Doilies Offer Thrifty
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A perfectly appointed table is
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Pattern 1462
able for luncheon and buffet sets
as well as doilies while the larg
est, a 22-inch doily, is just the
thing for in-between cloth. Pat
tern 1462 contains directions for
making the doilies shown ; illustra
tions of them and of all stitches
used ; material requirements.
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Last Echo of a Hard-Riding Band
? of Western Outlaws Dies Away
Recent Death of Emmett Dalton Recalls the October Day 45 Years Ago When He and His
Brothers Rode Into Coffeyville, Kan., to Rob Two Banks at the Same Time and Fought the
Most Desperate Street Battle in the History of the West" with the Citizens of That Town.
C Western Newspaper Union.
By
ELMO SCOTT WATSON
COFFEYVILLE, KAN.,
had a veritable "reign
of terror" just before
noon today. The Dalton band
of outlaws on horseback
raided the town and cap
tured two banks and the em
ployees. The citizens were
soon aroused by the noise,
got their guns and gave bat
tle. The result was eight
deaths, including three Dal
tons. Three of the outlaws
are dying and Emmett Dalton
may expire at any minute.
F our citizens are dead, includ
ing Marshal Connelly and
three dangerously wounded.
The Dalton gang is wiped out
of existence, although Coffey
ville paid a dear price.
So read a message which
flashed over the wires on Octo
ber 5, 1892, and, except for a few
minor inaccuracies, it was an
adequate summary of what fu
ture chroniclers would write
down as the "most desperate
street battle in the history of the
West."
But Emmett Dalton did not
"expire at any minute," as pre
dicted. Instead, he survived to
serve 14 years of a life sentence
in the Kansas state penitentiary,
to be pardoned, "go straight"
and preach the gospel of "crime
doesn't pay," to make a com
fortable fortune as a business
man in California and to die
there on July 13 of this year at
the age of sixty-six.
? ? ?
The Coffeyville raid was the
spectacular climax to the career
of a band of hard-riding, hard
shooting train bandits and train
robbers because of whose activ
Bob Dalton in 1889.
ity rewards totaling $40,000
were offered by the railway and
express companies for members
of this gang, "dead or alive." Its
personnel varied, being made up
at various times of Bob, Grat
and Emmett Dalton, Charlie
Bryant, Bill McElhanie ("The
Narrow Gauge Kid"), Bill Pow
ers, Bill Doolin, Charley Pierce
and Dick Broadwell.
In 1892, Bob Dalton proposed
a hold-up that would eclipse any
thing the James-Younger gang
had ever attempted ? a double
header" daylight robbery of the
two banks in Coffeyville, Kan.
Emmett was opposed to the plan,
declaring that too many people
in Coffeyville knew them, even if
they were capable of handling
such a job. But when he found
Bob determined to try it, he con
sented to accompany the party
which consisted of Bob and Grat
Dalton, Bill Powers and Dick
Broadwell.
So on the morning of October
5, shortly after 9 o'clock, these
outlaws rode into Coffeyville, in
tending to tie their horses to the
hitchracks along Eighth street to
the right and rear of the Condon
bank. This was a flatiron build
ing which faced on the Plaza, the
triangular center of the town
across which and to the left
stood the other bank, the First
National
Fate Intervenes.
If everything had gone as they
planned, their daring scheme
might have worked. But a fate
ful mischance interfered. That
particular block in Eighth street
was torn up while a gang of ne
groes was putting in new curb
ing. Seeing this, Bob Dalton
quickly shifted his plans. He led
his companions into an alley that
paralleled Eighth avenue, a nar
row thoroughfare that was des
tined to be "Death Alley" for the
Daltons.
Tying their horses here, Grat
Dal ton, Bill Powers and Dick
Broadwell dashed across the
Plaza into the Condon bank and
Bob and Emmett Dalton rushed
over to the First National. Cov
ering the Condon bank officials
with their Winchesters (the favor
ite weapons of the Dalton Gang)
the outlaws forced T. C. Carpen
ter to put $3,000 in silver and
$1,000 in currency in a bag they
had brought with them. But Grat
Dalton wanted gold and de
manded that the vault be opened.
