The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1916-03-29
COLE YOUNGER,
FORMER BANDIT
Then Church Worker, Is
Dead In Missouri.
QUANTR|LL AND JAMES GANGS
OF Which tie Was a Member,
Gave Him Much Notoriety
Years Ago.
SHORT SKETCH OF HIS CAREER

Lees Summit, Mo-, March 22.--
Cole Younger, famous outlaw oil
border days, but of late years a de-
vout church attendant and peaceful
citizen, died at his home here last
night after lingering illness. He
was 70 years old and unmarried.
Younger was a member of the
Quantrell band of guerrillas and
with his two brothers took part with
the James Boys in bank and train
robberies in Missouri and neighbor-
ing States that netted the hooters
more than 100000. The leading
members of these bands are dead,
some at the hands of the law, some
by suicide and others from natural
| causes. Younger served long term
in the penitentiary. He was the old
est of the three younger Boys"
The father, Col. Harry w. Young
err. came to Missouri from Kentucky
before the war. He was a young I'm
ion man, though a STAKEHOLDER. He
settled near Lees Summit, twenty
miles from Kansas City, where Cole
was born in 1914. Col. Younger was
murdered by one of the bands of
guerrillas that infested the Missouri =
Kansas border in wartime. The sons
said their father was slain by Kan
sans for the purpose of robbery.
They Immediately took up arms
against the North. They had their
part in the memorable sacking of
Lawrence, Kan.
When the war was over they and
the Jameses became outlaws.
Among the notorious robberies of
the decade following the war that
We're laid at their door We're:
The raid on the Liberty, Mo-.
bank in 1866. One bank defender
shot dead and $4,000 stolen. 4
The looting Of a Russellville, Ky,
bank in 1868 for $4,000.
The Gallatin, Mo-, bank robbery
of 1868 in which the cashier was
shot and killed.
Raids Of Lexington and Savannah
Mo, banks in 1867.
Ten thousand dollars stolen from
the Kansas City Fair Association in
1871, while 1000 persons looked
on.
The Corydon, La, bank robbed o"
$4,000 the same year.
A dozen other sensational rob
berries for which the Younger and
James boys We're blamed were car
ried out before the three Younger
brothers were captured in Minneso-
ia after a raid on a bank at North
field, Mimi, in 1876 in the course Of
which, Cashier Haywood was killed. :
The Youngers were shot many times
in battles with a posse, but finally
We're taken alive after a battle at
MINI,
Cole and his brothers pleaded
Sulibs ohu wee sentenced 10 DilsOn
for life. They entered the peaiten-
tiary at Saltwater, Mimi, and De
came model prisoners. Bob died in
the penitentiary in 1889. Cole ant
James Younger were paroled ir
1901. The next year James shot
himself, leaving a note ascribing hi
action TO a refusal of the parole
board to permit him to marry the
girl he loved.
After Cole was parOled he was
forced by Minnesota law to live in
that State for three years. Then he
returned to Missouri and settled
down in a vine-covered cottage
which he bought for a niece in Lees
Summit. the scene of his boyhood
days. For a time he was connected
with a show and later went on the
lecture platform. In August. 1913,
Younger was converted to religion
at revival meeting and became an
active worker.