The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-11

be Dead Ever Since-Instead, He Was
Arrested for Being Too Intimate With
aYoung Girl, Who Was Also Arrested
lie Can Come Back Home But Has 10
Money.
Jack Hamilton, who has been sup
posed TO be dead, is now in the federal
JAN at Guthrie.
About six weeks ago it was announced
as fact by Jacks friends that he had
heea either drowned or murdered in the
Indian territory and the story was gen
orally believed. A tear or two had been
shed for him and a good word or two
spoken. and after that poor Jack was
forgotten.
Day before yesterday a reporter for
the Eagle accompanied Assistant Unit
ed States Attorney Roy Hoffman to the
federal Jail at Guthrie and upon being
admitted by Captain Oldham, the eff
ciept jailor, the very first object seen in
the corridor WAS typical dying scene.
It WAS almost as thrilling as the death
scene of Svengalia in the play of Trilby.
A man was lying on a cot and his
face was pale and haggard and mis-
hands and body very emaciated. His
man sat beside him holding his head up.
It seemed as if the man was dying.
'%That is Jack Hamilton" whispered
the reporter.
At the mention Of his name the man
turned his head around, smiled and
recognized the reporter. His voice was
mob that of a. dying man. 81 want to go
10 Wichita with you" he said, '>but 1
have no money. Il don't want you to
say anything in the paper about me be-
ing here, but when l get out L will tell
you the entire story and how it came
e.bout that 1 am here. No, 1 will not
ted 1t Ito you now"
The story was learned from the Off
Gals of the jail. According TO their side
Of IT Jack was found living with a young
girl in the Indian country and both of
them We're arrested. Jack afterwards
denied that and said the officials accused
him Of fishing contrary to law, and not
being able to make that stick they put
Uio this charge against him. The young
woman whom Jack was supposed to be
too intimate with was also arrested and
the Eagle reporter found her down
stairs in a basement cell. She was roll
ing a cigarette with all the artistic grace
of a cowboy, and she seemed, although
young, TO be a pretty tough specimen
of humanity. She, also, claimed the
Peerless Princess as her home but she
learned that her name was Plimy and
that her father was killed in this city
about a dozen years ago.
Tisis young woman has two compan-
ions in her cell, both of whom are in
Tor selling whisky to the Indians. In
ether words they are female outlaws.
such as Ruth Bronson started out to re-
deem. If Sheir appearance and manner
of expressing themselves were any in
s1ication it would take an army of mis-
sioniarfeS 10 redeem them. The senten-
ceS OF both of them will expire in about
two weeks and they are making plans
for the future. One Of them did not
know whether she would go back to sell
ing whisky 10 the Indians again or
whether she would break an ordinance
of the town Of Guthrie and get into the
city Jail. There is one thing very GER
tain, and that is she wants to get back
into Jail as soon after she regainS her
liberty or she can violate a law. The
other one is an unaccountable cOntradic-
rfon. She has as innocent looking a
face as a school girl and she is bright
and intelligent. Not one person in
thousand would take her 10 be a crini-
mad Judging from her face, and yet she
Us about as hard an evil doer as there is
in the lJarrtOry. She was playing tune
ON the mandolin and singing love song
when Mr.. Hoffman and the reporter en-
tered iner cell q was playing that for
any lover up stairs she said, and then
had the nerve TO tackle Mr.. Hoffman, the
gentleman who prosecuted her, for a
dime to buy a package of cigarettes.
Eer lover was a young Indian who by
the keen interest he took in the love
song contradiCted that old story that
music has no charms for the savage ear.
She said that upon regaining fer lib
erty she proposed to marry the Indian,
and that both of them would trot as
SWIFT heat as they knew how.
Jack Hamilton can have his release
any time he wants II, but he is sick and
has no money to reach home with. The
Jail physician says that he has heart
disease and is anxious to get rid Of him.