Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-26
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Plummer and Wife. the Fusi.
tives. Landed in Jail at
Sioux City.
He Tells the Story Of His Wand.
erines While a Fugitive
From Justice.
Long and Weary Drive Thru
Rough Country..Cause Of
Capture.

Sioux City, June 26.-Sheriff Jackson
arrived here yesterday with bill"
Plummer and his wife. handcuffed to-
1 sether. They are the couple arrested at
Minneapolis a few days since, Plum
J mers wife masquerading in boy s
4 clothes. Plummer escaped Jail here by
holding UP the jailer. his wife furnish
ing the revolver and coming back to
Sioux City. after several days of travel.
derssed in her husbands clothes to Sc
cure the livery rig With which they tried
10 get out of the country.
I'll tell you just how II came about, y
the prisoner said, squirting thru the
bars. II sent letter To a friend of
mine just after ! got out of here two
weeks ago. l had a little newspaper
| Clipping that l had stuck into the en-
| velope. but didn't seal the letter until
| got out, and when mailed it In the
Clark supposed the Clipping was in
side. But 1t had worked out and into a
/ bunch of pictures in my pocket The
cops at Minneapolis found that clip
ping in the pictures. and that's what put
en- on. They'd forgotten all about US
\ in the two weeks we'd been coming 10
/ them. DIDN'T recognize US at ALL
Well, now did it happen that they
| got he little woman in the depot up
| there?
Well. that was all because of little
mistake. guess I'm to blame. l told
her to sTnoke cigarets to put EN- off the
scent but | guess they thought she was
too young TO be smoking cigarets
| ct c,,y1p1ro rn,, re,l,,a tho, ,,,.;.-1,,
sentence is probably before your wife,
YES. We came down here with the
/ expectation of her dong time. OF
! but she seems to feel that she'd rather
be in there With me. than outside alone.
1 Her hearts in the right place. t..il You
/ and would probably have got out with
less time but We thought we might he
separated and besides Iowa had the
best claim on US"
Pretty cold lying out there in the
grass while your wife Was coming in
Ito Sioux Sity for the team. wasn't ito
Yes, didn't have ANYTHING on bu,
lnS anderciothes and it did get kind o
lehiIy in the meadow. Two or three
NelHea kept botheeii!g ME too / was
4 W
It'd agreed to meet my wise. ana
heard the wet grass kind O crunch
| thought II was bugs for a time. but the,
got rearer, and I saw three wolves
sseasing in on me. waved the lap rob
\ ! had taken from the first buggy and
lthey ran away Yes, would have got
q buggy out there. If it hadn't been for
1.-The dogs. There was one big fellow
one place. and the neSt barn l found
two of them started after me. We
thought Sioux City was safer than dogs
30 she Went in for the rig
Say, Chris" Plummer said to the
| jaler suddenly. How S my wife: is she
sleeping?"
The TALLER replied that she was. and
that she was lying on a comfortable
cot in the other end of the jail. The
| prisoner wiped away the sweat that was
| streaming down his face.
How did you manage to get across
the country" was asked
| We'll. it was this way / had map.
but left it in the first buggy I didn't
| have anything left but a railroad map.
and it only showed Minneapolis so
we played checkers clear across this
corner Of the state. In the day time we
| would drive a mile east and then a mile
north, every once in a while we drove
south again. six OF seven miles We did
| this go they couldn't find q trail. AT
| night, we would drive six or seven miles
| to one side. and give the horses good
feed. Then we void make northeast az
istraight az we could. We didn't stop
at very many farmers. but when we did
we laid in good supply of feed for the
horses and ourselves. We always did 1t
under cover of the dark. though. But
we didn't have very elaborate bill of
fare any time" The prisoner smiled
unconcernedly at the joke.
When we passed thru Markato we
came pretty near getting in a bad fix.
| We picked up the new team and drove
! out of town. We got q little mixed and
| when we stopped at farm house. they
told US we we're seventeen miles from
! Mankato. guess we were pretty tired:
| we hadn't been sleeping much. Any
| way. we both went to sleep, and when
| we woke farmer told US were ten
miles from Mankato. The horses We're
making for home, and ii we had slept
two more hours. we would have baen in
Mankato for breakfast"
Where were you striking for?"
IT wanted to get to Winnipeg, and go
to work there 1t was the plan for my
wife to leave me- SO 1t wouldn't look
suspicious. Railroading is my business
and expected to get work there We
traded the buggy We got at Mankato
for another at Minneapolis. and got sl2
to boot / thought it would make it
harder to recognize the rig, and it
wouldn't cost much to get the other
back and would help me good deal"
Plummer says he married his wife
about two years ago In Michigan where
he claims he met her five years ago. He
says that he had been staying at West
| Superior, Wis, just before he came to
Sioux City last winter, and declares he
worked at railroading all thru northern
Wisconsin. He says that Ashland Wis,
is not his home tho he has been there.
Margaret Plummer the wife, slept
soundly for hours after she lef. the
train in the early morning. Out in the
corridor hung her mans suit which she
wore during her thrilling escapades. The
| police matron at Minneapolis gave her
woman's clothes, which she wore to
Sioux City. She refused positively to
say anything to the papers. "she amt
the talking kind" the jaler commented.
Used Dynamite Caps for Crackers.
| Special to Times jRepublican
LeMars, June 2s.-Kenneth White, son
of well-known Sioux City travelling
| man was badly hurt he1e He and a