", "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). Kay talked to their mother for several hours and she even invited him in for breakfast. Emmett married first name Dalton (born Arthur) on month day 1950, at age 23 at marriage place, North Carolina. The next morning, Grat called Wagy over to his cell and asked him where he got such a cold. Grat heard the revolver shots from the Express agent. Group of outlaws in the American Old West, This article is about the group of outlaws. As they approached the camp the bootleggers began to fire on them. Bob and Emmett were able to steal horses and riding rigs. 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. 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. Richard Henry Dick Dalton, 85, of Columbia City, died peacefully at 9:40 a.m. Thursday, November 11, 2021, at his home. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. The family will receive friends at the Willis Funeral Home on Saturday from 6:00 - 7:30 P. M. Interment will be Monday, March 6, 2023, at 12:30 P. M. at the Chattanooga National Cemetery. 4346 Bailey Ave, Amherst, NY 14226-2133 +1 716-838-2233 Website. James Lewis Dalton from Jackson County, Missouri and Kentucky was the father of all four boys. Then, noticing the vault door was open, Grat ordered both of them into the vault, where the safe with the gold was. Emmett Dalton was born on month day 1927, to Percy Dalton and Laney Dalton (born Shields). The most Dalton families were found in USA in 1880. Many newspapers at the time assumed that an unknown member of the gang escaped. 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. Grat had already been known in the San Joaquin Valley as a heavy drinker, fighter, and gambler, so when Kay passed Grat on the street while in Modesto his deputy George Witty was easily able to recognize him. Tom Evans, on the other hand, was reported to be the fraternal twin of outlaw Chris Evans, who at the time of the Coffeyville raid was a fugitive hiding out in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains. After they realized they were no longer being pursued, Bob and Emmett began to form what would be known as the Dalton Gang. Almost all of Beckenridge's witnesses were bar keepers, gamblers, saloon hanger-ons, or pimps. She was born on April 10, 1956, in Berea, Kentucky, the daughter of the late John M. & Eliza Jane (Isaacs) Webb. Kay telegraphed his deputy George Witty and told him to check on Bill Dalton and to immediately notify him when he was found. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. [12], Lit, the last surviving Dalton brother, responded to a book written by his brother Emmett after the latter's death. During the robbery, one member of the gang and four citizens were killed in a shootout. Grat ordered Elwood to unhitch one of his horses, which he did. Emmett Dalton received 23 gunshot wounds and survived (he was shot through the right arm, below the shoulder, through the left right, in some accounts hip and groin, and received 18-23 buckshot in his back). Kay and his men made their way to a rock ledge that Middleton told them would bring them within a few feet above Dalton's camp. Following behind Marshal Connelly was John Kloehr, still in the stable. Kay knew that, besides Beckenridge's sabotage of the case, Grat would probably be found innocent and their case against Bob and Emmett would fall through. Teresa was a member of the Full Gospel Outreach Church and . Grat, Broadwell, and Powers entered the Condon Bank and Emmett and Bob hurried across Union Street to the First National Bank. During an attempted double bank robbery in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1892, two of the brothers and two other gang members were killed; Emmett Dalton survived, was captured, and later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder,[1] although he later asserted that he never fired a shot during the robbery. Leading the pursuit was Bob's old friend, Deputy Marshal Heck Thomas, whose renown skills as a deputy kept the gang constantly on the move and in hiding. The cellmates would sing and talk to drown out the sound of the saw. Numerous myths were published about the gang. While Bill was playing his guitar, Wagy noticed that he was trying to cover up where the break had been made. Simon Noel Dalton (a twin) b. On the morning of Oct. 5, 1892, Bob, Grat, and Emmett, together with Dick Broadwell and Bill Powers, rode into Coffeyville, Kan., intent upon robbing the towns two banks. Emmett thought Grat would mess things up if he went alone with Powers and Broadwell, and thought they should trade places. After getting tired of waiting, they left, only to learn later the fate of the gang.