Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-05-20

Dick Broadwell, who was with Graf
Dalton in the Condor bank, was shot
in the back, but crawled out OF a lum-
Der pile and got on his horse, vixen a
bullet and a big load OF buckshot, door
hinges and scrap iron overlook him,
and bleeding he rode away out OF town,
where, a short distance oil, his body
was found soon after.
Bob Dalton reached the little build
ing marked ]. 1t IS tie city jail and Is
about one size larger than az common
cooking stove. here, while lookiDE-up
toward the windows OF surrounding
buildings, from which he seemed TO
think the bullets were coming, shot
or two from Isham's store knocked him
over, aud he crawled away TO pile OF
curbstones. He rose, however, and
made a last effort TO shoot Kloehr, but
missed and Kloehr returned the fire,
striking Bob In the breast, and he fell
without a groan. Graf Dalton after
shooting the city marshal. tried to get
away, but Mr.. Kloehr gave him mis-
death shot, the ball entering the center
OF the throat aDd breaking the neck.
The result of this 10 short minutes OF
fighting was the utter destruction OF
four Of the FIVE, Emmett Dalton being
In the penitentiary for life and pretty
we'll shot TO pieces besides. He might
have escaped with all the money II he
had chosen, but returning 10 get his
brother on his horses back he was shot
as he stopped over, and to escape was
then impossible.
Dead men and dollar bills were scat
tered over the alley, and several of the
horses had been killed also. 1t was one
of the best things for the country that
ever happened, though IL cost the lives
OF four good citizens.
A bullet which struck the window
frame Of Isham's store just missed
so pound can OF dynamite inside the
window.
The First National bank had 81. %
after the robbers had gone, but il is
still doing a good business, and those
who 60 there TO overdraw their &C
counts on the Dalton plan will be rude
ly elected from the bank.
Wherever one goes in Coffeyville he
finds winchester behind the door or
under the counter, and it is loaded too.
sat down in q car seat when leaving
town to go through the Indian Terri
tory, and feeling something cold rose
and found that it was the steel barrel
Of gun.
That is really no way to live.
When l was younger, / did not fear
anything. l killed quite large number
OF men on the frontier, for which l am
now heartily sorry. wish that l could
replace them. But l could not very
we'll do 1t, so l could only pray for
them and try to do better In the future.
have gone over the Dalton story be-
cause the whole battle was so graph
cally described to me by Colonel Elliott,
and II is so fresh in in ny memory, that
/ felt sure the reader would like TO
know fully the particulars OF the most
successful fight ever made by civilians
against a desperate band OF robbers and
murderers. l also thought 1t would be
lesson to the young who may have
notions OF robbing banks as means Of
obtaining q livelihood.
Be sure, boys, that no desperate man
ever lived to enjoy what he has won by
deeds OF blood. The average desperate
lasts about three years in this climate,
according to statistics. and even dur
ing that time he sleeps very poorly OF
nights.
Think OF Emmett Dalton! In II min
utes after he entered the town Of Coffey-
vile he lay, torn and shattered with
buckshot, in the alley, where near him
lay his dead brothers, with their warm
blood drenching the false boards and
the money they had died to win. Eight
dead and three wounded lay within a
few yards. said to Colonel Elliot
and l say here now, that Emmett
Dalton ought to be ashamed of him
self.
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