Tulsa (Ind. T.) Correspondence Kansas City Star.
The Washington Post (1877-1922); Aug 22, 1907;
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Washington Post (1877-1995) pg. 13

AN INDIAN THIEF-TAKER.
Is Kindly Remembered by the Community He Protected While Living.

Tulsa (Ind. T.) Correspondence Kansas City Star.

Tiger Jack’s sister came to town the ether day and talked about him and his achievements. Tiger Jack was the terror of every lawbreaker for miles and miles around Sapulpa in the old days when the arm of the law stretched lightly over this territory, and it was a house of refuge for all the criminals, big and little.

Tiger Jack was an Euchee Indian, and his sister, Mrs. Jesse Allen she is now, is a full-blood Euchee. Mrs. Allen has always lived in the territory herself, and has done some things. She was for years the official interpreter in Judge Parker’s court at Port Smith, when the judge was known as the hanging judge. She says that she has personally attended more murder trials and heard more sentences of death than almost any person now alive.

Tiger Jack lived about fifteen miles southwest of Sapulpa, on a small ranch, with his sister. He was a human bloodhound, with an extraordinary capacity for nosing out crime and tracing the criminals. On one occasion a little more than fifteen years ago he saw two men making away with his stock. He was standing in the door of a shack and the men were half a mile away. He gbt his Winchester in action and killed them both. . One was Lon Gordan and the other I Henry Munson, who had just held up a train in Oklahoma and were fleeing through the country. The bodies were loaded in a wagon and brought to Sapulpa. where they remained on exhibition* for a day and were buried in coffins made from binder cases, there being a coffin famine in town at the time. The body of Munson was afterward claimed by his mother and removed to Bartlesville, where it was finally interred.

Tiger Jack was not a commissioned officer of the government. Sometimes he was employed by the cattle people to protect their stock, but he never wore a star.

When he heard of strange characters floating around he would make a reconnaissance, and if the stranger was a criminal he was caught and turned over to the officers. He was shot at time and again, efforts at assassination were frequent, but the native cunning of the man carried him safe through all the vicissitudes of border warfare. Of course, it was necessary for him to shoot, and this he did, always killing his man, because no 'better hand-with a rifle or a pistol could he found hereabout.

On two or three occasions Tiger Jack arrested the members of the Dalton gang, but this was before they started on the larger field of bank robbing. After this they never came around Sapulpa. Once or twice there were rumors that they were scurrying through the country, but they never camped around Jack's place. His part of the country was safe from depredation, and the Sapulpa bank and other places never thought it necessary to provide any extraordinary protection as Ions as Jack was on watch and guard.

Tiger Jack has been dead and buried for several years, but his fame as a thief taker remains, and the recollection of him is enough even yet to scare the ordinary criminal out of the neighborhood. Mrs.

Allen’s husband, though a full-blood Euchee, has light blue eyes, light hair, and a light complexion.