[10]. 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. Connect to the World Family Tree to find out. Standing with his back towards him was Bill Dalton, watching the horses and buggy Kay had just left, while nervously working the lever of his winchester. Unless there was a high enough reward being offered, they would instead choose to focus their attention on petty criminals. The ride from Mojave to Barstow almost cost them their lives, as they only saw water once in those seventy-five miles of desert. The Dalton Gang was a group of outlaws in the American Old West during 18901892. Neither was he in Merced or Livingston. Kay's buggy was directly facing the setting sun, so they could not tell who the men were. [11] He was given a life sentence in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas, of which he served 14 years before being pardoned. Unclaimed. They started stealing horses to make more money, and then fled the area. Kay learned at the train depot that Bob and Emmett had bought tickets to Ogden and were carrying large telescope bags with them. Born December 3, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, he was a son of the late Winston S. and Walburga (Petersen) Dalton. Short took the prisoner back and placed him in the baggage car. Bill Dalton agreed to join them and soon took part in several robberies, but Lit refused in disgust. ", 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. On June 1, 1892, the gang robbed the Santa Fe train at a small station called Red Rock at 10pm. After being found innocent by a Visalia jury, Bill was acquitted and released on October 15. Their older cousins were the outlaw Younger brothers. Taking fire from the hardware store, Bob was hit in the head and the heart, killing him instantly. Short then went to the rear platform with his rifle. Bob shot him in the head, killing him. They decided to form a gang and started robbing trains and banks. Bob and Emmett were hiding out in a ranch barn a mile west of Malaga, and after arriving the brothers talked until morning. Emmett was sentenced to life in the state prison at Lansing, Kansas, by Judge J.D. Bob saw Ayres from about 200ft away and quickly shot him in the head. Updates? Bill had returned to Oklahoma several months earlier, living at his mother's house near Kingsfisher. He is the cowboy in charge of it all, and now current governor of Montana. 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!" After making the opening, they ran around the corridors, kitchen, and basement for several nights. They had no children. The family traces back to Abraham Lehmann, a cattle merchant in Rimpar, Bavaria, who changed his Yiddish (German-Jewish) surname Lw (Loeb) to the German . Arrangements by Willis Funeral Home, LLC, Dalton, Georgia. A very large portion in the Oregon Area as well! Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. 6 July 1879, d. 6 Jul 1879 in MO. Bob pretended not to know Emmett, who then tipped him off to the hands of the others. 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. After being left on the sidewalk by Bob and Emmett, Thomas Ayres had run into one of the hardware stores and grabbed a rifle. Marshal S.T. In 1910 he bacame a special Peace Officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was married to Julia Johnson Dalton, who survived him. Grat first rode to Charles Owen's ranch across from Clovis Cole where he stayed for a few days. The road curved behind some willow trees, and Kay told Witty to drive past the house, passing close to the door, and then to drive back. Thinking they had lost Kay, Bob and Emmett headed to their mother outside of Kingfisher. James Lewis Dalton from Jackson County, Missouri and Kentucky was the father of all four boys. Bob had planned for the gang to tie their horses to a post behind the Condon Bank, where it was protected from the center of town by brick walls. The eight armed guards on the train all happened to be at the back of the train when it pulled in. There were three Dalton brothers in the gang: Emmett "Em" Dalton, born in 1871; Robert "Bob" Renick Dalton, born 1869; and Gratton "Grat" Dalton, born 1861. