On the day after the court convened, the sister and an aunt of the Younger
boys arrived in Faribault. The sister, Miss Henrietta Younger, is a very
pretty, prepossessing young lady of about seventeen years, and she
conducted herself so as to win the esteem of all who met her. Mrs. Fanny
Twyman, their aunt, is the wife of a highly respectable physician
practicing in Missouri, and appears to be a lady of the highest moral
character. These ladies passed the greater portion of their time sitting
with their relatives, behind the iron bars, reading, talking and sewing.
On Thursday, the 9th of November, the grand jury signified that they had
completed their labors as far as the cases of the Younger boys were
concerned, and the sheriff was instructed to bring the prisoners to hear
the indictments read.
This summons had been expected, and the boys were ready, dressed neatly,
and looking wonderfully well after their unaccustomed confinement that had
continued for more than a month. They quietly stood up in a row ready to
be shackled together. Cole in the middle, Bob at the right, and Jim at the
left. The shackles were placed on their feet; Bob being secured by one
foot to Cole, and Jim by the other. When the handcuffs were placed on
Cole, he remarked, that it was the first time he had ever worn them. The
prisoners showed signs of nervousness, evidently fearing that the crowd
outside would think it best to dispose of them without due process of law.
However, nothing occurred except some almost inaudible mutterings among
the spectators, but which were quickly quieted by right-minded citizens.
Slowly the procession passed to the temple of justice, the prisoners
seeing the sun and breathing the pure air for the first time in thirty
days. In advance of them was an armed guard, led by the captain of the
minute men, then came the sheriff by the side of his prisoners, the chief
of police of Faribault, and his lieutenant, and finally another squad of
minute men with their needle guns. On reaching the court-house, the guards
broke to the right and left, and allowed none to enter except those known
to their captain.
The cortege passed to the court room by a rear stairway, and when the
prisoners arrived in front of the Judge, the court-room was thoroughly
filled with people, all gazing with the greatest curiosity on the three