PASSING OF TOM KING FEMALE HORSE THIEF

Character Well Known In El Reno Dies in California

Broke Jail in This City, While Awaiting Trial and is said to Have Left in Company With a Deputy Sheriff

December 16, 1909—The El Reno Democrat-- A correspondent of the Oklahoman tells of the death of “Tom King” in the Chinese quarter of a California town. Tom King’, the horse thief, was a well-known character here in the early days of El Reno. “Tom” was a woman, whose husband was a man named Mundis, a tramp horse trader. Mrs. Mundis dressed as a man and sailed under the name of Tom King. She was arrested here for horse-stealing ad was in jail here for several months waiting trail. One morning it was discovered that “Tom” had left the jail and that a deputy sheriff of this county had also disappeared and the general belief was that they left El Reno together. Certain it is that neither of them ever reappeared in El Reno and no tidings of them has since reached this city until the news came of “Tom” death.

It is said that Mrs. Mundis was the daughter of well to do and highly respected people of Missouri and that she was a graduate of a noted college of that state. Her marriage was unfortunate and she soon took up with the ‘wild bunch’ and traveled the pace that kills. During her last years, among the inhabitants and frequenters of the western Chinatown she was known as the “Chinese Dot.”

Transcribed & submitted by: Mollie Stehno

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