The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-13
SAW CLYDE MATTOX
DR.. Shuts Says He Talked
With the Murderer
IN CHAT TANOOGA TENN.
Related Circumstances That
Convinced the Doctor.

IF Clyde Mattox, the Wichita-okIa
homa bay who was the reign Of terror in
this part Of the country several years
ago, is in the federal penitentiary, 7 was
talking TO his twin brother in Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, on June 1st." said DR..
Shuts to reporter for the Eagle yes
terday.
DR.. Shuts has just returned from the
south, where he and his wife and daugh-
ter have been visiting. While they were
at Chattanooga ne and his vile came IN
contact with a man who claimed that he
was Clyde Mattox and who was identi-
fed as such by the doctor and his wife
Both are convinced that the fellow is
Mattox. as he told so many little cir
cuEstances about his confinement in Jail
here. He also looked exactly like him.
and IL would take considerable evidence
% shake the doctors opinion. As viii be
remembered, Mattox, after beinf pardon
ed for the first murder, killed another
man in Oklahoma and was convicted and
sent to the federal penitentiary for seven
or ten years. He was captured in Cali
dornid, and at first there was some ques-
ton whether or not he was Mattox. but
{ the trial his Identity was fully estab-
lished and he was taken to the penlten-
tiary where he now remains.
However, the story told by the Chat
tanooga boy Is mysterious in the ex-
IRENE. To q reporter for the Eagle DR..
Shuts tells Of the meeting and the con-
versation that followed which cannot go
by Unn0uced. It is as follows:
I was sitting in front OF the Rosemore
hotel at Chattanooga, about five feet
from a Young man who was suffering
nervous attack from the effects OF an
overdose Of quinine. I told him that I
was a physician and assured him that It
would not hurt him"
I know you are a physician You
live in wichita I have been in your Of
flee several times. also saw you in the
jail there
7 asked him who he was, and I was
thunderstruck upon hearing the name Of
Clyde Mattox. He requested me to say
nothing about seeing him, as he was
leading better life and was TO be mar
ried to a Knoxville, Tenn. girl IN a few
days He showed me her picture.
knew all about Clyde's first trouble when
he only narrowly escaped the galIows.
but to me the particulars of the recent
trouble were only meager and did not
know but what he had been acquitted:
consequently I did not question him as
70 his liberty. II vas then that I rec
osEizsd him as CLYDE Mattox When he
was in jail here I vas chairman OF the
board OF health and inspected the jail
To see what there was in his story I let
him do all the talking, after which I was
convinced Of the truthulness OF his state
ments
He said he remembered when Mr.. and
Mrs John Mendenhau and my wife call
ed on him at the jail. and also told me
when ne was at my Office, which CORES :
ponds with my recollection OF the ocra-
sion. After we had conversed a short
time I turned to him and said: Clyde
sew that IT'S all over tell me how you
sawed those bars and escap ped from thu
Wichita JAIL He unhesltatingly said:
I never sawed those bars. They were /
sawed two weeks before T got out by y
'ellOv who was connected with the Jail. I
had plenty OF money and plenty of
friends. and all 7 had 70 do was to kick /
he bars cut. Steve Hayden would never /
nave caught me on that train had I not 1
missed ny calculations. After escaping /
went 20 a house IN Wichita. and YOU /
would he surprised 10 learn whose. where /
was 10 remain three weeks but the I
people became frightened. and I had 70 /
;et out. Steve Hayden done me dirt. II /
le would just have given me a show I /
would have given him twice as much /
money as he got cut Of the reward. I
The fellow also said he knew Joe Mus /
Gilman AID remembered when he took F.
us picture at the jail for the newspa- /
,ers. He took one ot my cards and
rrota the name OF CLYDE Msttox' on # (
lu6 told me tn give fl 10 Dave Leahy.
md a would readily recognize the sig
'a,ure He claimed to have known 1Ir.
-eahy In Caldwell Oklahoma and Witch
IA In feet. thu fellow related 81 many
title details that nobody could possibly
now excepting Mattox that I am sat
Sled that he is the celebrated clyde
fattox.
Being Interested in his story. took
i'm up 70 the parlor aud introduced him
o ny wife and daughter. Mrs Shuts
ecognizsd htm-ss the young man whom
he visited n jail
He said he was not travelling under
n assumed name and was known BY no
Their name than Clyde Matt0x- He said
e was travelling for some book concern.
thought e vas peculiar. but looked
n the hotel register. and sure enough.
Is name appeared there The clerk told
Ia that he had always known him by
tat name No. sir. I don't believe that
lyde Nattox was sent % the peuitenti-
~ the last time. II was somebody else"
Or Shuts gave NJ Leahv the card last
ieht. and while he has a number Of let
a-s e-rm him he could not say that
was clvde's signature without making
comparison.
-'Nfatrox is a fine nsnman. he having
cen r9okkeeper. and he wrote ine.
lain hand Ike there is on this card
cid Ny Leahy.
N7tv ,hstaading the circumstance !
bar n-lu- the two parties - close 70
sth-r the only reasonable theory Is thst
Cly5e E{s,t1x is not n the penitentiary
e has escaped within the past few
reeks.
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