The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-04-07
.YOUNGERS IN DESPAIR
NEWS OF THE COLLAPSE OFF THEIR
CHANCE FOR FREEDOM
BROKEN
BOTH ARE DEEPLY AFFECTED
Though Unconditional Men, Both Dis
played Much Feeling and Re-
Iapsed Into ApathetIc Silence
Hope Is Abandoned.

Buoyed up with the hope of at least
regaining their liberty, after twenty-rour
long years of unbroken confinement In
| the dull and cherries prison cells of the
Saltwater penitentiary, Cole and Jim
Younger became the objects of abject pity
yesterday evening when the distracting
news that their hopes were after all but
phantoms was carefully broken to them
In the passage of the Deming parole bill
a few weeks ago, the old bandits now
broken in health by the continued as
ISOLATION with prison life and it's attend
ant hardships, had found the source of a
new life; daily they have cherished the
thought Of once more becoming free men
and, like children have pondered over
what they would do when finally the cell
door would swing back upon their creak-
ing hinges that they might emerge from
the walls of confinement and pass into
the open air Of freedom. This dream
blasted, the Youngers are suddenly trans
+ formed from two Of the happiest men in
the world to disappo nted, despairing
prisoners, to whom the future is but the
reflection Of the past twenty-four years,
altered only perhaps by a shorter period.
Naturally the YOungers have lived on
the joy of becoming free ever since the
Deming bill was passed by both houses of
the Minnesota legislature some weeks
ago. The efforts to gain their liberation
had been so prolonged and persistent
and have so repeatedly failed as to cause
the reformed criminals to doubt If they
would every leave the walls of their pris-
on home until borne to their grave. But
when the talk Of passing a bill at this
session Of the legislature was resumed,
and the movement once more set on foot,
they took new hope and were enraptur-
ed in a manner which no one perhaps
who has not experienced a kindred feel
ing can understand, when they learned
that bill providing for their parole had
actually been passed and was on its way
to the governor, where the receipt of his
signature would make it law The
abrupt news that this bill had been
killed, and that the last ray Of light has
been extinguiShed, leaving them still
hopeless prisoners, was more depressing
than these two stoical men could bear
unmoved.
COULD NOT SUN 'RESS EMOTIONS.
Vainly they tried to suppress their
emotions when seen and told by one Of
the guards of their fate, but the CULVER
ing lips, as they attempted to utter some
words Of comfort to each other, told too
truly of the pentup anguish in the soul
of the once sturdy and nervy Jim Youn-
ger. Cole, as he stretched out his hand
to support that of his sympathizing
brother betrayed the same emotions, and
the scene was one which even the guards
of a prison could not witness with u1i-
dimmed eyes. Two large-framed men,
hardened by years of outlawry, and d
subsequent quarter Of a century of pris-
on toll to whom but moment ago life
Was the happiest dream of their souls,
stood trembling and sad. striving still
with the rigor of stalwart physical
manhood, to Danish from their minds
the keen sorrow and bitter disappoinr-
ment. which after all was to be the frui-
ton of the hope they had SO fondly cher
ished.
The men did not break down COM