The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1894-05-25
HUNTING DOWN BILL DALTON.
Deputy Marshal Fel's Says the Gang IL
sure 20 be Wiped Out.

Deputy Marshal Fel's Says the Gang I,
Sure 20 be wiped out.
The Washington Post OF May 10.
contains the following:
Deputy United States Marshal w. s
Felts of Guthrie. Ok, Is at the Ma.
tional, on hIs return trip home from
the Kings county IN. " penitentiary,
20 which place he delivered Eve United
States prisoners on Saturday. Three
of the prisoners were Indians and two
were tough specimens of prairie
rangers who have beer convicted of
killings and highway robberies Mr..
Felts is a brother-in.law of United
States Marshal T. n. Nix OF Oklahoma
who has been so hct on the trail of
the Dalton gang for some time.
1--WE will finally get the Daltons, "
said Mr. Telts last night They are
being hsrder pushed just now than at
any other time since they began their
career Bill Dalton. the leader. is
such shrewd fellow and has such |
pull with the people all over that /
country that pursuing officers are con
stantly given false clews and trails to
work on.
'1f you should see Bill Dalton on the
streets here, IL would be hard to con-
vince you that he has ever been guilty
of any crime. lie comes East very
frequently and has been in Washing
ton time and again. But when he is
East he is a dead swell. When he is
West he is dead tough Out in our .
country we wish that either term
could be used literally rather than
He is a handsome. we'll :
built fellow, weighing about 49,
pounds, with deep-set, pier:ing eyes,
and has mixed SO much in all the
walks of lie that he is at home any Z
where. All the deviltry he is doing :
now ut the head OF this gang is for
revenge only. Before the Coffeyville C
bank affair, when several of his men a
were laid low, he resembled Rube o
Burrows, who announced himself as a
out for the stuff.
Since that time, however, he has
done nothing so much as wreak ven =
geance, and he does not care what sort
Of a human he wreaks it on. lie ar
yues that the world Is turned square I
against him and that therefore, every L
Inhabitant is his enemy. e
Probably the Toughest member of
the Dalton gang. next to Dalton him q
self, is mere STRIPPING. whose name b
Is George Newcomh, and who glories /
Ia the name OF the Slaughter Kid frOm I
Bitter Creek" lie is the surest shot {
In the whole outlaw outfit, and never i
misses anything he pulls the trigger (
on. He and ] were chums out on the [
ranges for many years He was left 5
An immense property out there by the /
death Of his relatives. and being quite v
young. fell an easy prey to the good '
looking owner Of one of the first dives I
started in Guthrie. She bled him SO /
thoroughly that in scarcely no time at :
all he had nothing left but a pony, I
and pair of trusty pis- I
tolls. with lots of ammunition. lie
came TO me one morning, extended his {
hand, and said; "Good-by, Felts; my
back is turned on the world" did s
not grasp his meaning until several
weeks later the report reached us that
a particularly bold. robbery had been 1
by part OF the Dalton
gang under the leadership of my old
friend, George Newcomb. Then un-
derstood. lie is the most daring, reek-
less devil OF the outfit now, and our
people will not breathe easy until he
is laid under the sod"