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dalton-Brothers, Okhlahoma Historical Society - Dalton Gang, Dalton brothers - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). After the escape, Beck separated from the others and went north, while Grat and Smith went to a friend of Grat's named Joe Middleton, who lived in Hanford. Kay had Bill put his rifle down, backed him into the front room, and checked him for any other weapons. James Dalton Hatcher Obituary. Kay assumed that they were probably headed to El Paso, so he and Ford reentered the United States at Douglas. The men split into three groups to cover all approaches to the camp. Grat could not see the yard Wagy had laid in from his cell and the deputy hadn't told anyone what he had done that night. In the album the disastrous double bank robbery of Coffeyville, Kansas is depicted but different to what took place, Emmett Dalton is seen killed along with his brothers which also include Bill Dalton who actually never took part in the raid. By 1882, the family lived in northeast Oklahoma and by 1886 they had moved to Coffeyville in southeast Kansas. Delynn Jorgensen 7/29/12. He died in Los Angeles on July 13, 1937. The night before the robbery at Red Rock, Judge Burford, US District Attorney for Oklahoma Horace Speed, and deputy marshal George Yoes (son of Marshal Jacob Yoes, the Daltons former employer at Fort Smith) were sitting in a hotel lobby in Kingfisher, where they were talking about the cases that would be in court the next day. While six men were confirmed to had been seen riding into town, other witnesses that day were all in agreement that upon reaching town there were only five men in the group. After he left, the judge asked Yoes who the man was, as he seemed educated and well-informed. Unlike the marshals office, the Osage Police paid a monthly salary. The plan was that Bob and Emmett were to rob the First National Bank while Grat, Broadwell, and Powers robbed the Condon Bank across the street. Smith was told to leave and both Bill and Grat agreed to tell their story, but only if they showed that there was no first degree murder in the robbery. This Section of the Data Bank contains anecdotes, short stories and whimsical tales of Daltons throughout history. He then put the baggage man in charge of Bryant and gave him his revolver. Gloria Satterfield died on Feb. 8, 2018. Emmet's grave is pictured in the final panel of the story alongside his brothers and a sign that says "The Daltons died without taking their boots off" Each grave has the hat of the respective owner placed on the Crucifix with Bob Dalton's being shredded with bullet holes. Ford drew his revolver and ran into another store to the alley to cut them off, but soon lost them. He had Bill lift the carpet and open the trap door and, instead of Bob, they discovered a man named Riley Dean, a saloon hanger-on from Visalia and Traver. First recruited were George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb and "Blackfaced" Charlie Bryant, who had received his nickname because of a gunpowder burn on one cheek. If someone in the gang had escaped, there would be nothing gained by Emmett for admitting it. In the gunfight, 200 shots were fired. He was a saloon keeper in Kansas City, Missouri when he married Adeline Lee Younger. Father of Roy Reynolds Dalton The Dalton Gang's criminal enterprise was ended on October 5, 1892 when they attempted to rob two banks at once in Coffeyville, Kansas. Grat then rode to a home seven miles south of Livingston, the home of his friend ex-supervisor W.W. Gray. After Bob and Grat were killed at Coffeyville, Bill Dalton formed another gang with Bill Doolin, known as the Wild Bunch or the Dalton-Doolin Gang. There is the head of the family, John (Kevin. Late that night, they received a telegram notifying them that men matching the description of Bob and Emmett were seen taking a southbound train many miles south of Salt Lake. Grat and Middleton told Smith they planned to hide out in the Coast Range and invited him to come with them. Notes from Obituaries. The Daltons told their stories, but neither Kay or Beckenridge ever cleared up the murder point and ruined Grat's case. Broadwell was hit several times, but managed to ride away. Kay did not think much of this until later, when Perry Byrd mentioned Chris breaking Grat out of jail. Tuvia, who had been protected farther to the northalong with a few family membersby non-Jews, soon joined his brothers. Charles Dalton 18 Oct 1850 Little Catalina, Newfoundland - 10 Oct 1904 managed by Stan Vardy. He's uprooted his life as a Tennessee farmer in search of a better life as part of the Westward Expansion. 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. Bob and Emmett then made their way to the end of the back alley onto Eighth Street, where they could hear the townspeople shooting at the Condon Bank. Kay tracked the Daltons to their mother's home, and kept watch of the house for a few days before being forced to return to Kingfisher because of bad weather. Each time they stopped sawing, they plugged the hole with soap and soot. Emmett Dalton survived the raid but received 23 gunshot wounds. This was unknown to Grat, since the Dalton brothers had all assumed that Emmett had killed the fireman. 