Show BELLE BLACK OUTLAW victim of circumstances over which she kb had no control women outlaws are rather rare ft 10 reality although one Is always readum of them dashing beautiful girls clad in sombreros sombre ros leather leggins boots boota and spurs the capture of two of this species at guthrie has dissipated the popular idea of the lady bandit these two women were neither young fair nor dashing one belle black whose husband hue was a member of a gang of outlaws Is small heavyset heavy set has dark hair and an d blue eyes with a rather pleasant look on her face and no appearance of being a desperate criminal the other mrs preeman freeman who eloped from her husband with the leader of the gang zip wyatt is till t ill slender w with ith snapping black eyes thick black hair and a sinister peculiar expression on her face for the past year the gang has defied sheriffs and has robbed right and left it was not known that there were women with them as during the raids the women always dressed like men afterward rd dressed as farmers ers wives they would enter towns and sell plunder and buy provisions provision all without without arousing suspicion mrs MM black and her came to western kansas six years ago and were financially embarrassed through failure of crops they took to stealing batth and were obliged to hide bide to escape arrest A gang of desperadoes gradually vz Z j BELLE BLACK joined them zip wyatt the leader was a cowboy who came to guthrie boned once a mouth month to spend his wages in high living and it was here that he met mrs freeman who was an illinois girl who had formed an incorrect idea of the glories of a bandits life from too many i trashy novels he persuaded her to elope with him after he had killed two or three men and gone into hiding he has often puzzled the sheriffs as they have fired their rifles at him point blank and he has escaped without injury since her capture mrs freeman says wyatt always wears steel plates over his back front and thighs and will never be taken alive the rest of the gang of desperadoes escaped the two women are now in the guthrie jail and pass their time playing cards or chatting with the other prisoners |