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. 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. 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. They sat to wait for the next train on a bench on the platform, talking and smoking, with their Winchester rifles across their knees. Let me look at one." Part of the ill-fated Dalton raid on two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas, he survived despite receiving 23 gunshot wounds. Neither was he in Merced or Livingston. This was the gang's only job. They cut through Antelope Valley and skirted the desert down to San Diego County before taking the old trail to Yuma. He was a saloon keeper in Kansas City, Missouri when he married Adeline Lee Younger. When we first meet the Duttons owners of the sprawling Yellowstone-Dutton Ranch in Montana we see right away this is no ordinary family. 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. Leona outlived all of her brothers and sisters. But that is not known. The Dalton brothers were part of a large family headed by parents Adaline Younger Dalton and James Lewis Dalton. Bill, thrown off his guard, quickly turned around and mimicked the greeting, "Kay! 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. Littleton "Litt" Dalton, who was a good and hard-working citizen, believed that his younger siblings became lawless because of the bad influence of . On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. All in the band were killed except Emmett, who was wounded and spent 14 years in Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing. He then went to Fresno to check on Lit and Cole Dalton, and was convinced of the same. After being left on the sidewalk by Bob and Emmett, Thomas Ayres had run into one of the hardware stores and grabbed a rifle. Grat dropped to the ground and rolled into a gulch about ten feet away. Grat then shot him in the head and killed him. James Lewis Dalton from Jackson County, Missouri and Kentucky was the father of all four boys. In 1840 there were 39 Dalton families living in Virginia. Connect to the World Family Tree to find out. At the station, the gang took what they could find in the express and baggage rooms. 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. During the robbery, one member of the gang and four citizens were killed in a shootout. The lawmen aimed their rifles at the man and Hensley ordered him to drop his rifle and unbuckle his revolver belt. 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]. Chris Evans' family ridiculed reports of any such involvement or that Tom had been killed, but otherwise never disclosed his actual whereabouts. After the gang separated with their share of the loot, Bill hid out with his family in a cabin near Elk, Indian Territory. He asked Latta not to publish the information until after his death.[13]. Bill arrived for breakfast like he said, and the four of them took the same table. They turned around, and went through the back door, carrying both rifles and sack bags, while taking two other bank employees as cover. Soon after, Jim Ford noticed Emmett exit a department store, who quickly ducked back inside upon noticing Kay. (He was pardoned in 1907, reformed, and led a respectable businessmans life in Los Angeles until his death on July 13, 1937.) Attention: . Through her brother, Adeline was an aunt of Cole and Jim Younger, of the famous James-Younger Gang. 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. Their older cousins were the outlaw Younger brothers. Short then went to the rear platform with his rifle. Short took the prisoner back and placed him in the baggage car. 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. 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. This was on the property of a man named Jim Riley, about eight miles from the present-day town of Taloga, Oklahoma. 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 was only a few months after $2,000 in rare two dollar bills had been stolen during a train robbery outside of Goshen (a robbery later attributed to Chris Evans and John Sontag). They had no children. How did they ever cut that bar out without my knowing it?". Sheriff Kay even pointed out during the trial that Beckenridge had overlooked Grat's rights. 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. 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. In 1910 he bacame a special Peace Officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 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. Here, they secured more than $19,000. The posse tried firing at Grat through the brush, but he managed to run the mile back to Elwood's ranch. 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. Grat ordered Elwood to unhitch one of his horses, which he did. When they arrived, Bob had to think quickly, and decided instead to tie their horses in an alley across from the bank to the west, near the city jail, which offered them little protection. 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. After securing bondsmen, Bill immediately went to Merced and hired John W. Beckenridge, the best attorney in the San Joaquin Valley, to defend Grat. 