Tuesday 04/25/2000
Coffeyville (about 100 miles to go and back)
The end of the Dalton's gang
- This day, the gang tried to rob two banks in Coffeyville. Citizens recognized Daltons. So they armed themselves with weapons and shoot the gang when they emerged from the Condon and First National Banks.
Arrived too late the day before for visiting Dalton Defenders Museum, we are alone in the musem this morning. An old man tell us the last Dalton raid on October 5, 1892.
The gang was made up of Grat, Bob and Emmett Dalton; Bill Power and Dick Broadwell.
- Four gang men died : Grat and Bob Dalton, Bill Power and Dick Broadwell. Emmett Dalton was severely wounded and after fourteen years of Penitentiary at Lansing, he was pardoned by the Governor et après 14 ans de détention au pénitencier de Lansing, Kansas. He died at the age of sixty-six in Los Angeles, California.
- Unfortunately, four of Coffeyville' defenders also killed : Marshall C.T. Connelly also school teacher, Lucius Baldwin, Georges Cubine and Charles Brown (see there portrait on top of this page). Three other citizens were wounded. Some newspaper talked about this raid.
- This gun was given to J.B. Tackett, the official photographer of the raid, by Emmet Dalton after he got out of prison.
- For more informations connect to : www.coffeyville.com
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