The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-21

note, has been a resident Of this city
since last August when she came here
for rest and to avoid the publicity that
her association with the parole of the
Younger boys gave her.
Today she said:
Jim wrote under date of October
is. stating he had given up all hope and
was out of work Saturday he telegraphed
me: Don't write He was driven to his
act by his prosecutors. I am his wife, you
understand, spiritually. No scandal has
ever attached to my name But before
God he is mine and mine alone My life
will be to place him right before the
world. I have wired the authorities to
cremate his body It was his request
Miss Muller is 30 years of age and wrote
a history of the police and fire depart
ments of st. Paul and did work on the
Salt Lake Herald during the presidential
campaign of 1900. She is now writing
novel. She leaves this afternoon for St
Paul She is woman OF independent
means.
DUE TO INSANITY.
st. Paul. Oct. 21.-The suicide of Jim
Younger was the result of insanity, says
his brother cole" Cole" said today:
1T is too bad We have had so much
trouble that this seems unusually hard to
bear at this time. believe Jim was tenn
porarily insane. He had been acting queer
ly for several months. Some of his actions
could only be accounted for on the
grounds that his mind had become weak
ened- The criticisms he made about Gov
ernor Van SAINT and Warden Wolfer in his
last letter are awfully unwarranted. War
den Wolfef was our best friend, both
while we were in prison and out If It
had not been for Warden Wolfer we would
have still been in prison.
HE WAS DESPONDENT-
81 know Jim was very respondent be-
cause the pardon board did not grant our
full pardon at fits last session. but he did
not view this matter in the right light. He
thought we should have been allowed to
go home at once. 1t is the rule of the
pardon board, however, not to terminate
parole for at least a year. This is right
and proper and 1 frequently told Jim he
should try to be contented until the ex-
piration of this time. 1 saw Jim last Fri
day. We had a long talk He appeared
in his. usual frame of mind and seemed to
have ample money He never fntimated
to me that he intended killing himself or
that he considered his predicament suffi-
GENTLY difficult to warrant such course
Cole Younger denies that he had
quarreled with film and that they had
not been on speaking terms recently He
did not approve of the petition for full
pardon, put forward by his brother last
winter, nor of Jim's love affair. but de-
cares there was never any rupture of
their brotherly relations. Until three
weeks ago Jim" Younger was employed
in Elwins cigar store on Washington ave-
nue.. South Minneapolis. The store was
sold and he found himself without en-
ployment. He then came to this city and
took lodging at the Reardon hotel. He ex-j
pected to obtain employment in the cigar
department of a st. Paul grocery store,
but the negotiation fell through and he re-
manned without employment Cole is
sick in bed at his boarding house. He re-
ceived the news of his brothers death
with characteristic stoicism- The body is
now at an underta king establishment be-
ing prepared for burial Many people are
making attempts to view the body, but
all are excluded unless they can show
some special reason why an exception
should be made in their case.