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Welcome to the Most Notorious Podcast, I'm Eric Rivenes.

So my epic interview with Mark Lee Gardner, author of Shot All To Hell, Jesse James, the

Northfield raid in the Wild West's greatest escape continues on in this episode.

And to break it down, part one was the raid itself. And part two, today's episode is

the chase and the escape. An escape for at least a couple of members of the gang.

And we'll certainly get into those specifics later on. But just to recap, the

James Younger gang made a visit to Minnesota in September of 1876, where they

thought they would easily knock over a soft little bank in a sleepy little town.

But it didn't happen that way. The town fought back and two of the gang members

were killed. Clow Miller and Bill Chadwell. However tragedy also struck, two

innocents were killed by the gang. Joseph Lee Haywood, the heroic bank employee who

refused to give into demands, was viciously shot in the head by Frank James.

And another man, a recent Swedish immigrant named Nicholas Gustafson, who

happened into the street at the wrong moment, was gunned down by cold younger.

And then the gang high-tailed it out of town, shot up and in bad physical condition.

And words spread like wildfire of force and people began to organize.

Telegraph operators notified towns across Minnesota about what had happened, and the police

chiefs of both Minneapolis and St. Paul immediately gathered their own forces, separate

from each other, and made ready to travel south to catch or kill the gang members themselves.

And Minneapolis and St. Paul, as you point out in your book, and we, Twin Cidians, have

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