The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1901-07-25

to abuse the boy, whom he recognized q.
one OF the Youngers, and finally kicked
him.
The lad drew his pistol ana shot Gil!
c!eas through the heart He Vas arrest
ed, but turned loose when a sungsho
was found on the dead man.
A Lively Twelve Months.
October 30, 1885, five men rode into Lax
lnston, Mo-, and hitched their horses III
an alley near the banking house of Alex
ander Mitchell &c Co. Two of the 11er
walked into the bank and handed $s(
Dill to the cashier, with request fol
change.
AS the cashier opened the CASH drawer
Two more men walked in with drawn re-
SolVers. The cashier found himself the
| FOCUS point of four pistols.
Hand over all the money" said the
leader
Inc cashier promptly passed over ABOUT
S2OO0 which was In the drawer.
March 2, 1857 five ex-guerrillas, mem
bers OF Cole Younger's company, rode into
savannah, Mo. -Four OF the men entered
j Judge McLain's bank and leveled their
pistols at the old judge, who was sitting
at desk.
! Hold up your hands!' cried the rob-
bers.
For answer the old man seized pistol
/ and slammed the door of the vault shut
4 Then he fired at the bandits, but was shot
! down the next instant. His son ran into
/ the street and gave the alarm, and the
robbers were forced to run for their
/ horses and get out of town. They were
| followed, but were not captured.
Richmond. Mo-, was the next point Wis
tied by the bandits Fourteen of them
made descent on the town May %, 1861
/ and rode UP and down the main street
| firing their pistols at every one they saw
Hunt your holes or get killed!' they
| shouted.
| Six of them forced an entrance into the
| private bank Of Hughes & Mason and s,e-
cured $4,000.
The mayor Of the town was killed, and
then the robbers and murderers made an
attack on the Jail, where some Of their
friends were confined
They killed the jailer and his son, both
| Of whom died fighting bravely, but were
forced to leave town without liberating
the prisoners
Some of the robbers were hunted down.
but most of them escaped capture. 1t has
been charged that Cole Younger was in
this robbery, but he has always claimed
that he was In Texas when it. was COM
mtted.
The next bank robbery was at RUSSELL
ville KY, March 20, 1868. The bandits had
iiol llkul tHeTe, Out secured ABOUT S1(,-
600 and escaped without injury.
Both Cole and Jim Younger and Jesse
and Frank James were recognized as
among the raiding party. George and Oh
Shepherd were with them.
Tragic Finish of Horse Race,
After the escape from Russellville, Cole
Younger went to Bartrap La. He took a
race horse with him, and one day entered
him for race against a fine animal
owned by planter OF the neighborhood
The stakes were 81 900 side. Coles horse
was winning, when man suddenly threw
red blanket ahead OF him on the track
The horse SHE'D and broke from the track
Cole claimed foul. but was laughed at
When the stakes were handed to the
planter, Younger drew pistol and killed
the stakeholder and the two Judges Five
other men were wounded when he rode
away. He went to Missouri
1t was not until December, 1869, that tho
Youngers and the James boys and their
gang of outlaws made another raid. On
the 7th OF that month Cole Younger and
Jesse and Frank James rode into Gala
tin. Mo-. and robbed the bank there
Jesse James killed the cashier, Captain
John w. Sheets. although the latter had
made no resistance and had delivered up
the keys of the safe.
The robbers, although pursued by a
posse of citizens, made good their escape.
Shortly after this a vigilance committee
went to the Youngers' house on q hunt for
Cole and Jim. The brothers were not
there and the visiting party tried to ind
out from John Younger their where
abouts. John refused to give the infor-
nation, although he was hanged until
nearly dead, and slashed with knives In
the effort to extort 1t from MIN.
When he recovered he went to Dallas,
Tex, and In 1871 he murdered the sheriff
of Dallas county, Captain S. w. Nichols,
and escaped. Going back TO Missouri, he
joined his brothers, Cole and Jim, and
was with them until his death In 1874
A Bank Robbery In lows.
The outlaws, next exploit was the plum
dering OF the bank In Corydon, Ia, June
3. 1871. They secured $4,000. After rob
bling the bank the masked bandits rode
over to a political meeting and made
speeches. telling the crowd they had
robbed the bank.
Go down there and see for yourselves, .
they said. e
Then they rode away. yelling and laugh
ing. The people found the cashier bound
and gagged In the bank.
The bank In Columbia, KY, was the
next one robbed by the Younger and
James boys They killed the cashier, hut
got only about 5000
The kansas City Fair. association next
claimed their attention, and they sue
ceedsdf in robbing 1t of about $40, 900, full
days receipts They took the money
while 1t was being carried in a tin box
/ from the fair grounds to the First Ma
tional bank. The three robbers on this
occasion were Frank and Jesse James anu
Fob Younger A thousand people Wit
| messed this bold robbery.
| On May /. 1879 the robbers looted the
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