After Kay finished talking to the cleaner, Deputy George Witty reported to him that telegrams from the coast said Bill was not in Paso Robles or Estrella. Bill had returned to Oklahoma several months earlier, living at his mother's house near Kingsfisher. Kay noticed the bills were perfectly new and asked Grat where he got them. The only evidence found at the robbery was a coat made from a tailor from Visalia. When they came back into the front room both Maggie Rucker and the girl remained quiet as they both expected Kay to have been killed. The road curved behind some willow trees, and Kay told Witty to drive past the house, passing close to the door, and then to drive back. Southern Pacific detective Will Smith visited Grat's cell almost every day during the trial trying to get a confession out of him and Grat began to despise Smith. Ignoring the advice of the people in Hennessy, he also took the prisoner without a guard. Kay telegraphed his deputy George Witty and told him to check on Bill Dalton and to immediately notify him when he was found. na Randolph Dalton, Emma Dalton, Robert Rennick Dalton, Eva May Dalton, Mason Dalton, Henry Coleman Coleman Dalton, Gratton Hanley Dalton July 13 1937 - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. The weather conditions during his escape led him to becoming sick with pneumonia, so he stayed near Livingston for several weeks, sleeping in Gray's cupola and watching the surrounding plains with an eyeglass for any sight of a posse. Bill was finally able to get a loan on some horses from a local rancher, but they were still short one saddle and one of the horses was not fit for a hard ride. He was afraid some of his friends would be hurt, but Bob assured him there would not be any shooting, and that it would all be over before anyone knew what happened. He was John Dutton III's brother but he died only hours after he was born. Bill told Kay that Bob was not in the country, that he had stopped at Rucker's place alone to spend the night. Kay told Grat that he knew neither Bob or Emmett killed the fireman. Lewis Dalton was a saloon keeper in Kansas City, Kansas, when he married Adeline Younger, the aunt of Cole and Jim Younger. Kay did not think much of this until later, when Perry Byrd mentioned Chris breaking Grat out of jail. Grat first rode to Charles Owen's ranch across from Clovis Cole where he stayed for a few days. Frank shot and killed two, but his gun jammed and he was killed by the remaining bootlegger. Closed now : See all hours. He is known for portraying James Bond in The Living Daylights (1987) and Licence to Kill (1989), as well as Rhett Butler in the television miniseries Scarlett (1994), an original sequel to Gone with the Wind. Bill Dalton came into the hotel lobby and began to speak to deputy Yoes in a loud voice, so everyone around them could hear. Kay was informed by Bill's father-in-law, Clark Bliven, that Bob and Emmett planned to meet Cole in Salt Lake, so Kay headed to Chico where he planned to cut him off. His contributions to researching the Dalton surname and his family lines will always be enshrined in the Dalton Chronicles. Soon after, Jim Ford noticed Emmett exit a department store, who quickly ducked back inside upon noticing Kay. While Bill was playing his guitar, Wagy noticed that he was trying to cover up where the break had been made. Ken Haas 4/22/12. Geni requires JavaScript! ", Jim Wagy also showed up after the break out to overlook the scene. Kay and Ford traveled the fifty miles to Guthrie, but soon came into problems when dealing with different tribal jurisdictions. GANGSTER DIES HOLLYWOOD, July 14. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Bill immediately threw his guitar on the bed and exclaimed, "Now what in the world do you know about that? Kay hung around Grat for a few hours and talked to him most of the time until Witty returned. Bob and Emmett were hiding out in a ranch barn a mile west of Malaga, and after arriving the brothers talked until morning. The second train robbery by the Dalton Gang in Oklahoma was at a small station called Lelietta on September 15, 1891, about four miles north of Wagoner, Oklahoma. They hid behind some rocks and an oak tree and waited as one of the men approached them. The actor Tyler MacDuff portrayed Emmett Dalton in the 1957 episode of the CBS documentary drama series You Are There entitled "The End of the Dalton Gang (October 5, 1892). The Dalton family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The sawing was hid from the jailer by a large box that they would put a blanket over and use to play cards. This was only a few months after $2,000 in rare two dollar bills had been stolen during a train robbery outside of Goshen (a robbery later attributed to Chris Evans and John Sontag). He was found 2 miles away, dead. I am trying to see if I am related, and if so, where. Ayres was not killed, but he remained paralyzed for life. Bryant opened the door to the rear platform, and, while Short had his attention on the mounted men, shot him in the back point blank. They hoped that a big haul from the banks would allow them to leave the territory and escape Thomas' heat. They put the gold into the sack, forced Ayres in front of them as cover, and went out the