The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-08
INTERESTING ACCOUNT OF
 SOME FAMOUS BANDITS

dered them to hand over the cash which was placed ill a guano sack. A clerk who had been concealed behind a screen slipped out the back door and, running to the livery stable mentioned, gave the alarm, and the proprietor, Sims, dashed into the hardware store and grabbing Winchester rife and a box of cartridges, got behind kitchen range and, protected by the top of the stove, opened fire on Grat Dalton and his partner killing Grat instantly and shooting the other man off his horse. The firing frightened the horses and they stampeded, leaving Bill and Emmett without mounts At the first sound of firing Bob Dalton and his part ner mounted their horses and galloped toward the bank, firing at every one in sight Emmett Dalton ran out of the bank and throwing the money sack over lis horse, mounted and fled down the alley and out of town, calling the others to follow. Bill Dalton, running from the front door of the bank and hearing the discharge of firearms from within the hardware store across the street. and thinking the firing came from the cellar of the store, emptied his six shooter through a cellar window before he was shot down. Within short time after the alarm was sounded every mem Der of the Dalton boys gang were lying dead or dying around the bank except Emmett.
 There was bit of heroism displayed in connection with this hold LID that escaped public notice at the time, and so far as I can say, was never published.
 Emmett Dalton. then only a boy of 19 years of age. had gotten clear out of the town with the money, and on none of tho other members of the party appearing turned his horse, retracing his way through the alley, and turned his horse into the main street in front of the bank. dlsmounting and lifting Bob (his favorite brother) from the ground and threw hiin over his saddle and mounting, had turned to flee, when he was shot from his horse and was picked up barely alive with five bullet wounds in his body He eventually recovered, and was tried and sentenced 10 life imprisonment in the Kansas peniten- tiary, but was pardoned in 1906 and is now respected citizen of Tulsa, Okla, from which point this Scout Younger is said to hail. l was introduced to Emmett Dalton in Fort Worth, Tex, in the spring of 1908, and found him to be very nice, refined man, he looking none the worse after his IT years stay in the penitentiary. He declined to talk about the unfortu- nate affair mentioned herein.
 The liveryman was given credit for kill ing four of the members of the gang and the United States marshal the other two. Sims was presented with a very hand SDfle POlu WdIcn SnO1llN dIter the nOid up by the apprecative citizens of Coffee vile, and was given a sum of money by the bank.
 An interesting side light to ths story was developed several days after the af- fair. The man owning the hardware store used the cellar of the building in which to store oils, explosives. etc, and it was found that one of the bullets from Bill Daltons gun had struck the upper edge of a case of dynamite. splitting one of the boards entirely off the box. Had this slug gone as much one-fourth of an inch lower it would have been good night to the hardware store, as well our friend Sims
 w. O. Mcintosh. chief special agent for the Southern railway with headquarters at Louisville, was at that time acting as United States deputy marshal and par ticipated In this action, and now carries in his right side nice little souvenir In the way of a bullet from a regulation Winchester rifle, fired by Bob Dalton on his ride down the street to the bank, He has in his possession photographs of all the members of this gang except Emmett, the pictures being taken as they were being carried to the improvised morgue, and shows the bandits lying in stretchers just as they were picked up dead from of the street. I have seen and Studied these photographs carefully several times The one of Bill Dalton shows six bullet wounds in his neck and breast, all made by a Winchester, and evidently the shoot ing was done by Smms.
 This will probably interest you, and shows that the party interviewed by Mir. Perkins was evidently not the right Cole Younger. Yours truly,
 g. M. BAKER Birmingham. March 6, 1912.