Following behind Marshal Connelly was John Kloehr, still in the stable. 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. But that is not known. The deputy handed the message to Judge Burford, who read it aloud to the audience. Kay knew this was untrue as he had seen two men cross the road. 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. Angered by the charges against Grat and Bill which he knew to be false, Bob decided that the best way to help his brothers would be to acquire enough money to pay for their bail and defense. Also wounded were captains Kinney and LaFlore, but they recovered. He was found 2 miles away, dead. He then corrected himself, saying that he meant Bill Powers. He asked Latta not to publish the information until after his death.[13]. Family Tree. The three then rode to the ranch of Clovis Cole, northeast of Fresno, and asked Lit if he could furnish them a horse and saddle. Two hardware stores in the town had, meanwhile, begun passing out guns to the local civilians, who began firing through the windows at the Condon Bank. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Kay asked Rucker if there was anyone else around and she replied that there wasn't. 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 then rode to a home seven miles south of Livingston, the home of his friend ex-supervisor W.W. Gray. This family hails from Tennessee, but eventually ends up in Montana by 1883's end. They had no children. Grat ordered the employees to lay on the floor in the back office, and after receiving the signal from Bob, told Powers and Broadwell that it was time to leave. [15] Chris was also reported by a Visalia newspaper to have attended every day of Grat's trial for the Alila robbery. Cubine's partner, Charles Brown, was standing unarmed next to him and went to pick up his Winchester. Most officers believed that Grat immediately escaped the county, but Sheriff Kay thought otherwise. Why in the world do you suppose they went away and left me behind? 6 Jul 1879, d. 13 Sep 1928 in Oklahoma City. 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. In August 1891, Charlie Bryant was spotted in Hennessey, Oklahoma, after leaving the gang's hideout to visit his brother in Mulhall. The sawing was hid from the jailer by a large box that they would put a blanket over and use to play cards. Eddie Milton Payne, age 78, of Dalton, Georgia, passed away Monday February 27, 2023 at Hamilton Medical Center. He offered to admit this in court if Grat and Bill told the true story of the robbery. Soon after, Jim Ford noticed Emmett exit a department store, who quickly ducked back inside upon noticing Kay. At the station, the gang took what they could find in the express and baggage rooms. Chris had continually attested his innocence and any confirmation of his already rumored association with the Dalton Gang would have damaged his case. Yoes told the judge that he was Bill Dalton, the brother of the notorious train robbers, and the judge asked him to introduce them when he came to breakfast. 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. Kay's buggy was directly facing the setting sun, so they could not tell who the men were. Grat first rode to Charles Owen's ranch across from Clovis Cole where he stayed for a few days. The first look into the Dutton family technically began with Yellowstone, but the first branch of the family tree is filled out with the characters we met in its prequel, 1883. The lawmen aimed their rifles at the man and Hensley ordered him to drop his rifle and unbuckle his revolver belt. Around eleven, they noticed Dalton and Dean returning from their hunt, so they sent deputy Perry Byrd to go and retrieve Kay. By 1882, the family lived in northeast Oklahoma and by 1886 they had moved to Coffeyville in southeast Kansas. He was a saloon keeper in Kansas City, Missouri when he married Adeline Lee Younger. Even though Sheriff Kay had given up his pursuit of the boys, they still had a $3000 bounty on their heads posted by Wells Fargo and the Southern Pacific Railroad, encouraging lawmen in the area to pick up where Kay had left off. They cut through Antelope Valley and skirted the desert down to San Diego County before taking the old trail to Yuma. A later report in the Visalia Times-Delta, a major newspaper in Visalia, California, attributed to "a relative of Mrs. Evans" (most likely Chris Evans brother-in-law Perry Byrd, a deputy of Sheriff Gene Kay) stated, "Tom Evans killed at Coffeyville, Kansas, when the Dalton brothers made their famous raid on the banks of that town, was the twin brother of Chris."[19]. Short then turned and the two shot each other to death. For a time, Bill Doolin and his partners operated under outlaw Henry Starr (Cherokee), hiding out about 75 miles northeast of Kingfisher, from where they made several raids. 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. Before they could leave however, they received another telegram notifying them that the two were spotted in the southern part of Utah. Several civilians were wounded in the fighting. 