front door. Riley would feed the outlaws, and would do the same for any passing officers, but he would never reveal each other's whereabouts to either parties. Wagy hid all night in a yard across the street but saw nothing. Yoes told the judge that he was Bill Dalton, the brother of the notorious train robbers, and the judge asked him to introduce them when he came to breakfast. He also said that Grat was accompanied by Riley Dean, the man who had been arrested with Bill for the Ceres robbery, as well as a dog. Each time they stopped sawing, they plugged the hole with soap and soot. Smith instead went north and several weeks later was arrested by Kay. Henry Coleman "cole" Dalton, Lewis Kossuth Dalton, Bea Elizabeth Dalton, Littleton Lee "lit" Dalton, Lelia Dalton, F Roy Reynolds Dalton, Roy Johnson, Genie Gilstrap Dalton. Build your family tree online ; Share photos and videos ; Smart Matching technology As Doolin and Dalton were accepted as leaders of the gang, it became known as the Doolin-Dalton Gang, and also as the Wild Bunch. In a mid eighties interview with spirou magazine author Maurice De Bevere Also known as Morris admitted that reading Emmett's book "When the Daltons rode" was his inspiration to create the comic version of the Dalton Brothers. The deep canyons of the area, covered with dwarf cedar and blackjack oaks, made it an ideal hiding place. Emmett had denied accompanying Bob to California. He had gone to school at Robbins Corners near Coffeyville, and knew several hundred people in town. After securing bondsmen, Bill immediately went to Merced and hired John W. Beckenridge, the best attorney in the San Joaquin Valley, to defend Grat. The Daltons resided first in Cass county, Mo., then Coffeyville, Kan., then back in Missouri, and finally in the wild Oklahoma Indian Territory. Bob shot him in the head, killing him. They were also accused of robbing a bank in El Reno, Oklahoma, on July 28, but this was based on little evidence, as no one identified any members of the gang. Share. It had been raining for several days prior, and it was so cold the ground was covered in ice. With his revolver in hand, Kay dropped to the ground as they passed the door and slowly entered the station. The Journal reported that, "no one has yet been found who knows him or anything of his antecedents or history." He soon discovered a worn place in the carpet and found a trap door hidden underneath. In El Paso, they found out that Bob and Emmett had headed to Albuquerque and then took the train to Topeka, Kansas, where the rail ended. Bob and Emmett ran through the back door and ducked into a saloon across the alley. Connect to the World Family Tree to find out. This was about 13% of all the recorded Dalton's in USA. This is why Grat was able to notice Deputy Wagy hiding in a yard across the street from the jail. In the spring of 1942, the brothers, under Tuvia's leadership, decided to gather 30 surviving family members and a few friends. Re: The Dalton Gang family tree or offspring. Walker in Wichita. The first look into the Dutton family technically began with Yellowstone, but the first branch of the family tree is filled out with the characters we met in its prequel, 1883. He decided to watch the outside of the place at night to see if he could catch in the act whoever was trying to open the grating. Knowing Grat must've sold or hired a horse, Kay sent Witty to investigate while he kept Grat in sight. Emmett Dalton received 23 gunshot wounds and survived (he was shot through the right arm, below the shoulder, through the left right, in some accounts hip and groin, and received 18-23 buckshot in his back). Witty had gone to the livery stable in Modesto, at the time being jointly run by Chris Evans and John Sontag, and learned that Grat had sold the horse to Evans who in turn gave him the two dollar bills. Kay and his men made their way to a rock ledge that Middleton told them would bring them within a few feet above Dalton's camp. He began walking behind his plow when he felt a rifle poke him in the ribs. Emmett married Julia Johnson Lewis on September 1, 1908 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Several civilians were wounded in the fighting. Bob and Emmett, meanwhile, had been busy in Oklahoma forming their gang. First recruited were George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb and "Blackfaced" Charlie Bryant, who had received his nickname because of a gunpowder burn on one cheek. The Journal acknowledged witnesses statements then and in a later article that there were two major unanswered questions: who was the sixth man seen riding into town with the gang, and what happened to him? In it she implied that her father was the one who helped Grat Dalton escape from the Visalia Jail, lending credibility to an earlier claim made by Sheriff Gene Kay of this being true. James is also a Civil War veteran, one who suffers from PTSD in a time long before we knew what it was. While six men were confirmed to had been seen riding into town, other witnesses that day were all in agreement that upon reaching town there were only five men in the group. The locals who identified him notified a deputy marshal named Ed Short. At first, it looked to Kay as if it had been an inside job as