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. Married to Cara, he worked the Dutton homestead alongside his nephew,. Bill Dalton came into the hotel lobby and began to speak to deputy Yoes in a loud voice, so everyone around them could hear. 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. 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. After having a deputy watch Middleton's place, he learned that Middleton was buying enough groceries to last three months and was seen driving east of Sanger. They fired at the bandits through the car windows and from behind the train. It has been speculated by those seeking to answer the confusion that Bill Powers possibly escaped and it was Tom Evans who was killed, as originally reported, or that Tom Evans was just an alias of Bill Powers. Grat noticed him, but before he could aim, Kloehr shot him in the throat. Hello!". This is why Grat was able to notice Deputy Wagy hiding in a yard across the street from the jail. Lindsey in Ardmore, Oklahoma, tracked him to the cabin and surrounded it on June 8, 1894. Emmett reappears on a wanted poster in Les Cousins Dalton his character of tallest of the Dalton Brothers being taken over by Averell Dalton. On the morning of October 5, the gang emerged from the alley onto the plaza of Coffeyville. He moved to California and became a real estate agent, author and actor, dying at the age of sixty-six. The deputy handed the message to Judge Burford, who read it aloud to the audience. The boys left their horses in Ludlow, which were then discovered a few weeks later by railroad detectives. 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. Share your family tree and photos with the people you know and love. Grat and Middleton told Smith they planned to hide out in the Coast Range and invited him to come with them. He was the son of the late Lush and Nellie Payne and was preceded in death by his . He married Minnie McDaniel on July 30, 1910. Following behind Marshal Connelly was John Kloehr, still in the stable. Percy was born on October 4 1897. Very soon, half the businessmen around the plaza knew what was going on, and the message quickly passed throughout the town. Kay's deputies were carrying ten gauge, double-barrel shotguns, loaded with buckshot, and they leveled them at Dalton. Dont stop looking you will find out! After splitting the money among themselves, the gang soon realized they needed to rob another train. [17] After the attempted robbery, Emmett was taken upstairs above the drug store to be treated by Dr. Wells. Bob and Emmett met Grat and the others in the alley, the sacks of money still over their arms. This was also confirmed by Lit Dalton, who had owned a saloon in San Miguel from 1889 to 1890. Kay was given a white card from Mexican officials as well as offered a military escort. Bob and Emmett then took a train headed back to Needles before stopping at Kingman. Grat's trial didn't start until that June and it lasted three weeks. None of the Dalton gang was hit. The gang specialized in bank and train robberies. Kay was informed by Bill's father-in-law, Clark Bliven, that Bob and Emmett planned to meet Cole in Salt Lake, so Kay headed to Chico where he planned to cut him off. Dalton took part in several robberies with the Wild Bunch, including a gun battle on September 1, 1893, at Ingalls, Oklahoma Territory, where three deputy U. S. marshals were killed. This was unknown to Grat, since the Dalton brothers had all assumed that Emmett had killed the fireman. Taking fire from the hardware store, Bob was hit in the head and the heart, killing him instantly. This, of course, is where Yellowstone takes place, and is where James settles his family after the death of his only daughter, Elsa Dutton. Kay noticed the bills were perfectly new and asked Grat where he got them. 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. Simon Noel Dalton (a twin) b. The mountain was a natural fortress, rocky and heavily wooded, with a good view of the surrounding countryside. Bill had returned to Oklahoma several months earlier, living at his mother's house near Kingsfisher. Kay and his deputy went to Ogden where they notified the police to keep watch for the Daltons. Played by country music icon Tim McGraw, James Dutton is the patriarch of 1883. Son of James Lewis Dalton and Adeline Lee Dalton They put the gold into the sack, forced Ayres in front of them as cover, and went out the front door. Around eleven, they noticed Dalton and Dean returning from their hunt, so they sent deputy Perry Byrd to go and retrieve Kay. Lewis Dalton was a saloon keeper in Kansas City, Kansas, when he married Adeline Younger, the aunt of Cole and Jim Younger. Ayres was not killed, but he remained paralyzed for life. After Bill and Riley Dean were brought to the Visalia jail, Sheriff Pervis of Stanislaus County, S.P. I haven't seen one since I left Missouri. The Daltons resided first in Cass county, Mo., then Coffeyville, Kan., then back in Missouri, and finally in the wild Oklahoma Indian Territory. Chris had continually attested his innocence and any confirmation of his already rumored association with the Dalton Gang would have damaged his case. Grat was taken back to jail to await his sentence. A largely fictional film version of the Daltons' lives was adapted from Emmett's 1931 book. 