The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-03-07
bad" MAN
CAPT URED
BY POSSE:
NOTORIOUS CHOCTAW
OUTLAW AND FUGITIVE
FROM JUSTICE
TAKEN INTO CUSTODY
AFTER RUNNING FIGHT
Desperate After Escaping Prison
Brazsn|y Deiled Officers 10
Come After Him
Special 10 Daily Leader.

opeCldl 10 Dully l1eddeT,
Ada, Okla, March AFTER run.
ming fllhJ between Win Hendrix. the
Notorious Choctaw outlaw and posse
# officers, during which twenty shots
wcre fired, but no one wounded. Hen
DIX at 1 o'clock Sunday afternoon
was arrested at Rolf and now lam
euishes in the Hughes county jail at
II; ldenyllle, where he WAS taken for
flie keeping.
Hendrix entered the town Of Roii
about noon, drunk and armed with a
revolver. For nearly an hour he ac'
costed people on the street anu
searched them for weapons, taking no
money or yaluables. Men and wa
PEN returning from church were
stopped promiscously at the point Of
Hendricks gun, and while their hands
were in the air he searched their
clothes. IN the meantime the ofilc.
ers. who had been searching for Hem
dirk in the vicinity of his home neaf
iolbcrg, returned to Rolf and caught
shc outlaw in the act Of searching q
mnn. When Hendrix saw the ofilc'
era approaching he broke away and
down the street, firing back as he
far The officers returned tho fire and
captured Hendrix without difficulty.
after his ammunition had been ex'
hausted
In the afternoon officers went TO
tte homo of Hendrix and arrested
his father and J II Fondren. TWO
brothers Of Hendrix and another man
who had ayowed that he would fiBh'
10 the death with the indian were
not at the Hendrix home. Their a.
rest may folsw. for the Hendrix doni
cile has been considered rendezvous
for All undesirable class of men that
ha7 infested that section Of the coun
I IS
Under Life Sentence
VIII Hendrix was lied In the Unit
I'd states court at Paris, Texas, and
FOUND guilty before Judge Bryant o.
illling his fatherin.law in the Chlcka
saw nation, in 1906. The case wen
to the Texas court on a change o.
venue Hendrix was sentenced 10 lii'
J
/ health that developed short tins
ds.er llendrix's confinement. he wat
allowed liberties In the federal jail
ard on the night OF June II, 1903, h'
made his escape. fIe had been trust
Cd and given charge of the turnke'
that opened the cell doors leading in
to the corridor. The night Of the es
;Lrned the prisoners into the corridor
4 saw had been procured and witt
this an opening was made In the VIII
Nv bars OF the outer wall Hendri
TWISTED bunk blankets together an
red them with electric light wire an
lcwered himself to the ground. Som
ether prisoners escaped with him.
Hendrix decamped into Oklahom
and has several times been the objet
Of search by county officers. HI
trail had always led TO his rendezvou
IN the hills where safety was affort
, Cd. Several months ago he appeare
at Stratford and officers gave him
chase. They followed him until
, nightfall and thought they had hin
. surrounded in a dense thlcket. Durin
, the night an officer was accidental
snot through mistake. and In the di
, / t !, bance that followed Hendrix e
. t:icated himself and was lost in III
r Fills. About a week ago he agal
appeared in public, this time at
!. dance near Rolf. The fiddler gre
. tied early and left for home wher
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