Kay asked Rucker if there was anyone else around and she replied that there wasn't. After pointing out the location of the camp, Middleton left in a hurry and the two posses spent the night on the living room floor of the nearby Elwood ranch. Detective Smith decided to chime in, but Grat said he wouldn't say a word while Smith was present. Emmett, however, was against the idea. As soon as the judge had finished, Bill announced, "Well, I can prove that I was not there, and not by accident either."[6]. Married to Cara, he worked the Dutton homestead alongside his nephew,. Four of the gang were killed in the ensuing gun fight. He was found 2 miles away, dead. Grat shipped his saddle and riding rig to Delano and took the train to Traver where he met Bob and Emmett. Joining afterwards were Bill Doolin, Dick Broadwell, Bill Powers, and Charley Pierce. The deep canyons of the area, covered with dwarf cedar and blackjack oaks, made it an ideal hiding place. Then, noticing the vault door was open, Grat ordered both of them into the vault, where the safe with the gold was. Wagy told him that he must've slept in a draft, to which Grat replied, "Yes, it must have been pretty cold in the yard over there last night." They had no children. All in the band were killed except Emmett, who was wounded and spent 14 years in Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing. Emmett married Julia Johnson Lewis on September 1, 1908 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. After being found innocent by a Visalia jury, Bill was acquitted and released on October 15. From Phoenix, Kay followed the Daltons by horse and stage from Prescott, Gila Bend, Tucson, and then to Nogales, Mexico. This would've been while Grat was on active duty as Deputy Marshal in Indian Territory, but Sheriff Kay claimed that Grat had told him that he had made two extended trips to California while serving as U.S. After the train left Hennessey, and was approaching the stop at Waukomis, Oklahoma, Short noticed a group of mounted men who looked as if they were trying to beat the train, and feared it was the Dalton Gang coming to free Bryant. Their older cousins were the outlaw Younger brothers.
Alex Murdaugh and family linked to 3 more mysterious deaths - nypost.com Both men were hit several times by stray shots; Dr Goff was fatally wounded. 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. After securing bondsmen, Bill immediately went to Merced and hired John W. Beckenridge, the best attorney in the San Joaquin Valley, to defend Grat. Doolin, Newcomb, and Pierce visited the Daltons' mother in Kingfisher to console her after her sons' deaths. This is now known as Dalton Alley. Kay and Ford traveled the fifty miles to Guthrie, but soon came into problems when dealing with different tribal jurisdictions. 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.
When The Daltons Were Here - 209 Magazine Sheriff Kay soon learned of the horses at Ludlow and that the description of the men who left them matched that of Bob and Emmett. People . Father of Roy Reynolds Dalton Without making any noise, Bryant went to the messagebox and secured the revolver. On the morning of October 5, the gang emerged from the alley onto the plaza of Coffeyville. 6 July 1879, d. 6 Jul 1879 in MO. Bill immediately threw his guitar on the bed and exclaimed, "Now what in the world do you know about that? Numerous myths were published about the gang. Looking to earn more money, Bob also became part of the Osage Nation police force in addition to his job as a deputy. With the help of non-Jewish friends, they began to collect guns to protect themselves.
Dalton Family History | Find Genealogy Records & Family Crest Bob shot him in the head, killing him. 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. He then quickly charged down the mountainside tearing through the brush. The Journal then went to state that, "The other dead body proved to be that of Tom Evans" and marked number six on their map of the shooting area as "Where Tom Evans fell" and in three other references to him The Journal called him Tom. 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. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. On the night of February 6, 1891, two masked men carrying 44-calibre revolvers held up a Southern Pacific Railroad passenger train near the town of Alila (present day Earlimart, California).
The Dalton gang story : lawmen to outlaws - familysearch.org The Daltons had plenty of friends in the area willing to hide them and easily lost Kay once they were in familiar territory. By 1889, however, they had drifted into horse stealing, while still wearing badges, and a year later were discredited and forced out of policing altogether and took up horse thievery full-time, gathering together a gang. Send flowers to the service of Pastor Terence Hundrey Hambrick Following behind Marshal Connelly was John Kloehr, still in the stable. As he lifted the rifle up, Bob shot and killed him. Kay and Ford checked all the stages and trains out of Ogden and telegraphed ahead of all others. He soon discovered a worn place in the carpet and found a trap door hidden underneath. He was married to Julia Johnson Dalton, who survived him.
