This was the gang's only job. He married Minnie McDaniel on July 30, 1910. 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. 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. (UP) , Hendersonville, Henderson, North Carolina, USA, May 3 1871 - Belton, Comt De Cass, Missouri, tats-Unis, July 13 1937 - Comt De Los Angeles, Californie, tats-Unis. Bill had returned to Oklahoma several months earlier, living at his mother's house near Kingsfisher. If someone in the gang had escaped, there would be nothing gained by Emmett for admitting it. Updates? After getting tired of waiting, they left, only to learn later the fate of the gang.[10]. They did however find pieces of a file and a hack saw blade in the prisoner's toilet. Kay's buggy was directly facing the setting sun, so they could not tell who the men were. Grat rode away from the house, jumped the horse over an old rock fence, and began yelling and firing his revolver in the air so that Dean would know that he had escaped. This would've been while Grat was on active duty as Deputy Marshal in Indian Territory, but Sheriff Kay claimed that Grat had told him that he had made two extended trips to California while serving as U.S. A fourth brother, William M. "Bill" Dalton (1866-1894) was an outlaw as well and mainly rode with the Wild Bunch. When approached by Kay, Bill told him, "The boys were there when I went to sleep, and when I awakened they had unlocked and gone. Bob also hired Emmett under him to guard prisoners. This is now known as Dalton Alley. He moved to California and became a real estate agent, author and actor, dying at the age of sixty-six. In January 1889, Grat and Bob both became deputies first under Marshal Jones and later under Marshal R.L. In 189091 they took to robbing gambling houses, trains, and banks and were joined by their brother Bill, until then a married, respectable citizen, whose career had been wrecked by his being linked to his brothers. Williams. The family will receive friends at the Willis Funeral Home on Saturday from 6:00 - 7:30 P. M. Interment will be Monday, March 6, 2023, at 12:30 P. M. at the Chattanooga National Cemetery. Condolences can be left for the family at www.mynattfh.com. Instead he caught a cold from sitting in the fog all night. Review. Kay telegraphed his deputy George Witty and told him to check on Bill Dalton and to immediately notify him when he was found. Lewis Dalton was a saloon keeper in Kansas City, Kansas, when he married Adeline Younger, the aunt of Cole and Jim Younger. Ayres was not killed, but he remained paralyzed for life. Grat began to say something about a horse, but then became suspicious. Grave of Dalton gang in Coffeyville, Kansas, Bob Dalton, with an unidentified woman (possibly Eugenia Moore), May 9, 1889. As he lifted the rifle up, Bob shot and killed him. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Thinking it might be Bob, Kay demanded that Bill tell him where he was. Lindsey in Ardmore, Oklahoma, tracked him to the cabin and surrounded it on June 8, 1894. After the escape, Beck separated from the others and went north, while Grat and Smith went to a friend of Grat's named Joe Middleton, who lived in Hanford. [2] He was paroled after serving 14 years in prison.[3]. The $50,000, however, came out to only $1800 after drafts and securities had been thrown out. The Dalton family came from Jackson County, Missouri. Percy was born on October 4 1897. He then put the baggage man in charge of Bryant and gave him his revolver. Sheriff Hensley and deputy Ed McCardle where guarding a trail that led to the summit of small and narrow ridge. Grat ordered Elwood to unhitch one of his horses, which he did. But that is not known. Afraid to go near them, Bill left out supplies and food, while there were several times the boys visited Bill's house at night. Kay decided to place both men under arrest and took them to Visalia. The four future outlaws first worked as cowboys, but, in 1887, their older brother Frank, a federal deputy marshal, was killed by whiskey runners; in deference, Grat, Bob, and Emmett pinned on lawmens badges. 6 July 1879, d. 6 Jul 1879 in MO. Brothers Lit and Bill Dalton were also visiting their mother, and Doolin proposed that they join his group to avenge their brothers. In 1931, he published When the Daltons Rode, which was later made into a 1940 movie starring Randolph Scott. The posse tried firing at Grat through the brush, but he managed to run the mile back to Elwood's ranch. They waited until the heavy bearded, two-hundred and thirty pound man was thirty feet from them. After serving 14 years in prison for the crime, Dalton capitalized on his notoriety to author books and become an actor in Hollywood. After the robbery at Adair, officials of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad offered a reward of $40,000 for anyone who could capture and convict the Dalton Gang, and a reward of $5,000 for the arrest of any of them.[8]. Grat returned to Oklahoma in the spring of 1892 and shortly afterward joined his brothers gang. Some time later, the three dissatisfied members also returned and new plans began to form. Gloria Satterfield died on Feb. 8, 2018. He asked Latta not to publish the information until after his death.