On his death bed, Emmett told Frank Forrest Latta that he had robbed a train in California, and had used the alias William McElhanie. Grat first rode to Charles Owen's ranch across from Clovis Cole where he stayed for a few days. The next morning, Grat called Wagy over to his cell and asked him where he got such a cold. 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. When not preying on the railroads, the gang spent their time digging out large rooms into the steep hills in the cedar brakes on the Northern Canadian River. The Dalton family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. Before the Coffeyville raid, Bill Dalton had returned to Oklahoma, later joining Bill Doolins gang and then forming his own gang. They had not been to the town for several years, though, and the hitching post had since been removed during street work. Leona outlived all of her brothers and sisters. The four future outlaws first worked as cowboys, but, in 1887, their older brother Frank, a federal deputy marshal, was killed by whiskey runners; in deference, Grat, Bob, and Emmett pinned on lawmens badges. In August 1891, Charlie Bryant was spotted in Hennessey, Oklahoma, after leaving the gang's hideout to visit his brother in Mulhall. Knowing that Kay was hot on their trail, they traveled east through Arizona into New Mexico. Emmett had denied accompanying Bob to California. Following behind Marshal Connelly was John Kloehr, still in the stable. Kay moved quietly across the floor and pushed the door a little farther open with his revolver. This resulted in the first robbery at Whorton, May 1891, where the gang stole $1200. Emmett thought Grat would mess things up if he went alone with Powers and Broadwell, and thought they should trade places. Tuvia, who had been protected farther to the northalong with a few family membersby non-Jews, soon joined his brothers. 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]. There is the head of the family, John (Kevin. 4346 Bailey Ave, Amherst, NY 14226-2133 +1 716-838-2233 Website. This was about 13% of all the recorded Dalton's in USA. Ignoring the advice of the people in Hennessy, he also took the prisoner without a guard. Kay noticed the bills were perfectly new and asked Grat where he got them. Due to the sensationalism that surrounded the Dalton Gang's exploits, they were accused of robberies all over the country but operated chiefly in California, Kansas, Oklahoma Territory, and Indian Territory. 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. The last night they dug a hole in the brickwall of the woodroom, but found heavy iron bars embedded in the wall that they couldn't get in between. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dalton-Brothers, Okhlahoma Historical Society - Dalton Gang, Dalton brothers - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). John III leads what is known as the Dutton Ranch today. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. Walker in Wichita. The Journal reported that, "no one has yet been found who knows him or anything of his antecedents or history." 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 . For the film based on them, see, Dalton gang following the 1892 Coffeyville, Kansas raid. Each time they stopped sawing, they plugged the hole with soap and soot. After being found innocent by a Visalia jury, Bill was acquitted and released on October 15. All in the band were killed except Emmett, who was wounded and spent 14 years in Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing. As Emmett reviewed the roles of the various participants, he concluded by saying, "Then there was Tom Evans down tending the horses." ", Jim Wagy also showed up after the break out to overlook the scene. Sheriff Hensley and deputy Ed McCardle where guarding a trail that led to the summit of small and narrow ridge. Evans, however, claimed that he had received the bills from the Sol Sweet store after cashing a check there. Grat then rode to a home seven miles south of Livingston, the home of his friend ex-supervisor W.W. Gray. 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. 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. [7] The gang secured about $18,000. 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. 6 Jul 1879, d. 13 Sep 1928 in Oklahoma City. 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. Witty did have a clue from another deputy that two strange men had been seen hanging around after dark on the open plain near Traver and at the abandoned Overland Stage station at Cross Creek. The Dalton Gang's criminal enterprise was ended on October 5, 1892 when they attempted to rob two banks at once in Coffeyville, Kansas. As they approached the camp the bootleggers began to fire on them. Family Tree. The posse reached Dalton's camp at nine and split into two groups in order to surround the camp, Kay leading one and Hensley the other. Emmett was then hit in the back with a load of buckshot. Brother of Charles Benjamin Dalton; Henry 'Cole' Coleman Dalton; Louis Kossuth Dalton; Bea Elizabeth Dalton; Littleton "Lit" Lee Dalton and 11 others; Lelia Dalton; Frank Dalton, Deputy U.S. Dalton was born to Lewis and Adeline Dalton and was the youngest of the Dalton brothers. Smith, escaped from the Tulare County jail in Visalia while Sheriff Kay was in San Francisco. 