The record-union., 1897-08-15

We don't want TO leave you strapped
We will give you the $24 so for the
things you need and add 80 cents to
| it for your dinner and dinner for your
| horse"
! The other SO the outlaws kept for
| their own needs. On another occasion,
while going from ingalls, to Saltwater,
/ they met a drummer, made him throw
up his hands, and took from him $500.
| The drummer was a jovial fellow and
| took the situation philosophically. He
/ laughed and talked with the gang for
/ quite a while. Doolan was acting as
! leader that day and asked the drum
mer where he was going, and was in
/ formed that his trip would cover Still
water and Perry, and then he was going
to his home IN Kansas. Doolan asked
/ him what his expenses would be at
Saltwater much for hack hire and
hotel bill, how much his expenses would
/ be at Perry and what his railroad fare
would be from Perry to his home. The
drummer told him. Whereupon Doo-
Ian counted out the money, gave it
/ back to the drummer, and put
/ in a few dollars extra to be sure the
drummer would not get strapped on
the road, as he said.
These instances were only two of
many similar ones which illustrate the
character of these outlaws. On many
! occasions Dodsworth visited Perry,
Pawnee, and Saltwater with some of
the outlaws Two or three of the gang
would always go together, and would
always watch one another closely and
also every person they met. Dods-
worth says he lived twenty years dur
ing the six weeks he spent with the
/ Dalton gang. He committed many acts
of lawlessness during that time and
there were more than dozen warrants
for his arrest. He had to play his part
we'll to avert suspicion of the outlaws
and was in constant danger of being
killed by Government officers who were
in pursuit of the gang. He soon dis
covered that the life of an outlaw is
anything but pleasant, and that con-
slant scouting from place to place to
escape the scores of reward hunters is
wearisome as we'll as hazardous. He
says the outlaws were extremely tired
Of this way of living and sick of their
life of laWlesSnesS, and would willingly
surrender if they could get off with only
few years in the penitentiary, but
since surrender meant hanging or life
/ Imprisonment they were determined
never to give up.
The gang consisted of Bill Dalton, Bill
Doolan Bitter Creek" Tulsa Jack"
and negro named Israel Carr. While
they We're always called the Dalton
gang, Bill Doola Ls~sas really the leader
and was the nerviest man of them ALL
but the negro Carr was said to have
killed more men than all the rest of
the gang put together.
DodsWorth found it more difficult to
get away from the Dalton gang than to
JOIN them. He had come to the concIu-
sion that it would be folly to attempt
to get the drop on any of them, so he
abandoned all such ideas soon after
joining the gang. AT last, being unable
to endure the life any longer, and un-
willing to incur further risks, he devised
plan to escape. While camping near
the edge Of a prairie one night he tied
his horse in such a way that the ami
NAL could easily get loose. Just as day
was breaking the next morning he
went to look for his horse, and, as he
expected, the horse was gone. He bor-
rowed the horse of Bitter Creek"
his saddle on it, and rode leisurely over
the hill in the direction his horse was
supposed to have taken. AS soon as he
was ought of sight of the gang he put
spurs to the horse, and never stopped
to eat or drink until he had reached
Perry, ninety miles away.
Upon arriving at Perry, tired and
thirsty, Dodsworth went into saloon
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soon began to feel pretty good. By
this time a Deputy Marshal had been
apprised of his presence, and while the
eX-outlaw stood at the bar taking
another drink a Winchester rifle was
put to his breast, and he was ordered
to throw up his hands. He grabbed
the Marshals Winchester and would
have disarmed him had not the bar
tender covered him with a six-shooter
and ordered him to surrender Dods-
worth gave up and was taken to Jail.
He had been in Jail only few hours
when he was released by order of
United States Marshal Nix. He made
his report in full to Marshal Nix, who
supplied him with money, and arranged
for him to get his portion Of the reward
as soon as Doolan and Dalton were
captured.
The gang has been completely wiped
out Bill Dalton was killed at Gid
ding's ranch, near Elk, l. T., in April,
1894, by Deputy Marshal Los Hart and
a posse He was stopping over night
at the ranch, and the officers, being in
formed of his whereabouts, surrounded
the house. Dalton would not surrender,
and when they started to burn the
house he Jumped out of the door and
began firing and tried to fight his way
through There were too many Of
them, and he was riddled with bullets
and fell dead Just outside the door. Bill
Doolan was taken unawares in a bar
ber shop at Eureka Springs, Ark, a
year later by Deputy Marshal Bell
Tilghman, and, having no chance what
ever, surrendered. He was taken TO
Guthrie and put in Jail, but escaped
on July 4, 1895. He was pursued by
score of officers for a year, and WIS
finally overtaken by party under Dep
uty Marshal Heck Thomas last summer
at a blacksmith shop in the northeast
ern part of Oklahoma. 1t was just at
daybreak when Thomas and his party
rode up. Doolan was having his mules
shod, preparatory to fleeing with his
family down into Mexico. Doolai saw
his pursuers as soon as they saw him
and prepared to defend himself, but
they gave him no show All opened
fire on him at once without ordering
him to surrender. Twenty bull
let's pierced his body and Bill Doolan
died with his boots on Tulsa Jack"
had already met the same fate at the
hands Of Deputy Marshals and Bitter
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