The Cotton Factory Times. — 1892-10-07 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

DESPERATE FIGHTING. SEVERAL LIVES LOST. FOUR OF THE ROBBERS SHOT DEAD.  NEW YORE, Wednesday.  A daring attempt was made this morning by the notorious Dalton gang to rob the First National Bank and the banking firm of Messrs. C. M. Condon and Company, at Coffeyville, Kansas. The gang, six in all, same to the town on horseback at a quarter to ten in the morning, and after leaving their animals in an alley walked rapidly across the main square. Four of them, including Grant Dalton, Tom noddy, and two others, entered Messrs. Condon's establishment carrying their Winchester repeaters under their arms, while Bob and Emmett Dalton, similarly armed, went to the First National Bank. At Condon's they were told by Mr. Ball, the cashier, that the time lock would not be opened until ten o'clock. They thereupon informed the cashier and Mr. Carpenter, the teller, who was also present, that they would wait, taking meanwhile the money in the drawer of the counter. Bob and Emmett Dalton had in the meantime Eentered§the :First National Bank, where they found Mr. Thomas Ayers, the cashier, his son, Bert Ayers, and Mr. Sheppard, the teller, who in spite of their protests were forced to give up all the money in the safe, which the desperadoes hastily emptied into bags which they had brought with them. They then pushed the bank clerks out through the front door and followed close behind them. Meanwhile, however, the alarm had been given, and as they came out a man named George Cudini and an expresa agent named Con shot at one of the gang, who was badly wounded. The two Daltons promptly returned the fire and shot Cadini dead. The four robbers in Condon's, who had by this time reallisd the situation, commenced shooting out of the window of the bank, mortally wounding Thomas Ayers and Charles Brown. Bob and Emmett Dalton then ran back into the First National Bank, where they were confronted by Mr. Lucius Baldwin, a clerk in a store, whom they shot dead. The citizens were now thoroughly aroused, and the gang were soon hemmed in by a large crowd, many persons in which carried arms. A fierce struggle ensued, in which Bob and Frank Dalton, Tom Heddy, and one unknown member of the gang were killed, while Emmett Dalton was mortally wounded. A city marshal named Donnelly was shot by one of the gang, and two other citizens named T. Arnold and Lewis Dietz were slightly wounded. The sixth member of the gang escaped, but it is expected that he will be caught before the evening. His name is supposed to be Allie Ogee. It is believed that if Emmett Dalton does not die from his injuries he will be lynched. Coffeyville is the old home of the Daltons, and this fact has added to the excitement in the town, the citizens regarding it as peculiarly appropriate that it should have fallen to their lot to rid the world of the gang. Large rewards have been offered for the capture of the Dalton s dead or alive, and if the wishes of the inhabitants are respected the money will go to the families of the murdered citizens. All the money taken from the banks was recovered. Emmett Dalton confessed that the gang robbed a Pacific express car on the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad in Indian territory in July last, and committed a number of other daring robberies at other cities.  Another report of the outrage at Coffeyville says that Jim Spears, a livery stable keeper, killed three of the robbers, and that then a posse despatohed another of the band, although not until the city marshals and three of the posse had been killed. It is said that the gang, which numbered fully ten, rode into the town just as the banks opened. They divided into two bands, and drawing their revolvers made a simultaneous rush upon the banks, taking the officials quite by surprise. The robbers afterwards attempted toescape. According to the latest list four of the gang were killed, while four others reoffved fujories which are expected to prove fatal, and the others were severely ban.