Quick-witted C. M. Ball, the cash
ier, told him that the vault was
set on a time lock which could
not be opened until nine-thirty. It
was then 20 minutes of ten, but
Grat Dalton didn't know that.
"All right, we can wait ten
minutes," he said. And that was
a second fatal mischance for the
Daltons. By this time the alarm
had been given and the citizenry
of Coffeyville was arming itself
for a final accounting with the
Dalton Gang.
A Nervy Exhibition.
"In all my life I have never
known an exhibition of chilled
steel nerve such as Grat Dalton,
Powers and Broadwell gave
there, waiting, watching the min
ute hand of the big clock creep
slowly around while the town
armed itself and began bombard
ing the bank, the bullets boring
hundreds of holes through the
plate glass window." So wrote
Emmett Dalton years later, and
frontier historians agree with
him. Meanwhile Bob and Em
mett Dalton had held up the First
National bank, 6eized $23,000 and
killed three citizens as they re
treated to the alley where their
horses were and where they ex
pected to find their companions.
But by this time the bombard
ment of the citizenry had con
vinced the three bandits in the
Condon bank that it would be
fatal to wait longer for the vault
to be opened. They dashed out
of the bank and ran across the
Plaza under a heavy fire which
wounded all three of them before
they reached the alley. Of tfte
desperate fighting there Emmett
Dalton has written:
In Death Alley.
"This whole alley was thick
with a haze of smoke from our
rifles and from the guns of the
citizens who were shooting at us
from sheds and board fences all
along the alley. Bullets whined
and kicked up clouds of dust. I
had been shot in the arm and hip.
Broadwell had been shot through.
Powers was shot in the arm.
Grat was wounded. I saw Bob
reel as a bullet hit him. But we
were an still on our feet, aD
shooting, while trying to reach
our horses. The rifles sounded
like the popping of corn in a
skillet. I saw a bullet hit Grat
and heard the dull impact of it,
and saw it knock out a little spurt
of dust from his coat, and he
dropped dead. I heard a bullet
hit Bob and* he sagged down
against a board fence . . . City
Marshal Connelly came into the
alley, right among us, shooting
and one of our band, I don't know
which, killed him.
"Death Alley was shrieking
with bullets now, as other men in
the hardware store got rifles and
joined in the bombardment. My
brother Grat and Powers were
sprawled out dead. Two of our
horses were down. Broad well
reeled as he clawed his way into
his saddle and he called to me
'I'm bad hit.' "
Broadwell managed to reach
his horse but as he rode away
Carey Seaman and John J.
Kloehr, the keeper of the livery
stable, who did some of the most
effective shooting that day,
opened Are on him and he fell
dead from his horse a short dis
The Condon Bmnk.
tance out of town. A moment
later Carey Seaman Bred the last
shot in this desperate battle.
For Emmett Dalton, who had
by this time reached his horse,
now displayed that same "chilled
steel nerve" (or which he had
praised his three companions. He
might even yet have escaped,
but as he started to ride out of
the alley it suddenly Sashed
through his mind that his beloved
leader and elder brother, Bob,
was back there, helpless on the
ground. Turning his mount, he
spurred through the storm of bul
lets to where Bob Dalton lay
and leaned over to try to pull the
stricken bandit up beside him.
As he did so, Bob Dalton opened
his eyes and muttered: "Don't
mind me, Emmett. I'm done for.
Don't surrender. Die game."
At that moment Carey Seaman
fired both barrels from a shotgun
into Emmett Dalton's back.
Then, writes Dalton;
"I felt myself falling . . with
a thud I dropped alongside Bob.
Then came darkness and quiet.
The popping of the guns died
away. TTie brightness of the sun
ceased and all was still. I sank
back on the ground. The Dalton
Gang was no more."