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. Lit noticed that Grat's horse was indeed limp and agreed to help Grat sell it. Meanwhile, Emmett and Bob had entered the First National Bank, covered the officers and two customers, and ordered the cashier, Thomas Ayres, to open the safe with gold and cash. Kay noticed the bills were perfectly new and asked Grat where he got them. 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. On the night of September 27, Grat and two cellmates, Arvil Beck and W.B. lton, Louis Kossuth Dalton, Beatrice "bea" "lelia" Elizabeth Dalton, Littleton Dalton, Franklin P "frank" D James Lewis Dalton, Adeline Lee (6) Dalton (born Younger). https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dalton-Brothers, Okhlahoma Historical Society - Dalton Gang, Dalton brothers - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). While Bill was playing his guitar, Wagy noticed that he was trying to cover up where the break had been made. Before the Coffeyville raid, Bill Dalton had returned to Oklahoma, later joining Bill Doolins gang and then forming his own gang. Kay hung around Grat for a few hours and talked to him most of the time until Witty returned. ratton Hanley DALTON, Charles Benjamin DALTON, Henry Coleman DALTON, Litlleton Lee DALTON, William Mason DALTON, Eva May DALTON, Robert R "Angeles, July 14.W)A retired and respected citiaen at his death, James Lewis Dalton, Adelaine Sullivan Dalton (born Younger). When he returned the next day to watch the house, he discovered that Bob and Emmett had escaped. Their only grandchild with the surname Dalton was Charles Coleman Dalton. Let me look at one." Kay assumed that they were probably headed to El Paso, so he and Ford reentered the United States at Douglas. Kay suspected that Bob and Emmett might be back in California to free Grat from jail, and took Deputy Witty with him to the Cross Creek station in his buggy. They did however find pieces of a file and a hack saw blade in the prisoner's toilet. In August 1888, the two formed a posse to arrest a man named Charley Montgomery. Bob and Emmett then took a train headed back to Needles before stopping at Kingman. He then quickly charged down the mountainside tearing through the brush. In January 1889, Grat and Bob both became deputies first under Marshal Jones and later under Marshal R.L. Bill Dalton agreed to join them and soon took part in several robberies, but Lit refused in disgust. Ignoring the advice of the people in Hennessy, he also took the prisoner without a guard. Deputy Witty entered shortly after, and was told by Kay to go in the room and grab Bill's rifle. Ken Haas 4/22/12. Tuvia, who had been protected farther to the northalong with a few family membersby non-Jews, soon joined his brothers. In 189091 they took to robbing gambling houses, trains, and banks and were joined by their brother Bill, until then a married, respectable citizen, whose career had been wrecked by his being linked to his brothers. A very large portion in the Oregon Area as well! He is the cowboy in charge of it all, and now current governor of Montana. Kay and his deputy were following only one or two days behind them, but couldn't get any officers at the towns ahead of them to make an arrest. 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. He is known for portraying James Bond in The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989), as well as Rhett Butler in the television miniseries Scarlett (1994), an original sequel to Gone with the Wind. [14] Most of Sheriff Kay's information on Chris Evans came from his deputy Perry Byrd, who also happened to be Evans' brother-in-law, but Kay had other supporting information as well. Emmett Dalton was born on month day 1927, to Percy Dalton and Laney Dalton (born Shields). Kay and Ford traveled the fifty miles to Guthrie, but soon came into problems when dealing with different tribal jurisdictions. Condolences can be left for the family at www.mynattfh.com. The only agency with jurisdiction over the whole territory was the U.S. In 1910 he bacame a special Peace Officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The gang specialized in bank and train robberies. Emmett had 4 siblings: Elsie Bosiger (born Dalton (Bosiger)) and 3 other siblings. Bill Dalton and Bill Doolin had been waiting several miles away with extra horses to aid the gang's escape. The Dalton Gang was a group of outlaws in the American Old West during 18901892. Coleman Dalton, Louis Kossuth Dalton, Littleton Lee Lit Dalton, Franklin Frank Dalton, Gratton Grat Hanley Dalton, William Bill Mason Wil farmers of this country. Simon Noel Dalton (a twin) b. Looking to earn more money, Bob also became part of the Osage Nation police force in addition to his job as a deputy. 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. The Lehman family is a prominent family of Jewish German-Americans who founded the financial firm Lehman Brothers.Some were also involved in American politics. Kay learned at the train depot that Bob and Emmett had bought tickets to Ogden and were carrying large telescope bags with them. James Lewis Dalton from Jackson County, Missouri and Kentucky was the father of all four boys. When Jim approached Bill said, "Jim, the birds have flown." Marshal S.T. Timothy Peter Dalton (born 21 March 1946) is a Welsh actor of film and television. Kay nudged the door open with his elbow, aimed his revolver at Bill and said, "Bill! Re: The Dalton Gang family tree or offspring. The man was Riley Dean and he did as he was told. 