By 1882, the family lived in northeast Oklahoma and by 1886 they had moved to Coffeyville in southeast Kansas. However, four of the 15 children loom large in western outlaw folklore: Grat, Bob, Bill and Emmett Dalton. On June 8, 1894, while he was playing with his daughter on the front porch of his farm home in Ardmore, Okla., lawmen crept up on him from behind and shot him dead. He arrested Bryant and took him on a train to be committed to the jail at Wichita, Kansas, without notifying Marshal Grimes at Fort Smith. At 10pm he looked at his watch and announced to Yoes aloud that it was his bedtime, but that he would be back to have breakfast with him in the morning. Doolin quit the gang, along with Newcomb and Pierce, due to the mismanagement of finances. In August 1888, the two formed a posse to arrest a man named Charley Montgomery. Wagy hid all night in a yard across the street but saw nothing. After Frank's death, Grat moved back from California and took over his brother's job as deputy marshal at Fort Smith. Bill told Kay that Bob was not in the country, that he had stopped at Rucker's place alone to spend the night. Lindsey in Ardmore, Oklahoma, tracked him to the cabin and surrounded it on June 8, 1894. James Dalton Hatcher Obituary. With the help of non-Jewish friends, they began to collect guns to protect themselves. Emmett Dalton was portrayed by Frank Albertson. Doctors W. L. Goff and Youngblood were sitting on the porch of the drug store near the depot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Dalton. Their father, Lewis Dalton, a rambler and saloonkeeper, abandoned his wife Adeline (ne Younger), who was forced on her own to rear their 15 children during the difficult period of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. Kay apologized to Grat and let him go, but upon visiting the Sol Sweet store Kay learned that Evans had received gold instead of two dollar bills when cashing his check. The stakeout ended in Montomerys death. He spent 15 years in prison in Kansas State Prison, before winning a pardon in 1907. Bill Dalton agreed to join them and soon took part in several robberies, but Lit refused in disgust. He asked Latta not to publish the information until after his death.[13]. Ford drew his revolver and ran into another store to the alley to cut them off, but soon lost them. As the Daltons made their way west down the alley towards the horses, Town Marshal Charles T. Connelly came through the livery stable into the alley and ran east towards the plaza without noticing the bandits behind him. Members have married into the prominent Morgenthau, Loeb, and Bronfman families.. Kay's deputies were carrying ten gauge, double-barrel shotguns, loaded with buckshot, and they leveled them at Dalton. Kay asked Rucker if there was anyone else around and she replied that there wasn't. While the Indian Nations had their own tribal law enforcement, these agencies had no jurisdiction over non-Indians. One of the bars had been cut out and replaced with a broom handle blackened by soot. The tailor remembered the coat, but he couldn't remember who had bought it, only that some girl had picked it up once it was clean. The cellmates would sing and talk to drown out the sound of the saw. Kay and his deputy went to Ogden where they notified the police to keep watch for the Daltons. The deep canyons of the area, covered with dwarf cedar and blackjack oaks, made it an ideal hiding place. After they realized they were no longer being pursued, Bob and Emmett began to form what would be known as the Dalton Gang. Marshal; Grat Dalton (leader of the Dalton Gang); Bill Dalton (co-leader of the Wild Bunch); Eva May Dalton; Bob Dalton (Dalton Gang); Leona Randolph Dalton; Nancy May Dalton; Simon Noel "Si" Dalton; Hannah Adeline Dalton and Robert Renick "Bob" Dalton less, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Dalton. Timothy Peter Dalton (born 21 March 1946) is a Welsh actor of film and television. He moved to California and became a real estate agent, author and actor, dying at the age of sixty-six. The Daltons were also featured in yet another Randolph Scott Western, Randolph Scott himself plays Bill Doolin in the film, "The Dalton Gang" is a half-hour, 1954 episode of the American TV series, The Dalton Gang appears in the Italian comic book, This page was last edited on 4 March 2023, at 07:01. Emmett was then hit in the back with a load of buckshot. Brother of Charles Benjamin Dalton; Henry 'Cole' Coleman Dalton; Louis Kossuth Dalton; Bea Elizabeth Dalton; Littleton "Lit" Lee Dalton and 11 others; Lelia Dalton; Frank Dalton, Deputy U.S. As they approached the camp the bootleggers began to fire on them. [11] He was given a life sentence in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas, of which he served 14 years before being pardoned. Frank is buried in Coffeyville, Kansas. