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GEORGE M. BENNETT - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 1898 - DOCUMENT 295431

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[COLE YOUNGER] GEORGE M. BENNETT
A Minnesota judge active in seeking the release of the Younger brothers from prison writes to George McNeill about money raised and given to Cole Younger.
Autograph Letter signed: "Geo. M. Bennett", 3 pages, 5¾x9. West Northfield, Massachusetts, undated but postmarked July 1898. On letterhead of the South Vernon House to George C. McNeill, Kansas City. In full: "This letter is dated Mass which is at the hotel. As I ride away I write in New Hampshire and mail this in Vt. The states are so small that they find trouble running the lines so people will not stumble over them. I wired you or rather Geo. that you go as understood. I found this upon this a.m. He told Cap B as he told you that he would give Cole $1000 when he was out - but wanted the experimenting to be done on other money than his. He gave B $100 - when he met him in St Louis (last spring or whenever it was) & that is all he will get. After chatting some time and showing him around the 'Old Homestead' which is indeed grand & would take a chapter to discuss, he handed me $100. I shall get Cole's receipt for it. This will fix you all right & will bridge all right. I am feeling fine, great air here in the nights, hungry all the while. I send you some blossoms I picked at 'Old Homestead'. [illegible name] as one of the few men God made is all right. We talked of Missouri and [illegible phrase]. He only saw Cole once & at Stillwater. I know of nothing to feel bad about now except your situation. I telegraphed Geo. this afternoon that you were to go as understood, that is to Minneapolis and you may be there now for aught I know. If you are there now or can get there you are all right. You would have been there long ago if Cap B had reported squarely on his receipt from Thompson. Well child I must close, hoping that if you have not left KC my telegram may be at least be some comfort to you. Good bye for now & God bless you my friend. Will be home before the week's over I think." GEORGE M. BENNETT was a Minneapolis lawyer active in the effort to secure parole for outlaws Cole and Jim Younger, incarcerated in the Minnesota State Prison after the botched Northfield, Minnesota bank robbery. Bennett was married to the former Cora Lee McNeill, once a girl friend of Jim Younger, and later the author of a book about the Younger's years as Confederate guerrillas (Missoura, 1898). In 1889, Judge Bennett had drawn up a bill to extend parole to prisoners with life sentences. The bill passed the State Senate, but now the House on the first attempt, but finally became law in 1901, leading to the conditional parole of the Younger brothers. Cole Younger (1844-1916) was a Confederate guerrilla fighting in divided Missouri during the Civil War. Joining the band of William Quantrill, he participated in the bloody raid on Lawrence, Kansas. After the war, Missouri was under Radical Republican governance, and Younger and his three younger brothers became outlaws, first robbing banks in the gang of Archie Clement, and - as other gang members were gradually killed off - becoming leader of the group, along with Frank and Jesse James. In 1873, the James-Younger gang moved on to train robbery. They probably owed their long career to Confederate sympathizers in the area, who sheltered them. On September 7, 1876, they staged a bold daylight raid on a bank in Northfield, Northfield Minnesota, far outside former rebel territory. This raid failed, resulting in a bloody gun battle which claimed the life of one Younger and several other gang members (as well as townspeople). The James brothers escaped to Missouri to continue their life of crime. Three Younger brothers were captured and, after a swift trial, sentence to life in the Stillwater Prison. Bob Younger died in prison (of TB) in 1889. Gradually, however, sentiment developed for the release of Cole and his brother Jim. Following their release in 1901, Jim Younger committed suicide, but Cole, claiming to have repented his sinful ways, joined the surviving James brother (Frank), in tours of the South which featured lectures and Wild West shows. No information is available on letter recipient George McNeill, perhaps a relative of Bennett's wife Cora. Multiple mailing folds. Lightly worn. Otherwise, fine condition.

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