was made at full speed, causing the greatest excitement. All were now
mounted, but a horse taken from a farrier, Empey, near Northfield,
evidently found it difficult to keep pace with the trained nags belonging
to the robbers.
A short distance out of Dundas the gang stopped at a farm house and
borrowed a pail which they took to a spring near by. Here they paused long
enough to water their animals, and wash the desperate wound which Bob
Younger, (as was afterwards found) had received directly through his right
elbow, and which besides bleeding profusely had become almost unbearable,
even to a man of his determination and vigor. Throwing the pail by the
side of the road, the squad hastened on, little thinking of the pursuit
which was being organized in the rear.
As it is now known that the squad, as it now remained, consisted of Cole,
Jim and Bob Younger, Charlie Pitts, and probably the James boys, their
names will be used in this narrative hereafter, wherever they are known
from their own statements to have been.
As the horse taken from the farmer Empey of course wore no saddle, it
became necessary for the comfort of its rider that one be impressed. To
accomplish this, two of the gang called at the house of a farmer living a
short distance from the road, and telling that