Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1888 — BEAUTIFUL AND DARING [ARTICLE]

BEAUTIFUL AND DARING

DASHING FEMALE HORSE-THIEVES IN KANSAS—ELECTION NE rt S. Two Handsome Blondes Successfully Operate as Queens of the Road Election News—A Gigantic Plan to Recover Missouri River Lands. Two female horse-thieves, Ida Weston and Emma Mentry, incarcerated in jail at Hutchinson, Kansas, have made their escape. The Sheriff of Hamilton County was in Newton, Kansas, on other business at the time, and had left the keys to the jail in the Opera Hotel. Some one who must havo been perfectly familiar with the hotel got the keys, let the female thieves out, and then returned the keys to the diawer in which they had been locked up. It is several weeks since these daring queens of the road earned extended notoriety by their bold attempt to steal a vehicle and team of horses. They had been stealing horses for a year, having run off thirteen horses, including two splendid animals from Hntchinson. Large rewards had been offered, but until this attempt to steal a carriage with the horses they had successfully eluded the officers. The girls are of a dashing type, both blondes and handsome. Ida is the daughter of a Philadelphia minister, and Emma claims to be the daughter of a wholesale clothing dealer in Boston. They stood confinement in the jail with an assumption of “don’t care” which would have done honor to the mo.st hardened frontier horse-thief.