Evening Times Republican

TO PAROLE YOUNGER BOYS.
Minnesota May Liberate the Famous Criminals.

St. Paul, Minn., May 7.-Cole and James Younger, serving life sentences at the Stillwater prison, undoubtedly will be paroled by the board of prison managers at a meeting to be held this morning. The action of the board will be unanimous. The Younger brothers have been in Stillwater since 1876 for the Northfield bank robbery and the murders committed during the progress of the raid.

The action of the parole board will be taken under authority of the law passed at the last session of the legislature. Before the parole becomes effective it must be approved in writing by all the members of the board of pardons-Governor Van Sant, Attorney General W. B. Douglass and Chief Justice C. M. Start.

When the Younger parole is issued by the pardon board the question of the validity of the law, raised on the point that the bill gives executive powers to a member of the judiciary, in the person of the chief justice, will be left to Judge Start to decide. None of the members of the board will express an opinion on the validity of the law or the action to be taken in the Younger case.