[13]. After being found innocent by a Visalia jury, Bill was acquitted and released on October 15. Sheriff Kay soon learned of the horses at Ludlow and that the description of the men who left them matched that of Bob and Emmett. Corrections? Eventually, Bill Dalton left Doolin to form his own Dalton Gang. The next morning, Grat called Wagy over to his cell and asked him where he got such a cold. Bob and Emmett, meanwhile, had been busy in Oklahoma forming their gang. Alex Murdaugh claimed the family dogs caused Satterfield, 57, to trip, but her death was not reported to the coroner and an autopsy was not initially . The Dalton family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. Kay told Grat that he knew neither Bob or Emmett killed the fireman. The gang was also assisted by Bob's lover Eugenia Moore, known by her aliases "Tom King" and "Miss Mundays", who acted as their informant, but was also a notorious horse thief and outlaw. The eight armed guards on the train all happened to be at the back of the train when it pulled in. They were recognized and, coming out of one bank, were met by wild gunfire from vigilante citizens. Emmett married first name Dalton (born Arthur) on month day 1950, at age 23 at marriage place, North Carolina. 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). The only agency with jurisdiction over the whole territory was the U.S. Bill Dalton agreed to join them and soon took part in several robberies, but Lit refused in disgust. Smith, escaped from the Tulare County jail in Visalia while Sheriff Kay was in San Francisco. 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. Simon Noel Dalton (a twin) b. The deputy handed the message to Judge Burford, who read it aloud to the audience. Members have married into the prominent Morgenthau, Loeb, and Bronfman families.. He then corrected himself, saying that he meant Bill Powers. On October 5, 1892, the Dalton gang attempted this feat when they set out to rob the C.M. In 1910 he bacame a special Peace Officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Husband of Julia Johnson Lewis 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. Bill arrived for breakfast like he said, and the four of them took the same table. They missed Cole by several hours who had already taken the train to Salt Lake where Kay and his deputy followed. Since the horse was lame, they could only get $60 for it and Grat was unable to find another horse afterwards. Emmett thought Grat would mess things up if he went alone with Powers and Broadwell, and thought they should trade places. The Dalton's couldn't sell their horses in Ludlow and they didn't have enough money for all three of them to take the train to Indian territory, so Bill took the train back to Paso Robles while Bob and Emmett took the train to Salt Lake where they would meet Cole. A rail ticket from California to Indian territory was too expensive for the boys, so Bob and Emmett crossed the Tehachapi's and began riding across the Mojave Desert while Bill went ahead by train to lay out food and supplies for them. Notes from Obituaries. The account given on October 7, 1892, by Coffeyville's The Journal is considered to be the most authentic on events the day of the robbery. James is also a Civil War veteran, one who suffers from PTSD in a time long before we knew what it was. In August 1888, the two formed a posse to arrest a man named Charley Montgomery. By 1882, the family lived in northeast Oklahoma and by 1886 they had moved to Coffeyville in southeast Kansas. Detective Smith decided to chime in, but Grat said he wouldn't say a word while Smith was present. 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). Emmett Dalton (May 3, 1871 July 13, 1937) was an American outlaw, train robber and member of the Dalton Gang in the American Old West. They sat to wait for the next train on a bench on the platform, talking and smoking, with their Winchester rifles across their knees. The remaining years of Emmetts life were spent on the stage, writing a book on the family and the Raid "When the Daltons Rode" in 1931 and as a real estate developer in California. Emmett reappears on a wanted poster in Les Cousins Dalton his character of tallest of the Dalton Brothers being taken over by Averell Dalton. Omissions? Ken Haas 4/22/12. He was given a life sentence in the penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas and pardoned after fourteen years. Bill escaped through a window at the back of the house, but as he ran through a patch of corn he was shot and killed by the deputy marshals. 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). . His contributions to researching the Dalton surname and his family lines will always be enshrined in the Dalton Chronicles. For a time, Bill Doolin and his partners operated under outlaw Henry Starr (Cherokee), hiding out about 75 miles northeast of Kingfisher, from where they made several raids. Angered by the charges against Grat and Bill which he knew to be false, Bob decided that the best way to help his brothers would be to acquire enough money to pay for their bail and defense. This is where. Kay knew from this that Cole was able to supply the boys with guns and ammunition. