They were also accused of robbing a bank in El Reno, Oklahoma, on July 28, but this was based on little evidence, as no one identified any members of the gang. Played by country music icon Tim McGraw, James Dutton is the patriarch of 1883. 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. On his death bed, Emmett told Frank Forrest Latta that he had robbed a train in California, and had used the alias William McElhanie. Bill arrived for breakfast like he said, and the four of them took the same table. They hoped that a big haul from the banks would allow them to leave the territory and escape Thomas' heat. He then went to Fresno to check on Lit and Cole Dalton, and was convinced of the same. The mountain was a natural fortress, rocky and heavily wooded, with a good view of the surrounding countryside. When the train came in at 9:45pm, they backed a wagon up to the express car and unloaded all the contents. This also suggests that John Dalton was not a young man, and this could have been a second wife. If someone in the gang had escaped, there would be nothing gained by Emmett for admitting it. (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. Kay doubled back to Kingman and learned that the boys had taken a train to Phoenix with the money they made. When Middleton returned, Kay arrested him at his home and threatened to send him to San Quentin if he didn't give up Grat's hideout. He was a saloon keeper in Kansas City, Missouri when he married Adeline Lee Younger. He then ordered the baggageman to ignore him and to go back to his work. For the film based on them, see, Dalton gang following the 1892 Coffeyville, Kansas raid. Grat and Riley then made their way out of camp with their rifles on their backs and Kay decided they would set up an ambush and wait for their return. They then robbed the next train a few minutes later, securing about $50,000. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Rumors had circulated for months that Bob had planned to come and liberate Grat, so two of sheriff Kay's deputies, Jim Wagy and Bob Hockett, had been hired by Wells Fargo to guard Grat's cell until he was sentenced and sent to San Quentin. Corrections? Also wounded were captains Kinney and LaFlore, but they recovered. He then ordered the bags of silver on the vault floor into his bag, containing $1000 and weighing about 200lb. John Dutton III John Dutton III ( Kevin Costner) is a man that hardly needs any form of introduction. The baggageman carelessly stuck the revolver into a pigeon-hole messagebox and went to work at the other end of the car. Most officers believed that Grat immediately escaped the county, but Sheriff Kay thought otherwise. 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. As he lifted the rifle up, Bob shot and killed him. From their position, Kay and his deputies were fifty yards from Dalton and Dean, who were both discussing their plan to hunt one of Elwood's hogs for Christmas dinner. I haven't seen one since I left Missouri. 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. GANGSTER DIES HOLLYWOOD, July 14. James Lewis Dalton from Jackson County, Missouri and Kentucky was the father of all four boys. 6 Jul 1879, d. 13 Sep 1928 in Oklahoma City. Officers were watching Lit at Clovis Cole's, but didn't think to watch Owen's place. Tuvia, who had been protected farther to the northalong with a few family membersby non-Jews, soon joined his brothers. Through her brother, Adeline was an aunt of Cole and Jim Younger, of the famous James-Younger Gang. The men split into three groups to cover all approaches to the camp. It became apparent to Kay that Bill had been busy hiding Dean when he arrived, otherwise they would have heard him come in. Kay assumed that they were probably headed to El Paso, so he and Ford reentered the United States at Douglas. Williams. Gratton Dalton, called "Grat" Dalton, (March 30, 1861 to October 5, 1892) was an outlaw of the Old West, and leader of the Dalton Gang. This was unknown to Grat, since the Dalton brothers had all assumed that Emmett had killed the fireman. On Nov 27, 1887, Frank Dalton and another deputy marshal, Jim Cole, went across the river from Fort Smith to arrest three whiskey bootleggers. Sheriff Hensley and deputy Ed McCardle where guarding a trail that led to the summit of small and narrow ridge. He was John Dutton III's brother but he died only hours after he was born. Bill Dalton agreed to join them and soon took part in several robberies, but Lit refused in disgust. Grat was taken back to jail to await his sentence. 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). Instead he caught a cold from sitting in the fog all night. Husband of Julia Johnson Lewis 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 . Several civilians were wounded in the fighting. 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. Emmett married Julia Johnson Lewis on September 1, 1908 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Around eleven, they noticed Dalton and Dean returning from their hunt, so they sent deputy Perry Byrd to go and retrieve Kay. Grat first rode to Charles Owen's ranch across from Clovis Cole where he stayed for a few days. Bill told Kay that Bob was not in the country, that he had stopped at Rucker's place alone to spend the night. Unlike the marshals office, the Osage Police paid a monthly salary. A detailed bio on a Dalton Brothers webpage declares "We play two kinds of music: Country and Western" and notes that the group took inspiration from country legends including Willie Nelson,. Henry Starr was arrested in 1893 and held for trial at Fort Smith. Kay promised Middleton secrecy, and a horse and buggy, if he led him to within a half mile of Dalton's camp. Virginia had the highest population of Dalton families in 1840. Charles Dalton 18 Oct 1850 Little Catalina, Newfoundland - 10 Oct 1904 managed by Stan Vardy. He then quickly charged down the mountainside tearing through the brush. She denied any wrongdoing by her sons, stating that they were in fact lawmen, and told Kay they had gone to Guthrie if he wanted to talk with them. With his revolver in hand, Kay dropped to the ground as they passed the door and slowly entered the station. Grat and Bob Dalton, Dick Broadwell, and Bill Powers were all killed. Emmett had denied accompanying Bob to California. Ayres was not killed, but he remained paralyzed for life. He was given a life sentence in the penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas and pardoned after fourteen years. John Dalton, who was the brother of William Dalton the Elder, married Mary Newman Brockenbrough, the widow of William Brockenbrough on 6 May 1702. The only evidence found at the robbery was a coat made from a tailor from Visalia. He is buried in the family plot in Kingfisher, OK. Simon and Minnie had no children. 