"We had been told that ex-Governor Ames, of Mississippi and Benjamin Butler of Massachusetts had deposited $75,000 in the national bank and it was the above information that caused us to select the bank of Northfield."

Cole Younger in a statement for a prison warden in Minnestoa in 1897.

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"ex-Governor Ames, of Mississippi had money in the Northfield bank, one of the boys had a spite against him and so the robbery was planned."

Bob Younger to a crowd of Northerners, many of them Republicans and Union veterans.