The shooting occurred about three o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, the 17th instant, and word was sent to Roscoe the same evening, when some of the citizens of that place went out and staid with the wounded and dead men until Wednesday morning, when Justice St. Clair, of Roscoe
summoned a jury and an inquest was lield over the dead bodies, which is here reported in full. The body of Ed. Daniel was taken to Osceola and that of John Younger was buried in the afternoon.
We went from Roscoe to the residence of Mr. Snuffer and there learned that the Younger boys, John and James, had come to his residence about one half hour previous to the appearance of the detectives and young Daniel, they, the Youngers, eating dinner at the time they passed. After eating their dinner, John Younger remarked to his brother James that they would follow those men and see who they were, stating at the time that he supposed they were detectives, and when they caught up with them the battle commenced, as reported below.

We passed over the battle ground, and must confess we were surprised to find it the place it is, as, from the reports, as well as from the evidence of both detectives as to having been taken by surprise, we are at a loss to see how such a thing was possible. It is to be presumed that the detectives were on the watch, as they certainly knew the character of the men they were after. The ground is a beautiful grove, thinly studded with small trees, without underbrush or leaves on the
trees, and any one approaching could readily be seen for three or four hundred yards.
Mr. Alva Wycoff, of Appleton City, a gentleman of prominence and highly respected, went to the house of Mr. Snuffer on Wednesday night and learned all the particulars, and when we met him on Thursday morning he assured us that there need be no fears of mobbing, so far as the citizens of that portion of the county were concerned, as it would be left to the detectives, in whom they had full confidence.

The body of Ed. Daniel was deposited in its last resting place, in the cemetery, this (Friday) morning. Dr. Marquis thinks there is a probability that the detective, Allen, will recover from his wounds, although they are severe. The citizens of Roscoe are giving the wounded man every attention possible. A dispatch was sent to Chicago on Thursday for his wife to come on.
The following is the evidence before the coroner's inquest, held on the bodies of Edward Daniel and John Younger:

W. J. Allen, being duly sworn, testified as follows:
Yesterday about half past two o'clock, the 17th day of March, 1874, E. B. Daniels and myself were riding along the road from Roscoe to 'Chalk Level, which road runs past the house of one Theodoric Snuffer, and about three miles from the town of Roscoe, and in St. Clair County,
Missouri. Daniels and myself were riding side by side, and Wright a short distance ahead of us; some noise behind us attracted our attention, and we looked back and saw two men on horseback coming toward us, and one was armed with a double-barrel shotgun, the other with revolvers; don't know if the other had shotgun or not; the one had the shotgun cocked, both barrels, and ordered us to halt; Wright drew his pistol and put spurs to his horse and rode off; they ordered him to halt, and shot at him and shot off his hat, but he kept on riding. Daniels and myself stopped, standing across the road on our horses; they rode up to us and ordered us to take off our pistols and drop them in the road, the one with the gun covering me all the time with the gun.

We dropped our pistols on the ground, and one of the men told the other to follow Wright and bring him back, but he refused to go, saying he would stay with him; one of the men picked up the revolvers we had dropped, and looking at them, remarked they were damn fine pistols, and they must make them a present of them; one of them then asked me where we came from, and I said from Osceola; he then wanted to know what we were doing in this part of the country; I replied, rambling around. One of them then said, you were up here one day before; I replied that we were not; he then said we had been at the Springs; I replied that we had been at the Springs, but had not been inquiring for them, that we did not know them, and they said detectives had been up there hunting for them all the time, and they were going to stop it. Daniels then said, "I am no detective; I can show you who I am and where I belong;" and one of them said he knew him, and then turned to me and said, "what in in hell are you riding around here with all them pistols on for. and I said: "Good God! is not every man wearing them that is traveling and have I not as much right to wear them as any one else .'* and the one that had the shot gun said, " Hold on, young man, we don't want any of that," and then lowered the gun, cocked, in a threatening manner; then Daniels had some talk with them, and one of them got off his horse and picked up the pistols; two of them were mine and one was Daniels'; the one mounted had the gun drawn on me, and I concluded that they intended to kill us. I reached my hand behind me and drew a No. 2 Smith & Wesson pistol and cocked it and fired at the one on horseback, and my horse frightened at the report of the pistol and turned to run, I heard two shots and my left arm fell, and then I had no control over my horse, and he jumped into the bushes and the trees and checked his speed, and I tried to get hold of the rein with my right hand to bring him into the road; one of the men rode by me and fired two shots at me,
one of which took effect in my left side, and I lost all control of my horse and he turned into the brush and a small tree struck me and knocked me out of the saddle. I then got up and staggered across the road and lay down until I was found. No one else was present.