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. Bill arrived in Paso Robles and was arrested by Sheriff Kay fifteen minutes after getting off the train and was taken to Visalia. Smith instead went north and several weeks later was arrested by Kay. 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. Kay apologized to Grat and let him go, but upon visiting the Sol Sweet store Kay learned that Evans had received gold instead of two dollar bills when cashing his check. 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. 6 Jul 1879, d. 13 Sep 1928 in Oklahoma City. After being found innocent by a Visalia jury, Bill was acquitted and released on October 15. Kay promised Middleton secrecy, and a horse and buggy, if he led him to within a half mile of Dalton's camp. Gloria Satterfield died on Feb. 8, 2018. Expecting there to be an escape, and because none of the other deputies would listen to him, Wagy decided to quit. Bill immediately threw his guitar on the bed and exclaimed, "Now what in the world do you know about that? Share. [7] The gang secured about $18,000. Doolin quit the gang, along with Newcomb and Pierce, due to the mismanagement of finances. This was about 13% of all the recorded Dalton's in USA. 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). Condolences can be left for the family at www.mynattfh.com. Eventually, Bill Dalton left Doolin to form his own Dalton Gang. He then ordered the bags of silver on the vault floor into his bag, containing $1000 and weighing about 200lb. They waited until the heavy bearded, two-hundred and thirty pound man was thirty feet from them. What Bill didn't know is that Beckenridge was also a consulting attorney for the Southern Pacific railroad. People . 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. This was in addition to the jailer, J.M. 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). Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. It had been raining for several days prior, and it was so cold the ground was covered in ice. Bill told Kay that Bob was not in the country, that he had stopped at Rucker's place alone to spend the night. 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]. 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. While in jail, a train robbery occurred near Ceres, on September 3, 1891, but was unsuccessful with no money being taken. na Randolph Dalton, Emma Dalton, Emmett Dalton, Robert Rennick Dalton, Eva May Dalton, Mason Dalton, Henry Coleman Coleman Dalton, Gratto May 3 1871 - Belton, Cass, Missouri, United States, July 13 1937 - Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, James Lewis Dalton, Adeline Lee Dalton (born Younger). They used the bar they had cut out to pry open the grating in the wood room window and, instead of risking going and putting it back, left the broom handle in its place. The cellmates would sing and talk to drown out the sound of the saw. To help pay him the two thousand dollars he asked for, Bill sold almost all of his horses and mules. When he returned the next day to watch the house, he discovered that Bob and Emmett had escaped. 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. Bob and Emmett, meanwhile, had been busy in Oklahoma forming their gang. Leona outlived all of her brothers and sisters. This resulted in the first robbery at Whorton, May 1891, where the gang stole $1200. He attended Irving elementary school and he graduated from Morton East High School in. Frank is buried in Coffeyville, Kansas. I am trying to see if I am related, and if so, where. Simon Noel Dalton (a twin) b. They missed Bob and Emmett by only twelve hours in Cananea, then lost their trail completely in Fronteras. 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. 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. James is also a Civil War veteran, one who suffers from PTSD in a time long before we knew what it was. Leave a sympathy message to the family in the guestbook on this memorial page of James Dalton Hatcher to show support. Knowing Grat must've sold or hired a horse, Kay sent Witty to investigate while he kept Grat in sight. Husband of Julia Johnson Lewis Their mother also came to California from Kingfisher to pay Beckenridge after she mortgaged her home and borrowed money from neighbors. In August 1888, the two formed a posse to arrest a man named Charley Montgomery. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. 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. He also brought Bob along as a posse member. He offered to admit this in court if Grat and Bill told the true story of the robbery. In January 1889, Grat and Bob both became deputies first under Marshal Jones and later under Marshal R.L. [9] Bob had planned the entire robbery. After they realized they were no longer being pursued, Bob and Emmett began to form what would be known as the Dalton Gang. In August 1891, Charlie Bryant was spotted in Hennessey, Oklahoma, after leaving the gang's hideout to visit his brother in Mulhall. Detective Smith decided to chime in, but Grat said he wouldn't say a word while Smith was present. 