SinisterCrimes

Perpetrator

Cole Younger

Born
15 January 1844
Died
21 March 1916, aged about 72
Record
Wikidata Q1108021 · Wikipedia

Perpetrator in Jesse James and the James-Younger Gang

Captured near Madelia after Northfield; pleaded guilty and served twenty-five years before parole in 1901.

1876–1882 · Northfield, Minnesota, and St. Joseph, Missouri · Killed before trial

Northfield's townspeople broke the James-Younger gang in seven minutes in 1876. Six years later a new recruit shot Jesse James in his own parlour. Read the case.

Dated events

  1. The three Younger brothers, having pleaded guilty, are sentenced to life in the state prison at Stillwater.