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

were still number of the opponents
OF the YoungerS' release to be heard
When the board met early in the morn
ing. -'''i ~
Mayor A. d. Keyes, of FaribauIt
opened the argument against the re-
tease insisting that no pardon should
De issued to the Mortified raiders nm
III the two now in prison should re-
veal the identity of, and agree to testify
tsot @SotilSl Isl the man who actually fired the
shot that killed Cashier Haywood
Ihat there was a suspicion that Cole
hounger was more loyal to his pals
than TO his country and his religion
was was apparent from Mr.. Keyes' talk
CoIe younger, who had been urged nv
the James boys after the Northfell
RAID to desert his wounded brother
and leave him to the fate an oI1tra end
populace might effect, through twenty
years had never revealed to any officer
oI the law the name of the individual
VINO killed Haywood, and this TOO in
spite OF the TACT, that an eye witness of
the CRIME mad identified Frank James.
the deserter Of the hard pressed bandit
pand, as the murderer Of the NortbfieJd
cashier. Frank Wilcox, a bcokkeener
IN the bank at the time of the robbery
VISITED Missouri in later years when
James was under arrest and identified
MIN as the killer of Haywood, but when
ehe governor OF Missouri was asked for
requisition, he refused to deliver the
bandit to the Minnesota authorities.
There are three things" exclaimed
MI. keyeS, with impassioned feryor
that Cole and Jim Younger should tell
US 5.rt3 before they are released:
F1rst-Was Frank James in the hank on
the DAY OF the robbery?
the bank? ''- ""o iei'
'Third-Who was the man who rode the
buckskin horse?" 'Ao
Gov. Clough interposed the point here
that the James boys were not on trial.
MT keyes explained that the last
man to leave the bank on the day of
the robbery was the man who killed
Cashier Haywood, and the Younger
brothers 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 we'll
as in heart, and that they are prepared
10 become good citizens, if they are re-
leased. We claim that 1T is not too
much to ask that they shall remain
where they are until they disclose. the
nan Of the man who killed Hevwood
~ Is not an element of good citg4. a.
ship TO conceal a murderer Good faith
on their part demands that they dis
close the name of the man who killed
cashier Haywood, that that man NAV
be brought back to Minnesota and
punished. If the murderer was Frank
James, as we are led to believe. then
he has never suffered anything for his
crime. He has never even been i'm
pTlsoned, 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 90 on the
stand, and by telling the truth. would
assist the authorities of this state in
bringing the Northfield murderer to
Justice"
A. La Keyes, county attorney of Rice
county, said that to release the
Youngers now would be holding I'D a
PAD example for the emulation of the
poys 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 a pardon
w. r. Estes, of Madelia, said that nc
living man could tell whether another
mad 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 Yeas had returned. and the
records all the way through showed
that where pardons had been granted
on recommendation of the prison man
ayers ana the warden they had inVa RI
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 pro test against it.
Harry Gress. of Northfield. 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 frighten people at the outset
but when they found the people were
preparing to fight they certainly shot
TO XIII. 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 new thing by any one
who had appeared.
Gen. j. 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 as
1t is, had not learned something of
modern penology. To say that there
should be no hope, no reformation for
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.