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. 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. 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. Chris had continually attested his innocence and any confirmation of his already rumored association with the Dalton Gang would have damaged his case. 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. After splitting the money among themselves, the gang soon realized they needed to rob another train. Middleton had been threatened by Dalton for not helping him escape the country fast enough and was afraid of him. While in jail, a train robbery occurred near Ceres, on September 3, 1891, but was unsuccessful with no money being taken. Short then went to the rear platform with his rifle. [15] Chris was also reported by a Visalia newspaper to have attended every day of Grat's trial for the Alila robbery. He then saw Grat begin to approach over the hill and planned to wait until he was thirty feet from him before making an arrest. Montgomery was alleged to be posing as a deputy marshal. On the night of September 27, Grat and two cellmates, Arvil Beck and W.B. This resulted in the first robbery at Whorton, May 1891, where the gang stole $1200. The boys left their horses in Ludlow, which were then discovered a few weeks later by railroad detectives. Family Tree. 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. Knowing Grat must've sold or hired a horse, Kay sent Witty to investigate while he kept Grat in sight. Bob ordered him to drop the gun, and when he failed to answer, shot him with his Winchester, killing him. Lit noticed that Grat's horse was indeed limp and agreed to help Grat sell it. This was about 13% of all the recorded Dalton's in USA. The Journal reported that, "no one has yet been found who knows him or anything of his antecedents or history." 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. 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. 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. They missed Cole by several hours who had already taken the train to Salt Lake where Kay and his deputy followed. Gloria Satterfield died on Feb. 8, 2018. Hannah (Dalton) Pecker 29 Sep 1756 Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony - 29 Sep 1838 managed by E. Gatlin last edited 7 Dec 2022. Four of the gang were killed in the ensuing gun fight. One night, Jim Wagy heard a noise in the basement and upon investigation discovered that someone had tried to break the lock to the grated window. Why in the world do you suppose they went away and left me behind? After being found innocent by a Visalia jury, Bill was acquitted and released on October 15. Bob also hired Emmett under him to guard prisoners. 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. 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. By 1882, the family lived in northeast Oklahoma and by 1886 they had moved to Coffeyville in southeast Kansas. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. Kay sent Ford after Bob and Emmett while he went to the Ogden police to get them to begin searching the city. Bob and Emmett returned fire and left Ayres on the sidewalk. 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!" In 1954, the actor Robert Bray played Emmett Dalton in the episode "The Dalton Gang" of the syndicated western television series, Stories of the Century, starring Jim Davis as fictitious Southwestern Railroad detective Matt Clark. This was in addition to the jailer, J.M. Grat believed him and decided he would wait until it opened. 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. Since the horse was lame, they could only get $60 for it and Grat was unable to find another horse afterwards. 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. Let me look at one." Eddie Milton Payne, age 78, of Dalton, Georgia, passed away Monday February 27, 2023 at Hamilton Medical Center. He began walking behind his plow when he felt a rifle poke him in the ribs. Here, they secured more than $19,000. McCue of the Montgomery County District Court for second degree murder. Grat, Broadwell, and Powers entered the Condon Bank and Emmett and Bob hurried across Union Street to the First National Bank. Bill had been in a separate cell from Grat, located upstairs. 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. She then traveled to Visalia with her two daughters, as well as her sons Ben, Cole, Lit and Bill, for Grat's trial. Four of the gang were killed in the ensuing gun fight. 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 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. Frank is buried in Coffeyville, Kansas. They decided to form a gang and started robbing trains and banks. 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. 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). 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. Grat's trial didn't start until that June and it lasted three weeks. Both men were hit several times by stray shots; Dr Goff was fatally wounded. James Lewis Dalton from Jackson County, Missouri and Kentucky was the father of all four boys. Grat then rode to a home seven miles south of Livingston, the home of his friend ex-supervisor W.W. Gray. [12], Lit, the last surviving Dalton brother, responded to a book written by his brother Emmett after the latter's death. They turned around, and went through the back door, carrying both rifles and sack bags, while taking two other bank employees as cover. As they exited the door, an American Express agent opened fire with his revolver. Thinking it might be Bob, Kay demanded that Bill tell him where he was. Neither was he in Merced or Livingston. 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. 