ght cheek, which paralyzed his right eye. He had
received a .45 revolver bullet through the body, and also had been shot
through the thigh at Northfield. He received eleven different wounds in
the fight, or thirteen bad wounds in all, enough to have killed a half
dozen men. Jim's case seemed even worse, for he had in his body eight
buckshot and a rifle bullet. He had been shot through the shoulder at
Northfield, and nearly half his lower jaw had been carried away by a
heavy bullet, a wound which caused him intense suffering. Bob was the
only one able to stand on his feet.

Of the two men killed in town, Clel Miller and Bill Chadwell, the former
had a long record in bank robberies; the latter, guide in the ill-fated
expedition to Minnesota, was a horse thief of considerable note at one
time in lower Minnesota.

The prisoners were placed in jail at Faribault, the county seat of Rice
county, and in a short time the Grand Jury returned true bills against
them, charging them with murder and robbery. Court convened November
7th, Judge Lord being on the bench. All of the prisoners pleaded guilty,
and the order of the court was that each should be confined in the state
penitentiary for the period of his natural life.

The later fate of the Younger boys may be read in the succinct records
of the Minnesota State Prison at Stillwater:

"_Thos. Coleman Younger_, sentenced Nov. 20, 1876, from Rice county
under a life sentence for the crime of Murder in the first degree.
Paroled July 14, 1901. Pardoned Feb. 4, 1903, on condition that he
leave the State of Minnesota, and that he never exhibit himself in
public in any way.

"_James Younger_, sentenced Nov. 20, 1876, from Rice county under a
life sentence for the crime of Murder in the first degree. Paroled
July 13, 1901. Shot himself with a revolver in the city of St.
Paul, Minn., and died at once from the wound inflicted on Oct. 19,
1902.

"_Robt. Younger_, sentenced Nov. 20, 1876, from Rice county under a
life sentence for the crime of Murder in the first degree. He died
Sept. 16, 1889, of phthisis."

The James boys almost miraculously escaped, traveled clear across the
State of Iowa and got back to their old haunts. They did not stop, but
kept on going until they got to Mexico, where they remained for some
time. They did not take their warning, however, and some of their most
desperate train robberies were comm