Payne, Eddie Milton (Dalton) - Chattanoogan.com Henry Coleman "cole" Dalton, Bea Elizabeth "lelia" Dalton, Franklin "frank" (U.s. Marshall) Dalton, Willia Dennis and Heather, Source: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8861394, OkieSeeker, Source: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=25161106, Dennis Pleau, Source: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=86873301, Cas Co, Belton, Cass County, Missouri, United States, Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, United States, Kingfisher Cemetery, Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States, Bill Dalton (co-leader of the Wild Bunch), Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, 1791-1963, Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States. Grat rode away from the house, jumped the horse over an old rock fence, and began yelling and firing his revolver in the air so that Dean would know that he had escaped. This, of course, is where Yellowstone takes place, and is where James settles his family after the death of his only daughter, Elsa Dutton. Short took the prisoner back and placed him in the baggage car. Emmett Dalton (May 3, 1871 July 13, 1937) was a train robber and member of the Dalton Gang in the American Old West. The four future outlaws first worked as cowboys, but, in 1887, their older brother Frank, a federal deputy marshal, was killed by whiskey runners; in deference, Grat, Bob, and Emmett pinned on lawmens badges. Grave of Dalton gang in Coffeyville, Kansas, Bob Dalton, with an unidentified woman (possibly Eugenia Moore), May 9, 1889. When we first meet the Duttons owners of the sprawling Yellowstone-Dutton Ranch in Montana we see right away this is no ordinary family. There have been several other nominees suggested to be the sixth man seen riding into Coffeyville, including Bill Dalton, George Newcomb, and Bill Doolin, all of which have never been confirmed. Some time later, the three dissatisfied members also returned and new plans began to form. His deputy abandoned him after being wounded. The eight armed guards on the train all happened to be at the back of the train when it pulled in. After Frank's death, Grat moved back from California and took over his brother's job as deputy marshal at Fort Smith. He would, he claimed, "beat anything Jesse James ever didrob two banks at once, in broad daylight." Dalton Brothers, four train and bank robbers famous in U.S. Western history: Grattan ("Grat"; 1861-92), William ("Bill"; 1863-94), Robert ("Bob"; 1870-92), and Emmett (1871-1937). Hello!". Bob and Emmett, meanwhile, had been busy in Oklahoma forming their gang. Bob pretended not to know Emmett, who then tipped him off to the hands of the others. While their older brother "Bill" Dalton never joined any heists, he served as their spy and informant. ", 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.
The Dutton Family Tree - Yellowstone, 1883, 1923 Character Guide This was a date that Grat had no intention on making. Grat lowered his winchester, fired, and the jumped behind cover all in one quick motion. They waited until the heavy bearded, two-hundred and thirty pound man was thirty feet from them.
FAMILY TREE, Amherst - Restaurant Reviews, Photos & Phone - Tripadvisor Kay hung around Grat for a few hours and talked to him most of the time until Witty returned. Witty did have a clue from another deputy that two strange men had been seen hanging around after dark on the open plain near Traver and at the abandoned Overland Stage station at Cross Creek. The actor Tyler MacDuff portrayed Emmett Dalton in the 1957 episode of the CBS documentary drama series You Are There entitled "The End of the Dalton Gang (October 5, 1892). Grat first rode to Charles Owen's ranch across from Clovis Cole where he stayed for a few days. Late in the afternoon, Kay and Witty were about four hundred yards from the station when they saw two men crouching as they crossed the road from the old stage barn to the station.
Grat Dalton (leader of the Dalton Gang) - geni family tree Leave a sympathy message to the family in the guestbook on this memorial page of James Dalton Hatcher to show support. [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.
Emmett Dalton - Historical records and family trees - MyHeritage The baggageman carelessly stuck the revolver into a pigeon-hole messagebox and went to work at the other end of the car. 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. Broadwell was hit several times, but managed to ride away. Littleton "Litt" Dalton, who was a good and hard-working citizen, believed that his younger siblings became lawless because of the bad influence of . Sheriff Kay was forced to give up the chase in order to return to California for Grat's trial. Bob would not allow Emmett to check out the town beforehand in fear that he would be recognized, so this was not factored into their plan.
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