Deputy Witty entered shortly after, and was told by Kay to go in the room and grab Bill's rifle. They had been following the Southern Pacific pay car as it made its way down the valley from Oakland to Bakersfield to pay railroad employees. People . 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 . When the train came in at 9:45pm, they backed a wagon up to the express car and unloaded all the contents. The Dalton family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. James is also a Civil War veteran, one who suffers from PTSD in a time long before we knew what it was. Gloria Satterfield died on Feb. 8, 2018. A largely fictional film version of the Daltons' lives was adapted from Emmett's 1931 book. 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. Kay checked on his Visalia suspects, who at the time were running a livery stable in Modesto, and was convinced they were not involved with the Ceres robbery. The three returned fire and held out, waiting for the time lock to open. Bill Doolin complained that Bob was not dividing the money fairly, and accused Bob of squandering their money on women and gamblers. Powers tried to mount his horse, but shots from the store also killed him. Kay had Bill put his rifle down, backed him into the front room, and checked him for any other weapons. In 1918, he portrayed himself in the movie version of his book Beyond the Law. Doolin, Newcomb, and Pierce visited the Daltons' mother in Kingfisher to console her after her sons' deaths. Numerous myths were published about the gang. The only evidence found at the robbery was a coat made from a tailor from Visalia. With the help of non-Jewish friends, they began to collect guns to protect themselves. The locals who identified him notified a deputy marshal named Ed Short. They hid behind some rocks and an oak tree and waited as one of the men approached them. They cut through Antelope Valley and skirted the desert down to San Diego County before taking the old trail to Yuma. He offered to admit this in court if Grat and Bill told the true story of the robbery. Middleton had been threatened by Dalton for not helping him escape the country fast enough and was afraid of him. None of the Dalton gang was hit. Four of the gang were killed in the ensuing gun fight. Virginia had the highest population of Dalton families in 1840. Kay asked Rucker if there was anyone else around and she replied that there wasn't. With his revolver in hand, Kay dropped to the ground as they passed the door and slowly entered the station. Bill, thrown off his guard, quickly turned around and mimicked the greeting, "Kay! 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). 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. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. In August 1891, Charlie Bryant was spotted in Hennessey, Oklahoma, after leaving the gang's hideout to visit his brother in Mulhall. He then sold the lease to his ranch in San Luis Obispo County, moved his family to his wife's parents in Livingston, California, and left for Kingfisher. ", "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). 6 Jul 1879, d. 13 Sep 1928 in Oklahoma City. I haven't seen one since I left Missouri. Bob discovered his location in Timber Hills while Grat was away searching in Coffeyville and went ahead to lead the posse in making the arrest himself before Montgomery could escape the territory. After he left, the judge asked Yoes who the man was, as he seemed educated and well-informed. He then decided the sack bag was too heavy to carry, and ordered the silver taken out, then stashed what cash he could fit into his coat pockets. The Daltons had plenty of friends in the area willing to hide them and easily lost Kay once they were in familiar territory. When Jim approached Bill said, "Jim, the birds have flown." One of the brothers moved to oklahoma yet died in California. They missed Bob and Emmett by only twelve hours in Cananea, then lost their trail completely in Fronteras. Married to Cara, he worked the Dutton homestead alongside his nephew,. Cubine's partner, Charles Brown, was standing unarmed next to him and went to pick up his Winchester. The ride from Mojave to Barstow almost cost them their lives, as they only saw water once in those seventy-five miles of desert. Teresa was a member of the Full Gospel Outreach Church and . 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. During the robbery, one member of the gang and four citizens were killed in a shootout. When we first meet the Duttons owners of the sprawling Yellowstone-Dutton Ranch in Montana we see right away this is no ordinary family. Bob ordered him to drop the gun, and when he failed to answer, shot him with his Winchester, killing him. This mountain would later be known as Dalton Mountain. 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. 