Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-10-21
LAST OF TIE DALTON GANG:
The Outlaw Band Extermin.
ated While RaidinS a Town.
-Four Desperadoes and Four Citi-
zers Were Killed.

A dispatch from Cofevville. Kan. says
Thu Dalton gang of outlaws, the most no
torious in the West, was wiped off the face
of the earth here few DAYS ago. but in the
battle which resulted in their determination
three good citizens were killed and two
fatally wounded The deSparaiosS who
had grown holder they thought they
were above all Law. anu that the officers OF
the county were poweriess against them. at
tempted to raid the banks of CofeYville.
their old home aud met the fate which they
50 well merited. This was their first at
tempt at bank robbery and their last piece
OF outiawrv.
The six outlaws came into town together
on horseback about e:3) ocloc'c. and. ieav-
ing their horses in an alley. walked rapidlv
across the square. Four entered Condnn's
Bank and two the First National. At Con-
don's Bank the despara1oss vera told bv
Cashier Ball tn at the lock would not be open
until 10 O'Clock. Holding their WinchesosrS
on Ball and Teller CARPENTER. they said they
would wait, taking, meanwhile, the money
in the drawer.
Bob aud Emnett Dalton were the two
who took in the First National. Here were
Cashier Ayres, bis son Bert. aud Teller w.
b. Shepperd. They were fo-cel to give no
all the money in the safe which was hastily
shovel into bags. The Daltons then forced
the three men out OF the front door aud fol-
lowe right after them.
The alarm had in the mean time been
given. and as the outlaws anoeared George
Cubine, a merchant and Express Agent
Cox shot one OF them, badly wounding him.
The outlaws then returned the fire, killing
Cubine. The robbers IN Coudon's Bank shot
out of the window, hitting Ayres and
Brown. Both robbers then ran back through
the bank, when they met Baldwin and
fatally wounded him.
The citizens being thoroughly aroused by
this time, were hot AMI heavy after them
and, after fight in which City MARSHALL
Connely was killed, succeeded in killing the
four desperadoes named and MORALLY
wounding Emmett
Jim Spears, livery stable keeper, with
his Winchester rife killed three OF the out
laws in as many seconds. This created such
to get close enough to kill another of the
robbers.
The two remaining robbers dropped their
plumber and mounted their horses, but
posse was quickly in pursuit, and one more
Of the bandit gang fell from his horse
mortallv wounded about two miles from
town. The sixth and last was being pur-
sued at last accounts. The man who got
away was Allie Ogee.
This is the old home OF the Daltons and
it is peculiarly appropriate that the world
should be rid Of the gang here. Great ex-
element prevails and if the other man is
found he will be summarily dealt with.
The large rewards for the capture OF the
3,
wishes are respected, go to the families of
the murdered citizens.
All of the money was recovered to q cent
and turned over to the bank that lost it.
Emmett Dalton has made partial confess
sion that his gang was the same that robbed
the Pacific Express car on the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas Railway, at Adair station
in the Indian Territory in July last, and
committed other daring robberies.
The news was telegrapned to Parsons
0o1o al
intendent Frey, of the Missouri Kansas
and Texas Railroad, with his special
car, in which were thirty or forty
trusty citizens with Winchesters and
shotSuns came to Cofeyville to
They found on their arrival that there was
but little work for them to do, as the pucky
inhabitants at Coffeyville had wound up the
careers of the desperadoes. The dead were:
Bob Dalton, Craft Dalton. Tom Heddy,
dead outlaws: G. T. Connely, Marsh al of
Coffeyville; George Cubine, merchant;
Charles Brown, shoemaker.
Fatally wounded-Emmett Dalton, des-
perado; Thomas g. Ayres, Cashier Of the
First National Bank; Lucius Baldwin, CLERK
in Browns shoe store.
Slightly wounded-T. A. Reynolds, Louis
Detz.
The bodies of those Of the attacking party
who were killed were removed to their re-
spective homes, while those Of the dead
bandits were allowed to rem ain where they
had fallen until the arrival of the Coroner
from independence, who ordered them re-
moved to the Court House. There he held an
inquest, the jury returning verdict in &C.
cOrdance with the facts.
During the time the bodies remained in
the square they were viewed by hundreds of
the people of this and surroun ding towns,
who, having heard of the battle, came in
swarms to inspect the scene.
The Da!1ons were a numerous family.
There we're five boys and thres girls. OF
tha boys, two are engaged in farming
one in Oklahoma, where the mothe"
their death. The Daltons were second
cousins of the noted James boys. who defe3
the law in Missouri for 50 many years and
through them were related to the Younge
who are now serving life terms OF imnr.son-