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This Day in Minnesota History

July 14, 1901

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A special act of the state legislature releases Jim and Cole Younger from the Minnesota State Prison at Stillwater. They had been incarcerated for the murder of an employee during the Northfield Bank Raid. Jim would commit suicide in St. Paul, but Cole would tour on a Wild West show with Frank James, lecturing on "What My Life Has Taught Me." He died in 1915, his body still holding seven bullets.

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