Perpetrator
Emmett Dalton
- Born
- 3 May 1871
- Died
- 13 July 1937, aged about 66
- Record
- Wikidata Q3778266 · Wikipedia
Perpetrator in The Coffeyville Raid
Youngest brother and the only raider to survive; pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and served fourteen years.
1892–1907 · Coffeyville, Kansas · Killed before trial
On 5 October 1892 the Dalton gang tried to rob two Kansas banks at once in a town that knew their faces. In about ten minutes eight people were dead. Read the case.
Dated events
Deputy US Marshal Frank Dalton is killed by whiskey runners in Indian Territory.
The Dalton gang robs a Santa Fe train at Wharton in Oklahoma Territory.
Bob Dalton shoots Lucius Baldwin, George Cubine and Charles Brown and wounds cashier Thomas Ayres.
In the alley Grat Dalton kills Marshal Connelly; Bob and Grat Dalton, Powers and Broadwell are killed, and Emmett is captured.
Bill Dalton, who had ridden with the Doolin gang after Coffeyville, is shot dead by lawmen in Indian Territory.
Emmett Dalton is released from the Kansas penitentiary at Lansing by Governor Edward Hoch.
Emmett Dalton dies in California.