Arizona republican., 1916-03-22
CO[E YOUNGER SUCCUMBS T0
 LONG ILLNESS.
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Republican A. P. Leased Wre1
 LEES SUMMIT, Mo, March 21.- Cole Younger, the famous outlaw of border days, died at his home here to- night, after a lingering illness. He was 72 years old and unmarried.
 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 Quantrell band of guerrillas and with his two brothers took part with the James Boys" in bank and train robberies in Missouri and neighboring states that netted the lOOters more than hundred thousand dollars. The leading members of these bands are dead, some at the hands of he law some by suicide and others from natural causes. Younger, after long term in the penitentiary, becam. a law abiding Missouri citizen.
 Cole was the oldest of the three "Younger Boy.s.'
 The father, Col. Harry w. Younger came to Missouri from Kentucky be- fore the war He was a strong union man, though slaveholder. He settled near Lees Summit, twenty miles from Kansas City, where Cole was born in lS44. Colonel Younger was murdered by one of the bands of lawless guer- rillas that infested the Missouri Kan sas border in war times. The sons said their father was slain by Kansans for the purpose of robbery. They imme diately took up arms against the north. They joined Quantrell's guerrillas and | had their part in the memorable sack | ing of Lawrence, Kansas. When the war was over they and the Jameses became outlaws. Among tn notorious robberies of the decade | following the war that were laid at their door were:
 The raid on the Liberty. Mo-, bank in 1866. One bank defender shot dead and $72,OOO stolen.
 The footing of a Russellville, Ky, bank in 1868 for $l7,0O0.
 !, The Gallatin. Mo, bank robbery of 1 lS6S in which the cashier was shot and l killed
 l Raids of Lexington and Savannah, | Mo-, banks in lS67
 l Ten thousand dollars stolen from the Kansas City Fair Association in 1871, while 1000 persons looked on. | The Corydon, La, bank robbed of s40,000 the same year.
 | A dozen other sensational robberies for which the Younger and James boys | I1 fully before the three Younger brothers were captured in Minnesota after a raid on a bank at NoThfied Minn., in 1 1876. in the course of which Cashier | Haywood was killed. The Youngers l were shot many times in battles with a posse but finally were taken alive after a battle at Shieldsville, Minn. Cole and his brothers pleaded guilty and were sentenced to prison for life They entered the penitentiary at Still water, Minn., and became model pri- l soners. Bob died in the penitentiary in 1889. Cole and James Younger were paroled in 1901. The next year James shot himself leaving q note ascribng l his action to a refusal of the parole board to permit him to marry the girl 1 he loved.
 1 After Cole was paroled he was | forced by Minnesota law to live in that | state for three years. Then he returned l to Missouri and settled down in vine covered cottage which he bought for a niece in Lees Summit, the scene of his boyhood days. For a time he was con- 1 nected with a show and later went on | the lecture platform, and became a | good citizen.
 In August, 1913, Younger was con verted to religion at a revival meet . l ing and became an active church | worker.
 i've led an adventurous. turbulent l life" he said. "The war brought on hate and strife and killing around here 1 have been blamed for a lot of it with which l had nothing to do. They mur- dered my father and 1 was launched
 into life of shooting and reprisals and rough riding, winding up with 25 years in the penitentiary. I was brought up in a Christian home Now Pm an old man and I've come, by Gods mercy, back to the place of my | childhood to end my days"