The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-22
The auieha Daily Eagle: guesaaY nrnfng ay e. 1884

thewar, but ezys tbs WINS the most sav-
age and mmdarous work he ever saw,
| though it occupied but 10 minutes
Colonel Elliott In his printed account
Gays that tho morning Of the 9Th dawn.
ed bright and beautiful
Five solitary horsemen might have
Been seen going toward the town OF
Cofeyville. One Of them used tobacco,
but otherwise they were perfect gents.
They wore false whiskers, which showed
| that they did not wish to be recognized.
The use Of tobacco and false whiskers
leads to an ignominious death and
should not be encouraged.
These men rode into the town Just
about as the banks were opening, as Bob
Dalton discovered on looking at beau
tiful gold repeater, presented to him by
prominent citizen by request. They
hltched their horses in an alley marked
the "alley Of death" in the diagram
herewith given. Here there are bullet
marks yet to show how hot was the con-
f1ict in that nsighborhood, and an old
stable there has been carried away for
relics
Condon's bank, marked exhibit A,
faces the plaza A plaza is place where
Alliance people hitch their teams and
where gressers sell hot tamales made
OF boiled breast Of buxzard inside corn
shuck. The plaza by day has fringe of
demoralized teams around 1t, each team
consisting Of one horse and one mule.
1t is safe to say that in the southwest
fully two-thirds Of the teams are thus
arranged. Why 1t is I do not know
unless il started that way by accident,
and when the set was broken it made it
impossible to set it right again.
Three OF the robbers entered Condon's
bank to overdraw their account. Mr..
Carpenter turned from his ledger to wait
on these men, whose footsteps he heard,
when he found powerful Endorsement
in the way Of three winchesters, along
with sight draft for the amount On
hand
Grafton Dalton made a profane re
mark TO Mr. Carpenter regarding the
state Of the country and the slack con-
dition Of trade This convinced Mr.
Carpenter and Mr.. Ball, the cashier,
that the men were pot all they should
be. These bank officers said very little
but held their e.nds higher than usual,
Mr. Ball ripping one Of his sleeves un-
der the arm.
Mr.. Dalton then took from his person
two bushel grain sack and asked the
bank to put its money in there. Hesaid
he would see that no one disturbed them
at all.
l forgot to say that Mr.. Dalton had
no account whatever at Condon's bank
and as a matter Of fact had no claim on
the bank O
They got all there was in sight-some
81, 000-and they demanded what was
in the vault, but Dalton was told that
tho time lock would not open till $50.
1t was really 20 minutes Of 10 at that
time, but Dalton was afraid to look at
his watch, Is he had to keep his gun
pointed that way or something might /
have happened to him, for the bank was
not at that time friendly with the Dali |
tons.
Dalton said he could wait till the !
time lock opened, but soon he got in a
hurry and made a coarse and profane re-
mark.
Meantime two customers came into
the bank and concluded to remain there.
By this time the citizens had discovered
the character Of the men and began to
shoot into the bank from the hardware
store marked c. The firing brought
moro armed men, and soon the robbers
were besieged in the bank and had to
retire to the back room, where they held
a directors meeting to discuss whether
they should close the bank or resume
business. They had left their bag in the
front room and did not dare go back aft
ar it, the firing was so hot, so they got
one Of their prisoners to go out on his
hands and knees to bring it back to
where they were.
Meantime the other two robbers had
been more successful at the First Ma
.ional bank, and had secured $50, 000
This bank is marked 8 on the diagram
Finally the unhappy robbers in Con-
Ions bank got out and exchanged shots
With the citizens, who were giving it to
hem redhot. Coneyville men, espe-
tally Mr.. Isham, the hardware man,
md Mr.. Kloehr, a livery stable man,
ire dead shots. One of the robbers was
in the arm SO that he could not
Use his gun before he got out Of the
'ank, and by the time the five got to
he alley, where they met within so
ards Of their horses, Mr.. Isham was
aking the entire length of the alley,