The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-03-22
COLE YOUNGER, NOTED BANDIT,
 IS DEAD AT 72
Last of Famous Frontier Days Outlaws Dies in
 Missouri.

Lees Summit, Mo, March 22.-Then- as Coleman Younger, notorious as Cole Younger, border raider, bandit and bank robber, died here yesterday, aged 72 years. F sa
 Cole Younger was one of the last of the members of the notorious robber bands that infested western Missouri during and after the Civil War. He was a member of the QuantreIl band of guerriIlas and with his two broth CTS took part with the James Boys" in bank and train robberies in Mis- souri and neighboring states that net ted the looters more than a hundred thousand dollars. The leading mem bers of these bands are dead, some at the hands of the law, some by suicide and others from natural causes. Younger after long term in the pen itentiary became a law abiding Mis- souri citizen.
 Cole was the oldest of the three Younger Boys"
 The father, Coll Harry w. Younger, came te Missouri from Kentucky be- fore the, war. He was a strong union man, though a shareholder. He set tied near Lees Summit, on miles from Kansas City, where Cole was born in 1S44. Colonel Younger was murdered by one of the bands of law1ess' guer- rilals that infested the AIissouri-Kan- sas border, in war times. The sons said their father. was slain by Kan sans for the purpose of robbery. They immediately took up arms against the north. They joined Quantre1Ps- guer- riIfas and had their part in the mem orable saclxing of Lawrence, Kansas.
 When the war was over they and tIo Harnesses became outlaws. Among the notorious robberies of the decade following the war that were laid at their doors were:
 The raid on the Liberty, Mo, bank In GsT1a c1n and $72, 600 stolen.
 The footing of a Russellville, ky. bank in 1888 for ST, 900.
 The zGallatin, Md, bank robbery of 1869 in which the cashier was shot and killed.
 Raids of Lexington. and Savannah, Mo- banks in 1867.
 Ten thousand dollars stolen from the A-ansas City Fair association in 1871, while 1000 persons looked on
 The Corydon, La, bank robbed of $40, 900 the same year.
 A dozen other sensational robberies for which the Younger and James boys were blamed were carried out success fully before the three Younger broth CTS were captured in Minnesota after a. raid on a bank at Northfeld Minn, in 1878 in the course of which Cashier Haywood was killed. The Youngers were shot many times in battles with a posse but finally were taken alive after a battle at ShieldsvilIe, Minn.
 Cole and his brothers pleaded guilty and were sentenced to prison for Ife They entered the penitentiary at Still water, Minn., and became model pris- oners Bob died in the penitentiary in 1889. Cole and James Younger were paro1ed in 1901. The next year James shot himself, leaving a note ascrfbing his action to a refusal of the parole board to permit him to marry the girl he loved.
 After Cole was paroled he was forced .,-z 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 u r.4sca in Lees Summit the scene of his boynood days. For time he was connected with a show and later went on the lecture platform, and became a good citizen.
 Tn August, 1913, Younger was con verted to religion at a revival meet ing and became an active church worker.
 I've led an adventurous, turbulent Iife.p he said. stThe war brought on hate and strife and killing around here have been blamed for a lot of it with which had nothing to do. They mur- sexeR 7y= 1mtxer@a @ands < I -yzaB 1aunched