Volume 18 , Issue 45

1893 - Oklahoma Outlaws

In the Independence Daily Reporter, Independence, Kansas, dated 5 September 1893, Tuesday, page 1, reported this little tidbit concerning "Remnants of the Starr and Dalton Gangs Fatally Wound Three Officers."

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Guthrie, Ok., Sept. 4 (1893) -- Meager details had been received of a fight between a band of outlaws - remnants of the start and dalton gangs - and six United States deputy marshals near Ingalls, Paine county. Seven of the outlaws were wounded and Deputies Lafe Shadley, T. J. Huston and another officer were mortally wounded.

Two Officers Killed
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Arkansas City, Kan., Sept 4 (1893) -- A posse of Untied States marshals and the Dalton gang of bank and train robbers met at Ingalls, in Payne county, Oklahoma, yesterday morning and two of the deputy marshals - Speed and Shadley - were killed, and a third - Huston - fatally wounded. A. N. Walker, N. D. Murray, G. W. Ransom and a boy named Briggs were wounded and a young man named Simmons instantly killed. The last two were bystanders.

The officers had been informed that the gang was in town and rove out to arrest them and were fired on by the outlaws when they dismounted. The fire was returned and the outlaws started for their horses, but one who was shot through the chest escaped.

Bill Dalton's horse was killed instantly by Shadley and, as the horse fell, Dalton got on his feet and pumped four shots in rapid succession into the body of Shadley with his Winchester.

"Arkansas Tom," one of the outlaws, was held at bay in a frame hotel where he took refuge. Messengers were sent to Stillwater for assistance and the sheriff left at once with a posse for the scene. The outlaw finally surrendered. It was thought that he was the man who killed Deputy Marshal Speed and the Simmons boy and wounded Marshal Houston. He was in the Stillwater jail guarded by a posse.

There were six men in the gang, five of whom escaped, but they were being followed by large posse.
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