it was obvious Grat had simply unlocked the cell door with a key and broke through the basement window to get out. Without making any noise, Bryant went to the messagebox and secured the revolver. Lewis Dalton came west from Kentucky to Missouri during the late 1840s and in the 1850s, he was trading horses and running a saloon in Westport, Missouri (now Kansas City) when he married Adeline. detective Will Smith, and Wells Fargo detectives Hume and Thacker arrived to bring the two men to Modesto to stand trial for the Ceres robbery. While their older brother "Bill" Dalton never joined any heists, he served as their spy and informant. Bob saw Ayres from about 200ft away and quickly shot him in the head. The Daltons had plenty of friends in the area willing to hide them and easily lost Kay once they were in familiar territory. The brother of James Dutton, Jacob (Harrison Ford) became the family patriarch in his brother's stead in the early 1900s. On the morning of Oct. 5, 1892, Bob, Grat, and Emmett, together with Dick Broadwell and Bill Powers, rode into Coffeyville, Kan., intent upon robbing the towns two banks. He then quickly charged down the mountainside tearing through the brush. Lit was able to borrow one hundred dollars and a horse from Clovis Cole's business partner Charlie Owen. This was in addition to the jailer, J.M. Through her brother, Adeline was an aunt of Cole and Jim Younger, of the famous James-Younger Gang. He moved to California and became a real estate agent, author and actor, dying at the age of sixty-six. Condolences can be left for the family at www.mynattfh.com. They used the bar they had cut out to pry open the grating in the wood room window and, instead of risking going and putting it back, left the broom handle in its place. They had no children. The night before the robbery at Red Rock, Judge Burford, US District Attorney for Oklahoma Horace Speed, and deputy marshal George Yoes (son of Marshal Jacob Yoes, the Daltons former employer at Fort Smith) were sitting in a hotel lobby in Kingfisher, where they were talking about the cases that would be in court the next day. Though he did not participate in any of the hold-ups with his brothers, he acted as their spy and advisor. After the gang separated with their share of the loot, Bill hid out with his family in a cabin near Elk, Indian Territory. In 1931, he published When the Daltons Rode, which was later made into a 1940 movie starring Randolph Scott. By the time Grat reached his mother's he had lost forty pounds. He moved to California and became a real estate agent, author and actor, dying at the age of sixty-six. There have been several other nominees suggested to be the sixth man seen riding into Coffeyville, including Bill Dalton, George Newcomb, and Bill Doolin, all of which have never been confirmed. ", A caricature of Dalton appeared in the 1954 Lucky Luke album Hors-la-loi where he's depicted as the tallest of the Dalton brothers. Most officers believed that Grat immediately escaped the county, but Sheriff Kay thought otherwise. Kay asked Rucker if there was anyone else around and she replied that there wasn't. There they played poker all night and won $100. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. They turned around, and went through the back door, carrying both rifles and sack bags, while taking two other bank employees as cover. Dalton family history shows that the name has two possible derivations. At about 8am, a telegraph messenger came into the room and handed the deputy marshal a telegram, reporting the robbery at Red Rock by the Daltons at 10pm the previous night. Grat ordered the employees to lay on the floor in the back office, and after receiving the signal from Bob, told Powers and Broadwell that it was time to leave. From their position, Kay and his deputies were fifty yards from Dalton and Dean, who were both discussing their plan to hunt one of Elwood's hogs for Christmas dinner. Brothers Bob, "Grat", and Emmett had first worked as lawmen for the federal court at Fort Smith, Arkansas and then for the Osage Nation. The last night they dug a hole in the brickwall of the woodroom, but found heavy iron bars embedded in the wall that they couldn't get in between. James Dalton Hatcher Obituary. Here, they secured more than $19,000. When they entered the cell, Bill took out his guitar, sat on a soap box, leaned against the bars of the corridor and began to play a popular song he put his own words to and titled, "You'll Never Miss My Brother Till He's Gone". Simon Noel Dalton (a twin) b. The next day, Christmas Eve, 1891, the posse of both Sheriff Kay and Sheriff Hensley woke up at three in the morning and ascended the mountain to Dalton's camp. They missed Cole by several hours who had already taken the train to Salt Lake where Kay and his deputy followed. Father of Roy Reynolds Dalton Four of the gang were killed in the ensuing gun fight. Emmett, however, was against the idea. James Lewis Dalton from Jackson County, Missouri and Kentucky was the father of all four boys. Hannah (Dalton) Pecker 29 Sep 1756 Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony - 29 Sep 1838 managed by E. Gatlin last edited 7 Dec 2022. Their father, Lewis Dalton, a rambler and saloonkeeper, abandoned his