The Jennings daily record., 1902-12-08

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aged to keep her plans secret, and
when they we're divulged the storm
broke forth. The relatives OF those
who had been killed by the outlaws
in their raid on the Northfield bank.
and some of those who had been IN
the fight, protested bitterly agains'
releasing the murderers. And there
were others who were just as Dltter.
Since 1889 at least three efforts
were made to secure the release OF the
Youngers before Miss Mueller d1s-
closed the results of her long plan
ming and working. The sentiment
against the brothers was still power
full, but Miss Mueller was the strong
er and she secured from the legislature
the passage of special act which re-
suited in the release of the Younger
brothers on parole.
| The lovers thought that their trou-
bles were over and their happiness
| knew no bounds.
! But the attorney general decided
| that the Youngers were still legally
| dead. They had not been restores to
| citizenship. In the eyes OF the law
! they were as much prisoners as II
| thew were still in the penitentlary.
Then Jim Younger realized no"
great was his capacity for sunerlng-
He was racked and torn by emotions
so terrible that his mind became un-
balanced. To marry Miss Mueller
meant more to him than anything else
in the world 1t was worth All the
wears he had spent in prison. AnG she
was fighting the white death thou-
sands OF miles away He could hot
90 to her. for the law said he couid
not leave the state. He could ohly
hope that the ban against him woulo'
be removed, that the board OF paroons
would grant his prayer.
| Bit it decided against him.
! Years before, after the Northnelu
raid one of the many bullets that
found a resting place in jim Younger
body pierced his brain and lodged
there, 1t had given him no trouble
ur+;, ne was released from prison.
Then It manifested itself. The men
! tai struggles, the bitter alsappo1nt =
ment when he found that ne coulo
not marry Miss Mueller. stnM 1urthei
! weakened him. There is no uouo'
! that Jim Younger was fast oeconilns
] insane when he shot himself
He sent a telegram to Miss Mueile'
telling her not to write on SATURDAY
Oct Is. That night he shot hlmss'
in his room in st. Paul. When tn'
door was broken open there was louAi'
tho love letters he had received iron
! Miss Mueller, on which was d hoe
that read:
ooh lassie. good.by. All relative
lust stay away from me. NO cioeouii
tears wanted. Reporters, De /"
friends Burn me up.
Jim Younger:
They did not cremate Jim foun:
or,, hcdv as he requested Instead
was taken to Missouri anu piaceu ~
side that of his brother BOD III Lee
Summit cemetery, from when one co
see the grove of oaks on the Oahhs
the Little Blue where William ClA1
Ouantrell organized his band Oh que
illas in which rode Cole and u
Younger Frank and Jesse James, Ii
Cummings and others who drl1'e
from war into brigandage ana cou
scarce distinguish between them Al
for wears there was little difference.
A wooden board eighteen inch
high and nine inches wide, on WHICH
boy has rudely carved with 1at
knife the name of Bob Younger
two lines, marks where the youhss
of the brothers lies. And anesr
hoard. with Jim Younger wrltte.i
lead pencil, is at the head OF the s.
ond brother In the course oi I'll
co,a youuger will rest there TOO
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