W. J. ALLEN.
Subscribed and sworn to, before me, this i8th day of March, 1874.
JAMES ST. CLAIR.
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TESTIMONY OF JOHN M'FARRIN.
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I heard a shot a couple of hundred yards from my house, and I found out after the first shot that it was John and James Younger; after the first shot they ceased firing for some time, and then commenced again, but I had not seen any of the parties; but after several shots had been fired, another man, who I did not know, come down the road, and I think they were both shooting at one-another; I am certain that John Younger was shooting at the other man; he continued to run down the road east of here; I think John Younger passed the man on the grey here; about the time John Younger passed him I saw him sink on his hcrse, as if going to fall; don't know what become of him afterwards; then Younger turned to come west and began to sink, and then fell off his horse; then James Younger came down here a foot to where John Younger was laying and the horse that John Younger was riding, and that was the last I saw of James Younger.

JOHN McFARRIN. X.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 18th day of March, 1874.
JAMES ST. CLAIR, J. P.
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TESTIMONY OF JOHN R. M'FARRIN.
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The testimony of John R. McFarrin was corroborative of that of
John McFarrin, both of whom were together.
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TESTIMONY OF THEODRICK SNUFFER.
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The men came to my house and inquired the way to Mrs. Sims; the third man came along afterwards and overtook them; the two Youngers, John and James, after they had passed, followed them; I saw James Younger after the fight; he told me that John Younger was dead; that they had killed one of the men and that one other had been wounded and got away; that they had wounded Allen; that Allen had a pistol secreted and fired the first shot.

THEODRICK SNUFFER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this i8th day of ?vlarch, 1874.
JAMES ST. CLAIR, J. P.
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John Younger fell from his horse; James Younger came running up to where John had fallen and called me to him; he then turned him (John Younger) over and took some revolvers off of him, and a watch and something else out of his pockets; I do not know what else; I saw John Younger and another man shooting at each other when the first firing commenced; I think James Younger took four revolvers off of John Younger, his brother; he threw one over the fence and told me to keep it; he then told me to catch a horse and go down and tell Snuffer's folks. G. w. Mcdonald.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, the i8th day of March, 1874.
JAMES ST. CLAIR, J. P.
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TESTIMONY OF DRS. MARQUIS AND LEWIS.
All we know concerning the death of the two men, being the same that the inquest is being held over, is that the one, John Younger, came to his death from the effects of a gunshot wound, which entered the right side of his neck, touching the clavical bone on the upper side, and about two inches from the meredian, went nearly straight through the neck; the orifice is small, indicating that he was shot with a small ball The other man, Edwin B. Daniels, came to his death from the effect of
a gunshot wound, which entered the left side of the neck, about one inch from the meredian line, and about midway of the neck, opposite the cxsophagus, and as per examination, went nearly straight through the neck, striking the bone; the orifice was pretty large, indicating that the ball was of a pretty large size.

A. C. MAROUIS, M. D.
L, LEWIS, M. D.
Subscribed and sworn to before me, this iSth day of March, 1874.
JAMES ST. CLAIR, J. P.
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The following names comprise the coroner's jury, with A. Ray as foreman: A. Ray, G. W. Cox, J. Davis, W. Holmes. R. C. Gill and H. Greason.
The verdict of the jury was as follows:
We, the jury, find that John Younger came to his death by a pistol shot, supposed to be in the hands of W. J. Allen.
A. RAY, Foreman.
We, the jury, find that Edward B. Daniel came to his death by a pistol shot, supposed to have been fired by the hand of James Younger.
A. RAY, Foreman.
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LOCAL DETECTIVES—HOW THEY DIDN'T CAPTURE THE OUTLAWS.
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Some three months previous to the above exciting battle and its terrible result, some few men at Appleton City concluded to capture the outlaws and secure the large reward which had been offered for them, besides throwing a halo around their own head and making the State echo with the glory of their great achievement. Just where the glory comes in will be found in the following narrative, which is both truthful and interesting:
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THE YOUNGERS ARE HUNTED AND CAPTURE THEIR PURSUERS.
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Upon the morning of December 7, 1873, Mr. Joseph Morrow, of Chalk Level Township, upon starting from his residence to mount his horse, which was hitched at the front gate, he noticed a party of six men approaching. Paying little attention he mounted his horse and started for a neighbor's house. By this time the advancing party attracted his attention by two pistol shots, at the same time calling on him to halt, but Mr. Morrow put spurs to his horse and dashed away.
Some of the Younger boys, as it happened, were in the neighborhood, and a friend of the boys met the six doubly armed men. Ot him the party inquired for certain ones of the Youngers, stating that one of the Youngers was riding a horse that had been stolen in Clay County, Missouri, and that they (the party) were upon the hunt tor the Youngers. Learning that a party were in search of them, the Youngers started on the war trail, in search of the himtittg party. The six men extended their search to Roscoe, which place they reached on the morning of the 8th instant. They next scoured the Osage Hills, going in the direction of Chalk Level, but after traveling the Chalk Level road some three miles, they filed off to the left in the direction of Monegaw Springs. The Younger boys being in search of the hunting party all the while, came upon and captured the party, or four of them at the Monegaw Springs.