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. The lawmen aimed their rifles at the man and Hensley ordered him to drop his rifle and unbuckle his revolver belt. He was given a life sentence in the penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas and pardoned after fourteen years. Leona outlived all of her brothers and sisters. He moved to California and became a real estate agent, author and actor, dying at the age of sixty-six. Kay did not think much of this until later, when Perry Byrd mentioned Chris breaking Grat out of jail. Emmett was sentenced to life in the state prison at Lansing, Kansas, by Judge J.D. Bob pretended not to know Emmett, who then tipped him off to the hands of the others. 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. He moved to Hollywood, California, and became a real estate agent, author, and actor, and died in 1937 at age 66. Re: The Dalton Gang family tree or offspring. This is now known as Dalton Alley. Right as Hensley left, deputy McCardle heard the sound of footsteps come from the same direction where they had spotted Dean. Leona outlived all of her brothers and sisters. 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. After serving 14 years in prison for the crime, Dalton capitalized on his notoriety to author books and become an actor in Hollywood. Grat dropped to the ground and rolled into a gulch about ten feet away. Kay was given a white card from Mexican officials as well as offered a military escort. To help pay him the two thousand dollars he asked for, Bill sold almost all of his horses and mules. This was on the property of a man named Jim Riley, about eight miles from the present-day town of Taloga, Oklahoma. Christian Johannes Dalton abt 1892 - 09 Oct 1961 managed by Toni Andrews. Updates? ", Jim Wagy also showed up after the break out to overlook the scene. Judson Elwood was plowing his six-horse team when he heard the shots up the mountain. After Frank's death, Grat moved back from California and took over his brother's job as deputy marshal at Fort Smith. Kay asked Rucker if there was anyone else around and she replied that there wasn't. 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. Kay stopped Grat in the street and said, "Say, I hear you have some two-dollar bills. Very soon, half the businessmen around the plaza knew what was going on, and the message quickly passed throughout the town. Bill went to Paso Robles and bought a saddle, but after that could not afford anything else as he was broke. 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). Genealogy for James Lewis Dalton (1826 - 1890) family tree on Geni, with over 230 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Dalton. 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. He spent 15 years in prison in Kansas State Prison, before winning a pardon in 1907. 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. Broadwell was hit several times, but managed to ride away. Bill Powers was somewhat of a man of mystery. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. He was the son of the late Lush and Nellie Payne and was preceded in death by his . Send flowers to the service of Pastor Terence Hundrey Hambrick Dont stop looking you will find out! The John Dutton Name As 1883 shows us, James and Margaret Dutton travel out West with their daughter, Elsa, and young son John. 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. 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]. Timothy Peter Dalton (born 21 March 1946) is a Welsh actor of film and television. Lit was able to borrow one hundred dollars and a horse from Clovis Cole's business partner Charlie Owen. Emmett married first name Dalton (born Arthur) on month day 1950, at age 23 at marriage place, North Carolina. 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. Emmett Dalton survived the raid but received 23 gunshot wounds (as referenced on Q102). 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. Bob shot him in the head, killing him. 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. They had no children. Then, noticing the vault door was open, Grat ordered both of them into the vault, where the safe with the gold was. He also brought Bob along as a posse member. 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. There is the head of the family, John (Kevin. 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. She was born on April 10, 1956, in Berea, Kentucky, the daughter of the late John M. & Eliza Jane (Isaacs) Webb. Witty had gone to the livery stable in Modesto, at the time being jointly run by Chris Evans and John Sontag, and learned that Grat had sold the horse to Evans who in turn gave him the two dollar bills. It had been raining for several days prior, and it was so cold the ground was covered in ice. When they entered the cell, Bill took out his guitar, sat on a soap box, leaned against the bars of the corridor and began to play a popular song he put his own words to and titled, "You'll Never Miss My Brother Till He's Gone". In the spring of 1942, the brothers, under Tuvia's leadership, decided to gather 30 surviving family members and a few friends. 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 pardoned in 1907, reformed, and led a respectable businessmans life in Los Angeles until his death on July 13, 1937.) Attention: . In close order, the five crossed Walnut Street from the alley to the Condon Bank, holding Winchester rifles close along their legs. Years after the robberies and his release from prison, Emmett Dalton said that the relentless pressure put on them by Deputy US Marshal Heck Thomas as he hunted for them was a key factor in his gang's decision to commit the robberies. In order to persuade the townsfolk not to hang him, he agreed to tell them everything they wanted to know. Though he did not participate in any of the hold-ups with his brothers, he acted as their spy and advisor. After spending a few weeks tracking and arresting Arvil Beck and W.B. Kay nudged the door open with his elbow, aimed his revolver at Bill and said, "Bill! Lit said that Emmett's book, When the Daltons Rode (1931), was largely fabrication. This was also confirmed by Lit Dalton, who had owned a saloon in San Miguel from 1889 to 1890. Simon Noel Dalton (a twin) b. The sawing was hid from the jailer by a large box that they would put a blanket over and use to play cards. A posse assembled by U.S. Kay had Bill put his rifle down, backed him into the front room, and checked him for any other weapons.
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