The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1902-11-27

Anecdotes Of the Notorious
Outlay.
AN INCIDENT OF HIS LAST STAND

AIN lNUlUhNI VI HIS AASI STAND
Devotion OF the Younger Brothers
Shown In the Flight From North
field, Mimi, After the Bank Raid.
films Aversion to Notoriety and HIS
Recent Experience I'm Duluth.
age of fifty-four leaves but one of the
famous brothers of that name alive to
recall stories Of that picturesque Amer
lean type, the western outlaw. The
Younger brothers, James and Coleman
there was another, John, who was
deputies-were for a generation hardly
less notorious than the James boys,
Frank and Jesse, says the New York
Times. Indeed, the names Of the two
families have been linked together by
more than one crime. This connection
was always denied by the Youngers,
and certain it is that in the exploit in
which these latter attained their most
lasting notoriety and incidentally SEN
tence to state prison for life, the un-
divided glory was theirs. This was the
daylight raid upon the Mortified
(dinn.) bank on Sept. Z, 1875
In story told by Cole Younger, the
elder of the two, the incentive to the
robbery came In the report that ex-
Governor Ames and Benjamin F. But
Ter of Massachusetts had deposited
$4,000 In gold in the Northfeld bank.
The Younger boys, with several others
Of their ilk, started from Mankato Sept.
for Mortified, having voted" to
raid the bank. They planned to sepa-
rate into three parties, approach the
building from different sides and then
at a given signal rush" it.
The plan miscarried, and a street
fight In which Cashier Haywood was
killed ended in the fight of the gang
Then a chase ensued from Mortified
nearly to Mankato, and in the end Cole
and James Younger, both wounded,
were rounded up by a posse. They
were brought to trial, pleaded guilty to
murder in the first degree and received
| life sentences.
The devotion of the brothers was
shown in the fight from Mortified.
Had the robbers not been incumbered
by Jim Younger, badly wounded, they
might have escaped His mouth was
SO badly shattered that the hemor-
rhage was so profuse that it left q
trail Of blood that was easily followed.
At last he became so weak that 1t was
necessary for Cole and Bob to ride be-
side him to support him. By this they
were delayed several days, and In the
| meantime the country was swarming
with their pursuers. Jesse James OBJ
5ected and remarked to Cole that their
trail could be followed by blind man,
and. as they Of course did not want
Jim to fall into the hands Of their pur-
suers. they had better dispose Of him
and end his sufferings, as his de ath
was certain anyhow. Bob and Cole
looked at James, and Frank replied,
calling him a cold hearted villain, q
monster with whom he could never as-
sociate again, and adding that he
would stay by his brother until he
died and would then carry his body as
far as he had strength to make it pos.
sible. This was the reason for the sep
aration Of the party. Pitts remained
| by the Youngers and was killed. The
Jameses left and escaped.
A good story is told of Jim Younger
when he was in Duluth recently. It is
well known that he was very much
averse to nOtoriety and always regis
tered under a fictitious name IN order
to avoid it. He stepped up to the Of
flee Of one Of the Duluth hotels, and
after putting down something like 'Pe-
ter Jones, Pearl Lake." he asked to be
assigned room, says the Duluth News
Tribune. After ascertaining about how
much the guest wished to pay tha
clerk said that the most desirable room
left was courtroom.
| Courtroom, hey? Well, I guess /
don't want it." And Younger strobe
sut Of the room.
| Nov, I wonder what he meant by
saying courtroom in such a funny
way?" And the hotel clerk, uncon-
scious Of the identity Of his guest and
his entirely natural aversion for court
rooms, straightway forgot the incident.