wife Adeline (ne Younger), who was forced on her own to rear their 15 children during the difficult period of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. While in jail, a train robbery occurred near Ceres, on September 3, 1891, but was unsuccessful with no money being taken. Henry Starr was arrested in 1893 and held for trial at Fort Smith. Emmett was then hit in the back with a load of buckshot. Littleton "Litt" Dalton, who was a good and hard-working citizen, believed that his younger siblings became lawless because of the bad influence of . Right as she said this, Kay heard someone rush across the floor of an adjoining room and through the crack in the door he could see a man taking position at the window. This was also confirmed by Lit Dalton who had also attended the trial and claimed to have had several hour long conversations with Evans.[16]. When Jim approached Bill said, "Jim, the birds have flown." They made the mistake of leaving the train dark, though, which made Bob suspicious, and the gang allowed the train to go by. Re: The Dalton Gang family tree or offspring. He then corrected himself, saying that he meant Bill Powers. By 1882, the family lived in northeast Oklahoma and by 1886 they had moved to Coffeyville in southeast Kansas. Grat believed him and decided he would wait until it opened. Also wounded were captains Kinney and LaFlore, but they recovered. It has been speculated by those seeking to answer the confusion that Bill Powers possibly escaped and it was Tom Evans who was killed, as originally reported, or that Tom Evans was just an alias of Bill Powers. Many newspapers at the time assumed that an unknown member of the gang escaped. With the help of non-Jewish friends, they began to collect guns to protect themselves. He told Kay that Grat's camp was on a steep mountain in the Sierra Nevada, close to the Kings River and about fifteen miles northeast of Sanger, but that they would never find the place. They did however find pieces of a file and a hack saw blade in the prisoner's toilet. Grat could not see the yard Wagy had laid in from his cell and the deputy hadn't told anyone what he had done that night. Although the Daltons may have been inspired by their famous cousins' exploits, the Youngers were much older and were in prison at the time of the Dalton Gang's activities. Montgomery was alleged to be posing as a deputy marshal. Emmett reappears on a wanted poster in Les Cousins Dalton his character of tallest of the Dalton Brothers being taken over by Averell Dalton. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dalton-Brothers, Okhlahoma Historical Society - Dalton Gang, Dalton brothers - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). To help pay him the two thousand dollars he asked for, Bill sold almost all of his horses and mules. Sometime before the Alila robbery, but after Grat, Bob and Emmett had all arrived at Bill's ranch in 1890, Grat had been rumored to have been in possession of rare two dollar bills. The three then rode to the ranch of Clovis Cole, northeast of Fresno, and asked Lit if he could furnish them a horse and saddle. Even though Sheriff Kay had given up his pursuit of the boys, they still had a $3000 bounty on their heads posted by Wells Fargo and the Southern Pacific Railroad, encouraging lawmen in the area to pick up where Kay had left off. ", "Emmett Dalton Biography Oct. 5-10, 1892", "The Eagles on Desperado: "We were quite taken with the idea of being outlaws", "Emmett Dalton His Life After the Coffeyville Raid", "Heck Thomas Tough Law in Indian Territory", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dalton_Gang&oldid=1142764666, Articles needing additional references from December 2022, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Charles Benjamin "Ben" Dalton (18521936). In 1954, the actor Robert Bray played Emmett Dalton in the episode "The Dalton Gang" of the syndicated western television series, Stories of the Century, starring Jim Davis as fictitious Southwestern Railroad detective Matt Clark. On May 23, 1894, Dalton and his new gang robbed the First National Bank at Longview, Texas. The posse reached Dalton's camp at nine and split into two groups in order to surround the camp, Kay leading one and Hensley the other. He also brought Bob along as a posse member. Virginia had the highest population of Dalton families in 1840. na Randolph Dalton, Emma Dalton, Emmett Dalton, Robert Rennick Dalton, Eva May Dalton, Mason Dalton, Henry Coleman Coleman Dalton, Gratto May 3 1871 - Belton, Cass, Missouri, United States, July 13 1937 - Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, James Lewis Dalton, Adeline Lee Dalton (born Younger). Bob also hired Emmett under him to guard prisoners. When Grat recovered, he was able to escape with the help of his brother Cole. [18] No one then or later asked him about the horse tending remark, but it couldn't have referred to Bill Powers because his role as an active participant is well recorded. Kay believed Chris was either protecting himself by helping Grat break from jail or returning the favor for Grat protecting him. In 1883, viewers meet the Duttons who settle in Montana near Yellowstone National Park and found the Yellowstone Ranch.James Dutton (Tim McGraw) is the patriarch of the family, a Civil War veteran . Christian Johannes Dalton abt 1892 - 09 Oct 1961 managed by Toni Andrews. The first possibility is town of Dalton, in Lancashire, England, which was originally named Dale-ton, and meant the town in the dale. For the four months that Bob and Emmett spent trying to lose Sheriff Kay in the desert, Grat sat in the Tulare County jail in Visalia awaiting his trial. