The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-06-29
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with rather commonly pleasant look
upon her face, and has not the least
|! appearance of being desperate crimi-
nal. Mrs. Freem an is tall and slender
| with swapping bl ack eyes. thick black
hair, cut short a nd thin features and
wears a peculiar sinister look upon her
face.
When they were thoroughly searched
at the Jail, upon NJ IS. Black was found
a photograph of thei dead outlaw, Tulsa
Jack, who was killed the day after the
Dover train robl very, also pictures
Of Deputy Marshals Prcater and Banks.
who killed Tulsa ia ok The photo had
been taken in a group after the dead
outlaw was in his coffin. with one of
the officers standing on each SIDE but
the woman had cut the men in the
group apart, having ca en- picture sepa-
rate, and had evidently murdered the
brave deputies in her heart, as the
eyes of Prater had bee dug out with
a pen and Banks pici ured body was
stabbed through the he: lrt and the neck
Wyatt, the outlaw chi eff used to be q
cowboy in this vicinity, and came to
Guthrie once month TO spend his wag-
es in a wild carouSal, an d ii was on one
of these trips that he formed the ac-
quaintance of Mrs. Freeman and after
he murdered the sheriff Of Greenwood
county on a Fourth Of fully celebration
two years ago and bee anne fugitive
firm justice, and later an outlaw leader
he kept up a cOrrespoD dence with her
which resulted in her finally leaving
her husband to join him in his deeds
of crime and violence.
She was an Illinois girl we'll brought
up and educated, but became full of
distorted romance as the result of
reading innumerabIe cheap novels.
a mystery that has puzzled officers
again and again have two or three
of them fired point blank at Wyatt in
good range, but never did he show the
least effect from the deadly Winchester
balls. Mrs. Freeman states that he
wears at all times steel plates on his |
breast. back and thighs, and also says
that Wyatt realizes that he Will re- I
ceive no mercy in the courts and is de- !
termined never to be taken alive. AL |
ways averring that when any officer |
comes after him direct, one or the other |
must die.
OF the mysterious member of the |
gang, who always appears with a white |
mask over his face and is known as |
the ghost, she refuses to say anything /
beyond admitting the fact that he is |
an outlaw long since supposed TO have /
been slain by officers and that great |
will be in store for the public |
if he is ever captured.
When first placed under arrest Mrs.
Freeman told the deputies that they !
were wasting time in trying to capture
the outlaws in the mountains, for they |
had many secret avenues of escape and |
some morning would all be gone from
the cave where they were besieged,
leaving no trail to follow. a prediction
which has since come true.
The Black woman and her husband
were native Jayhawkers, who. starved
out in Western Kansas, came to Ok
lahoma with the original rush six years
ago, made another failure and finally
i'm moment of dire need and despera-
ton stole a few cattle. were compelled
to hide out, gradually became fugitives I
and after time drifted into association
with others in similar circumstances,
to become true Ishmaelites of the Indi-
an Countrywide course followed by a
great majority of the outlaws of the
great southwest.