Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-08-12

MAY COIvtv.
May CulNin Is the name Of this heroine of
darkness, and her home was with her mar.
ents near Thayrr. Mo, till her mania FOR
horscilcsh made her fugitive 4 true
mania 1t is, no doubt, for she steals line
horses and gallops away ON them without
thought Of the consequences. In early
womanhood she showed such passionate
desire 90 fondle and caress fine horses TINT
the neighbors declared she was insane, and
her father, evidently moi very wise ia
tier. rcsortoi 20 hard whipping and close
confinement. She was then : aud took to
thieving.
Entering a neighbor's barn la the night.
she bridled and saddled the first animal
that sped her away from il. owner. and she
has since been either refugee or a pris-
oncr. After pcrpetratug several successful
thcftS and adruitly cludirg the officers uf
each locality in which she operated she
made her appearance ia Fort Scott last sum
mer and was for short time known as n
girl Of the town Suddenly she di4ap-
pearrd, aud with her tine buggy and Val.
uable trotting mare from Louis Albright \
livery stable She drove all night aud the
next day aud was heard Of thr.o days later
at Weir City, Kan, where She was captured
and the animal recovered.
Here was queer case, and the prusecut-
ing attorney decided iu treat IL as one ot
true mania. She made an attempt To -.
cape by saving OF one Of the bars of her
cage with steel saw procured from a
fellow prisoner, but was frustrated Mt the
vital moment lion. Eugene f. Ware,
known among Kansas writers as Iron
quill, made an earnest plea for her, and
the prosecuting attorney was induced to
p.Il., .
qnently she was released from Jail imme-
diately
In less than Il hours she was ON the dead
run behind a span ~ stolen horses and a
buggy taken from a farmers barn In Graw-
ford county. With insane daring she drove
70 Fort Scott, called ON some Of her fast
friends, then drove furiously on to Nevada,
Mo, where she put the stolen team In "A
livery barn as security for another team,
with which She continued her journey, She
cared not where Another day, however.
found her in the grasp Of the sheriff Of
Vernon county, No., just az the was dri.
ing into Irwin, Boston county, aud sh, !,
now n prisoner in the jail OF Crawford cnan-
ty, Kan, where the next 10 thu last thuft
WIS committed.
And ngw the question is, " hat shall be
done with herr IL II larhaps worth noting
that the women say, she ought 10 be
hanged, while about half the men say,
Poor thingr She is pretty, that ; certain,
and aside from her peculiar mania seems
to be ordinarily bright and sensible. New
ortheless "A year or two of quiet lifc, honest
industry and strict moderation In the use
Of rich foOd-just such advantages as shs
will enjoy in the Kansas penitentiary-wi
doubtless go far To cure her.
The Anti-llofse Thief association has
recently effected several very sudden and
radical CURES of male patients, and the only
wonder is that ia such country Washing
ton Waterman lived so long That man
served five full terms In the Missouri and
Kansas Penitentiaries, yet kept right on
stealing horses and died in prison, as afor,..
said at the age Of o. Truly he was pos
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