The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-09

AS Dunn got into the hack he handed
the driver a dollar. saying it was for
good luck. The depot was reached in
time TO catch the train. the men leaping
aboard from the side opposite the de-
pot. Dunn told Dobbins ne was going
to Wichita for treatment in hospital for
rheumatism.
A few days after this the police and
sheriT's deputies in wichita fell out over
the possession OF Dunn and the reward.
In the Wichita morning paper one morn
ing Dobbins saw the story of the fight
and told a reporter that he believed the
two robbers had been living in yelling
ton. Had Dobbins been able to have
drawn this conclusion on the way TO the
depot that night. and driven to the county
Jail with his passengers. he could have
given up hack driving and lived in the
largest house in town.
In Wichita a reporter was sent to the
st. Francis hospital TO see who Dunn
was, word having been conveyed to his
Office that there was wounded man at
the hospital He met with no success.
and took his troubles to the police Harry
Sutton, the chief of Wichita detective
staff, investigated. He ascertained that
Dunn was the patients name and that
man by the name Of Durham had regis
tered as the man who had taken him
there. George Durham is said to be ''Jer-
sey." an old-tine crook. and Sutton found
him ! saloon. The next day informa
ton came that Dunn and Durham were
fight between the officers for the posses
sion of Dunn. the charges OF biganly by
the woman who claimed Dunn as her hus-
band, and the many subterfuses resorted
TO by the lawyers to keep Dunn from be
ing taken to Arkansas. All the time Dunn
lay at the hospital. near TO death.
SHE TRIED TO SAVE HIM.
Mrs Dunn told the authorities that she
shot her husband in TT of Jealous rage
five days before he reached the hospital.
According TO the doctors who examined
il. the wound was at least nine days old
when Dunn reached the hospital This
would throw it's infection on the 9Th of
February. the day upon which the Clarks-
vile bank was robbed and Sheriff Powers
shot one of the robbers while lying in
the street, the victim of a robbers bull
let.
Once there was talk Of arresting Mrs.
Dunn for the shooting OF her husband.
when he was expected to die. She heard
of this and few to Wichita. She was
watched closely by the police there, but
not thing could be found about her
which appeared wrong. II Dunn had died
her story might have been different.
Last Monday Mrs. Dunn went up to see
Dunn for what proved to be the last
time. She found him swollen and suffer
ing from severe erysipelas. His room was
on the third floor of the new hospital,
from which there Was no exit save by
window or through the old wing.
HE could never have gotten out of
there alone" she said Tuesday TO a re-
porter when he told her of Dunn's es-
cape. He was too weak to move when I
saw him, and 1 don't believe he could
have been moved without ever so much
trouble"
Mrs. Dunn went to Wichita on the noon
train Thursday, to make sure her hus-
band had disappeared.
Its a scheme to evade NE and this
child" said she. cor he has been kid
mapped and taken back TO Arkansas for
the purpose Of giving that reward to the
police. don't believe it's on the square.
for Mr.. Dunn told me he had too much
at stake to leave now
Almost in the same breath Mrs. Dunn
acknowledged that Dunn had told her
Monday that he might as well be guilty
as to be taken back to Arkansas.
Dunn is tall and dark. but his eyes are
light blue. He has a smooth face and Is
boyish and green" appearing.
An occasional dose of Prickly Ash Bit
ters keeps the system healthy wards off
disease and maintains strength and en-
ergy.