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------. Lit was able to borrow one hundred dollars and a horse from Clovis Cole's business partner Charlie Owen. Deputy Witty entered shortly after, and was told by Kay to go in the room and grab Bill's rifle. [17] After the attempted robbery, Emmett was taken upstairs above the drug store to be treated by Dr. Wells. Lit said that Emmett's book, When the Daltons Rode (1931), was largely fabrication. Four of the gang were killed in the ensuing gun fight. When Grat recovered, he was able to escape with the help of his brother Cole. Tuvia, who had been protected farther to the northalong with a few family membersby non-Jews, soon joined his brothers. Grat lowered his winchester, fired, and the jumped behind cover all in one quick motion. Dalton family history shows that the name has two possible derivations. He is the cowboy in charge of it all, and now current governor of Montana. Unclaimed. For some reason, however, the body was buried as Bill Powers. Kay nudged the door open with his elbow, aimed his revolver at Bill and said, "Bill! In the gunfight, 200 shots were fired. The sawing was hid from the jailer by a large box that they would put a blanket over and use to play cards. To order memorial trees or send flowers to the family in memory of Beatrice Devonna Dalton, please visit our flower store . While in jail, a train robbery occurred near Ceres, on September 3, 1891, but was unsuccessful with no money being taken. 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? On the night of September 27, Grat and two cellmates, Arvil Beck and W.B. 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. 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. Rumors had circulated for months that Bob had planned to come and liberate Grat, so two of sheriff Kay's deputies, Jim Wagy and Bob Hockett, had been hired by Wells Fargo to guard Grat's cell until he was sentenced and sent to San Quentin. GANGSTER DIES HOLLYWOOD, July 14. 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. Late that night, they received a telegram notifying them that men matching the description of Bob and Emmett were seen taking a southbound train many miles south of Salt Lake. 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. This, of course, is where Yellowstone takes place, and is where James settles his family after the death of his only daughter, Elsa Dutton. Wagy said, "Here is your hole", and kicked the broom handle onto the floor. (He was pardoned in 1907, reformed, and led a respectable businessmans life in Los Angeles until his death on July 13, 1937.) Tom Evans, on the other hand, was reported to be the fraternal twin of outlaw Chris Evans, who at the time of the Coffeyville raid was a fugitive hiding out in the southern Sierra Nevada mountains. 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. John III leads what is known as the Dutton Ranch today. 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. People . He died in Los Angeles on July 13, 1937. Henry Coleman "cole" Dalton, Bea Elizabeth "lelia" Dalton, Franklin "frank" (U.s. Marshall) Dalton, Willia Dennis and Heather, Source: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8861394, OkieSeeker, Source: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=25161106, Dennis Pleau, Source: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=86873301, Cas Co, Belton, Cass County, Missouri, United States, Hollywood, Los Angeles County, California, United States, Kingfisher Cemetery, Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States, Bill Dalton (co-leader of the Wild Bunch), Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, 1791-1963, Kingfisher, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Dalton. 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. Bob and Emmett were hiding out in a ranch barn a mile west of Malaga, and after arriving the brothers talked until morning. William was born on March 24 1690, in Lunenburg, Virginia, USA. 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. On his death bed, Emmett told Frank Forrest Latta that he had robbed a train in California, and had used the alias William McElhanie. 