two now in prison should re-
veal the identity of, and agree to testify
aSaIii Isl the man who actually fired the
shot that killed Cashier Haywood.
mat there was a suspicion that Cole
Younger was more loyal to his pals
than TO his country and his religion.
was apparent from Mr.. Keyes' talk
Cole Younger, who had been urged bv
the James boys after the Northfield
rald TO desert his wounded brother
ana leave him to the fate an outraged
pcpulace might effect through twenty
years had never revealed to any officer
OF the law the name of the individuaI
VINO killed Haywood, and this. too in
spite or the fact that an eve witness of
the CRIME had identified Frank James
the deserter of the hard pressed bandit
oand' as the murderer Of the Mortified
cashier; Frank Wilcox, a bookkeeper
In the bank at the time of the robbery
visited Missouri in later years wber
James was under arrest and identified
MIN as the killer of Haywood, but when
the governor of Missouri was asked for
requisition, he refused to deliver the
bandit to the Minnesota authorities.
There are three things" exclaimed
MT. Reyes, with impassioned fervor,
that Cole and Jim Younger should tell
us before they are released:
. First-Was Frank James in the hank ON
the day Of the robbery?
~, Second-Who was the last man who left
Third-Who was the man who rode the
buckskin horse?"
Gov. Clough interposed the point here
that the James boys were not on trial
Mr. Reyes explained that the last
man ma to leave the bank on the day of
the robbery was the man who killed
.Cashler Haywood and the Younger
Dfothers knew who that man was. Said
Keyes: -
These men come here and ask for
pardon on the ground that they have
reformed in mind and morals as well
as IN heart, and that they are prepared
10 become good citizens, if they are re-
leased. We claim that it is not too
much TO ask that they shall remain
where they are until they disclose the
name Of the man who killed Heywood.
1t Is not an element of good citizen
snip to conceal a murderer. Good faith
on their part demands that they dis
close the name of the man who killed
be brought back to Minnesota and
punished. If the murderer was Frank
James, as we are led to believe. then
ne has never suffered anything for his
crime. He has never even been i'm
prlsoned, and it is no more than right
that he should suffer the penalty in
some measure at least. If the Young
ers are now the good citizens they
claim to be, they would go on the
stand, and, by telling the truth. would
assist the authorities of this state in
bringing the Mortified murderer to
justice"
A L. Keyes, county attorney of Rice
county, said that to release the
Youngers now would be holding I'D a
bad example for the emulation of the
boys Of Minnesota. If the Youngers
were really repentant, they should re-
main in prison until. unasked by
them or their friends, the people of this
state saw fit to grant them pardon.
w. R. Estes, of Madelia, said that no
living man could tell whether another
had reformed or not; that many of
the criminals pardoned from the pris-
OnS returned
Gov. Clough interrupted to state that
none of those pardoned from the Min
nesota prison in the past two and one
half years had returned. and the
records all the way through showed
on recommendation of the prison man.
ayers and the warden they had invari-
ably turned out all right
Mr.. Estes took up the matter of the
petitions, and said that while fourteen
business and professional men in Ma
della had signed the petition for the
pardon of the Youngers, fifty-four had
signed the protest against it.
Harry Gress, of Mortified, said that
he had been standing within fifty feet
of the bank when the robbery occurred.
and he saw the whole transaction. The
robbers might have been shooting.
merely to brighten people at the outset.
but when they found the people We're
preparing to fight. they certainly shot
to kill. All of the men in the gang
were using the foulest of oaths and
calling to each other to kill this per-
son and that.
Gov Clough replied that the board
knew all about the circumstances of
the case and he for one had known
them for tWenty-one years. They had
not been told a new thing by any one
who had appeared.
Gen. ]. F. Norrish. of the prison
board, replied to A. D. Keyes, and said
he was astonished to find that the peo-
pie of Faribault. center of learning az
1t is, had not learned something of
modern penology. To say that there
9iiouio NC ~ Hope' ITO IeAoTIHatlOn Tor
the man who was sent up for life
would be the most cruel thing known
to modern civilization. Personally, he
had had seventeen years Of experience
with the Younger brothers, and he had
never known an officer of the prison
who was not thoroughly convinced Of
their reformation.
Judge McCaffery added a few words
on behalf of the petitioners.
Capt. w. G. BrOnaugh of Missouri
read an address. in which he stated
that the only interest he had in the
matter was to see justice done.
AT the conclusion of the arguments
the board took the case under advise
ment. Their deliberations concluded as
above stated.
YOUNGERS HEAR TT.