The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17

much as the sheriff was out of town. HI
returned to the Jail in the evening wit
the prisoner he had in court, and l asked
him to come over after supper and ht
came. just Came out of the Jail into the
kitchen as he aud tue sheriff re
turned and not to exceed five
minutes | went back into the jail with
lunch fora couple of prisoners Mr.. Hays
accompanied me. 1 noticed all the
prisoners in the corridor of the rotary but
Clyde and called for him Receiving nc
response went to searching. l went into
the corridor aud / asked other prisoners II
| they knew where Clyde was, and they
| said be was there just moment ago.
''One prisoner said he had just then
gone back in rear OF the Rotary.
| 81 walked around the rotary and failed
to fluid him. knew that there Was bar
| cut off in the north window of the second
| story OF the rotary room l took Il light
and went up there and found the window
raised and the bar out out. and the door
at the west end of the full floor of the
upper rotary open.
Then | went down to Mr.. HAYS and
said that Mattox had escaped through the
| sawed bar. This bar must have been
sawed for year or more, at least that is
| my understanding"
Did you have him in the cell during the
afternoon"
mo, from the fact that I wanted Mr..
Hays TO assist me in searching their cells,
believing that there were some things in
| there that prisoners had no right to have.
| wanted to search the persons of the pris-
! oners first and then their cells"
did you have orders to lock Mattox up
in the rotary from the United States
deputy marshall"
Messrs. McMurry, Spencer and Walker
came in the forenoon with Clyde Mattox
! accompanied by his mother. Mr.. McMurry
told me that the jury had found verdict
as charged and for ME to be careful and
keep my eye on the prisoner, which did.
thought was usiug the greatest precau-
ton aud the best of discretion and he
never left my observation during the after
noon.
Did he have any assistance in getting
away?
He had tie assistance of some prison er
IN getting out. in my opinion. Who this
prisoner was l don't know.
COURT OFFICE TALK
The news was conveyed to Judge Will
liams at the night session and he imme-
mediately announced ia open cour. that
no efforts need be spared on the part of
the officers to apprehend Mattox. He also
stated that the United States marshals
used all diligence in the safe keeping of
AIattox. Leon De Bost stated last night
that the instructions to Jailor Burrows
were to allow no one to visit MattOx
without permission and above all to keep
him in the cell. This they say he refused
to do contrary to all instructions.
DESCRIPTION.
Clyde MattoX is 24 years of age, slender
built, dark and thin hair, gray eyes,
weighs a5ont 125 pounds, smooth face,
prominent nose, sallow complexion.
NATION FOUND GUILTY.
Scene in Cou,t Rom When the Verdict is
Given.
When at half past eleven O'Clock yester-
day morning the jury OF twelve men i'll
the Clyde MattoX case filed into the court
room, Judge Williams arose and the pris-
oner leaned backward and WHISPERED to
his mother.
A second later the foreman announced
that in the case of the United Stated YER
sus Clyde Mattox, indicted for murder, the
verdict was returned finding the defendant
guilty as charged in the indictment.
This was murder in the first degree. 1t
meant hang. There was a murmur
around The courtroom and several woman
burst into ieyns
lC was rerorted yesterday that
Judge william had ordered the wo-
men to stop cr"irl. or leave the room.
This is not true. -iudge Williams denied
it emphatically to reporter for the
EAGLE last evening
During the verdict, Clyde Mattox and
his mother did not turn hair. They sat
there by far the most composed of all in
the court room.
Mattox was not sentenced. The Judge
always puts this off until the last day of
court.
After the verdict Mattox, accompanied
by Mrs. Hatch and Deputy Marshall Nc
Murray, went to the county Jail.
The verdict was not unexpected By Mat
tox's attorneys. 1t is said that his attor-
neys had assurances before the trial that
if Clyde would plead guilty he would be
convicted of manslaughter and get off
with five years in the penitentiary
1t is declared that the attorneys labored
all night with Mattox and Mrs. Hatch to
get them to accept this offer. They obst-
nately refused and declared they both
would rather hang first than have Clyde |
plead guilty.
Mattox would not accede to this de-
mand and he was found guilty of murder.
In the afternoon his attorney, johnson,
flied a motioa for new trial on error in
evidence.