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. Emmett married Julia Johnson Lewis on September 1, 1908 in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. It had been raining for several days prior, and it was so cold the ground was covered in ice. Family Tree. Played by country music icon Tim McGraw, James Dutton is the patriarch of 1883. Kay believed they did this to throw him off by going south instead of east. The Journal then went to state that, "The other dead body proved to be that of Tom Evans" and marked number six on their map of the shooting area as "Where Tom Evans fell" and in three other references to him The Journal called him Tom. The baggageman carelessly stuck the revolver into a pigeon-hole messagebox and went to work at the other end of the car. Send flowers to the service of Pastor Terence Hundrey Hambrick [7] The gang secured about $18,000. It is with deep sorrow that we announce the death of James Dalton Hatcher of Bono, Arkansas, who passed away on February 28, 2023, at the age of 66, leaving to mourn family and friends. Grat's trial didn't start until that June and it lasted three weeks. Kay believed Chris was either protecting himself by helping Grat break from jail or returning the favor for Grat protecting him. Why in the world do you suppose they went away and left me behind? Bill told Kay that Bob was not in the country, that he had stopped at Rucker's place alone to spend the night. When Middleton returned, Kay arrested him at his home and threatened to send him to San Quentin if he didn't give up Grat's hideout. 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. He was a saloon keeper in Kansas City, Missouri when he married Adeline Lee Younger. Neither was he in Merced or Livingston. Henry Starr was arrested in 1893 and held for trial at Fort Smith. Grat and McCardle fired at each other almost simultaneously. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. The men split into three groups to cover all approaches to the camp. After pointing out the location of the camp, Middleton left in a hurry and the two posses spent the night on the living room floor of the nearby Elwood ranch. They then robbed the next train a few minutes later, securing about $50,000. During the robbery, one member of the gang and four citizens were killed in a shootout. Their only grandchild with the surname Dalton was Charles Coleman Dalton. Officers were watching Lit at Clovis Cole's, but didn't think to watch Owen's place. Marshal; Grat Dalton (leader of the Dalton Gang); Bill Dalton (co-leader of the Wild Bunch); Eva May Dalton; Bob Dalton (Dalton Gang); Leona Randolph Dalton; Nancy May Dalton; Simon Noel "Si" Dalton; Hannah Adeline Dalton and Robert Renick "Bob" Dalton less, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Dalton. Towards the end of the trial, Sheriff Kay, Detective Smith, and District Attorney Power talked to Grat while taking him back to his cell from the court room when Beckenridge wasn't present. The Daltons were featured in Randolph Scott's Western. Kay moved quietly across the floor and pushed the door a little farther open with his revolver. A largely fictional film version of the Daltons' lives was adapted from Emmett's 1931 book. Several civilians were wounded in the fighting. Bill was interviewed by the Fresno Expositor in September 1891 saying, "The truth is I am like Paddy Miles' boy --- no matter what goes wrong or what depredation is committed, Bill Dalton is always charged with the same."[5]. Chris had continually attested his innocence and any confirmation of his already rumored association with the Dalton Gang would have damaged his case. Littleton "Litt" Dalton, who was a good and hard-working citizen, believed that his younger siblings became lawless because of the bad influence of . 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. 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. The Dalton Gang's criminal enterprise was ended on October 5, 1892 when they attempted to rob two banks at once in Coffeyville, Kansas. They played poker all night in Traver and then traveled to Tulare to do the same. While the Indian Nations had their own tribal law enforcement, these agencies had no jurisdiction over non-Indians. Bob and Emmett returned fire and left Ayres on the sidewalk. Grat entered the Condon Bank and pointed his Winchester at the cashier, ordering his hands up, while Powers and Broadwell took positions at the door. Their mother also came to California from Kingfisher to pay Beckenridge after she mortgaged her home and borrowed money from neighbors. I am trying to see if I am related, and if so, where. Taking fire from the hardware store, Bob was hit in the head and the heart, killing him instantly. When they arrived, Bob had to think quickly, and decided instead to tie their horses in an alley across from the bank to the west, near the city jail, which offered them little protection. By the time Grat reached his mother's he had lost forty pounds. Smith was told to leave and both Bill and Grat agreed to tell their story, but only if they showed that there was no first degree murder in the robbery. Middleton had been threatened by Dalton for not helping him escape the country fast enough and was afraid of him. On Nov 27, 1887, Frank Dalton and another deputy marshal, Jim Cole, went across the river from Fort Smith to arrest three whiskey bootleggers. 6 July 1879, d. 6 Jul 1879 in MO. 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. It was also known as The Dalton Brothers because four of its members were brothers. He had Bill lift the carpet and open the trap door and, instead of Bob, they discovered a man named Riley Dean, a saloon hanger-on from Visalia and Traver. Share. Brother of Charles Benjamin Dalton; Henry 'Cole' Coleman Dalton; Louis Kossuth Dalton; Bea Elizabeth Dalton; Littleton "Lit" Lee Dalton and 11 others; Lelia Dalton; Frank Dalton, Deputy U.S. 