The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-06
know that I owe much to the people of

know that I owe much to the people of
/ Minnesota.
Il harbor no feelings of i'll win or
/ malice against any one, least of all
would I against the people of the state
which has cared for me the past year
and a half as it has.
If I am able to do so, I win come
/ back some day and show my apprecla-
ton My best friends are here. and I
will never forget them.
Il have expressed my sentiments to
1 the people of the state before. I don't
/ think 1 can say much more. My life
I has been one such as few men have ex-
/ perienced. I have learned much by
/ drinking deep the dregs of the cup Of
/ life. Experience has taught me to live
/ as becomes a, respectable citizen.
I will leave this state with a meas
ure of regret. I feel that here I have
/ spent the best years of my life. Twen-
/ ty-five of them were within the con
4 fines of the prison, yet the year and a
I half outside have shown me that friends
are as dear to me here as in my old
/ Missouri home"
/ Some one mentioned the Mortified
/ people and their opposition to pardon.
/ oh, don't think that Z have any i'll Will
/ against the people of NOrthfield- They
have many of them signed my petition.
! both for pardon and parole Some Of
my warmest friends are now in North
/ field, and some have stood loyalty by
me"
was it not great surprise to you
/ that the pardon was granted2"
1t was somewhat surprising, yet I
/ confidently hoped for it. I have spent
days and nights longing for it; did not
doubt that eventually 1t would come 1
] was so used to disappointments that I
could have stood it all right. That re-
minds me Of the time my parole was
/ granted"
And then he began to tell of how the
/ telephone at the prison rang a dozen
times at about the same time on the
day the parole was granted. And how
the son of Warden Wolfer, answering
the telephone. could not understand, be
cause of the confusion of voices, Wheth-
er the parole was granted or refused.
Tell Cole" said young WOlfer, that
row, Coles stanch friend. The doctor
went upstairs and found Younger.
/ Younger said nothing; only looked at
4 Withrow. The latter's face was a study.
He did not want to say that parole was
/ granted because he was not sure. He
feared to say it was rejected
Younger saw look of anxiety on
! WithrOw's face and said nothing He
expected from that time on to hear that
parole was refused. Younger went to
bed. Ten minutes later he was asleep,
worn out by worrying over the action of
the board. He had no sooner dropped
into sleep when Withrow gave him a
vigorous punch in the ribs and woke
him uD.
It's all right, Cole" he said.
Cole looked uD and smiled.
We'll then, you bet I did get up. 7
was surprised. 1t was about the same
kind of surprise this time"
when do you intend to go home o
he was asked.
THAT 1 cannot say. I will not leave
for more than a weelz yet There are
certain formalities that must be gone
through before the papers are finally
filed. I am in no especial hurry.
i am going to see my nephew Mr..
Huh, and Mrs. Curry, my niece, and tell
them of the good news"
Younger shook hands again and went
to his home on the West Side
From there he called on Governor Van
SAINT, whom he told of his plans. Later
in the day he visited Saltwater to see
/ warden WOlfer. It is said that Cole
viii probably start for Kansas City to-
morrow night, although he said that he
might not go for week From Kansas
City he viii go to St Louis, and from
there to Lees Summit to rest
He says he has no definite plans for
the future, and does not know what he
will do. Late today Senator Wilson Of
Minneapolis received a telegram from
w. c. BrOnaugh of Kansas City. asking
what time Cole Younger would reach
there. as his friends had planned to give
him a reception.
Word of the pardon was good news t.
several members of the legislature whe
nave IN the past years interested them
selves in behalf Of the brothers.
General George P. Wilson. who work
ed so hard for the pardon bill foul
years ago, expressed his unqualified
pleasure to see the incident closed.
p. c. Demiug, author of the parole
bill, passed two years ago, under which
the two brothers were released from
Saltwater. also expressed his pleasure.
LONG LIST OF CRIMES.
Among the robheries and raids il
which Cole Younger is credited witt
taking part are.
Raided Liberty, Mo, bank Took So,
coo BOY shot dead.
October 80. 1866. raid of Lexington
Mo- bank. Got $4,000
March o 1867, raid of Savannah No
bank No money secured. One killed
May % 1867. raid on Richmond, Mo
Took $4,000. Three killed
March 20, 1863 raided Russellvilla
Ky, bank and secured 1900.
Cole Younger shot Bartrap. La, plant
err dead for foul in horse race.
December z. 1853. robbed Gallatin. No.
bank and killed cashier.
June 3. 1871. Dlundered bank at Cory
don. La Secured SO. 600.
Robbed Columbia KY bank of $40
and killed cashier.
Robbed Kansas City Fair association