The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-14

I the adminiStra ton OF Grover Cleveland.
Mrs. Dalton advised him against IT, one
day he said TO her: Mother. I wish
you would not discourage ne; il unnerves
me" She said she wouldn't any more,
and he started away. Not long after
that he was pursuing a band OF Grim
inals. His partner desert him when
conflict came an. he fought the band
alone One Of them SIT him through
the heart
Previous 70 that .le had written to his
mother. saying that he was saving some
money and would buy her q home at
Coffeyville kan. The family had nc
permanent home when the young man
was killed, but since he had expressed a
desire 70 make a home at C0feyviue
the family sent his body there for burial
and with their scanr means erected d
monument over his grave In the COM
binations of fate. C0GeyvilIe became the
scene Of Mrs. Dalton's greatest trials.
II vas there that Grattan and Bob were
killed and Emmett taken prisoner.
The circumstance Of poverty had IN
doubtedly something to DO with the des-
tiny of the family. The boys became
deputy marshals. Emmett wrote TO his
mother from the Indian Territory She
was then on claim near Kingfsher.
He said that Bob and Grattan contem-
plated something awful and that if she
came TO them she might prevent IL. She
WAS too poor to pay the expense Of the
trim and didn't 60 She wrote but her
letter never reached them. What they
had contemplated was the robbery Of a
Coneyville bank
Emmett was but = boy and they per-
suaded him 10 go along. They rode horse
back. as bandits do, and by some fatality.
they In their Journey. Travelled within
sight OF the cemetery in which their
brother was buried.
"Tonder, boys" said Emmett, els the
grave Of our brother. He died in support
Of the law. Why should We turn our
hands against It? It may be possible
that we shall die violating it."
The good spirit was not present and
the older brothers needed not the sugges-
ton. They died next day.
Emmett was named after the Irish pa
triot, Robert Emmett, who was executed
in Dublin in 1893. why he vas so named
came about IN this way: While the elder
Dalton stu enjoyed a measure Of pros
perity, Rev. Benton Farr, now editor Of
a religious journal at Oakland, Calf
was his pastor. He was a young man
Of promise and ambition. He desired
knowledge of the dead languages. but
was too poor TO acquire it, Mr. Dalton.
ar his own expense, sent him TO a college
AT Lexington and sent his son. Coleman
Dalton then a boy Of Is. with him to
enter the freshman's class. Rev. FarI
saw oratoricaI genius I'm his young friend
and succeeded in getting him entry into
the annual contest Cole selected the re-
markable speech of Robert Emmett to de-
claim and he studied it for months. He
failed Of first prize and went home dis
appointed. but fun Of admiration for
Robert Emmett. AS he arrived home a
baby was born and Cole suggested that
he be named Emmett. lis request was
granted and that is why the young man
who IS now serving a life sentence in
the penitcntiary bears the name Of one (
Of the most brave and brilliant sons of
Erin
One Of the singular things in connection +
with the case IS that Emmett Dalton has /.
never spoken about the Coffevville trag-
edv IN the presence of his mother All I
learned from Emmett and repeated &c .
her.
Emmett was never given an education /
neither was a younger sister who now
lives in Oklahoma Disaster and ruin .
came TO the parents before the younger (
children became Of school age. The elder
children were well educated.
Mrs. Dalton says that II IS not true F.
that mothers can shape the destiny Of .
their children: that they are shaped by +
alone.