Last of Bill Dalton The Notorious Outlaw shot and Instantly Killed by an Officer in the Indian Territory Submitted by: Mollie Stehno

Paris Tex., June 9—After a continuous chase of over three weeks, the Longview bank robbers were rounded up near Ardmore, I. T. yesterday and Bill Dalton, the notorious outlaw train and bank robber, was killed by the officers in their efforts to arrest him.

It had been given out that the pursuit had been abandoned, but the mysterious movements around the office of United States Marshal Williams showed that he was in the possession of valuable information. Monday night he left here with several trusted deputies for a point on the Canadian River.

It transpires now that on Monday two men went to Duncan, I. T., a town on the Rock Island railroad, and made a number of purchases. They paid for the articles in bills on the looted bank. The bills looked to be new, but they had been wet and creased. A telegram was sent to Longview giving the number of the bills, and the answer promptly came that they were the missing bills. Officers were posted at once and went on their trail.

Thursday a man and two women went to Ardmore and bought a lot of guns, ammunition and other things. They were in the wagon purchased by the two men at Duncan on Monday. The man had plenty of money. He was known there as a worthless fellow, who never had a cent. An officer peered into the wagon, found a five-gallon keg of whiskey, and arrested the man and woman as whiskey peddlers, and held them.

A strong detachment of officers immediately took the back track of the wagon, and yesterday found Dalton. He was taken by surprise but made an effort to fight, but the officers were to quick for him and shot him dead. Instructions were sent from the marshal’s office last night to have the body embalmed, as there is a reward of several thousand dollars on Dalton’s head. The deputies who killed him wired they have positive proof that it is Bill Dalton, and that he committed the robbery.

Bill Dalton was the third son in a family of ten children. He with his brothers, Bob and Grat killed at Coffeyville, October 5, 1892, and Emmett, now in the Kansas penitentiary, made a record of crime not second even to that of the James and Younger brothers. They will probably never again have equals in this country. The march of civilization will prevent the opportunity.

The Daltons were Missourians by birth, but moved to Kansas, settling near Coffeyville in their youth. They bore but mediocre reputations as outlaws until in October 1892. Grat, Bob and Emmett Dalton, Dick Broadwell and Bill Powers attempted to loot the Condon and First National banks at Coffeyville. The raid resulted in the death of four citizens and the serious wounding of three others, the killing of Grat and Bob Powers and Broadwell, and the wounding and capture of Emmett.

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