MOTHER’S WISH.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 365, 5 March 1932, Page 22 (Supplement)

MOTHER’S WISH.

GANGSTER SONS’ SUICIDE. A mother's pitiful petition that her two sous should commit suicide was answered by the deaths of Harry and Jennings Young, two Missouri gunmen who took part in the murder of six police officers in the recent gun battle in Springfield. Missouri. Tlieir widowed mother, aged 66. said: “I say they ought to be punished if they killed those officers, but I hope that, if my boys see they will be caught, they will kill themselves rather than go through all they have to face—maybe hanging.'’ The search for 'the murderers ranged through Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. The Young brothers were surrounded ’by nine police in a house iu Houston. Texas. Using gas bombs in an attempt to smoke out the two desperadoes, ithe police advanced on the house with machine guns. Then a voice cried out: “Wc arc dead. Come and get us?’ Breaking down the door, the police entered to find Jennings Young deafl with two large pistols under his head and his brother lying near by with three bullets in him. Harry died in hospital. * The brothers were trapped when they rented a house from a local carpenter,

who recognised Harry Young from a photograph in a newspaper. At the inquest on the brothers a verdict was recorded that they “stood face to face and killed each other.”