The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-06-01

ntt,, Liic CA EuIusLLilceo s.-,rs
NJ Minnesota: J. have never cared to say :
n,uc ;i, ABOUT this for have felt tlat it
would 90 them no good and would simply
pc gratifying morbid curiosity. They
nave peen in prison. however, so long
that 1 feel that AL the facts. at least as,
J. KNOW them, should be stated The gen
efal impression is that they will remain
III prison for the balapce Of their lives.
ana knoW that J am going over. ana
Inasmuch as nearly all OF my comrades
nave or are passing over the river b.
yond not to come back again a frank
statement OF all know about them and
tnelr minnesota episodes might be DOLL
tlelng TO their feelings and help them
while away the last hours Of their lives
WI with the pleasing reflection that there are
those in the world who would not have
FORGOTTEN them in their former Missouri
home - - ''' =
~, The Youngers belong to a race of peo-
pie VINO. would not fear the stake If It
STOOD between them and the performance.
or Il selfish act. 1t was very well undf.,.
STOOD and always talked. Immediately AZ
ter their apprehension and tncarceraiinr,
and for some time, too, that the Young
ers and their associates were conducset{
to the place where they met their Water
90 a ts, a. Minnssetan. who repress nted
they went belonged to Jews. and Jews.
VINO mad no real friends in the country.
BESIDES. the person who made these rep
reservations expressed himself as Gis.ik-
Ing them for other reasons.
J AS everybody knows, the YouJgers
were outlaws. They lived anywhere ana
brief statement as to how they be-
came outlaws.
TT took a great deal of courage for
man y Jackson county, Missouri, in the
year 1860 and the beginning Of the war ID
1861 to take sides with the Union. more
popularity known then as Lincoln and
everything Judge Harry Younger did, ii.--
took sides with the Union. and was.
known by everybody as a stanch Union
man: So high stood he in the estimation
Of all substantial people, and there were
none others III Jackson county at tina.
time. being ali solid planters and farm
ers that no one ever called into ques-
to take that side. He was such pro1niL
nent man that the facr was known ana
noted everywhere.
the exact period. for the Southern com
nands to which belonged were drive,
back southwark early; Judge Har =
to be Union soldiers. and wearing the.
federal uniform, somewhere between
Kansas City and Harrisonville. H rri-.
home town. The understanding was ths.
he was murdered FOR n large amount o..
money which was supposed TO pc ,.pfS d
/ bis person. The Inurdercrs did ros ~.
the money. IT was VERY obscurely aai
undiscoverable sewed into the Innings OF
his under and overcoat, 50 the history
goes.
Following this and shortly after.
wards, other Union soldiers at least.
claiming to be Union and wearing federal
uniforms. burned the house which snes
storm the wife and children sought shell
ter in the houses of neighbors These,
Younger brothers were not then of age
being vet boys. as I understand it. AM
these things naturally would have kim
died resentment IT. ANYBODY, and espe-
eially persons of their high breeding
| who had kindred experiences did: a.asyr
1e1t the proper thing for them was to-
join ans command that killed ard that
Gid not wear federal unit forms. They
of the meH who associated with Qu2i.
streH Todd. Anderson. Clements Halter