The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-23

RE and Tells What She knows About
Her Husbands Career.
Guthrie, o. II, Jan. 22.-(SpeciaL)-
There has been a good deal OF talk
! about United States Marchal Nix being
| bounced from Office The Guthrie
Capital along this line saysi There is
now no doubt that the charges filed
against Marshal Nix by Inspector
Shiebley and Tincher, which arrived in
Washington Saturday, are such as will
warrant his removal if the department
acts promptly in the matter. There is
every indication that the report recon-
mends his removal and a general clean
ing out of the Office.
I'VE wired for complete copy Of the
| report but got answer that the attOr-
| ney general refuses to give it out until
the department and president examine
it and decide what action shall be taken
We will have the report, and print il in
| full, as soon as the department will
give it out
Enough is learned to state that one
of the charges is said to be that Nix
compelled the federal jailor to divide
the profits with him in order 10 get
| the job; and that an ex-jailor has made
affidavit to this. The inspector also
charges, as near as we can learn, that
Nix compelled deputies and witnesses
to discount court and service certifi-
Gates at a bank here at 10 per cent when
Nix had the money on hand to pay
them; that men are in the federal jail
who have sworn, and their oaths have
been corrorborated, that they were not
in a hundred miles Of the place the
mileage papers show they were; that
men are in the federal jail and can't
get trial, on trumpted up charges, to
keep them where they can't tell what
they know about frauds of the Mar
Shal's office; that there have been forg-
ed mileage papers by the dozen; that
possemen have sworn to long accounts
when, in fact, they had never been out
of Guthrie; that the marshals office has
jumped from $4,000 per quarter under
Grimes to $215, 900 per quarter under
Nix, and that more actual work and
Better results were had under Grimes
regime at 100000 per year than under
Nix at $3.50, 900 year.
We understand that all but two of
the judges and two of the district clerks
have grave charges filed against them
by these inspectors, and that almost
every United States commissioner is i'm
plicated with Nix, in this report, in do
ing up the government on fees.
The best evidence we can get now
indicates a wholesale clean out and de-
velopments which will prove the big
gest national sensation of this admin
iStration.
1--WE hope to have the complete facts
in few days"
1FDC nnnT my rTNuUu-
The Guthrie Leader today has the
following: Mrs. Doolin, wife of Bill
Doolin, the notorious outlaw, arrived III
Guthrie about dark last evening having
driven from her home at Lawson,
Payne county, in an open cart, accom-
panied by her 2-year-old son. She
drove as far as Perkins Monday, re-
manned there over night, and came on
TO Guthrie yesterday.
Upon arriving here she went at once
to the federal jail and was admitted
to see her husband, the king prisoner
Of the institution The meeting be-
tween them was quite affecting and
the little boy wanted his father to go
along with him. After conversing
with her husband for some time Mrs.
Doolin left and went to a boarding
house.
''She Is a tall woman, considerable
above the average in height, dark hair
and complexion, and though looking
worn and weary, she still bears strong
trace of her former beauty. The little
boy is a pretty little fellow, nicely
dressed.
Mrs Doolin is about 25-years old.
the daughter of a country preacher
named Ellsworth. who is also pOstmast-
er at Lawson, Q. T.. She first met
Doolin four or five years ago while he
was yet employed as cowboy in the
Pawnee and Usage country and after a
year or more Of counting they were
married. Their domestic happiness
was rather short lived, and broken,
however. for DOolin was so frequently
called away on business" and the de-
putty marshals came around too fire.
Quently 10 allow many protracted sea-
sons of honeymoon
$50 wary were the couple and so
strange their actions a times that ii
was long time before it could be learn
ed that Doolin was married, and It
took twice as long to find out who ii
was he married.
'It was something over two years ago
before DOolin began the most desper-
ate part of his career that it was de-
cided TO give him a chance to come in |
and give himself up, stand trial and be
proven Of guilty. A letter was sent
10 him at ingalls, making the offer from |
the department of justice, but he did |
not call for it and Deputy Tilghman |
went to see Mrs. Doolin then known a
Miss Ellsworth and urged her to see |
him, have him get the letter and come |
in. She denied up and down being his |
wife, or being in any way connected |
with him, in fact, said she had never |
seen him that she knew of and Of course |
had no interest in whether he was prov |
en- innocent or guilty. Tilghman came |
away completely baffled and the next |
day the letter was returned as uncallei |
for.
The evening Of the day the letter |
had been sent back to Guthrie, how |
ever. Doolin walked into the ingalls, |
postoffice and asked for il. Had he |
been a day sooner and received that |
letter, his subsequent career might have |
been very different from what l. has |
been.
Mrs. Doolin, in conversation last ev-
ne n a. |