The evening world. Newspaper, July 26, 1918, Page 11

1h) WU \ Ahk FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1918 The Last of the “Daltons,” Wild West Hold-Up Band, e — = Se Tells Story of His Career The End of the Dalton Gang AND CHARACTERISTIC EPISODES IN THE CAREER OF THIS ONCE FAMOUS OUTLAW SCRIBED BY ITS ONLY SURVIVOR, EMMETT DALTON. At Nineteen Emmett Dalton and His Three Brothers BAND DE- Held Up Four Trains and Got Booty of $100,000. , In Broad Daylight He Walked Into a Kansas Bank, f and Collected $23,000 at the Point of a Gun. ; Like Robin Hood, Felt He Had Just Grievance Against Government, Turned Robber, but Never Plun- dered Poor. Was Captured Only When, Wounded, He Rode Back,’ Into Danger to Succor His Fallen Brother. | EMMETT DALTON CAPTURED AFTER ALL HIS BROTHERS WERE HILLED But All This Happened Years Ago—To-Day Emmett Dalton, | Sentenced to Life Imprisonment but Pardoned After Four- teen Years, Has Turned Respectable C en, and Is Preparing to Tell His Story on the Screen to Show “It Doesn't Pay.” By Marguerite Mooers Marshall ‘T nineteen he held up four trains and collected from each sums A ranging from $10,000 to $50,000. For months he never slept twice in the He robbed one train under the very noses of fidteen United shals. There was a price of 00 on bis head. © In broad daylight he ted $ at ti walked into ie point Kansas bank and gun Wounded in when raked by @ had ridden He was EMMETT DALTON, LAST QF THE FAMOUS ’ DALTON GANG" m wa buckshot from behind captured only » of after he back into danger to succor his fallen brother. brought into the court room on a bed and tried when it was thought he was dying. Today Emmett Dalton, f sole survivor of the “Dalton Gang,” the last great band 7 of train robbers, is in New York putting into the wasn movies his own life—which might have been made to the more order of the thrillJoving audiences in the picture palaces, It was at the Famous Players Studio that 1 met this American Robin Hood, whe is working honestly and busily every day before the amera in the chief role of his screen autobiography, “Beyond the Law.” Neally, his story has several points of resemblance to the English outlaw Like revance against the Government of | Sherwood Forest Robin Hood, Dalton conceived he had a just s country Robin Hood robbed rich| 'he fees we had earned.. That made rds and priest Dalton picked] US sore thy astined panies and banks! “Then Bob and { got mixed up ina victims the American) Shooting scrap in a New Mexioo 4 chai the: BHBlah ROIMItECOE Che gambling joint. We knew the game i save trealy On tt Il-gotten gains to| ¥8% crooked, “nd, holding off the hoor folk. Hoth were absolutely fear.| men that ran t with our guns, we oa and rabeslutel ya their tipped up th sand showed th ; Mpanions. And Emmett) Method of ¢ Then we co! S) reid wi ad taken away : i mus and a nore nterest i n California, about this time, i eaean was a train robbery on the South- Paciti Because the road's de ciktynertt © couldn't find the guilty men aa ead a his, D€ decided to make my brother Grat all, str nly a shifting TOAD, oul stare f the bi eye n e cadence in ju weeks befo he wolee, to hint of the days when {Ne {ial Dut he ald, 1 wait and ave 1e Was an enemy of society. He is) | | a PAVEES Obl: NUR AEG ig DAA fc llc ob, joined me in Oklahoma. ‘Then wi = { Seen ieee train pobber?