The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-27
NERVl WOMAN BANDITS.
Not Addicted to Dashing Garb, but They
 Understand Poker.
From tho New York sun,l

TWO women, whose appearance con- tradicts all the accepted descriptions of female bandits, are now locked up as criminals in the United States jail at Guthrie They don't spend their leisure in doing plain tattling, and, on the other hand, they are not dressed in dashing cowboy garb, worn by all we'll ordered female bandits in yellow or other backed paper novels, They have done about everything that the heroine of that kind of fiction ever thought of doing, however, including time, which doesn't worry them much.
 These women are by all odds the most interesting prisoners in Guthrie jail, because they trained with the mo- torious Zip Wyatt gang, and they shared the gangs perils and successes, asking no favors because of their sex. For the last year Wyatt, an outlaw, guilty of dozen murders and his gang, have defed the deputy marshals and sheriff's posses of different coun-
 
 known by sight, but it was not suspect ed that two of them were women.
 Belle Black wife of one of the out laws, and Mrs. Jennie Freeman, who formerly lived in Guthrie, but who left her husband a year ago to elope with Wyatt, took part in all the gang raids, but they were dressed as cow boys, and no one but their companions knew their sex. Belle Black is small and Etoutly built, with dark hair and blue eyes, and face that is by no means handsome, although pleasant to look upon. Mrs. Freeman is tall and slender, with snapping black eyes and a sinister expression.
 One of the last raids made by the Wyatt gang was on Fairview town and postofflce a month ago. The outlaws swooped down on the town in approved bandit style, footed all of the stores in the place, and then made themselves scarce. A large posse of deputy mar shals was organized and took up the trail. It was decided that. for the good of several counties the Wyatt gang should he. done up. The marshals fol- lowed them to the Glass Mountains, and there found the outlaws holding a fortified position.
 |. For three days the deputy marshals beseiged the bandits. On the third day two women were seen trying to make their escape. They were mount ed on good horses and knew how to ride. The deputy marshals put after them and at the end of a long chase they were arrested. A large sum of money was found concealed in their clothes, and some valuables that were identified as having been stolen in the Fairview raid
 This was the first intimation that there had been women in the Wyatt gang. They were brought to Guthrie and held as accessories in the robbery of the postoffice. The women admitted that they Were members of the Wyatt gang Mrs. Black wore, when cap- tured, boots and spurs, but otherwise both women were dressed in the kind of clothing worn by farmers wives In that part of the country. In Mrs. Blacks pocket were found a photo graph of Tulsa Jack, who was killed the day after the Dover train robbery, and photographs of Deputy Marshals Porter and Banks, who killed Tulsa Jack
 The photograph of Jack had been taken in group, after the dead vil- lain was in his coffin, with a deputy marshal standing on either side of it. Mrs. Black had cut Jacks photograph out of the group. The eyes of Porter in the photograph had been dug out with q pin. and Banks picture was Mrs. Black didn't carry their photo graphs because she loved them. Wyatt, the outlaw, used to be a cowboy around Guthrie, and once a month he appeared in that town to spend his wages in carousal. On one of these trips he met Mrs. Freeman. Af- ter Wyatt murdered the sheriff of Greenwood county, two years ago, he became a fugitive.
 He kept up a correspondence with Mrs. Freeman, however, and finally persuaded her to leave her husband for him. She was an Illinois girl who had been well brought up, but she took to reading blood-and-t thunder novels, and they ruined her. Mrs. Freeman explained a mystery that has puzzled the men who have chased Wy att. Two CT three of them have fired at the outlaw leader point blank at short range, and the bullets from their Winchesters never took effect.
 Mrs. Freeman said that Wyatt wore at all times steel plates on his breast, back and thighs He realizes that if captured he will receive no mercy. and he is determined never to be taken alive. Mrs. Freeman, when arrested, jeered at the deputy marshals, and told them that they would never cap ture the Wyatt gang.
 "They will escape and leave no trail, , she said, and her prediction came true Belle Black and her husband came from western Kansas six years ago
 and. after losing all of their money | they became cattle thieves and finally were forced to become outlaws.
 The two women spend their time ir jail in chatting with the other prison. CTS, who have the freedom of the cor
 riders, and in playing cards. They
 have proved that they are not to be
 bluffed at poker, and their popularity 1 in iail is assured