Cole Younger warden. Jim committed suicide in a hotel room in St. Paul, Minnesota, on October 19, 1902. Cole wrote a memoir that portrayed himself as a Confederate avenger more than an outlaw, admitting to only one crime, that at Northfield. He lectured and toured the south with Frank James in a wild west show, The Cole Younger and Frank James Wild West Company, in 1903. On August 21, 1912, Cole declared that he had become a Christian and repented of his criminal past. Frank James died February 18, 1915. A year later, Cole Younger died, on March 21, 1916, in his
Cole Brothers added in 1911, while the first cash registers arrived in 1916. The store continued to grow with a further two storeys being added to the store in 1920, however in the same year the business was sold to Gordon Selfridge. The business transferred into his Selfridge Provincial Stores Group in 1927. With the advent of the Second World War, Selfridges Provincial Stores group was sold to John Lewis. Luck was on John Lewis's side as the Cole Brothers store was not damaged during the war. The business struggled like many during the early 1950s, but by 1960 the partners at