as the driven
snow, while those of his accusers will be doubly dark.

I will come now to the Ste. Genevieve robbery. At that time I was in St.
Clair county, Mo. I do not remember the date, but Mr. Murphy, one of our
neighbors, was sick about that time, and I sat up with him regularly,
where I met with some of his neighbors every day. Dr. L. Lewis was his
physician.

As to the Iowa train robbery, I have forgotten the day, I was also in St.
Clair county, Mo., at that time, and had the pleasure of attending
preaching the evening previous to the robbery at Monegaw Springs. There
were fifty or a hundred persons there who will testify in any court that
John and I were there. I will give you the names of some of them: Simeon
C. Bruce, John S. Wilson, James Van Allen, Rev. Mr. Smith and lady.
Helvin Fickle and wife of Greenton Valley were attending the springs at
that time, and either of them will testify to the above, for John and I
sat in front of Mr. Smith while he was preaching and was in his company
for a few moments, together with his wife and Mr. and Mrs. Fickle, after
service. They live at Greenton Valley, Lafayette county, Mo., and their
evidence would be taken in the court of heaven. As there was no other
robbery committed until January, I will come to that time. About the last
of December, 1873, I arrived in Carroll parish, Louisiana. I stayed there
until the 8th of February, 1874. Brother and I stayed at Wm. Dickerson's,
near Floyd. During the time the Shreveport stage and the Hot Springs
stage were robbed; also the Gad's Hill robbery.

THOMAS COLEMAN YOUNGER

On reading since my release the pretended history of my life I find that I
was wrong in stating that there was no robbery during the summer of 1872,
the bank at Columbia, Ky., having been raided April 29 of that year. I
had not heard of that when I wrote the letter of 1874, and to correct any
misapprehension that might be created by omitting it I will say that at
that time I was at Neosho, Kansas, with a drove of cattle, which I sold to
Maj. Ray.

It was immediately following the Rock Island robbery at Adair, Iowa, that
there first appeared a deliberate enlistment of some local papers in
Missouri to connect us with this robbery. New York and Chicago as well as
St. Paul and Minneapolis papers did not connect the Youngers with the
crime, and three days after the robbery these papers had i