The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-04
IT LOOKS QUEER.
Governor Stanley Goes to In
Yestigate.
Wants to Know Why Dunn Was
Allowed to Escape.
CAUSES A BIG STIR.
Evident That Some One Was in
Collision.
Man With $1,000 Reward on
Head is Valuable.
CAUSES A BIG STIR,

Governor Stanley and Assistant At
torney General Clad Hamilton left at
noon today for Wichita, to inquire INTO
the mysterious disappearance of j. r.
Dunn. the> alleged Arkansas murderer
and bank robber, from st. Joseph's
hospital in Wichita early yesterday
morning The governor had been tete-
phoned for by the mayor and chief OF
police of Wichita to come down and
make an invest igation.
4 don't know any of the details CT
the escape" said the governor before
he left but it looks very mysterious.
1t looks to me as though the man must
certainly have had assistance. he
could not have escaped alone"
Governor Stanley before he left is
sued an offer of a reward Of $3.50 for
the apprehension and conviction Of
Dunn's aecompices in his escape
The escape of Dunn is a great mys-
terry. and Wichita official circles are all
stirred up about it. AS there Is re-
ward of 900 for Dunn's return to the
state of Arkansas the police force and
the sherifss force have been having
contest for his possession. They had
a fight about it a few weeks ago. but
when Governor Stanley ordered the
reQuiSltiOn Of the governor OF Arkansas,
upon which the police force were hold
ing Dunn held up, the police force
abandoned him to the sheriff, who had
a warrant for his arrest on the charge
of bigamy.
NOW SHef1H summons accuses Hlel1-
bers of the police force Of having
spirited Dunn away, and he thinks
Dunn is now well on his way to Ar
kansas. He is said to be in a helpless
condition, and if he can be delivered
to the Arkansas authorities the persons
who deliver him may get the $1,000 re-
ward.
Dunn has been under guard in the
hospital for the past six weeks. He has
a bullet wound in his thigh, and 1t was
e11nnOEad that the hI1Ilaf LODGED IN
his abdomen. The surgeons expected to
search for il with an A-ray machine
today. The hearing for the granting OF
the extradition papers was also set for
today before Governor Stanley, and
this may have fastened Dunn's escape
The surgeon who has been treating
Dunn says that Dunn tried to bride him
recently to assist him to escape, saying
that he already had everybody else
bribed that he needed. The physician
refused to help him and the next morn
ing he was gone.
Dunn's room was on the third floor of
the hospital and his wound was of such
a nature that he could not use his leg,
so that he could not have escaped with
out help. The theory of the hospital au-
thOrities is that some one got into the
hospital as a patient pretending to be
sick. and during the night let In some
one Of DunIfs friends, who spirited him
away.
There were two guards watching the
house however, and they say they do
not see how the man escaped. They say
two cabs We're in the neigt borhoOd dur
ing the night and enc of them let a man
out in front of the hospital. One of the
guards who was mounted, followed the
cab away, but it was empty. The other
cab was also said to be empty.
The chief of police says he shall make
little effort to locate Dunn, as the police
had no authority over him, and he be-
lieVes Dunn's friends are desperate and
any attempt to capture him would re-
suit in the death Of somebody. The
sherih's force say that two policemen
came in yesterday morning despatched
with mud and bearing evidence Of a
long nights ride.
Governor Stanley believes there has
been crookedness somewhere and he
proposes to see If he can locate him
A dispatch from Wellington contains
the following
Mrs. J. P. Dunn, wife of the alleged
bank robber and murderer. -svho
escaped from the hospital IN Wichita
last night, went to Wichita at noon,
taking her infant child She had been
living here While Dunn was in the hos
pitaL She has preferred a charge Of
bigamy against him and declares his
escape is either a plan to beat her in
her desire to have him support the child
or that he has been kidnapped and taken
to Arkansas. She declares that she
shot Dunn Ia this town about the time
Of the Clarksvilie robbery and has made
affidavit that he was here the night of
the robbery and murder. She saw Dunn
in the hospital Monday and said that
he was so swollen and weak from cry
sipelas that he could not move. She
will go to Topeka from Wichita to give
testimony before Governor Stanley to
have him recall the requisition papers
for Dunn's transfer to Arkansas"