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. For some reason, however, the body was buried as Bill Powers. When Bill and Dean were acquitted, Bill was rearrested by Kay after his bondsmen were convinced to withdraw by detective Hume. 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. Brothers Lit and Bill Dalton were also visiting their mother, and Doolin proposed that they join his group to avenge their brothers. However, four of the 15 children loom large in western outlaw folklore: Grat, Bob, Bill and Emmett Dalton. Virginia had the highest population of Dalton families in 1840. Marshals Service, but it was quickly becoming fragmented due to power struggles between newly formed district courts and jealousy between marshals over their different jurisdictions. He was married to Julia Johnson Dalton, who survived him. As they approached the camp the bootleggers began to fire on them. Bill had been in a separate cell from Grat, located upstairs. Part of the ill-fated Dalton raid on two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas, he survived despite receiving 23 gunshot wounds. Threatened with prison time, Smith told Kay that Middleton could be followed to Dalton's camp when he carried him supplies. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death of James Dalton Hatcher of Bono, Arkansas, who passed away on February 28, 2023, at the age of 66, leaving to mourn family and friends. Many members of the gang, including Emmett, complained that the $3500 each was not enough to meet their needs. One of the brothers moved to oklahoma yet died in California. I haven't seen one since I left Missouri. After their unsuccessful career in California, they decided they could do much better in their home country, and unlike their first attempts, they began carefully planning their robberies. Delynn Jorgensen 7/29/12. 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. Kay found out that, before they had arrived, Bob and Emmett had got into a fight at one of the saloons there and badly beat up two cowboys before leaving for Topeka. Since Grat's location was in Fresno County, Kay telegraphed Sheriff Hensley in Fresno, and the two made plans to assemble a posse in Centerville. 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). He told Kay that Grat's camp was on a steep mountain in the Sierra Nevada, close to the Kings River and about fifteen miles northeast of Sanger, but that they would never find the place. The brother of James Dutton, Jacob (Harrison Ford) became the family patriarch in his brother's stead in the early 1900s. Isham had 10 siblings: david Dalton Sr. of Rutherford Co. NC, James Dalton and 8 other siblings. Grat was taken back to jail to await his sentence. At about 8am, a telegraph messenger came into the room and handed the deputy marshal a telegram, reporting the robbery at Red Rock by the Daltons at 10pm the previous night. Unclaimed. detective Will Smith, and Wells Fargo detectives Hume and Thacker arrived to bring the two men to Modesto to stand trial for the Ceres robbery. The ride from Mojave to Barstow almost cost them their lives, as they only saw water once in those seventy-five miles of desert. This was also confirmed by Lit Dalton who had also attended the trial and claimed to have had several hour long conversations with Evans.[16]. Middleton had been threatened by Dalton for not helping him escape the country fast enough and was afraid of him. Son of James Lewis Dalton and Adeline Lee Dalton Officers were watching Lit at Clovis Cole's, but didn't think to watch Owen's place. Teresa was a member of the Full Gospel Outreach Church and . The next day, Christmas Eve, 1891, the posse of both Sheriff Kay and Sheriff Hensley woke up at three in the morning and ascended the mountain to Dalton's camp. Notes from Obituaries. A storekeeper who was sweeping the sidewalk a few feet away noticed Bob, Emmett, and even Grat, who was wearing a fake mustache, and ran inside his store. 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. He was married to Julia Johnson Dalton, who survived him. He then went to Fresno to check on Lit and Cole Dalton, and was convinced of the same. Bob and Emmett ran through the back door and ducked into a saloon across the alley. Bill immediately threw his guitar on the bed and exclaimed, "Now what in the world do you know about that? Dont stop looking you will find out! Lit said that Emmett's book, When the Daltons Rode (1931), was largely fabrication. He would, he claimed, "beat anything Jesse James ever didrob two banks at once, in broad daylight." Sometime before the Alila robbery, but after Grat, Bob and Emmett had all arrived at Bill's ranch in 1890, Grat had been rumored to have been in possession of rare two dollar bills. When Bill left Barstow by train towards Needles, he decided the boys could not make the trip by horseback so he stopped in Ludlow to intercept them. Members have married into the prominent Morgenthau, Loeb, and Bronfman families.. Afraid to go near them, Bill left out supplies and food, while there were several times the boys visited Bill's house at night. He is buried in the family plot in Kingfisher, OK. Simon and Minnie had no children. Each time they stopped sawing, they plugged the hole with soap and soot. His deputy abandoned him after being wounded. 