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

should represent the state and not
those who had been punished because
they were the prisoners of the state
And whatever representations he
might have felt called upon to make
should have been to those his superiors
III authority and not in the form Of
public plea for sympathy for those it
was his duty to execute the DEGREES of
the state upon.
Indeed the whole manner in which
the Youngers are conducting their
campaign shows to the people OF
Mortified that an organized raid IS
being made upon this state. They
point to the articles in the daily papers
written with the evident intention of
exciting public sympathy. They point
to the pictures of the Younger brothers
in which it is apparent that the
photographers art has been employed
to make the prisoners look older and
more haggard than they appear to
those who meet them. They speak OF
the work which is being done in their
behalf in Missouri and insinuate that
there must be money somewhere to Oil
the machinery which has been put in
operation.
Younger'S statement were read with
especial avidity, and much astonlsH-
ment is expressed on all sides. That
many of his statements of fact should
never have been made before. For
instance, Cole says that the man who
first discovered what was going on IN
the bank was DR.. Wheeler and that
both he and ]. S. Allen heard me
call to Miller not to shoot" AS a mat
ter of fact, Wheeler was in his fathers
store, in the building opposite, al this
time, as 1 am told by an eye witness,
and went from it through back door
to the next building, from the upstairs
Of biol he of
Cole represents himself as being with
Miller in front of the bank when it
was discovered that raid was being
made upon it, A gentleman who saw
the whole affair and remebrerS it very
distinctly, assures me that j. S. Allen
followed the three men into the bank
while Cole was some distance away
that he was stopped and caught by
the throat by Miller, who was in front
of the bank alone, and who pointed
pistol at his head and threatened 10
kill him if he did not get away in a
hurry-and that to brighten him while
he was running away a pistol was
actually fired at him, and all this while
Cole Younger not only made no re-
monstrance, but in point of fact was
at least thirty yards away. He did
not come up on the square with Miller,
as he says he did, according to the best
evidence l can find, to Interfere to
pIOleCl MI. AllGn anu MI. w n6SIeG,
who was not there at all, but remained
some time later on the square to the
north of the building in the east end
of which the robbery was being COM
mitted. No one ever heard Cole CT any
other of the party beseeching his COM
panion not to shoot, but they quote
much profanity and some Obscenity
when giving the language in which the
robbers sought to intimidate the North
field people with their threats to shoot
The palpable errors in Coles story
make Mortified people somewhat in
credulous as to those partsE of it 20
the truth of which his is the only evi-
dence. He makes himself out too in
offensive, they say, for person en-
gagged in his business. And they note,
too, with interest that if any Younger
ever resisted an officer or can be
proved to have tried to kill anybody
that particular Younger is always one
Of those who is dead.
Indeed there is only one sentiment to
be found here, and that is that The
Youngers were always desperadoes:
that for the crimes they committed
here they deserved to be hung; that
the sentence they received was not at
the time considered excessive, and in
point of fact was actually deserved and
not excessive; and that justice and
public policy demand that they be rot
set at liberty until death releases them.