The Saint Paul globe., 1904-01-24
YOUNG WIFE AIDS
LAWLESS HUSBAND
Mrs. PIummer. Crack Shot and
ingenious, Performs Aston.
lshing Stunts.
Special to The Globe.

Special to The Globe.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa; Jan. 2S-lf
there is moral to a story Of crime,
the moral to this story is that a young
man designing to succeed as Grim
inal should marry young, seek wife
who can be real helpmeet in his pro-
fession and insist that she help him
when he needs help. That's the way
William Plummer, confidence man.
highwayman and generally bad citi-
zen, has succeeded.
Plummer is badly wanted by Gov.
Cummins, Of Iowa. for violating a
parole His wife, known in Wyoming
and the cattle country as "Sharpshoot-
er Nellie,n is wanted in various places.
Nellie is. a more decided type of bad
man than her husband, and is credited
with shooting two or three people out
West. Her famous exploit of rescuing
her husband from the jail in this city
three years ago was the most daring
crime ever committed by woman in
Iowa.
The Plummers, who are about twen-
ty-eight years DID, came here and soon
were stranded. Plummer is an expert
bookkeeper and telegraph operator.
Nothing better appearing in sight, he
held UP and robbed a Sioux City man
the day after reaching Sioux City, and
In three hours was in Jail. o
Worked the JaiIer.
Mrs. Plummer, pretty, petite, plump
and possesSed of soulful brown eyes,
called often at the Jail. The sheriff
finally became suspicious and ordered
that she be excluded. But Jailer
Krage knew such a nice little woman
was harmless, and when she rushed
into his office one dark night with
telegram telling of the death Of Plum
mer's mother. he admitted her.
Somehow while in the Jail she passed
six-shooter to her spouse. Then she
left, and presently Plummer asked to
be taken across the big corridor to the
bath room. He was let out Of his cell.
carving a towel over his arm.
Wrapped in the towel was the gun.
Plummer dashed for the big door at
the end of the corridor, Krage after
him. The key had been carelessly left
in the door. 1t was necessary to shoot
twice at Krage, one ball entering his
arm and silencing him. Plummer es-
capped and locked the jailer in.
At the nearest street corner Mrs
Plummer sat in a buggy hired from
a livery stable. Plummer got to her
and they drove pell-mell to the out
skirts of the city. Running their rig
into a wire fence, they cut one OF the
horses so badly that ne could go no
farther.
Transformed to a "Boy."
Mrs. Plunmer came again to the res
cue. She donned a suit of boys clothes,
which she had brought along; her hus-
band clipped her long hair, and an hour
later a handsome boy of sixteen hired
a livery outfit down town. He drove
back, gathered in Plummer and in the
next five days they drove $50 miles, to
Minneapolis. At Mankato they traded
for fresh team, and on reaching Min
neapolis sold their outfit.
They were just ready to leave town
when detective saw Mrs. Plummer
roll a cigarette, and didn't believe any
boy had such dainty hand. She didn't
answer his first question well, and In
an hour both were in jail again. They
were brought back to Sioux City and
sentenced to the penitentiary. The
whole town didn't want Mrs. Plummer
to go to prison. Her nerve and pluck
in rescuing her husband had captured
all hearts, and her picture in the news
papers helped, too. The = governor
promptly paroled her and she went to
work in q Cedar Rapids restaurant
| while Plunmer went to prison. In g
years and half she got him paroled
| too
They both went to work In the Cedar
Rapids restaurant, and in few weeks
after Plummer had chance to doctor