The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-12-09
TO WE'D HER
WHEN FREE
MAN WHO WENT TO JAIL AT
YOUNG GIRLS BIDDING
TO BIZ. PAROLLED.
SENT To--PR|s0N FOR LIFE
Thrilling Story of Intense Love
Mingled With Life Of Crime
Special Investigation.

Topeka. Kans.. Dec because
he loved girl and would do her
slightest bidding, James Dalton is
now in the Kansas penitentiary, un-
der life sentence for completely
in murder
Within few weeks Dalton will be
, parolled and will marry the girl for
whom he got into trouble Owing 10
the circumstances surrounding the
case, Governor Stubs has ordered
a special investigation looking to
parole. Dalton has been offered a
position in Topeka as soon as the
governor completes his investigation
,, the parole papers will be issued.
Before Christmas Dalton will be
free.
In 1897 Dalton lived in Nemaha
county and was clerk in hard
ware store. In fall months when the
business was light he husked cora
for the farmers near his home. One
evening he went to a husking bee
and met Laura Taylor, the daughter
OF farmer. She found the red ear
OF corn, Dalton also found one and
claimed the kiss.
There were numerous visits at the
Taylor home thereafter, and the
next spring James Dalton and Laura
Taylor were engaged. One day as
Taylor was visiting his fiancee, Thos.
Taylor. the girls brother, drove up
| to the house. He was accompanied
by man named Royal. Both were
| fugitlyes from Justice The two men
Went into the house and were hidden
| by Taylors parents in a closet when
Officers came after them. Mrs. Tay-
Tor was i'll at the time and the Of
ficers were refused admission to the
house to make search. They left to
get search warrant
1t was necessary for the two men
to get out of the country. Both were
comparatively strangers there, as
Taylor had been at home only O few
times since he was a boy. Dalton
knew the country, and the fugitives
| asked him to drive them to Nebraska
twenty miles away. At first Dalton
refused, but Laura Taylor begged
| him for their love to accompany her
brother and help him get away. Dali
ton yielded to the supplication of his
sweetheart and the three left In
a buggy, Dalton driving one of the
! Taylor teams.
The officers returned to the home
and when they found that the fugi-
rives left gave chase, and the three
men were captured near Corning,
half way to the Nebraska line. They
We're taken to Marysville and locked
up to wait for officers from another
state to take Royal and Taylor back
to answer for some crime.
One night Taylor suggested that
the three break Jail. Dalton was per-
suaded that this was the easiest way
out of his difficulty. Taylor and
Royal sawed the jail bars, and sent
Dalton ahead. He walked to the
edge of the town and waited for the
others. When they came running up
they told him to get out OF the
country.
The jailor awoke as we were
leaving and we had to tap him. Bet
ter get out until this blows over
1t later developed that the jailer
had been killed by a blow on the
head. Dalton went to Colorado and
wrote to his sweetheart. She told
him not to come back yet, but didn't
explain why. Dalton enlisted in
! Company X of the 18th Infantry,
went to Cuba and later to the Philip
pines, as a member of Company L,
the 4th Infantry. He was in the
islands 80 months, and was honor
ably discharged at San Antonio, but
was Immediately arrested for the
murder of the Marysville jailes.
Taylor and Royal have never been
caught.
Dalton was convicted of murder
and sentenced to imprisonment for
life.