The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-04-06
ESCAPE OF HATlOx
The Murderer IL Hiding in the
Usage Country.

Mattox killing Lincoln Swinney. Every
report coming from the pursuers Of Mat
toX conflicts with every other report.
Officers Jennings and Frey dorve into
Ponca city about o'clock last evening.
They were accompanied by Oscar Taylor
who had driven Matox. t Is claimed to
the Kay country. Neither officer would
give any thing positive but both gave the
inference that Clyde had been met and
vanuuished. The Courier has information
however. which is entirely reliable that
Mattox made get away OF It. The
straight OF the story IS hard to get al
beyond this but that Clyde made his es.
cape IS certain.
At Newkirk Marshal seng told friends
that ne had killed clyde with a double
barrelled shot gun, and he gave the I'M
ference that some one else had been
wounded also Sheriff Pierce was In
close consultation at $50 with County
Attorney Pinkham. and it Is currently
rumored that other arrests will be made
today Pierce Is very mysterious and
will tell nothing about the case.
! Whether he and his posse saw Clyde or
not Is a question though they were not
very far behind him when he entered
the Kay country. The Officers try to
leave the impression that II they did
not get him they can put their hands
on him al any time This is probably
let out to hide discomfeiture at failure
in making the capture.
This escape is one Of the boldest and
most successtui IN modern IS.
Mattox stayed in the immediate vicinl-
~ of the trouble all night and In the
morning as late as eight o'clock, when
everybody was t.rring. he starts out,
meeting people along the road who
knew his face WEI. he did not avoid
the public highways, but followed the
most travelled road and went through
kildare, a good sized town with teie-
phone connections three directions and
officers at each end watching for news
OF him. He passed several officers looking
for him. and finally, after a drive Of six
teen miles through a thickly settled coun-
try. and passing officers who We're lying
! i'm wait for him ne succeeded In reaching
a point where he eluded all pursuit. AL
this in broad day light.
The query remains. however, IN the
public minds "why did the o--cers give
up the chase and return to their homes
why did they not at least in part re-
main in the Kaw country TO follow him
II not at night, this morning. Why all
this mysterious conduct on thelr part
me orncers nave withneid informa-
/ tion so throughly that there Is much con-
/ lecture One is Oscar Taylor went 10
Kay accompanied by Clyde; at least this
| Is the report Some think that the man
who was with him was not Clyde at all,
but an innocent person. They conjecture
| tnat on the theory that II the man was
| clyde he was killed by the Ulcers which
accounts for the very strange procedure
! Of the officers In refusing to give infOrma-
| ton
IT il expected at Newkirk that a war
ant will be issued today for Oscar Tay-
| lor charging him with being an acces
until nearly noon about the killing and
| he knew nothing in the morning and
sorry. after the fact that Mr.. Taylor says
therefore could not be an accessory.
He was bound for the Kay country to get
some horse collars that belonged to him
and to transact other business concerning
mis- farm.
officer Jennings was awakened this
morning at 6 O'Clock by the Courier at
his home on First street. All that could
be definitely got out OF him was "Clyde
won't be seen around here today To
the question, was he killed" he re
fused TO reply and as to the Incidents OF
the pursuit he would give no Details.
The suspicion grows that they were on
a wild goose chase, and Mattox was not
even with Oscar Taylor.
OSCAR TAYLOR'S STORY.
The Courier saw Oscar Taylor at his
farm house west OF the city this msrS
ing. He gave his story freely as fol-
loWs: yesterday morning Clyde was at
his house and slept with one of his
men. He got up with the family at
O'clock and ate breakfast. Taylor went
out to the stable to hitch up his driving
horse saying he was golns to Kaw to get
a pair OF collars at Charley Clark's place
clyde said he would like to go along as fal
as town lie told his mother he was
going TO Oklahoma City and not 10 lool
for him for a few days ON the way tc
town he told taylor ,aat he had sotter
into some trouble In town, and he woult
like to go along TO let 1t blow over before
he went back. So they drove along with
out coming to town. inc rove through
Cross publicly and We're seen by severa
parties driving lelsurely along They pass
ed through Kildare and drove east abou
six miles where they met Marshal SEM
and Jailer Ward in the road face 10 face
When he saw them Clyde held tw
cooked revolvers pointed under the la
robe and the officers saw I EN-. the
allowed them to pass and taylor drov
along. He insisted that Clyde should &c
out but he refused and demanded TO b
driven across the river, en- Icing ah
demands In his peculiar way. Taylor drov
him across the river. and near Charie
, Clark's place Clyde jumped out and TOO
to the woods and ravnes Taylor got nj
collars. and was afterward overtaken b
, the officers, part OF whom he aecompan
, ed TO Ponca city He uneduivocally say
that Clyde made a clean getaway. u
further states that after awhile clyde WI
give himself up TO officer jennings an
stand trial on a plea OF selt-deferte.
Taylor expects arrest from what o
hcer Ward told him. and Is ready
stand trial on any charge AT may
brought against him. He cells that
is innocent OF any criminal intent ana
getting clyde away from seng and Wa
he only prevented three IT more death