they would not have suffered at all except for the cold and rain. In the
Sunday camp a portion of a bloody shirt gave evidence that Bob Younger had
been compelled to again dress his wounded arm.
Slowly the robbers proceeded, and their next camp was some four miles
directly south of Marysburgh on the banks of Lake Madison in Blue Earth
county. From here a bold strike was made directly west nearly nine miles,
to a point but about 2½ miles back of the city of Mankato, where, finding
an empty house in the woods on the Kron farm they slept comfortably Monday
and Tuesday nights. During the most of this time they had lived on fodder
corn uncooked, hazel nuts, grapes and wild plums, but Tuesday morning they
made a requisition on a German farmer and procured a good breakfast. At
the table they sat with their overcoats on, and their