deputy wardens, too.
Abe Hall, Will Reed, A. D. Westby, Sam A. Langum, T. W. Alexander, and
Jack Glennon were all partisans of ours. If any reader misses one name
from this list of deputy wardens, there is nothing I have to say for or
against him.

Dr. Pratt, who was prison physician when we went to Stillwater, Dr. T. C.
Clark, who was his assistant, and Dr. B. J. Merrill, who has been prison
physician since, have been staunch partisans of the Younger boys in the
efforts of our friends to secure our pardon. And the young doctors with
whom I was thrown in close contact during their service as assistant
prison physicians, Drs. Sidney Boleyn, Gustavus A. Newman, Dan Beebe, A.
E. Hedbeck, Morrill Withrow, and Jenner Chance, have been most earnest in
their championship of our cause.

The stewards, too, Benner, and during the Reeve regime, Smithton, which
whom as head nurse I was thrown in direct contact, never had any
difficulty with me, although Benner with a twinkle in his eye, would say
to me:

"Cole, I believe you come and get peaches for your patients up there long
after they are dead."

The invalids in that hospital always got the delicacies they wanted,
subject to the physician's permission, if what they wanted was to be found
anywhere in Stillwater or in St. Paul. The prison hospital building is
not suitable for such use, and a new hospital building is needed, but no
fault can be found with the way invalid prisoners are cared for at
Stillwater.

When there is added a new hospital building, and the present hospital is
transformed into an insane ward, Stillwater will indeed be a model prison.

Words fail me when I seek to express my gratitude to the host of friends
who were glad to plead our cause during the later years of our confinement
at Stillwater, and especially to Warden Henry Wolfer and his family, every
one of whom was a true friend to Jim and myself.

33. THE STAR OF HOPE

In spite of the popular indignation our crime had justly caused, from the
day the iron gates closed behind us in 1876, there were always friends who
hoped and planned for our ultimate release. Some of these were misguided,
and did us more harm than good.

Among these were two former guerrillas, who committed small crimes that
they might be sent to prison and there plot with us for our escape. One
of them was only sent to the county jail, and the other served a year in
Stillwater prison without ever seeing us.

We