6 Jul 1879, d. 13 Sep 1928 in Oklahoma City. Smith, Sheriff Kay learned from them that Grat had actually made the opening in the bars several days before the robbery after being slipped a saw from someone on the outside. Though much of the evidence showed that Grat was in Fresno the night of the Alila robbery, including the testimony of several witnesses, the influence of the powerful Southern Pacific Railroad caused him to receive an unfair trial. None of the Dalton gang was hit. The Dalton brothers were raised in a large family of mostly well-mannered siblings. Kay and his deputy went to Ogden where they notified the police to keep watch for the Daltons. Re: The Dalton Gang family tree or offspring. He then corrected himself, saying that he meant Bill Powers. This, of course, is where Yellowstone takes place, and is where James settles his family after the death of his only daughter, Elsa Dutton. There they played poker all night and won $100. Emmett had 4 siblings: Elsie Bosiger (born Dalton (Bosiger)) and 3 other siblings. [18] No one then or later asked him about the horse tending remark, but it couldn't have referred to Bill Powers because his role as an active participant is well recorded. 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. ", Jim Wagy also showed up after the break out to overlook the scene. 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. They then robbed the next train a few minutes later, securing about $50,000. Right as she said this, Kay heard someone rush across the floor of an adjoining room and through the crack in the door he could see a man taking position at the window. 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. Eddie Milton Payne, age 78, of Dalton, Georgia, passed away Monday February 27, 2023 at Hamilton Medical Center. Dalton was born to Lewis and Adeline Dalton and was the youngest of the Dalton brothers. The three went out the side door crouching and dashing across Walnut Street to the alley where they had hitched their horses. Grat's trial didn't start until that June and it lasted three weeks. At first, it looked to Kay as if it had been an inside job as it was obvious Grat had simply unlocked the cell door with a key and broke through the basement window to get out. Dalton Brothers, four train and bank robbers famous in U.S. Western history: Grattan (Grat; 186192), William (Bill; 186394), Robert (Bob; 187092), and Emmett (18711937). The boys left their horses in Ludlow, which were then discovered a few weeks later by railroad detectives. As a former lawman, Bob knew the difficulty officers had enforcing laws in Indian and Oklahoma Territories. Build your family tree online ; Share photos and videos ; Smart Matching technology Kay suspected that this was probably the work of some suspects he had from Visalia, but the railroad detectives demanded the arrest of the remaining Dalton brothers. 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. In 1840 there were 39 Dalton families living in Virginia. Cubine's partner, Charles Brown, was standing unarmed next to him and went to pick up his Winchester. Attention: . The brother of James Dutton, Jacob (Harrison Ford) became the family patriarch in his brother's stead in the early 1900s. The second train robbery by the Dalton Gang in Oklahoma was at a small station called Lelietta on September 15, 1891, about four miles north of Wagoner, Oklahoma. In El Paso, they found out that Bob and Emmett had headed to Albuquerque and then took the train to Topeka, Kansas, where the rail ended. Hello!". By Stephanie Dalton March 03, 2008 at 03:10:47 Hello, I am trying to find a family tree for the Dalton family of which 2 members of the Dalton gang are from. Bob and Emmett ran through the back door and ducked into a saloon across the alley. The Journal acknowledged witnesses statements then and in a later article that there were two major unanswered questions: who was the sixth man seen riding into town with the gang, and what happened to him? Bill told Kay that Bob was not in the country, that he had stopped at Rucker's place alone to spend the night. Bill Dalton and Bill Doolin had been waiting several miles away with extra horses to aid the gang's escape. Frank shot and killed two, but his gun jammed and he was killed by the remaining bootlegger. 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.
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