The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-12
CLYDE WASCAUGHT.
MULLEN'S ALLEGED MURDERER IN
THE TOLLS AGAIN.
Captured at Enid and Taken to Guthrie
on the Old Charge of Murder-Ke
Was Sentenced to be Hung
Once but Escaped on a
Legal Techricality.

| Clyde Mattox is In me tolls OF tina law
again.
Saturday night he was arrested at Enid
and taken to Guthrie for safe keeping.
Clyde is the young man who was SO long
| in Jail here and at Topeka, aud over whom
the sentimentalists of both cities cried SO
much.
Clyde's neck has been in jeopardy three
or four times, aud there are many people
who think that he will get it broken yet.
The charges against him now are muir
der and boud jumping, if the Information
that comes from Enid is correct. He was
to have been tried at the last term of the
United States district court in this citN
but he did not show up, the bond was for.
feited and he became An outlaw again. to
be hunted down by the argus-eyed deputy
marshals Of the Indian Territory.
Mattox is said to be three times
murderer. This IS remarkable
record for one SO young, and it is that
youth that gained him the sympathy, the
prayers, the tears and the flowers of those
women whose hearts are better than their
heads.
His criminal career is said to have COM
the readers of this district he appeared
when Oklahoma opened, nearly five years
ago. When Oklahoma City was started he
was raised to ths dignity Of town marshal
or deputy, and he was not in
That position very long when he made
rival bite the dust at the crack Of his
winchester Shortly after this an old
coiored man was found murdered and
Mattox, who then fed from Oklahoma
City, was captured, brought to Wichita
and confined in the county Jail as United
States prisoner. That was about four
years ago. He was placed on trial for
the nrst murder aud acquitted. For
the Mullen murder be was placed
on trial and the jury con-
vlcted him OF murder In the firss
degree and he was sentenced to be huna.
Ills attorneys gave up all hope. admitted
thae there was no error Ia the proceed.
ings and saw no end for their client but
hanging. A few days after they heard
that paper containing soms remarks on
the trial got to the jury and a ray of hope
flashed into the doomed mans cell. Some
OF her technical irregularity was also dis
covered and the supreme court was ap-
PSoASA va Aa0p duSuse SoGy CrueIeQ n
new trial aud at the next term of the court
the jury disagreed. Mattox was then
admitted to bail by Judge Williams Of the
eastern district Of Arkansas aud when the
case Was called again Mattox did not ap-
pear.
While he was In Jail here be was impli-
Gated in u conspiracy to kill the jailor,
With others, and escape. Two fellows Ia
Arkansas City worked it up from the out
side and had already succeeded in placing
the prisoners in possession of key to
the Jail door aud revolver.
The conspiracy was murierous
one OF considerable magnitude. and had it
not been given away by one of the prison
ers there is hardly doubt but what the
5aier would have been murdered.
withdrawing this the officers Of the
Jail were too generous to make the matter
public for fear 1t would prejudice Mat
tox's Case before the United States Jury.
Mattox Is young, but he is cunning.
dangerous and cold FLOODED, and makes
bad criminal