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. Doolin quit the gang, along with Newcomb and Pierce, due to the mismanagement of finances. The John Dutton Name As 1883 shows us, James and Margaret Dutton travel out West with their daughter, Elsa, and young son John. 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. After splitting the money among themselves, the gang soon realized they needed to rob another train. Neither was he in Merced or Livingston. Left to right: Bill Powers; Bob Dalton; Grat Dalton, Dick Broadwell, Learn how and when to remove this template message, "DALTON Family History: Old West Kansas Dalton Gang KS Heritage Group www.kansasheritage.org", "The Dalton Gang Train Robbery at Adair, I.T. Kay sent Ford after Bob and Emmett while he went to the Ogden police to get them to begin searching the city. Grat and McCardle fired at each other almost simultaneously. Through her brother, Adeline was an aunt of Cole and Jim Younger, of the famous James-Younger Gang. He was afraid some of his friends would be hurt, but Bob assured him there would not be any shooting, and that it would all be over before anyone knew what happened. He was found 2 miles away, dead. 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. Son of James Lewis Dalton and Adeline Lee Dalton Emmett married first name Dalton (born Arthur) on month day 1950, at age 23 at marriage place, North Carolina. The Daltons were featured in Randolph Scott's Western. They had no children. This is now known as Dalton Alley. Then, noticing the vault door was open, Grat ordered both of them into the vault, where the safe with the gold was. 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. 6 Jun 2001 Family Group Sheet Husband: James Lewis DALTON died at age: 64 Born: 16 Feb 1826 in Mt. 6 July 1879, d. 6 Jul 1879 in MO. Ford drew his revolver and ran into another store to the alley to cut them off, but soon lost them. 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. They hid behind some rocks and an oak tree and waited as one of the men approached them. He attended Irving elementary school and he graduated from Morton East High School in. This was a date that Grat had no intention on making. They cut through Antelope Valley and skirted the desert down to San Diego County before taking the old trail to Yuma. He then quickly charged down the mountainside tearing through the brush. It had been raining for several days prior, and it was so cold the ground was covered in ice. 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. Isham passed away on month day 1811, at age 71 at death place, Virginia. (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. Build your family tree online ; Share photos and videos ; Smart Matching technology Without making any noise, Bryant went to the messagebox and secured the revolver. My grandfather & great grandfather are both from the US but that's where my knowledge stops. Emmett had 4 siblings: Elsie Bosiger (born Dalton (Bosiger)) and 3 other siblings. By 1882, the family lived in northeast Oklahoma and by 1886 they had moved to Coffeyville in southeast Kansas. 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. Kay promised Middleton secrecy, and a horse and buggy, if he led him to within a half mile of Dalton's camp. 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. I haven't seen one since I left Missouri. From Phoenix, Kay followed the Daltons by horse and stage from Prescott, Gila Bend, Tucson, and then to Nogales, Mexico. Kay decided to pursue them with his deputy, Jim Ford, and to capture them if possible. 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. Towards the end of the trial, Sheriff Kay, Detective Smith, and District Attorney Power talked to Grat while taking him back to his cell from the court room when Beckenridge wasn't present. Timothy Peter Dalton (born 21 March 1946) is a Welsh actor of film and television. 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. This is where. Bob pretended not to know Emmett, who then tipped him off to the hands of the others. Wagy said, "Here is your hole", and kicked the broom handle onto the floor. Coleman Dalton, Louis Kossuth Dalton, Littleton Lee Lit Dalton, Franklin Frank Dalton, Gratton Grat Hanley Dalton, William Bill Mason Wil farmers of this country. He spent 15 years in prison in Kansas State Prison, before winning a pardon in 1907. One of the bars had been cut out and replaced with a broom handle blackened by soot.