Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-04-01
COLE YOUNGER IS
NEARING HIS END
FEELING OVER FRANK JAMES
oEATH MASTERING CLOSE
OF HIS CAREER.

NNR -NA@% sMs&@0AEA AttnuN% OF TNtn%
infamous. shortly after the civn wa
slowly = diving at his home here.
Deep feeling over the death las
month 81 Frank james. feiio,
bandit Of Younger in the reconsiru.
tion DAYS. = believed TO be hasle1in
the day Wheu Cole Younger no longe
can tell OF the civil war raids and tn
bank rohberics which he saw. an
more than one % which he helped
Bent IN years and facing death
Cole Younger says he does not &c
ilsve be could have lived his life diff
ferentiy lie believes he did wha
any other person would have done
After serving > years in the Min
nesots state prison. he came 80 Mis-
souri, Il years ago and these have
been happy and honored years FOR
him. lie Joined the Christian church
TWO years aEo on an anniversary OF
the date on which he helped massacre
hundreds In Lawrence. Kan. He is
respected for his uprightness and al.
most tenderness 81 character in his
advanced years
Il had been his hope that ne might
attend the san Francisco worlds fair
but that has been declared inpos-
siole because OF his failing health.
Ills voice a bit tremulous. but with
piercing eyes the former bandit sat
recently In hts easy chair and stroked
the Way hair OF 2-year-oid grand
nephew.
Heraided from ocean to ocear as
the most desperate OF men. the form
sr bandit stopped occasionally TO COO
sortiy a song which soon closed the
baby's eyes in siumber
YouuEer's chief exploits were the
robbery % a Mortified. Mimi. bank.
sept s. 1876. and the civil war raid
on lawrence. Kan.
There D. nothing in my life so
thrilling a. ms part Ia the raid on
i-aNrcnce. Kan. during the civil war.
There is nothing that ever happened
that las so misrepresentsd in litera-
turr and IN history. -he said.
To understand 10 one must look
hack INTO the early history OF the war.
aheu federal sympathizers had south
erucrs iu Missouri az their mercy
Ny father was opposed 20 the war
and had friends on both sides but
aas shot down ia cold blood and I
ROBBED by a gang o. federal free
b1cte-s a. he Nas driving home from I
kansas City That day changed my 1
d hole life. The knowledge that my
.ather had been killed In cold blood /
sled ms heart With lust for ven
scance.
- ~as - the day We started from
slscxvatsr. No, about 500 strong
q QlautrsI band. mean. II vas
auE -. iSsg was Lieutenant ia .
me company % the command
When Va. reached e hiii - sight
q - sr-lcr. We learned from an old
.os feeder trnt thcr. were 800 reEu-
pr federal troops Ga lawrence and
ol nl!ifiamsn.
They outuumber us two TO one.
aid Quautr-il. but -. can ~hlp a..
asE.' There acre no guards and We
ore open the flaps % their tents and
il.sf them a. fast a. our guns could
.prk We lost only four dead and ,
hrra wounded Then We rode a<ay ,
I'd fought for a hours with pursuers
rbs had been organized They foR ,
90 rs uutil We Were among friends d,
D Missouri -,
That is the Eist % Cole Younger = / ;
tory OF one os the bloodiesi episodes /,
T the border warfare between Mis- !
oari southerners and Kansas north
rneTs during the civil var. Il was
he star % his career as an OUTLAW r
The remaining years OF the war
d three brothers. Mobs several 4,
mes Were formed 10 lynch the =
oungsr boys. but each time good :,
% the brothers drove ;,
say the wouid-he lynchers +,
in the early '7O's the escapades Of
r. James boys in robbinE banks aud =,
aims attracted nationwide attention :
IA the Younger brothers got credit u
= being In many OF these. when =
ally they were hundreds OF miles ;,
say. II
They kept accusing us until they
owe us into IT,. said Cole Younger. ..
Ne became civil outlaws when four a
iIczgo detectives attempted 20 ar =
81 me and my brothers. Jim. John :,
ID Bob. We heard the detectives
IRE coming and VIC rode out 20 meet >,
en-. little shooting and they :,
ruod their horses the other way -
a hurried back TO Chicago rs fast 70
a train could carry them" ..
The hunt for the Younger brothers a,
ut on and Cole Younger. 10 elude a,
E hunters. went TO Florida 20 live =
der an assumed name. While stay
( At the 81, James hotel in Jackson
lie. Fla. he won the plsudits OF the =,
tir. community for quelling negro "a,
His friends In Missouri attempted
get the legislature to pass an am =
SIS bill 50 he could come back x
4 noe have TO face possible arrest X
cscapadcs during the war. but this :
led
Dne day. while sitting IN a hotel. ~
overheard a conversation that
neral hen Butler OF the union er
~ had taken back from the south or
!, aa0 In cash. and had il IN a bank
Sorfhheid. MINI. he
arose n the ~rehei's"