The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-10
ELOPED FROM JAIL.
SENSATIONAL RUMOR ABOUT TIE
NOTED FEMALE HORSE THIEF.
It Is Now Said That She Fascinated a
Deputy Sheriff. Who Allotted in Her
Escape and Then Eloped With
Her-Bloodhounds Now
After Them.

It was an elopement and not an esape.
Yesterday morning the EAGLE as usual,
was the first in the field with full ac-
count o: the escape of Tom King the
female outlaw OF Oklahoma from the FL
Reno Jail.
This morning a new feature OF the mat
ter is presented which will be read with
interest by those who have watched the
career of the famous highwaywoman.
A reporter for this paper procured Infor-
nation last night from party who
stands on the ground floor of Ell Reno
affairs that Tom King escaped on the
wings of love from the Canadian county
jail-that she eloped with deputy sheriff.
When Tom King left Jail Friday night
she escaped In the guise of a we'll dressed
lady, and she walked through the open
door unmolested. Not many yards away
from the Jail she leaped out of her dresses
and petticoats and appeared in
her usual suit OF mems
clothes: hoped on feet steea and rode
towards the horizon with the speed of the
wind.
In the excitement somebody asked where
Deputy Sheriff So-and-so was, and no an
swer was made. All his haunts were
searched in vain, and he could not be
found. Wise men shook their heads grave
ly and said nothing. The sheriff was reti-
cent and made no charges against any one,
but for all that it soon leaked out that
Deputy Sheriff So.and-so was then riding
over the swelling prairie by the side of the
famous outlaw.
Yesterday the grand jury met and in
vestigated the matter, and while they are
silent there is no doubt but what they
found that the deputy sheriff in question
aided Tom King in her escape and
then eloped with her. His two fine horses
were found missing shortly after the
escape had been discovered and this is
what first led to the suspicion that he was
implicated in it.
There are men at Ell Reno. and many of
them, who knew that the deputy sheriff
was enamoured of the outlaw. 1t is also
said that the mystic secret of the art she
employs in getting out of Jail 50 easily is
love. She facinates the man who has &C
cess to the keys first and after that escape
Is easily accomplished.
Oklahoma is the garden spot Of sensa-
tioaal romance. Such thing as a jailor
clipping with a prisoner is possible only
beneath the sunny skies of that fair land.
The romance will probably end, however,
when the Youkon bloodhounds catch up
with them for, it is said, they are pur-
suing them with all the enthusiastic
ferocity of that breed of CANNES.
"Tom King" is not altogether a white
woman. She has quite good deal of
Cherokee blood in her veins, and to that
is attributed her remarkable talent for
Gliding her pursuere heretofore. Her out
door life gives her rough appearance,
but for all that she is reputed to be still
very good looking woman, and those who
have seen her say that she has pair of
eyes that would tempt a knight of st.
John. 1t is also stated that she is quite
an artist with her tongue and that when
she desires to be she is very facinating in
conversation. She is % years old aud was
raised near Springfield, Mo.