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. Chris Evans and Grat Dalton had become friends while working together in Tulare County during the summer of 1888, at the Grangers Bank of California's wheat warehouses in Tipton and Pixley. First recruited were George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb and "Blackfaced" Charlie Bryant, who had received his nickname because of a gunpowder burn on one cheek. Broadwell was hit several times, but managed to ride away. Since the horse was lame, they could only get $60 for it and Grat was unable to find another horse afterwards. Kay and Ford traveled the fifty miles to Guthrie, but soon came into problems when dealing with different tribal jurisdictions. Brothers Bob, "Grat", and Emmett had first worked as lawmen for the federal court at Fort Smith, Arkansas and then for the Osage Nation. After he left, the judge asked Yoes who the man was, as he seemed educated and well-informed. Ignoring the advice of the people in Hennessy, he also took the prisoner without a guard. 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. Though he did not participate in any of the hold-ups with his brothers, he acted as their spy and advisor. The man was Riley Dean and he did as he was told. As Witty entered the room, he heard a noise come from somewhere inside. Thinking they had lost Kay, Bob and Emmett headed to their mother outside of Kingfisher. 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). With Bob as the leader, the boys recruited mostly men who had grown up with them in Oklahoma. 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. 6 July 1879, d. 6 Jul 1879 in MO. 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. Before the Coffeyville raid, Bill Dalton had returned to Oklahoma, later joining Bill Doolins gang and then forming his own gang. 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. (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. There was a moment where Dalton could have been shot in cold blood, and some of Kay's deputies wanted to do it, but Kay and Hensley wouldn't allow it. Several civilians were wounded in the fighting. 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. He married Minnie McDaniel on July 30, 1910. They decided to form a gang and started robbing trains and banks. As soon as the judge had finished, Bill announced, "Well, I can prove that I was not there, and not by accident either."[6]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Dalton. The next robbery was on July 14, at Adair, Oklahoma, near the Arkansas border. 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. Richard Henry Dick Dalton, 85, of Columbia City, died peacefully at 9:40 a.m. Thursday, November 11, 2021, at his home. Kay believed Chris was either protecting himself by helping Grat break from jail or returning the favor for Grat protecting him. 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. 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. By the time Grat reached his mother's he had lost forty pounds. 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. The locals who identified him notified a deputy marshal named Ed Short. He claimed that Bob, Grat, and Emmett had all made at least two trips to Bill's ranch in California during that time and that at least one of them would show up to his saloon to get a gallon demijohn full of whiskey to bring back to the rest. 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. Many newspapers at the time assumed that an unknown member of the gang escaped. Thinking it might be Bob, Kay demanded that Bill tell him where he was. The eight armed guards on the train all happened to be at the back of the train when it pulled in. Updates? [15] Chris was also reported by a Visalia newspaper to have attended every day of Grat's trial for the Alila robbery. Ford drew his revolver and ran into another store to the alley to cut them off, but soon lost them. Most officers believed that Grat immediately escaped the county, but Sheriff Kay thought otherwise. He was given a life sentence in the penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas and pardoned after fourteen years. Closed now : See all hours. 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. alton, Louis Kossuth Dalton, Bea Elizabeth Lelia Phillips (born Dalton), Littleton "lit" Lee Dalton, John Franklin Dalton, Grat Roy Reynolds Dalton, Roy Johnson, Genie Gilstrap Perrier (born Dalton), May 3 1871 - Cas Co, Belton, Cass County, Missouri, United States, July 13 1937 - Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, United States. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. The Dalton Gang was a group of outlaws in the American Old West during 18901892. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dalton-Brothers, Okhlahoma Historical Society - Dalton Gang, Dalton brothers - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). 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. 6 July 1879, d. 6 Jul 1879 in MO. Send flowers to the service of Pastor Terence Hundrey Hambrick Kay knew this was untrue as he had seen two men cross the road.