Two of the party having gone on to Chalk Level, of course were not captured. The Youngers, after disarming their prisoners, took them to Mr. Wilson's hotel, and had a good breakfast prepared for them, but the poor fellows felt so cheap that their appetites entirely failed them, and all, with the exception ot Mr. Cobb, of Appleton City, ate sparingly, and Mr. Wycoff could not relish any of the delicacies which were so bountifully set before them.
After breakfast was over, one of the Younger boys stated to the prisoners: "Now, gentlemen, we have you in our possession, and can do with you as we wish; and if you (the hunting party) had me and my brothers in your power, beyond a doubt you would kill every one of us.
But we are men—men possessing too much brave blood to be guilty of such cruel butchery."
The Youngers further stated that were certain parties whose political views were different from theirs at the breaking out of the war in 1861, and certain men of that party had murdered their dear
old father, who, at that time was living in Jackson County, Missouri, a peaceable citizen, and all for the purpose of robbing him of a few hundred dollars in cash. The most damnable act being to strip their widowed mother of all stock and provisions of every kind; burning her house over her head, thus turning her penniless out in the cold storms of winter—the snow six inches deep—and her and the younger children did not have enough clothes to protect them from the wintry blasts. She was then compelled to call upon friend and stranger for assistance—for clothes enough to keep her and her little children from freezing. She was drove from place to place, and finally brought to
an untimely grave, caused by exposure, and the wretched treatment she received at the hands of the Federals. Humanity shudders at the thought!

"There are a few of the d—d party here who had a hand in that first hellish act, and you are still trying to implicate me and my brothers in every crime committed in Missouri, or any other state. Now, gentlemen, we set you at liberty, go to your homes and stay there. We want to stay the hand of blood, if possible, but if we can't be permitted to live as peaceable citizens, the blame will rest upon other men's shoulders, and not upon ours. This we disdain.
You know that my brother. Cole Younger, was accused of being one of the party who robbed, or had a hand in the robbery of the railroad in Iowa, which was committed some time ago. At that time I and my brother were in St. Clair County, Missouri. This we can prove by the very best citizens of the county, men whose word is always acceptable. When a certain party found out that we could prove our innocence, in regard to the Iowa railroad robbery, then we were horse thieves, insisting
that we had stolen horses. As we can prove a good title to every horse we have had in our possession since the war, the d—d fool party, who differs with us politically, has called upon Governor Woodson, of Missouri, to hunt us out of St. Clair County, as if we were thieves and robbers.

But I do hope that Governor Woodson has too much intelligence to believe any such radical lies, told by men whose hands are still red with the blood of our innocent old father, who was most brutally murdered during the war. They committed this and other damnable acts, and try to conceal their crimes by shouting ' murder ' at the back of other people. And why? They would rejoice in the destruction of me and my brothers simply because they fear some vengeance at our hands—a
just retribution. This we also disdain, and all we pray for is to be let alone to enjoy ourselves in peace. The war is long since past, and as we know there is a just God, who will punish the crimes of all wrong doers, with Him we are willing to let the matter rest.
"Now mount your horses, gentlemen, and go back to Appleton City and stay there. We don't want to hurt you, and don't drive us to kill any of you, for such is a very unpleasant task. We wish you a safe and pleasant journey home, but under no circumstances must you come back.
Good bye."

Our correspondent says that after the speech was finished, the Younger boys each bid the party    "God-speed," thus showing that they bear no ill will toward any of them. We learn further that the four brave, stalwart men, who could not bag their game, mounted their horses, and it is safe to conclude that in the future they will attend to their own business.