Volume 17 , Issue 36

1893, Sept. - Outlawry Runs Riot

It was in "The Carroll Sentinel," Carroll, Iowa, dated 5 September 1893, Tuesday, that we discovered this news article: "Outlawry Runs Riot." Robberies and murders in the Indian Territory, Oklahoma and Kansas.

Found on Newspapers.com

Kansas City, Sept. 5 (1893) -- Outlawry had run riot in the Indian Territory, Oklahoma and Kansas the last few days. Beginning with he desperate fight between United States deputy marshals and the Doolan-Dalton gang at Ingalls, O. T., in which five men and two boys lost their lives, a perfect wave of crime seems to have struck that country. The Frisco train was held up and Messenger Champman killed. Now came the report of hoo ups at Vinita, I. T., and at Columbus, Kansas. Night operators were the victims in each case. A dispatch from Arkansas City, Kansas, said that the dead body of Bill Doolin had been found near that place. Doily was one of the men who escaped from the Coffeyville raid last November. The finding of his body leads strength to the report that Bill Dalton was one of the participants in the battle at Ingalls. It was reported that Bill Dalton put four balls into Deputy Lafe Shadley's body at a distance of 200 yards at Ingalls.

There were many who think Doolin and not Dalton did this shooting. "Arkansas Tom" was captured at Ingalls. Dalton, "Six-Shooter Jack," Tulsa Jack" and "Commanche Bill" escaped.

A dispatch from Wichita said the authorities there think Bill dalton and two of their men committed the robbery at Mound Valley, Kansas. An Indian policeman claimed to have seen them in the Osage country about 40 miles due south of the scene of the robbery going toward the Kansas line. The officers who were searching for the outlaws who fought at Ingalls had returned to Guthrie empty handed. When Bo Dalton and three of his gang were killed at Coffeyville and Henry Starr and "Kid" Wilson were captured in Colorado, people along the territory border hoped that the worst of the numerous gangs were wiped out, but they seem to have worthy successors.
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