Volume 17 , Issue 33

The Capture of the Dalton Gang

It was in "The Topeka Daily Capital," out of Topeka, Kansas, Sunday, 24 May 1891, that we found this news article concerning the Dalton gang which read, "Captured!" The Wharton Train Robbers Captured, after an exciting chase, in the Indian Territory. The Desperate Robbers were driven to a cave and forced to surrender, after an obstinate and bloody battle. One of the Daltons was killed, and a soldier wounded during the interchange of shots with the officers.

Found on Newspapers.com

Oklahoma City, Ok. T., May 23 1891 -- The Dalton brothers and gang, who robbed the Santa Fe passenger train at Wharton station, after being chased for two weeks were captured last Friday evening in the Sac and Fox reservation, sixty miles east of here, after a nineteen hours' fight with United States marshals, aided by a detachment of the Fifth cavalry. The marshals located the robbers Thursday in a cave, and attempted their capture, but after the Daltons had killed their blood hounds and exchanged a few shots they sent for the soldiers and effected their capture.

One Dalton was killed and one soldier wounded. The rest of the gang was captured.
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