The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-07-12
NOTORIOUS DESPERATE
WANTS OUT OF
The PEN
SERVING A 5O.YEAR TERM
Was Prominent in Battle
at ingalls, in 1893.

Il IS said that Governor Frantz viii
be asked to pardon "Tom" Jones, alias
Arkansas Tom. whose right name Is
Thomas Daagherty. now serving a SEN
tence Of 6ity years IN the penitenti
ary. Jones was a member Of the Dal
ton.Doolin gang Of outlaws who en-
gagged in battle with deputy United
states marshals at the town Of In
gals. okla. in the fan Of 1898, in
which "Lafe7 shadley "nick' Speed
and Thomas Houston, deputy mar
shals. a citizen of Cushing named
Walker and boy were killed, and
several other persons injured. Jones
father is a minister and lives in Texas,
Friends Of Jones say that he has been
an exemplary prisoner and that he has
reformed
There viii be opposition to the
granting Of a pardon to Jones. The
fight in which he was engaged was the
most desperate and sanguinary ever
1ought with outlaws in Oklahoma The
Officers did not know the whereabouts
OF Jones. and it is alleged that he wan.
tonly killed one or more Of the onicers
without being in danger or uuder fire
himself
In gals was a rendezvous OF the ont
laws who had heard that deputy mar
shals would be there to attack them
They laid their plans and waited The
outlaws were ~Blll" Dalton George
Nevcomb talias Bitter CreekD,
Charles Pierce Calias Slaughter
Kid, Dynamite Dick" tom" Jones
and Bin" Doolin Among the depu-
ties were John Hixon, "Lafe" shadley,
''DicK speed, Tom Houston, Ike
steel "Jim" Masterson, brother Of
"BatN Masterson, and Doc Roberts.
The Deputies entered town in COW
cred wagon and opened FIRE on Neil
Mrirays saloon where the outlaws
were supposed to be. The desperadoes
were in livery stable where their
horses were kept The outlaws
promptly retarned the fire aud the
fighting became general in the streets
and from behind buildings. Murray
the saloon keeper. was shot n the arm
Ia bis saloon An old man named
Ranom who was in tho saloon was
shot n one les Walker was killed as
he ran from the saloon into the street
A boy was killed as he ran from the
rear of another saloon None OF these
persons was engaged in the 6eht
The outlaws finally made a sally on
their horses from the livery stable,
some emerging sTom the front and
others from the rear door Dalton
ganoped into the street on white
horse. and returned the fire Of the
deputies be ore he fed His horse was
shot down at long range and Dalton
rolled into the grass and was thought
10 be killed Masterson drew down TO
make sare, when his companion said
that there was no use wasting ann
munition on a dead man When Mas
ierson lowered his gun. Dalton, who
was uninjnred. rolled over the brow Of
the hin. mounted behind one Of the
outlaws who was passing. and escaped. !
rs did an the others except Jones
Bitter Creek was wounded by "a
spent Winchester bah that had demol.
ishei the magazine OF his gun. The
fght was badly managed by the depu-
ties. several ci whom, ii is said, were
Intoxicated
When the officers counted noses
they found that shadley, Houston and
Speed were dead shadley's body lay
al spot wkere be coaidnot have been
hit by The outlaws Ia the livery stable.
and his companions began tracing the
direction from which tne bullet had
come The bullet had passed between
two buildings and evidently had come
from a frame hotel across the street
While tie officers were searching. a
woman told them thas she had seen
pun Of smoke rise from the roof Of
the hotel The officers surrounded the
btttNihHf AAh M'tN lpiN ~ AhN AahNAaH9
that none of the outlaws was inside.
The woman who had told the officers
OF the shooting courageously walked
upstairs and found Jones ana return.
cd tU the onicers and told them that
the other woman had lied 10 them
The onioers prepared 10 blow mp the
building, shereupon the landlady Of
fered 70 surrender Jones II they would
not NH HIM A moment later Jones
was mnder arrest
Jones was In bed when the hnng
began. He seized his Winchester but
could not get the range without expos.
ing himself at a window HE climbed
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