The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-23

tory federal court 10. ths cr|..t
district WIS hold ai Wichita Hn4
MHtt"N was tried thorU several flwr.
fT murder, and once Nns gtntcu,.t
to hang While incarccratcd at
wichita az one timc. during tho
cHriv SOS Mattox escaped from tho
prison by crawling through a hole,
eight inches square, In tho second
story. Bciow on the ground were
shown tho footprints whore no
Jumped \ iail guard was indictod.
charged with assisting Mattox to o.
cape, but the charge was never
proven.
Tho United states marshal soc
cured "a special train. with which to
hunt down MnttoN ana took with
him corps Uf doput .rH and "a bcvv
0f newspaper men. Mpttox boarded
q Missouri Pacific train nt Green
vich aud was At once recognized
by tho conductor. stephen Ualdcu
Nhn wired tho marshal from Yatos
Ccntcr Mattox was arrested a.
Yates Center by the town marshal
without any trouble and was re-
turned 10 Wichita. not even hciug
handCuffod Travellers ON tho train
had learned Mattox Identity and
had scattered in all directions. anti
clpnilng "a fusllado uf bullets
Killed Man in Oklahoma CIV.
Tho tirRt man that MattpX killed
was John T. Howard. or Harvard.
in oklahoma CITY. during one ut
the first municipal campaigns that
followed tho opening In 1889. The
dispute was over the office OF city
marshal, for which Howard was ono
OF the claimants. During the battle
Mattox himself was shot three
times. The fleht took place on wost
Reno street MnttoX was convicted
for this killing and sentenced 90
serve several years in tho Lpavcn-
worth ponitentlary but was par
doned by President Cleveland.
few months lator. while Mattoy
was acting az a deputy marshal I'm
Oklahoma city. he Killed n negro
who objected to remarks tnndo bv
MattoN 20 u negro woman on the
street. He was sentenced to hang
for this killing hut was granted
new trial and released on bond.
While out he SHOT and killed a negro
who had been witness against him.
He then went hunting with white
man who had witnessed tho second
shooting. and the white man ~ said
newr 60 have returned
As n result of the second trial.
for tho murder pf the first negro
Mattox was sentenced 10 hang. For
safe keeping he was sent To LeRveN-
worth. whore while imprisoned he
"'uld hca~ the carpenters building
the sCaffold. However, his mother
"-pH H"rin hole To save him, presi-
dent Cleveland committing the son
tence to life Imprisonment. Within
a year he wua pardoned by Presl-
don't Mckinley at the request of
the mother
ISllicd Sweeney In Ponca.
Early I'm 1901. Mattox Killed Lin
coin Sweeney In n saloon In Poncn
city Sweeney wns cowboy and
tho trouble between the two arose
over a grand Jury Investigation Of
horse stealing that implicated
Sweeney He blamed Mattox FOR
involving him and when thev met
in the saloon. he slapped Mattox.
The lated stabbed him to death.
escaped through old Mexico
10 Los Angeles, but was brought
back here for trial was convicted
and sentenced to tho penitentiary
FOR 2 wears Governor Haskell pa
rolled him. but the parole conditions
we're broken and he was taken back
% McAleNer, being pardon6d later
BY Governor Cruce. II was about
his time that Col. Jack Love So
'urod him a place with Jake Hamon