The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-05
ESCAPE FROM DETENTION ROOM.
Two Women Climb Through Screen
Over Window.


Mrs. Maude Shumaker and Sadie Dorm
bush escaped from the detention room of
the city jail some time between and
half past o'clock yesterday morning.
They escaped by the aid of some outside
| party, who cut hole through the heavy
! wire screen and the two women crawled
out OF the room. The window is the
/ first one east of the north entrance TO the
| City building. 1t has been fitted up for
/ the use Of the police matron in caring for
women who are not supposed TO be so
very bad. and it was not necessary to put
them behind bars. Mrs. Shumaker was
arrested by the police Monday night on
/ instruction from Topeka, where she is
wanted for obtaining goods under false
! pFetenses from the Zandition company. Il
! is alleged that she secured $50 worth of
wearing apparel from this company with
| out paying for them. Sadie Dornbush
lives at 10l2 Santa Fe avenue, this city.
I and was arrested by Mrs. Shields on the
! charge of being an incorrigible girl. She
/ is Is years old.
The police officers thought they would
be Ienient with the two women, so instead
of locking them in the womens ward be-
| hind steel barred windows and iron doors,
the officers put them in the detention
room. where they have every convent
ence of a home The two women did not
appreciate this. however and skipped out.
Mrs. Shunaker has been here about
three weeks, and has been a lover of
an electrician named Charles Evans, and
suspicion hangs over him as the one
who helped them get away, as the screen
shows that it was cut with a pair of
wire nippers. Young Evans has also dis
appeared, and Sturgeon & Lyman want
him arrested for stealing a horse and
| buggy belonging TO them. He hired
rig early in the evening and later came
| back and wanted a double rig, which
the liverymen refused to let him have.
| Then he drove away, and has not been
! seen or heard of since, and it is alleged
that he cut the wires that allowed the
! girls to escape and then drove them away
/ in the rig A reward of $50 has been Of
! fered for the. capture of the three per-
sons and the return of the horse and
| buggy.
Sheriff Lucas, of Topeka, came to
Wichita yesterday morning to take Mrs.
! Shumaker back home, but he found that
! his prisoner had escaped and he was
/ obliged to return home without his pris-
/ oner. for which he was of course duly
disappointed. The police want the pris
oners Not that they care so very, very
much to prosecute them on the old charge.
but they do not like to have their hospi
tality and leniency taken advantage of in
that manner.
Mrs. Shumakers fight was very hasty
one. She left a pocketbook containing
s. So on the dresser Of the room. and the
/ police found q trunk full of nice clothes
ire-h her room over 507 East Douglas avenue.
which they hold at the station. She is
regarded as a very pretty woman. about
81 years old five feet six inches tall round
face with brown hair and eyes. and pref
~ teeth. She wore deep blue and white
checked skirt and a white waist.
Sadie Dornbush is u years old, but over
grown She is a very light blonde. and
/ rather nice looking.
Evans is g. years old. smooth face and
Is 1--WE feet eight inches tan.
The horse was a dark bay. with black
name and tail! with q slight cock in both
rear ankles. The buggy has black box.
( rubber tires. and slightly worn rig.