The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-15
END OF MAN HUNT
Murderer E. F. EstelIe Landed
in City Jail.
Refuses to Talk About His
Latest Crime.
WERE NEARLY MOBBED
EmpOria Excited and Prisoners
We're Spirited Away.
Sheriff Guthrie Tells Story of
the Exciting Chase.
WERE NEARLY MOBBED


to resume his place in the county Jail
with ball and chain to his foot and
shackles to his hands.
Estelle and James Murphy were cap
tured Monday night after chase that
commenced May 8. Not until every
chance of escape had been lost did Es-
telle give up. When he was covered by
a shotgun and his hiding place was sur
rounded he threw his gun away and
responded to the command to throw up
his hands" He was brought to Topeka
on freight train early this morning
together with Murphy. If the men had
been kept in the jail at Emporia much
longer they would certainly have suffer
ed from mob violence as crowd of
several hundred people gathered around
the jail soon after it was known that
the prisoners were lodged there.
Sheriff St. Claire Guthrie of Marys-
| vile brought the two prisoners to To-
peka from Emporia at 3 o'clock this
morning and lodged them in the city
| jail. They were locked in the cage in
| the cell room. The cage has a bunk in
| it and is just large enough for the two
men to sit on the edge of the bunk and
| look out. Nc chances are being taken
with them. Murphy is dressed in a col
| ored shirt which belongs to Estelle, a
| pair of trousers and a pair of shoes.
Estelle has a heavy undershirt, pair
| of trousers and a pair of old shoes. His
| hair is long, his eyes sunken and he
| shows the hardships of the last few
| days He has over twenty shot wounds
| and a bunch of several buckShot in his
| right leg are serious enough to make
| him limp.
Estelle will make no statement about
| his escape nor the shooting further than
to say that Murphy did the shooting
| Murphy says that he has never had the
| gun and that Estelle shot Roberts after
| he, Murphy. had begged him not to.
| Looks kind of natural said Estelle
glanced
| this morning and at the familiar faces
| of the Topeka officers. Thought I had
taken the last ride in your patrol
wagon he said to Officer Bunday.
You may take some more said
Bundy.
Maybe" said EstelIe with a shrug
He is cool and deliberate. He looks
| at people carefully when they enter the
cell and will say nothing about his
struggle for liberty except that they
peppered me pretty WE'LL" as he exhib-
its his back covered over with little
bumps like a smallpox patient.
do you want to go back to Marys-
Ville?" was asked.
"Oh, don't know. Where is that man
Gilmore?" he asked, referring to the
Topeka officer who aided in working up
the case against him after he was cap
tured by Sergeant Donovan and officer
Pavey."
Hes not here"
I'D like to see him him That
was the only threat he made.
His face wears a hang-dog look but
he does not finch from scrunity He
was taken ct noon by Sheriff Guthrie
on the Union PACIFIC to Manhattan
where change Of cars will be made
for Marysville.
Sheriff St Claire Guthrie. of Marys-
vile, tells the following story of the
escape and capture of Estelle and
Murphy:
"Estelle, Murphy and Claude Ross
broke jail on May S. between 8 and 8
O'Clock in the evening. l was at the
court house and absent from the jail
20 minutes. They pried a bar off the
bed and sawed off the heads of four
bolts from the grated window An
escape was made through that window
four years ago, and it was repaired
They got through the old hole. They
used the iron from the bed to pry the
: CRATE from the window. They made the
saw from the springs in their shoes
After cutting off the nails they pried
5 out the bars. They jumped from the
7 window to the ground only a few feet
1 1 had given them their supper and ha6
( gone TO the court house. Mrs. Guthrie
was IN our living rooms upstairs anC
2 telephoned to me that the prisoners
S We're escaping. 1 ran back to the jai
! and found the three gone. I went al
r once to town and telephoned to tbs
| towns around and started posse aftel
( them. Estelle told me that he heard MT
4 | running on the sidewalk they wer'
= dropping from the window. I hitcheC
/ uD my team ana started a1J6r them
We drove southeast The first nigh
they took a horse and we followed thi
trail made by the horse. The hors
was found the next day and they ha(
taken another. They never moved il
the daytime, and that made it hare
to keep track of them. They drove tn
second horse to Manhattan and aban
doned him in the main street. The,
crossed the Kansas river at Ma1hat
tar and made their way to Wabaunsa
and changed horses there. From thsr
they went to Council Grove and ther
took another horse and left their worn
out horse and kept on Before the,
drove into Council Grove EstelIe brok
into a blacksmith shop to get tools [
use in housebreaking. In the black
smith shop he found a shotgun an
some cartridges. From Council Grow
they went south to Hefilgton- We ha
guards posted around Council Grove
hut Estelle and Murphy got throug
the line. At Dunlap the fugitives cam
to two bridges close together. One wa
a wagon bridge and the other 4 rail
road bridge. The guards went on dut
at the wagon bridge 20 minutes bef0r
the other bridge was guarded. Whe
the others went to the railroad bridg
they saw two men step from the bridg
down one side. Ed Roberts and his tw
guards thought the men who steppe
from the bridge were the ones guardia
the other bridge. Roberts was carryin
his shotgun in the hollow of his arm
He leaned over the SIDE Of the brids
and said. Hullo, boys; is that you
Just then there was a shot and Rot
erts fell back dead The man who fire
the shot was not over ten feet fri
him. The fugitives fed to the wood
and the guards at the bridge were
frightened that the did not pursg
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