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Unlike the marshals office, the Osage Police paid a monthly salary. Bryant opened the door to the rear platform, and, while Short had his attention on the mounted men, shot him in the back point blank. Unclaimed. By that time, Bill had been moved downstairs into what was Grat's cell. Grat entered the Condon Bank and pointed his Winchester at the cashier, ordering his hands up, while Powers and Broadwell took positions at the door. ", A caricature of Dalton appeared in the 1954 Lucky Luke album Hors-la-loi where he's depicted as the tallest of the Dalton brothers. Father of Roy Reynolds Dalton With his revolver in hand, Kay dropped to the ground as they passed the door and slowly entered the station. For the four months that Bob and Emmett spent trying to lose Sheriff Kay in the desert, Grat sat in the Tulare County jail in Visalia awaiting his trial. Beckenridge showed up to the trial late and drunk, and neither the defense, nor the prosecution mentioned that the fireman had been accidentally killed by the expressman. Notes from Obituaries. Frank shot and killed two, but his gun jammed and he was killed by the remaining bootlegger. James Lewis Dalton from Jackson County, Missouri and Kentucky was the father of all four boys. He married Minnie McDaniel on July 30, 1910. Officers were watching Lit at Clovis Cole's, but didn't think to watch Owen's place. Alex Murdaugh claimed the family dogs caused Satterfield, 57, to trip, but her death was not reported to the coroner and an autopsy was not initially . 6 July 1879, d. 6 Jul 1879 in MO. Some years later, Lit Dalton asserted that Bob and Emmett had told him many times that they had robbed the train. Henry Starr was arrested in 1893 and held for trial at Fort Smith. He married Minnie McDaniel on July 30, 1910. They missed Cole by several hours who had already taken the train to Salt Lake where Kay and his deputy followed. This resulted in the first robbery at Whorton, May 1891, where the gang stole $1200. A rail ticket from California to Indian territory was too expensive for the boys, so Bob and Emmett crossed the Tehachapi's and began riding across the Mojave Desert while Bill went ahead by train to lay out food and supplies for them. This was a date that Grat had no intention on making. Broadwell was hit several times, but managed to ride away. Cubine's partner, Charles Brown, was standing unarmed next to him and went to pick up his Winchester. They had planned to meet with Grat and cross the plaza to the alley, where they could make their escape, but word of the robbery had spread through town. On the morning of October 5, the gang emerged from the alley onto the plaza of Coffeyville. When the train came in at 9:45pm, they backed a wagon up to the express car and unloaded all the contents. Kay nudged the door open with his elbow, aimed his revolver at Bill and said, "Bill! At Guthrie, Kay and Ford noticed that there had been some sort of celebration the night before as they were greeted by three white men hanging from a large tree at the entrance to town and noticed the streets were lined with several groups of black men playing Craps on the sidewalks. His older brother Frank Dalton, a Deputy US Marshal, was by all accounts the strongest of the brothers, and always kept his brothers in line. There has been much debate over the identity of the, "sixth man at Coffeyville" reported by witnesses who claimed was accompanying the gang as they arrived in town right before the robbery. Kay telegraphed his deputy George Witty and told him to check on Bill Dalton and to immediately notify him when he was found. GANGSTER DIES HOLLYWOOD, July 14. When told to open the safe, the manager lied, telling Grat it was a time lock and that it would not open for another 10 minutes. This was only a few months after $2,000 in rare two dollar bills had been stolen during a train robbery outside of Goshen (a robbery later attributed to Chris Evans and John Sontag). He then put the baggage man in charge of Bryant and gave him his revolver. Cole had split up with Grat at Gila Bend, Arizona after the two got in argument in which Cole was trying to convince Grat not to join Bob and Emmett. The locals who identified him notified a deputy marshal named Ed Short. Maggie Rucker, the woman who once ran the Cross Creek Overland station, was sitting with another girl alone in the front room, silently making dresses. