Typed and spelled as written - Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 213
Marlin, Texas, Friday, January 8, 1932

BODIES OF YOUNG BROTHERS
BROUGHT THROUGH MARLIN

Undertaker and Deputy Sheriff of Ozark, Mo.,
in Charge of Hearse
Carrying Remains.

Bodies of Harry and Jennings Young, slayers of six men in Missouri and of each other in a suicide pact at Houston, were brought through Marlin at 3:30 o'clock this morning in chage of W. L. Stark, an undertaker of Ozark, Missouri, who is also a deputy sheriff of Greene county, that state.  He was accompanied by a helper.

Fears had been expressed at Houston by the wife of Harry Young, and by their sister, Mrs. Mackey, that if the bodies were taken back to Missouri that they would be mutialted by infuriated citizens.

"I'll protect the bodies alright," coolly remarked Mr. Stark.  He was in possession of an order signed by the county judge of Greene county ordering the bodies taken to Missouri for identification.  A reward of $1000 for the Youngs, "dead or alive," had been posted by the Greene county authorities.  The 55-year old mother of the Youngs, under detention as a material witness, wanted her boys brought back to that state for burial.  She had said she hoped they would kill themselves, rather than surrender to officers.  And so they did.

A controversary looms over settlement of the reward of $1000.  Missouri and Texas officers both will expect all or part of it.  The "tip" which led officers to the hiding place of the brothers in Houston was given by L. F. Tomlinson, from whom a room was rented soon after they reached Houston.

It was stated Thursday that Tomlinson had received a threatening note signed with the name of Paul Young, brother of Harry and Jennings.

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