Just a short note of what was passed on to me from my father from his grandfather (John James Woods 1854-1921). My great grandfather would have been 17 in 1871 and relayed this information to my father. The day the James Gang came to town there was a large gathering and the men folk upon learning of the robbery gathered at the local saloon. After being properly fortified and deputized, they rode out as a posse seeking vengeance. After getting close enough to exchange a few shots (very few), they all returned to the comfort of town and drank to their success in ridding the county (Wayne) of the James Gang. As great grandfather put it, their courage declined with each step closer to being shot they went. My great grandfather lived in Southern Wayne County (Allerton and South) from approximately 1870 until his death in 1921. He is buried in Greer Cem. which is almost on the MO/IA state line in Wayne Co., IA Thanks, Chuck Woods Corydon IA bank robbery -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 4:23 pm Subject: Re: [IADECATU] 'COLE YOUNGER HERE'.. For an interesting reference to the James Younger Bros tap into ww.bing.com - Corydon IA bank robbery - Mary Stewart --- Nancee Seifert <[email protected]> wrote: Decatur County Journal Leon, Iowa Thursday, April 13, 1911 'Former Outlaw Lectured in Leon Tuesday Evening Upon What Life had Taught Him' ---------------------------------- Cole Younger, the last of the famous Younger brothers many years ago charged with many robberies in the middle west, delivered a lecture at the opera house in this city Tuesday evening to a good sized audience. Those who went expecting to hear him devote his entire lecture to his career as an outlaw were very disappointed. The last part of his lecture was devoted to that matter. His lecture contained much good advice to the young men and he urged that they profit by his experience and lead lives of usefulness and take advantage of the great opportunities that the present affairs. In the last of his lecture he told of his service in the confederate army and his connection with the forces of Quantrell, the Guerilla leader, during the troublesome times along the Kansas and Missouri borders, of in later years how himself and a few others repelled the attempt of a mob to capture him at his home in Jackson County, Missouri. He stated that at the time it was reported that a train had been held up and robbed in Iowa by Cole Younger and the James boys, he was at Osceola, Mo., and had witnesses at that time to prove that such was the case. He told of his journeys to southern states, his attempt to enter the cattle business in Texas, and the events that led up to the robbery of the Northfield, Minn., bank, and his final capture and conviction. He spent twenty-five years in the state penitentiary of Minnesota at Stillwater. He stated during the course of his lecture, that he had been wounded twenty-two times and that a number of the bullets still remained in his body His lecture was interesting and he was given the close attention of the audience all the way through. He stated that he had been greatly misrepresented. He told of one incident wherein some detectives upon their own account, reinforced by a number of men that they had employed along the way, had come down into Missouri to effect the capture of the Younger brothers. Learning of their intentions and deciding that it would be an easy matter for him to convince the detectives that he was in Missouri at the time the train in Iowa was robbed and turn them back, he and several of his friends went out to met them. On a country road they met them and Cole said he halted them and asked who they were looking for. They replied that they were looking for Cole Younger and his associates and he told that they did not need to look further as the stood before them. The men who had been employed by the detectives, Mr. Younger stated, were quickly following them. A newspaper reporter, a member of the party, also hurried away at great speed and the conference did not occur. The newspaper man got lost in the timber and ran across an old cemetery. An article then appeared in the public prints, Mr. Younger says, stating that the newspaper man had found the burying ground where the Younger brothers laid their vill (?) at rest. He stated that the only time that he was ever in Iowa previous to this was when he passed through the state enroute to Minnesota, when the robbery of the Northfield bank occurred. 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