The Saint of Stillwater Prison

The closest the surviving Younger brothers ever got to heaven was a prison guard who may be declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. “Barney” Francis Casey—now known as Venerable Solanus Casey—befriended Cole and Jim?Younger in Minnesota’s Stillwater prison, where the outlaws were serving a life sentence for their part in the ill-fated Northfield bank robbery attempt with Frank and Jesse James. The teenaged guard was remembered as a “people person” who found it hard to say