The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-17


cape; did he have assistance?"
II certainly think he did. He has
quite a number of sympathizers in
Wichita. To capture him will be no easy
job as be is desperate fellow and will
have to be killed or kill somebody before
he is re-captured."
BUGGY MRS. RoYSE SAW.
Mrs. Royse, wife of the sheriff, saw a
buggy turn around the corner of the Jail
about the time of the escape and drive
south at a very rapid gait.
The buggy's curtains were up and she
could not see who occupied it. Neither
could she describe the horses that were at
tached to it. In fact her attention was
only attracted to the rig by the fast driv-
ing. That buggy evidently contained Clyde
Mattox, and il Mrs. Royse could describe
the horse that pulled it, it might be a val
liable clue.
Mrs. Royse stated that previous to the
discovery of the escape telephone mes
sage was received from some stranger ask
ing for Information with reference to the
lodgings of Mrs. Hatch. Mattox's mother
To ascertain that fact Jailor Burrows had
to ask Clyde, and having found from him
where she stopped he returned to the tele-
phone and answered the questions of the
stranger.
WHEN HE SKIPPED OUT.
In all probability it was while Burrows
was answering these questions that Clyde
escaped, did the fellow who did the
telephoning have any object in pulling
Jailer Burrows away from his post Of
duty to answer questions?"
He undoubtedly had.
SHERIFF RoYsE's DISCOVERY.
Sheriff Royse was at Mt. Hope all day
yesterday on official business. He arrived
on the o'clock train and reached the Jail
about the time of the escape.
He went into the kitchen where Jailer
Burrows was waiting for some food for
other prisoners. Then he found out for
the first time that verdict OF guilty had
been reached in the Mattox case.
"Where is Clyde ~ said he to Jailer
Burrows.
He is out there in the corridor" was
the response.
$50 at once" said Mr.. Royse, land put
him in the rotary"
The next thing the sheriff heard was
Jailor Burrows calling for Clyde. when
l heard this, said he, 81 felt at once that
Clyde had escaped and l rushed QUITE find
my worst fears confirmed.
"Was it not the custom to keep crimi-
nails of this class in the rotary" Mr..
Royse was asked.
1T was" said he, ''and / gave strict
orders TO have Mattox well watched and
alu al 7 4
that he would take desperate chances to
escape, and he in return complained at my
vigilance in his case. 1t was only yester-
day that he accused me of being pretty
hard on him, in not allowing him more
freedom"
What steps have you taken for his re-
capture?"
PLANS FOR HIS CAPTURE.
81 have sent out dispatches in every di.
recton, and 1 have offered a reward of
S3OO''
Are you financially responsible in any
way to the government for the safe keep
ing of its prisoners?"
mot that know of. am morally re-
sponsible Tor the safe keeping of the
prisoners only. hold the prisoners of
the government as l would hold state
prisoners and, Of course, use the same
diligence in guarding them"
Mr.. Royse feels quite bad over the
escape of Mattox as he had charge of the
Jail only one week when the escape
occurred.
MRS. HATCH RECEIVES THE NEWS.
Mrs. Hatch received the first account of
her sons escape through the EAGLE re-
porter in her rooms at the Occidental last
night.
Mrs Carr, witness for the defense, and
she were in the room together. Mrs. Carr
was sitting by the table, presumably read
ing, AS she had n book in her hand.
Mrs. Hatch was lying on the bed wrap
ped in a red wrapping coat and with a
cloth tied around her forehead as if suffer-
ing from headache.
Have you heard of Clyde's escape?"
81 merely heard it mentioned by the
landlord this moment. Has he really es-
caped?''
"Yes. Di! you know nothing of it be-
forehand?"
mo, Clyde never told me-"
Where do you think he is ?"
81 suppose i shall find him down home
when l go there waiting at supper tor
mes"
Don't you think he knows better than
that ?"
'There is no telling what the poor boy
would do, or where he would 60"
How do you feel over it 20
81 shall not sleep much tonight"
Mrs. Hatch neither looked very joyful
or very much downcast. But in talking
of how mysteriously Clyde had escaped
she had decided smile.
NATIONS LAST INTERVIEW.
A short time before the escape of Clyde
Msttox yesterday an EAGLE reporter had
an interview of an hour with him in the
corridor of the county Jail. He was sit
ting on a table, leaning on the breast of
one of his fellow prisoners, while his thin,
slender hand and his slight frame told of
the long trial.
"How much did you weigh before the
trial began?"
"Oh. not so much more than now, but
caught cold at the opening Of the strip,
and am now thinner"
What do You think Of the seuteuces"
Il have nothing to say to that In tie
position am in cannot make any state
ment about it. II is best should not"
"What do you think of the trials How
was it conducteds"
1T WAS conducted all right. Judge
Williams is fair and impartial: but there
was not IN my opinion sufficient testi- |
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''Mr Perry is a gentleman and has |