Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-07
IHE DALTON GANG.
Attempt-tO Rob Two Banks at
Coffeyyille, Kan.
A Battle Follows And All but
One Are Killed.


Some Fatany-An Attempt to Guido the
James Boys Results in Their Annihiia-
tion-One Escapes.
CoFFEYvILLE, Kan, Oct. Further
details of the battle between desperadoes
and citizens, which the United Press re-
ported Wednesday afternoon, verify the
fact that the Dalto gang, so frequently
reported as annihilated, has truly been
wiped from the face of the earth.
Six of the notorious gang rode into
town and tied their horses in an alley in
the rear of the First National bank.
Robert and Emmett Dalton entered
while the Others went to the private
bank of G. M. Congdon & Company.
In the meantime the alarm had been
given. The Dalton boys were born and
bred in this vicinity, and were well
known to nearly every man, woman
and child in town. In their progress
through the town they had been recog-
nized. City Marshal Connolly collected
posse of citizens and stationed them
about the square.
A Trap Laid.
While the marshal was collecting his
forces the bandits, ignorant of the trap
that was being laid, were proceeding de-
iberately with their work. Texas jack
band had entered Congdon's bank, and,
with their Winchesters leveled at Cashier
Ball and Teller Carpenter, had ordered
them to open the safe.
Would wait.
The cashier explained that the safes
door was controlled by time lock, and
that it could not by any means short OF
dynamite, be opened before its time was
up, which would be 10 o'clock, or in
about twenty minutes.
"We1l wait" said the leader, and he
sat down at the cashiers desk.
''How about the money drawers p he
asked suddenly, and Jumping up he
walked around to the cages of the pay
ing and receiving tellers, and taking the
money, amounting in all to less than
$500, dumped it into flour sack, with
which he was supplied, and again sat
down, while the time clock slowly licked
off the seconds.
At the First National.
Bob and Emmett Dalton in the mean
time were having batter luok at the
First National bank. When they en-
tered the bank they found within Cashier
Ayers, his son, Albert Ayers, and Teller
W. HI. Shepherd None of them were
armed, and with leveled revolvers the
brother bandits easily intimidated them.
They forced Cashier Ayers to hand over
all the contents of the safe.
AS they emerged on the square rifle
snapped and Bob Dalton, the leader,
fell dead Emmett Dalton ran down the
alley to his confederates. The despera-
does fired a volley from a window of
Congdon's hank, and two citizens fell.
The bandits then ran the gauntlet of
the citizens posse. Mounted men pur
sued Emmett Dalton and shot him
down. He was brought back to town,
and died late in the afternoon. He
made an ante-mortem statement, con-
Tossing to the various crimes committed
by the gang of which he was men,
ber.e
One Only Escapes.
Allie Ogee, the only survivor of the
band, succeeded in escaping to the alley
where the horses vxms e tied, and, mount
ing the swiftest &c of the lot, fled
south in the direct Df the Indian Ter
ritory.
Killed.
Desperadoes-
Bob Dalton, shot through the head.
Grant Dalton, shot through the heart.
Joseph Evans, shot through the head.
John Moore, shot through the head.
Citizens
Lucius M Baldwin, bank clerk; shot
through the head
Charles J. Brown, shoemaker; shot
through the body.
G. I. Connolly, city marshal; shot
through the body.
George Cubine, merchant; shot
through the head.
Wounded.
Thomas j. Ayers, cashier of the First
National bank, fatally injured.
Emmett Dalton, fatally wounded, shot
through the left side
Louis Dietz, severely wounded in right
side.
Thomas A. Reynolds, severely wound
ed.
The bodies of those of the attacking
party who were killed were removed to
their respective homes, while the bodies
of the dead bandits were allowed to re-
main where they had fallen until the ar
rival of the coroner from Independence,
who ordered them removed to the court
house. There he held an inquest, the
Jury returning verdict in accordance
with the facts. The inquest on the
bodies of the dead citizens will be post
poned until the result of the pursuit of
Allie Ogee is known,