LAST SURVIVOR
Emmett Dalton in 1931.
When this battle ended, in
"Death Alley" lay three dead
men, another who was dying
(Marshal Connelly) and the bad
ly wounded survivor of the ban
dit gang, Emmett Dalton. Three
of the outlaws' horses had also
been slain. In the whole fight,
which lasted only a few minutes,
four bandits and four citizens
were killed and three citizens
and one bandit wounded. But in
those few minutes plenty of lead
had been whistling through the
air. No less than 80 bullet marks
were found on the front of the
Condon bank alone.
As soon as news of the bloody
encounter was flashed over the
surrounding country, the ubiqui
tous "sightsteers" who always
rush to the scene of a tragedy
began pouring into the town, lit
erally by the trainload. The dead
bandits were lined up and photo
graphed to provide a "souvenir"
of this historic occasion. Not
content with this, the more mor
bid-minded began cutting pieces
of cloth from the dead bandits'
clothing and did not desist until
they had taken every stitch from
Bob Dalton.
Threats of Lynching.
The desperately wounded sur
vivor of the bandit gang was car
ried to the office of Doctor Wells
over the drug store, acros; the
Plaza from the Condon bank.
There three doctors began dig
ging out of his back the buckshot
that had coirtfe from Carey Sea
man's shotgun. Although it was
doubtful if he would live, a mob
soon gathered with a rope and
threatened to lynch him, but
Doctor Wells and David Stewart
Elliott, editor of the Coffeyville
Journal, dissuaded them from
their purpose.
A week later Dalton was re
moved on a cot from Coffeyville
to the county jail at Independ
ence. On March 8, 1893, he
pleaded guilty to a technical
charge of murder in the second
degree and was sentenced to life
imprisonment in the state peni
tentiary at Lansing, Kan. He
proved to be a model prisoner
during the next 14 years, so when
his application for a commuta
tion of sentence came up, many
state officials and newspaper edi
tors urged that it be granted. As
a result he was given a full par
don by Gov. E. W. Hoch on No
vember 2, 1907.
From that time on there was
no more law-abiding citizen than
this former member of the ' des
perate Dalton Gang." In his
later years he made his home in
California, engaged in the real
estate business and prospered.
He also worked in motion pic- 1
tures, both as a scenario writer
and actor and helped in produc
ing a film, "Beyond the Law." It j
was a picturization of the deeds
of the Daltons ? not to glorify 1
the careers of his bandit brothers
but to point out the moral of 1
"crime never pays."
Return to Coffeyville
In 1931 Dalton returned to Cof
feyville to visit old-time friends
and to care for the graves of his
two brothers who are buried
not far from the place where on
an autumn morning nearly 40
years earlier he had seen their
careers brought to an end in a
blaze of gunfire. '
MacDonald also tells of the
scene when Emmett Dalton vis
ited the graves of his brothers.
As he gazed upon the little plot
of ground where they lie, he said,
"Well, it's a good place in which
to sleep the last long sleep."
Then pointing to the row of
graves, he added: "I challenge
the world to produce the history
of an outlaw who ever got any
thing out of it except that ... or
else to be huddled in a prison
cell."
"And that goes for the modem
bandit of the skyscraper frontier
of our big cities, too. The ma
chine gun may help them get
away with it a little better and
the moUjr car may help them in
making an escape better than to
ride on horseback as we did, but
it all ends the same way. The
biggest fool on earth is the one
who thinks that he can beat the
law. that crime can be made to
pay. It never paid and never
will, and that's the one big les
son of the Coffeyville raid."
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DE THE first to wear the new 1
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That all men are created equal
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We sometimes wonder if a pugi
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A cackling laugh is not so caek
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When a young man who has a
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They Can't Follow Rules
Most people who are in jail are
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fiolon wasn't so smart. He said
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Pattern 1257 is designed far
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% yards of 29 inch material for
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