FULL TEXT: Jessie Findlay, the woman outlaw, has been
released from the United States jail in $10,000 bail. She has killed four men
and been the leader in a dozen hold-ups.
[“Such a Thing as Being Too Gallant,” The Sterling Evening
Gazette (Il.), Aug. 29, 1896, p. 2]
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FULL TEXT: Jessie Findlay, the noted woman outlaw was
released from the United States jail last week on $10,000 bail. This was probably
done on the theory that an Oklahoma outlaw gets justice quicker on the outside
of a prison. Bill Doolin had been in jail for months with prospects of many
months more delay in his trial and possibly his final escape from the law. He
escaped from prison and within six weeks was shot dead. Jessie Findlay has
killed four men and been the leader of a half dozen hold-ups. Her next effort
may be her last.
[Untitled, The Lincoln Republican (Ne.), Sep. 24, 1896, p.
2]
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FULL TEXT: Jessie Findlay, the female bandit imprisoned at
Oklahoma City, has captured the hearts of her captors, if reports are true.
Coming as this report does, from the land of the bloody fake and the
guilt-stained exaggeration, one is licensed to doubt it but for one thing.
In Oklahoma City, where the charming bandit is temporarily
residing at the earnest solicitation of the authorities, lives Mrs. Alberts.
Mrs. Alberts edits the Oklahoma City Star and the editorial page thereof is
bright with many a turn of fantastic wit, and ponderous with many sagacious
editorials.
And it is Mrs. Alberts who gives out the news in regard to
the winsome characteristics of the Siren Jessie, who was brought in by the
deputy marshals in her bare feet charged with effecting the escape of her lover
from the Oklahoma City jail.
Mrs. Alberts says that Jessie not only reads novels and
smokes cigarettes, but she goes "to the Saddle Hock restaurant chaperoned
by some of the handsome under sheriffs and deputy marshals, and thoroughly
enjoys herself. She is supplied with the sweetest dresses, a duck of a hat and
everything she wants."
And then Mrs. Alberts, supposedly placing her hand on an
editorial charging the government with treason because of the tariff schedule
on wool, looks off in the distance, and with a sigh that is born of a dream,
adds to the above, "It's a sweet thing to be a girl bandit"
This report of the divine Jessie Is certainly unique. The
sight of the fair prisoner doing up her Lair, touching a piece of lace into
unspeakable grace about her fair young throat, buttoning her glove around a
wrist bursting with plumpness and whiteness, snugging that dainty foot into a
boot of infinite fineness, tossing her pretty head coquettishly, and, then
tripping lightly off to the Saddle Rock with a half dozen deputy marshals,
dazzled into that comatose condition best productive of intense infatuation,
following her with loving fear, and gazing on her buxom form with parched
throats this is a sight that every citizen of Oklahoma City should look upon
now while all the fleeting opportunity is at hand. This for the citizen of
Oklahoma.
As regards the sheriff, it is another matter. Caution,
discretion and official foresight on ids part should suggest a change of
jailors once a week, or even at briefer intervals, guaged to sweet little
Jessie's capacity to throw the violet-light of her dancing eyes around the
average deputy, ensnare, entangle and trip him completely.
[“Sweet Girl – But Dangerous.” The Wichita Daily Eagle
(Ks.), Jul. 26, 1895, p. 4]
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