The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-07-26
Another Attack Was Expected
From the Desperad0es Last
Night, but they Failed to
NaterialiZe.
"A Member of the NurderOus Gang
Fatally ShOt-Buried Yes
terday-AnOther Une
Hlt-The Reward
Unless the Government Takes q
Hand There seems to be No
Way to Punish Them.

Way to Punish Them.
The crime of the Dalton boys, in
holding up the NJ, K. & T. train al
Adair Station, l. T., last Thursday
night, has caused no little agitation
among the railway and express off.
cials.
During the late engagement be.
tween the guards and the outlaws. two
bullets struck home, one so far hav-
ing proved fatal. Late Saturday
night several men rode into Vinita
and, calling doctor, stated that he
was wanted about three miles in the
country.
The physician could get
no satisfaction as to what
particular place he was to 60
and refused to leave Vinita. The men,
who are not known, showed q gun in
his face and commanded him to &C
company them. No one followed and
the doctor Ut last accounts, bsd not
returned, to tell the tale Of his visit.
Yesterday at the trading post Of
Nenetta, not far from Vinita, a news.
boy. claiming to be acquainted with
the Daltons, stated that early on the
previous morning, q dead bandit had
been buried. The bullet from one
of the detective's rifles had proven
fatal. The injured man lay all day
Friday and Saturday in camp
suffering terribly from his wound and
late Saturday night death came to bis
relief. Early Sunday morning, after
. brief ceremony, the body was con-
signed to the earth. 1t is supposed
that the dead man is Jack Walton,
and not one of the Daltons, as 1t first
reported.
Another one of the bullets took effect
on another bandit, but at last &C.
counts he still survives.
Jack Walton, the bandit who is
supposed to be dead, was at one time
. mine owner in Arizona, but for the
last ten years has been holding up
trains and stealing horses and cattle
for 0 livelihood.
AGAIN EXPECTED.
The Daltons, after finishing their
daring deed, withdrew and went into
camp on Pryor Creek, about eightee n |
miles from PRYOR Greek tank
Late Saturday they again moved
camp, this time within about five
miles of the tank. Word to that ef-
feet was sent to headquarters at St.
Louis, and q message was forwarded
from there to the train crew at Deni-
son. Another "hold up" was expected
at Pryor Creek water tank. Guards
were placed on the train with James
Gossage and Frank jackson, of this
city, in the express car. Messenger
Eugene OFT, with the assistance of the
two guards, arranged the express
boxes, etc., in such a way as to form
, fortifcation. They stationed them
selves in the car and were ready to
repel any attack from without. When
the train reached Pryor creek tank
all was still and no one molested the
rain, but it is safe to say that had
they attempted such thing, the boys
would have held the fort.
A FALSE REPORT.
1t was reported in the city this
morning that Messenger Williams had
oeen placed under arrest, awaiting
Investigation. He vas seen at the
lepot at noon. preparatory to his de.
,arture for Jefferson City.
sis there any truth in the report :,
hat you have been arrested ?" |
''No. 1t is a barefaced falsehood,"
Williams. 81 am going
lown the road aud will be back to-
light"
THE REWARD.
The amount that was carried away
u last Thursday nights raid is still
Unknown. or at least that is what the
&cials say. A reward of. $1,000,
'er man, as long as it does not exceed
40, 900, is offered by the NJ. K. & 7.
nd Pacific officials. This is for the .
rrest and conviction.
Vice-President Waldo, of the Mis-.
ouri, Kansas and Texas, was asked /.
esterday what prospects the road had I
Or the capture of the Dalton brothers
nd what steps had been taken to
ring the famous pair of robbers to G
,stice. The road, he said, was leav- G
,g no stone unturned to capture the
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