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. The Lehman family is a prominent family of Jewish German-Americans who founded the financial firm Lehman Brothers.Some were also involved in American politics. Meanwhile, Emmett and Bob had entered the First National Bank, covered the officers and two customers, and ordered the cashier, Thomas Ayres, to open the safe with gold and cash. Family Tree. Teresa was a member of the Full Gospel Outreach Church and . Kay doubled back to Kingman and learned that the boys had taken a train to Phoenix with the money they made. After having a deputy watch Middleton's place, he learned that Middleton was buying enough groceries to last three months and was seen driving east of Sanger. Two hardware stores in the town had, meanwhile, begun passing out guns to the local civilians, who began firing through the windows at the Condon Bank. From Phoenix, Kay followed the Daltons by horse and stage from Prescott, Gila Bend, Tucson, and then to Nogales, Mexico. Evans, however, claimed that he had received the bills from the Sol Sweet store after cashing a check there. Chris Evans' family ridiculed reports of any such involvement or that Tom had been killed, but otherwise never disclosed his actual whereabouts. This resulted in the first robbery at Whorton, May 1891, where the gang stole $1200. He attended Irving elementary school and he graduated from Morton East High School in. As soon as the judge had finished, Bill announced, "Well, I can prove that I was not there, and not by accident either."[6]. After he left, the judge asked Yoes who the man was, as he seemed educated and well-informed. Delynn Jorgensen 7/29/12. Frank is buried in Coffeyville, Kansas. Williams. The three returned fire and held out, waiting for the time lock to open. He then threw the butt of his winchester to the ground and the two nervously laughed at each other. Through her brother, Adeline was an aunt of Cole and Jim Younger, of the famous James-Younger Gang. Kay suspected that Bob and Emmett might be back in California to free Grat from jail, and took Deputy Witty with him to the Cross Creek station in his buggy. Doctors W. L. Goff and Youngblood were sitting on the porch of the drug store near the depot. Knowing that Kay was hot on their trail, they traveled east through Arizona into New Mexico. On the night of February 6, 1891, two masked men carrying 44-calibre revolvers held up a Southern Pacific Railroad passenger train near the town of Alila (present day Earlimart, California). Right as Hensley left, deputy McCardle heard the sound of footsteps come from the same direction where they had spotted Dean. This, of course, is where Yellowstone takes place, and is where James settles his family after the death of his only daughter, Elsa Dutton. He claimed that Bob, Grat, and Emmett had all made at least two trips to Bill's ranch in California during that time and that at least one of them would show up to his saloon to get a gallon demijohn full of whiskey to bring back to the rest. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. Arrangements by Willis Funeral Home, LLC, Dalton, Georgia. Grat's trial didn't start until that June and it lasted three weeks. At the station, the gang took what they could find in the express and baggage rooms. alton, Louis Kossuth Dalton, Bea Elizabeth Lelia Phillips (born Dalton), Littleton "lit" Lee Dalton, John Franklin Dalton, Grat Roy Reynolds Dalton, Roy Johnson, Genie Gilstrap Perrier (born Dalton), May 3 1871 - Cas Co, Belton, Cass County, Missouri, United States, July 13 1937 - Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, United States. Condon & Company's Bank and the First National Bank on opposite sides of the street in Coffeyville, Kansas. Their mother also came to California from Kingfisher to pay Beckenridge after she mortgaged her home and borrowed money from neighbors. There has been much debate over the identity of the, "sixth man at Coffeyville" reported by witnesses who claimed was accompanying the gang as they arrived in town right before the robbery. Right before the deputy ordered Grat to drop his weapon, a dog appeared ten feet from Grat and began barking at the lawman. Powers tried to mount his horse, but shots from the store also killed him. Since Emmett had originally attempted to convince his captors that he was Charles Dryden, until he realized that it was hopeless, his word is considered by many to be of questionable value. The next robbery was on July 14, at Adair, Oklahoma, near the Arkansas border. Grat noticed him, but before he could aim, Kloehr shot him in the throat. Bill Powers was somewhat of a man of mystery. Bob would not allow Emmett to check out the town beforehand in fear that he would be recognized, so this was not factored into their plan.

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