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. [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. They hoped that a big haul from the banks would allow them to leave the territory and escape Thomas' heat. 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. Bill escaped through a window at the back of the house, but as he ran through a patch of corn he was shot and killed by the deputy marshals. Although the Daltons may have been inspired by their famous cousins' exploits, the Youngers were much older and were in prison at the time of the Dalton Gang's activities. He decided to watch the outside of the place at night to see if he could catch in the act whoever was trying to open the grating. In close order, the five crossed Walnut Street from the alley to the Condon Bank, holding Winchester rifles close along their legs. Re: The Dalton Gang family tree or offspring. After splitting the money among themselves, the gang soon realized they needed to rob another train. He is buried in the family plot in Kingfisher, OK. Simon and Minnie had no children. Born December 3, 1935 in Chicago, Illinois, he was a son of the late Winston S. and Walburga (Petersen) Dalton. The gang was also assisted by Bob's lover Eugenia Moore, known by her aliases "Tom King" and "Miss Mundays", who acted as their informant, but was also a notorious horse thief and outlaw. Emmett, however, was against the idea. On May 23, 1894, Dalton and his new gang robbed the First National Bank at Longview, Texas. As soon as the judge had finished, Bill announced, "Well, I can prove that I was not there, and not by accident either."[6]. They put the gold into the sack, forced Ayres in front of them as cover, and went out the front door. They played poker all night in Traver and then traveled to Tulare to do the same. The Dalton's couldn't sell their horses in Ludlow and they didn't have enough money for all three of them to take the train to Indian territory, so Bill took the train back to Paso Robles while Bob and Emmett took the train to Salt Lake where they would meet Cole. In August 1888, the two formed a posse to arrest a man named Charley Montgomery. Grat, Broadwell, and Powers entered the Condon Bank and Emmett and Bob hurried across Union Street to the First National Bank. On his death bed, Emmett told Frank Forrest Latta that he had robbed a train in California, and had used the alias William McElhanie. Sheriff Kay was forced to give up the chase in order to return to California for Grat's trial. The John Dutton Name As 1883 shows us, James and Margaret Dutton travel out West with their daughter, Elsa, and young son John. This was unknown to Grat, since the Dalton brothers had all assumed that Emmett had killed the fireman. Brothers Lit and Bill Dalton were also visiting their mother, and Doolin proposed that they join his group to avenge their brothers. Simon Noel Dalton (a twin) b. 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. By the time Grat reached his mother's he had lost forty pounds. He is buried in the family plot in Kingfisher, OK. Simon and Minnie had no children. [12], Lit, the last surviving Dalton brother, responded to a book written by his brother Emmett after the latter's death. 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. In a mid eighties interview with spirou magazine author Maurice De Bevere Also known as Morris admitted that reading Emmett's book "When the Daltons rode" was his inspiration to create the comic version of the Dalton Brothers. The remaining years of Emmetts life were spent on the stage, writing a book on the family and the Raid "When the Daltons Rode" in 1931 and as a real estate developer in California. I am trying to see if I am related, and if so, where. 6 Jul 1879, d. 13 Sep 1928 in Oklahoma City. Teresa Mae Estes, age 66 of Franklin, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, February 22, 2023 at the Kettering Health Network - Main Campus surrounded by her loving family. My grandfather & great grandfather are both from the US but that's where my knowledge stops. The Dalton Gang was a group of outlaws in the American Old West during 18901892. Kay was given a white card from Mexican officials as well as offered a military escort. Kay and Ford checked all the stages and trains out of Ogden and telegraphed ahead of all others. Let me look at one." 