THE ROBBERS’ LEVEE.

The next morning the Flanders House was literally crammed with eager

people, anxious to see the captive bandits, and the street in front was

thronged with an equally anxious crowd.

Cole Younger frankly acknowledged their identity, saying that he was Cole,

born the 15th of January, 1844. The man lying by his side, he said, was

his brother James, and the other, slightly wounded, Robert, their

respective ages being 28 and 22 years.