| “lt three of us decided to go into a WE COULD HAVE KILLED THE &y } tata eonaarineley eee hold. tp wane POSSE BUT WE RECOGNIZED ha rani readin Waa JEROME ou ote ee eee THE MARSHAL AS AN OLD FRIEND” sald; with dulet seriousness VDBAE) Tits taatan abpticre Martin oe baasbbibilils idubieciscalaielniie beets a. cee — hi se ap of beeiie a was at Red Rock, Okla, The last was others ad ko MU Adair, Indian ‘Territory. We were 7 "TO: LATER EXTRA nore we never should have done what| + ,etner, ay a gang, for about two | OUR MOTTO: THE WEATHER: we did. But we thought we had had| oo. ia a halt. ‘There never were || “2 Pluribus Squattum”’ a Le 1 Fotten deal and that we must wet!) it mise or us, and most of tho tone ne S) : { MY ONY ( Thick as glue “There we of us Daltons, al | Po gcer TE ie th ero “United We Stand a) iu | VY Cl \ y It) with showers of straps srothe Wi Gratta And nor a United States mail ba We Ld myself. We all served RM Le Sanu a it Me pee inte saaarehaly, 6A hea nave Jown a whole posse trom Edited by ARTHUR (BUGS) BAER 2 (duty, Cie reat of us Worked (onl oro te one nay A wan 4 ag ia : ; fade Gee nace ‘WI Mt was your method? tasked BLUNDERS OF THE SUBWAY Try our air, You can get more with a <pooi Vichita, Kan., who wouldn't give U8! — 1. surprised to learn that, in the We Gon’t serve our patrons raw air. No air is dished up in the The subway is the only line where xi ‘ many SIGNIA OF HONOR early nineties, train-robt subway until it is absotively ripe ups lae (he lesa i mn tly was a business with a 100 per er FOR PARENTS OF BOYS | ony. emiciency record. "thers wore STV TTT Oa nT CRE Ovsi 087 aAT AEA GiB GOUT DLATOR Coa AUR TE FS ay eesiy KILLED IN THE WAR) mistakes, no waste motions, and al-| of which are alike wate ‘Our method was simple and a ae waye the-same,’ Emmett Dalton told There are 198,000,832,333 service in our flag for poor service. The only accident in fifteen years wa mpany me. “When the train had stopped — A lady got a seat on a Bronx local 1 smal! and lonely station after dark No accidents ever occur in the subway. A passe has one sg of Gh Would’ Tide un Aah adn en ace hers he Senin Music lovers should pay special att stra of flat the engine, and, pointing our rev wheels on the Times Square curve vers at the engineer and firemen ro ler them to ‘hold her.’ | | ts the only rallroad in the world where @ passenger Our platforms are built within easy jumping wnce of the cars Each of us two revolvers O1C8 OF BIPADI und a rifle, We never met with any —— Be nilide sur p nto a Broadway ex resistance. ‘Ie passengers usual We were the first corporation to p aps within rew r Breteler atcha a Rava WAN IKELA& (ial <OUe ATATE CATA a n its, although workingman w nail salary and large fan won upprowched them. ‘The nest! = 7 hibessan i coche 4 ep in the game was to march either| essary to buy cartridges, fl : EDITORIALS. the engineer or the fireman to the ex-|/1)' § ie he ssp 4 Ree 5 con a i ; We conced: was formerly a ast sway between |press car, and omer him to tell the] zens, who never brought ~ ne ‘ horasback when| Cand? PM, But ain Government shooed the cuckoos up an | inessenger to open the door, If, when|cnarue from the bumdend bits | w ; : n ethers wi, | hour that has cured the 6 o'clock ser which now takes place | the messenger obeyed, he caught sizht| tryed over mite 4 aheli were muinza i he| at 5, If the Government would only 1 ock far enough jot Be ond fire ‘ eoE In oie direction, | 4 . h wa M 1 I ve there wouldn't be any subway cruch at a You » fault BD eae ones aed Nes Lavalaables Te Tala tow, W Wd ha way, but] of ou but dereliction on part « Governu . put up any more fight. We wee ne omen and 1 hemmed tt The heat t : t i t J neither blow Up the safe nor carried er Bob passed three mon wed wert aan Ne pe peal eokaiahs : ahi ‘ ry ‘way. Why should we, when the mos peli ceca tay pe und two W ed, Ww x| Passenger travelled sideways there would | 20m for an b |senger would open it for us—unds ed bigger stakes and ms ; Se TBE W SFO MBI 8 , | persuasion from the small end of to tanks.” the younsest|in my arm, but I was fidine cee While we have no objections t nt house the Brook- revolver? On one train were fittven| {alton explained to me, “Wo pick I thought of Bob. I went back | lyn expresses, we have been ordered to take the