The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1896-01-22
OUTLAWS WIFE AND BABY AR
RIVE FROM PAYNE COUNTY.
AFFECTING MEETING At TIE JAIL
Courtship and Marriage of the Outlaw
Good words From Former Employ
era Relic OF by Gone Days Incl
dents OF Ills Career No Long.r
Cares 10 Taik.

from her home at Lawson, Iaync
in an open cart accompanied
only by her two year old son. She
drove as far as Perkins Monday re-
mained 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.
Dooliu left and went to boarding
house
She is 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 twenty-five
years old, the daughter Of country
preacher named Ellsworth who is also
postmaster at Lawson, Ok. She first
met Doolin four or five years ago while
he was yet employed as cowboy in the
Pawnee and Usage country and after n
year or more Of courting they were
married. Their domestic happiness
was rather short lived and broken
however, for Doolin was so frequently
called away on business" and the
deputy marshals came around too fre
quently to allow many protracted sea
sons of honeymoon.
So wary were the couple and so
strange their actions at times that it
was long time before it could be
learned that Doolin was married and
it took twice as long to find out who
it was he had married.
1t 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 chance to come in
and give himself up stand trial and be
proven guilty or innocent. A letter
was sent TO 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 as Miss Elsworth) and
urged her TO see him, have him get
the letter aud 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 proven innocent OF
guilty. Tilghman came away COM
pletely bluffed and the next day the
letter was returned as uncalled for.
The evening of the day the letter
had been sent back TO Guthrie, how
ever, Doolin walked into the Ingalls,
postoilice and asked for it, Had he
= been day sooner and received that
= letter his subsequent career might
have been very different from what it
has been.
! Mrs. Doolin, in conversation last
evening stated that Bill had been
wanting to give himself up for over a
year. He wanted to settle down and
live a quiet life, but of course had no
chance as long as there were so many
charges against him and he was being
Z hunted on every side She was glad
. he was captured at last and that it
Y had been done by a brave man who
J. did not shoot him down. lie would
I now have chance to prove that the
many charges against him were false
and that he was hnnted and persecuted
: for crimes of others with whom he had
no connection save having been asso
A ciated with them on the range before
Q they took to lives of crime.
S Mrs. Doolin will probably remain
p several days and help her husband Sc
cure defense.
q DOolin, himself, on being asked last
Q night as to whether the woman wa:
r his wife or not and where he had met
her said he did not care to talk on the
subject.
g DoOlin's Early Career.
$ The Arkansas City Traveller D.. last
evening has the following % say about
. Bin Doolin's early career:
As stated in a recent issue of the
Trave'er Biz Doolin was at one time
b in the employ of Il. l. Hill, OF this
e city, when the latter had charge OF
@ cattle down on the Salt Fork for the
"A Wyeth Cattle company Doolin be
> longed 10 the 4-D gang, and Mr.. Hill
says that he was the most peaceable
and quiet one of the whole outfit He
worked for Mr. Hill during the winter
of 'ss-9s. and bore the reputation of
being an inoffensive, quiet industrious
| man.
He is quite shone as a paragon OF vir-
tues, compared 70 the picturesque
crowd of pirates who composed the
"a ID" crowd az that time. That crowd
used 10 make a speciality of coming up
a here and attempting 20 run the town.
They were not generally successful In
, this, but they did paint her a bright,
, bright red. Bin Doohn seldom came
, up with the rest of the crowd when
they were ON q spree. Prominent
among the other rough ride of that
lurid time on the salt Fork was
, Slaughter Kid who also worked for
Mr.. Hill and afterwards also became
, prominent in desperate circles
A Precious Memento.