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. Kay decided to place both men under arrest and took them to Visalia. They hoped that a big haul from the banks would allow them to leave the territory and escape Thomas' heat. Through her brother, Adeline was an aunt of Cole and Jim Younger, of the famous James-Younger Gang. Each time they stopped sawing, they plugged the hole with soap and soot. Corrections? Part of the ill-fated Dalton raid on two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas, he survived despite receiving 23 gunshot wounds. Emmett married first name Dalton (born Arthur) on month day 1950, at age 23 at marriage place, North Carolina. Street work was being done at the time, and one of the workers noticed the men dog-trotting across the alley with rifles, and began to yell, "The Daltons are robbing the bank!" The Dalton Gang's criminal enterprise was ended on October 5, 1892 when they attempted to rob two banks at once in Coffeyville, Kansas. His contributions to researching the Dalton surname and his family lines will always be enshrined in the Dalton Chronicles. Kay stopped Grat in the street and said, "Say, I hear you have some two-dollar bills. The newly formed Oklahoma Territory had organized their own sheriff and city police departments, but there was so far very little cooperation between them. He was married to Julia Johnson Dalton, who survived him. He also said that Grat was accompanied by Riley Dean, the man who had been arrested with Bill for the Ceres robbery, as well as a dog. Doolin, Newcomb, and Pierce visited the Daltons' mother in Kingfisher to console her after her sons' deaths. On September 21, Grat Dalton was brought into court to face sentencing, but this was instead postponed to October 6. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. This is now known as Dalton Alley. Why in the world do you suppose they went away and left me behind? Isham passed away on month day 1811, at age 71 at death place, Virginia. He then quickly charged down the mountainside tearing through the brush. Share. This mountain would later be known as Dalton Mountain. When they arrived, Bob had to think quickly, and decided instead to tie their horses in an alley across from the bank to the west, near the city jail, which offered them little protection. Emmett was able to mount his horse unwounded, and began riding away, but after noticing Bob was hit, turned around and attempted to lift Bob onto his horse. He was a saloon keeper in Kansas City, Missouri when he married Adeline Lee Younger. This train was always accompanied by a crowd of gamblers and prostitutes looking to make money off the recently paid employees, and Grat and Bob had "followed the pay car" together several times before. Littleton "Litt" Dalton, who was a good and hard-working citizen, believed that his younger siblings became lawless because of the bad influence of . Threatened with prison time, Smith told Kay that Middleton could be followed to Dalton's camp when he carried him supplies. Bill was finally able to get a loan on some horses from a local rancher, but they were still short one saddle and one of the horses was not fit for a hard ride. After Kay finished talking to the cleaner, Deputy George Witty reported to him that telegrams from the coast said Bill was not in Paso Robles or Estrella. The three returned fire and held out, waiting for the time lock to open. Bill Powers was somewhat of a man of mystery. Knowing that Kay was hot on their trail, they traveled east through Arizona into New Mexico. When approached by Kay, Bill told him, "The boys were there when I went to sleep, and when I awakened they had unlocked and gone. Ayres was not killed, but he remained paralyzed for life. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. ", "Emmett Dalton Biography Oct. 5-10, 1892", "The Eagles on Desperado: "We were quite taken with the idea of being outlaws", "Emmett Dalton His Life After the Coffeyville Raid", "Heck Thomas Tough Law in Indian Territory", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dalton_Gang&oldid=1142764666, Articles needing additional references from December 2022, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Charles Benjamin "Ben" Dalton (18521936).