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. After the robbery at Adair, officials of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad offered a reward of $40,000 for anyone who could capture and convict the Dalton Gang, and a reward of $5,000 for the arrest of any of them.[8]. The Dalton Chronicles consists of articles contributed by the late DGS Member Rodney Garth Dalton of Utah who passed away on August 28th, 2012. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. This was on the property of a man named Jim Riley, about eight miles from the present-day town of Taloga, Oklahoma. Sterling, MontgomeryCO, KY Died: 16 Jul 1890 in Dearing, KS Father: Benjamin DALTON Mother: Nancy RABOURN Generations earlier, James Lewis Dalton's (D'Alton) forbears had left France for Ireland. 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. Grat dropped to the ground and rolled into a gulch about ten feet away. They started stealing horses to make more money, and then fled the area. Geni requires JavaScript! He then rode away with the dog running ahead of him. He was a saloon keeper in Kansas City, Missouri when he married Adeline Lee Younger. While their older brother "Bill" Dalton never joined any heists, he served as their spy and informant. 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). Leave a sympathy message to the family in the guestbook on this memorial page of James Dalton Hatcher to show support. 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. Kay was given a white card from Mexican officials as well as offered a military escort. Thinking it might be Bob, Kay demanded that Bill tell him where he was. There was also little incentive among Deputy Marshals to search for potentially dangerous outlaws, their only pay being for fees and a set amount for each criminal they arrested. Grat went to the back office and ordered the manager into the front, he then handed the cashier a sack bag and ordered him to fill it with cash from the money drawer. 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. Bob and Emmett were hiding out in a ranch barn a mile west of Malaga, and after arriving the brothers talked until morning. While the Indian Nations had their own tribal law enforcement, these agencies had no jurisdiction over non-Indians. This also suggests that John Dalton was not a young man, and this could have been a second wife. Hello!". The brothers who were members of the Dalton Gang were Bob, Grat, Emmett, and Bill.[4]. Here, the Santa Fe had found out about the Daltons' plans and attempted to set up a trap for the gang, filling the train with heavily armed officers. 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. After Bill and Riley Dean were brought to the Visalia jail, Sheriff Pervis of Stanislaus County, S.P. 108 reviews #16 of 84 Restaurants in Amherst $$ - $$$ American Greek Vegetarian Friendly. Emmett, however, was against the idea. Kay promised Middleton secrecy, and a horse and buggy, if he led him to within a half mile of Dalton's camp. Emmett Dalton survived the raid but received 23 gunshot wounds (as referenced on Q102). They sat to wait for the next train on a bench on the platform, talking and smoking, with their Winchester rifles across their knees. He was born to Lewis and Adeline Dalton and was the youngest of the Dalton brothers. 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. When Emmett and Bob went out the back door of the First National Bank, they were met by Lucius Baldwin, who had been watching the door with his pistol. This was in addition to the jailer, J.M. Bill arrived in Paso Robles and was arrested by Sheriff Kay fifteen minutes after getting off the train and was taken to Visalia. Doctors W. L. Goff and Youngblood were sitting on the porch of the drug store near the depot. They were recognized and, coming out of one bank, were met by wild gunfire from vigilante citizens. The boys left their horses in Ludlow, which were then discovered a few weeks later by railroad detectives. When we first meet the Duttons owners of the sprawling Yellowstone-Dutton Ranch in Montana we see right away this is no ordinary family. On September 21, Grat Dalton was brought into court to face sentencing, but this was instead postponed to October 6. The Journal reported that, "no one has yet been found who knows him or anything of his antecedents or history." James Lewis Dalton and Adeline (Younger) Dalton (whose sons gave their name to the Dalton gang) had fifteen children and ten of those fifteen were boys.

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