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. Father of Roy Reynolds Dalton He was then taken back to Visalia to await his trial for the Alila robbery. When Kay returned to Visalia, he immediately went with detective Smith to the tailor of the coat found at the Ceres robbery. Dalton family history shows that the name has two possible derivations. ", 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. Bill Dalton came into the hotel lobby and began to speak to deputy Yoes in a loud voice, so everyone around them could hear. Short then went to the rear platform with his rifle. Grave of Dalton gang in Coffeyville, Kansas, Bob Dalton, with an unidentified woman (possibly Eugenia Moore), May 9, 1889. na Randolph Dalton, Emma Dalton, Robert Rennick Dalton, Eva May Dalton, Mason Dalton, Henry Coleman Coleman Dalton, Gratton Hanley Dalton July 13 1937 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. Their only grandchild with the surname Dalton was Charles Coleman Dalton. Their older cousins were the outlaw Younger brothers. Both men were hit several times by stray shots; Dr Goff was fatally wounded. Some years later, Lit Dalton asserted that Bob and Emmett had told him many times that they had robbed the train. (UP) , Hendersonville, Henderson, North Carolina, USA, May 3 1871 - Belton, Comt De Cass, Missouri, tats-Unis, July 13 1937 - Comt De Los Angeles, Californie, tats-Unis. 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. 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. Since Emmett had originally attempted to convince his captors that he was Charles Dryden, until he realized that it was hopeless, his word is considered by many to be of questionable value. In order to persuade the townsfolk not to hang him, he agreed to tell them everything they wanted to know. With Bob as the leader, the boys recruited mostly men who had grown up with them in Oklahoma. Condon & Company's Bank and the First National Bank on opposite sides of the street in Coffeyville, Kansas. On Nov 27, 1887, Frank Dalton and another deputy marshal, Jim Cole, went across the river from Fort Smith to arrest three whiskey bootleggers. 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. 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? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. They were recognized and, coming out of one bank, were met by wild gunfire from vigilante citizens. He was a saloon keeper in Kansas City, Missouri when he married Adeline Lee Younger. By 1882, the family lived in northeast Oklahoma and by 1886 they had moved to Coffeyville in southeast Kansas. 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. He spent 15 years in prison in Kansas State Prison, before winning a pardon in 1907. Henry Starr was arrested in 1893 and held for trial at Fort Smith. 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. After spending a few weeks tracking and arresting Arvil Beck and W.B. The Daltons resided first in Cass county, Mo., then Coffeyville, Kan., then back in Missouri, and finally in the wild Oklahoma Indian Territory. They then robbed the next train a few minutes later, securing about $50,000. 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. Bob and Emmett returned fire and left Ayres on the sidewalk. In the spring of 1942, the brothers, under Tuvia's leadership, decided to gather 30 surviving family members and a few friends. The Journal reported that, "no one has yet been found who knows him or anything of his antecedents or history." Unlike the marshals office, the Osage Police paid a monthly salary. Grat was taken back to jail to await his sentence. Ignoring the advice of the people in Hennessy, he also took the prisoner without a guard. Kay assumed that they were probably headed to El Paso, so he and Ford reentered the United States at Douglas. Laney was born on May 23 1903. He then quickly charged down the mountainside tearing through the brush. Kay's deputies were carrying ten gauge, double-barrel shotguns, loaded with buckshot, and they leveled them at Dalton. Isham passed away on month day 1811, at age 71 at death place, Virginia. The Dalton Gang's criminal enterprise was ended on October 5, 1892 when they attempted to rob two banks at once in Coffeyville, Kansas. Looking to earn more money, Bob also became part of the Osage Nation police force in addition to his job as a deputy. Eventually, Bill Dalton left Doolin to form his own Dalton Gang. Instead he caught a cold from sitting in the fog all night. Following behind Marshal Connelly was John Kloehr, still in the stable. Detective Smith decided to chime in, but Grat said he wouldn't say a word while Smith was present. Lit noticed that Grat's horse was indeed limp and agreed to help Grat sell it. Husband of Julia Johnson Lewis Bob and Emmett, meanwhile, had been busy in Oklahoma forming their gang. The weather conditions during his escape led him to becoming sick with pneumonia, so he stayed near Livingston for several weeks, sleeping in Gray's cupola and watching the surrounding plains with an eyeglass for any sight of a posse. [15] Chris was also reported by a Visalia newspaper to have attended every day of Grat's trial for the Alila robbery. Judson Elwood was plowing his six-horse team when he heard the shots up the mountain. A posse assembled by U.S.
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