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

nlteI SdSHler Haywood had been NOR
tally wounded by blow on the head.
one or the robbers, turned and shot the
cashier in the head. Pitts also tried
MS best to- kill Mr.. Bunker, who. sup
posing that Haywood had been killed.
ran from the bank He was followed
TO the door by Pitts, who fired two
snots at him. one of which struck him
IN the shoulder poor Swede youth,
VINO had been In the country but few
months, was commanded to get in off
the street, and, because he did not I'M
oefseand the English language. was
shot doWnd5and killed This showed
that the Youngers and their compan-
IONS mad the most kindly feelings to-
Ward the citizens Of Mortified.
Inc most highhanded crimes Of the
men We're not, confined to Minnesota
alone The great increase in crimes of
the klnd was due to these men. They
nad been semitic prison to keep them
from committing more depredations.
Inc consequences of setting them free
would be to create idol worshiping. All
ycuths, with hayward tendencies,
mlght take advantage of the pardon
and drift into crime with the idea that
| IL apprenended, there was chance for
pardon. 1t was a question for the
board to consider whether the interests
| OF 6o,0O0,OOO people should be considered
! as against two men and their imme
|
they would, if pardoned. behave them
selves. Their punishment, however, had
been mild and not the extreme, and 1t
was better for not only this, but other
states, that they serve out their SEN
tence 1t was simply a question, II the
pardoning board was ready to an
| nounca that n the future life sentence
was to be for only few years.
| +. f. Kelly, of Mortified, a member
| Of the last legislature said it had been
! stated when the law was passed or
ganizing board of pardons, that the
object was to pardon the Youngers. He
had heard the talk, but paid no atten-
portion of the state and particularly
those in Rice county, were opposed
to the pardoning of the men.
! "A. u. Reyes, mayor OF FarlDault,
| questioned what good would come to
| the people of the state now or in the
| future by the pardoning Of the Young
ers. 1t would either prevent or pro-
| mote crime. IF it would have ten
! dency to promote crime it should not
| be granted. If there was doubt as
to what it would do society should be
| given the choice. The men had chosen
to rob the bank and they should be al
lowed to stand by their choice. Min
nesota had a q. record of allowing no
| bank robbers or train wreckers to
that If the law was not good the peo-
pie enforced it themselves He had
talked with Cole Younger shortly after
| the capture, while he was acting as
one of the, guards at the Farlbault
Jail. Cole Younger had told him that
all great men met with reverses. Ma
| poleon met his at Waterloo, and / at
Mortified" said Younger. The speaker
was in favor of allowing Younger to
have his ST. Helena at Saltwater. The
| YoungerS were protected at Far1bault
! by the residents of that county in or
der that the law might be properly ad-
ministered. Two men who failed to
halt at various times when the Young
ers were locked up in jail there, were
shot by the guards, and one of them
| killed. The people were bound that the
| prisoners should be protected and the
| law allowed to take it's course They
were still of the same opinion. The
reform in their conduct was 1nStan-
| taneous Immediately after they were
! captured. Since their arrest they had
! been reformed. 1t was noticeable, how
| ever that neither of the YOungerS had
ever said who the man was that shot
| Haywood in the bank and who was
| afterward described as riding the buck
skin horse.
IN his recent statement Cole Younger
referred to- him simply, as the man who
!
! doubt MI Keyes said, in his mind as
| to who the man in the bank was. In
! 1858, while he was county attorney of
| Rice county, Frank James had been
| captured in Missouri. Wilcox, one of
the men who was in the bank at the
! time of the raid, was sent to Missouri
! and had talk, with Frank James. He
recognized the prisoner as the man who
! shot Haywood. On the strength of the
| identification an Indictment was found
by the grand jury of Rice county
| against Frank James. Gov. Hubbard
was applied to and a requisition sent
to Gov. Crittenden, who was at that
time executive of Missouri. Gov. Crit
tenden in reply to the requisition in
| formed the officials of Minnesota that
! he would not surrender James. Mr..
| Keyes hazarded the opinion that it
would be impossible to get the COVER
nor of Missouri, even at this day, to
surrender Frank James. No attention
should be paid, Mr.. Keyes said, to the
petitions from Missouri. What was
wanted, said Mr.. Keyes, was that
| question of this kind and Importance
should be weighed by judicial minds
and not by a board whose entire as
sociates seemed to be criminals and
whose sympathy was with criminals.
! 1t was not advisable to pardon the
Youngers and they should be left
where they were.
A number of gentlemen desired to
be heard in opposition to the pardon,
but Gov. Clough stated that it was
o'clock and the board would adjourn
to meet this morning at 8 o'clock.
Gov Clough yesterday received let
ter from Marion Lull, of Brooklyn, N.
Y, protesting against the pardon of
the Youngers. The latter is dated
July g., and reads as follows:
b AS your honor well knows, this Mortified
case is only one of the many crimes com
mitted by these men. In 1874, after the
Gads Hill train robbery in Missouri, my hus
band, Capt. Louis ]. Lull, with w. H:
Whicher and a man named Wright, went
brothers. One week after they left Chicago
Whicher was murdered by the gang near
Independence Mo-, and a week later my hus-
band, in company with sherlff Daniels .s OF Os-
In the battle which followed John Younger
and Sheriff Daniels were killed. James
Younger was wounded and carries the scars
of his wounds to this day. Four days after
ward reached my husband in Roscoe, Mo-,
and remained with him until his death, May
g. l protest against the release Of these
men, | have always been glad that they were
not hanged, for l do not believe in capital
punishment, but these men have no claim to
anything but justly measured penalty.
Mercy does not consist in giving rufians a
community by doing SO, for it would simply
mean greater increase Of evil and evil
doors. The fact that these men had more
than ordinary advantages in their youth only
makes their criminal life seem the more
terrible. 1 know today that there are many
people that believe that immunity to crime
is more merciful than repression of it, but
it is one of the strangest delusions ever
fathered by false sentiment Pity is for the
victim of the wrong, not for the perpetrators
of it, just as punishment is for the perpetrat-
ors. and not for the victims. If the thief
and the violent will not let other people
alone they will have to be deprived of the