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. He then saw Grat begin to approach over the hill and planned to wait until he was thirty feet from him before making an arrest. Let me look at one." After their unsuccessful career in California, they decided they could do much better in their home country, and unlike their first attempts, they began carefully planning their robberies. One of the brothers moved to oklahoma yet died in California. 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. The boys left their horses in Ludlow, which were then discovered a few weeks later by railroad detectives. The two left California in February 1892 and rode for a hundred and seven days before reaching Kingfisher. His deputy abandoned him after being wounded. Sterling, MontgomeryCO, KY Died: 16 Jul 1890 in Dearing, KS Father: Benjamin DALTON Mother: Nancy RABOURN Generations earlier, James Lewis Dalton's (D'Alton) forbears had left France for Ireland. As the Daltons made their way west down the alley towards the horses, Town Marshal Charles T. Connelly came through the livery stable into the alley and ran east towards the plaza without noticing the bandits behind him. Then, noticing the vault door was open, Grat ordered both of them into the vault, where the safe with the gold was. Each time they stopped sawing, they plugged the hole with soap and soot. He was born to Lewis and Adeline Dalton and was the youngest of the Dalton brothers. There were three Dalton brothers in the gang: Emmett "Em" Dalton, born in 1871; Robert "Bob" Renick Dalton, born 1869; and Gratton "Grat" Dalton, born 1861. 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. Without making any noise, Bryant went to the messagebox and secured the revolver. He attended Irving elementary school and he graduated from Morton East High School in. [11] He was given a life sentence in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas, of which he served 14 years before being pardoned. 4346 Bailey Ave, Amherst, NY 14226-2133 +1 716-838-2233 Website. The Daltons had plenty of friends in the area willing to hide them and easily lost Kay once they were in familiar territory. Evans, however, claimed that he had received the bills from the Sol Sweet store after cashing a check there. Dalton took part in several robberies with the Wild Bunch, including a gun battle on September 1, 1893, at Ingalls, Oklahoma Territory, where three deputy U. S. marshals were killed. [9] Bob had planned the entire robbery. Part of the ill-fated Dalton raid on two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas, he survived despite receiving 23 gunshot wounds. After securing bondsmen, Bill immediately went to Merced and hired John W. Beckenridge, the best attorney in the San Joaquin Valley, to defend Grat. Doctors W. L. Goff and Youngblood were sitting on the porch of the drug store near the depot. Soon after, Jim Ford noticed Emmett exit a department store, who quickly ducked back inside upon noticing Kay. This was also confirmed by Lit Dalton, who had owned a saloon in San Miguel from 1889 to 1890. When the train came in at 9:45pm, they backed a wagon up to the express car and unloaded all the contents. 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. 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. Family will receive friends for visitation on Friday, December 2, 2022, at Mynatt Funeral Home Halls Chapel from 4:00pm until time of memorial service at 6:00pm. He then quickly charged down the mountainside tearing through the brush. 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". 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. The three returned fire and held out, waiting for the time lock to open. Bob and Emmett ran through the back door and ducked into a saloon across the alley. Bob saw Ayres from about 200ft away and quickly shot him in the head. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. Part of the ill-fated Dalton raid on two banks in Coffeyville, Kansas, he survived despite receiving 23 gunshot wounds. Grat dropped to the ground and rolled into a gulch about ten feet away. Grat went to the back office and ordered the manager into the front, he then handed the cashier a sack bag and ordered him to fill it with cash from the money drawer. This was on the property of a man named Jim Riley, about eight miles from the present-day town of Taloga, Oklahoma. So you see there are direct relatives all over! After splitting the money among themselves, the gang soon realized they needed to rob another train. The locals who identified him notified a deputy marshal named Ed Short. 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. 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. Bill Dalton came into the hotel lobby and began to speak to deputy Yoes in a loud voice, so everyone around them could hear. 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. 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. The Dalton Gang was a group of outlaws in the American Old West during 18901892.