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Show JIM YOUNGER SUICIDES. Member af Nolnrlnai Oanc of llandlu Takes llle Own Life. James Younger, formerly a member of the notorious James boys band of outlaws, which infested the western country a quarter of n century ago, committed suicide at St. I'aul, Minn,, Saturday by shooting. He left a letter to the press In which ho gives us a reason rea-son for his act, despondency over continued con-tinued ill health and separation from his frleuds. Tho suicide Is supposed to have occurred about 8 o'clock In the morning. Younger occupied a room In a down town block, and when he did not make his appearance as usual, search was made for him. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon the door of his room was brokeu In nnd his dead body found stretched on tho floor beside be-side his bed, a ruvolver clutched in his right hand. He had shot himself through the head and evldeutly had been dead for several hours. Younger, slnee his pardon from tho state penitentiary in July of last year, bus led an exemplary life. His first employment was us a travollng ugent for u tombstone dealer, and on one of tho trips ho mado about the state he was quite seriously hurl by a fall from a wagon. Old wounds he had received In earller'llfe also gavu him much trouble, nud, although ho soon obtained ob-tained lighter employment, his health was extremely precarious, and this caused hlin much worritnent. He was 64 years of age. James Younger was the youngest of three brothers, Itobert, Coleman and James Younger, who, between the years of 1800 and 1873, gained great notoriety through their association with Jesse and Frank James. The band headed by Jesse James was charged with Innumerable robberies 'of banks and railroad trains, in the execution of which many desperate encounters en-counters took place and a number of men were killed. The members of the band had served through the Civil war, fighting on the sidu of the Confederacy Confeder-acy with Quantrell and his guerrillas. The scenes of most of their post-be)-lnm depredations was tho state of Missouri Mis-souri and those adjacent thereto. |