sug wis off of the United States Marshals, and they were| out two banks in Coffeyv Kan,, af- im, saw bim lying on West Farms train A gold star on a ¥ 1 worn |the t things we ever met. It wa hich we all planne take Fait at er onnnes on the left arm is th signia of | jike taking candy froma baby, Thre ney. € . n to Seat h raked m a Space will he re 1 window honor for Amer whom Jof thom jumped off and pulled the nee # ith Am af if 1 I tolatant war warden sons have given the ber ins. We shot th didn't 41! | naw a w n w y and their country, 1 q A+ | them, just shot then The oth \ ‘ we Jorsed by President Wilson wor ured that they hid ther! tak 4 er “ aamiaee ed oa 0 FORRODADIO DA RNEL One star may be worn for each MOHAA ihn aanie Ata ad | tees taal auch Guiaida ity After fourteen yeah ant nee, a ride. Any other toboggan in the we 1 sacrificed. Gold metal or cloth may | from .$10,000 to $25,000 per haul, and| My brother Bob and I walked into| be Wis Pardened out, “To be isloe r be used, The band should be three| once we got nearly $50,000." the First National at half past 9 in| {nthe world,” ne wdinined Rance Why should New Yorkers object to an extra cent” Before the sub inghes wide, But they didn't get rich, It was|the morning and collected $23,000,' “oul it doesn't pay. , way started business Turkish baths used to be a copy. ; and onion with his fellows in contentment AW \ FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1918 Little Stories From the Movies and his hair was curly heart as he heavy would By William Addison Lathrop mitted to the studio und one of @ serics by this author. X ne Compa | fine ylack and His ang within Bia all day long, swung the pick at “da gooda job” with Land of Liberty and Plenty, and bad be not the hardest of hard work put enough dollars in the bank so that to-morrow he end for pretty have been painted by a Raphael? Of a trutu! And Tony ate his bread and showed them the pleture looked at the picture, and sald, “Good boy, Tony!” And when he got to the bank on that “to-morrow” there was a notice on the door that didn't A motion picture synopsis in exactly the form in which it was oa ONY was broad of shoulder and deop of chest; his eyes were dark and Mike Flanagan, contractor. For was he not in America, that Promised Utulla, his wife, and little Rosa, the four-year-old, with a face that might of the wife and obild that he would send for to-morrow. Even the “boss” mean anything to Tony——all he could understand was that bis money was gone! And as Tony looked at the pkture of his wife and baby he couté feel the stiletto in bis bosom, and there was murder in his heart! % Schuyler Armitage, a man of many million, drove to the bank in hia big! The doctor could not come. Tony car in response to the frantic apu pushed his way in. The nurse told of the panic stricken directors for him to get out. ‘Tony would not go, help. This he agreed to give, but as|he wanted the doctor, The doctor he fought his way k to his car) came out of an inner room, dressed through the maddened crowd sone! in his operating sult, to see what the yne said that Armitage was responsi. | fuss was about ble for the loss of their money, and, “You doc?” said Tony, “Yes,” said n the biind, unreasoning rage that | the doctor. “Get out of here. I can- sweeps through and obsesses a « not do anything for you now." Tony they tried to “get bim. And ved the doctor in his powerful nearly did, but the car outdistar and despite the struggles and him, and he turned away, after shak- | protests of the man and the efforts ge his fist at the receding car, mu of the nurs » prevent, he carried tering and fingering the atiletto in| him like a « to the astonished in bread tse, flung him across the animat Armitage drove into bis fine subur 1 sack of flour, mounted bebird oft him and rode like mad Helen ban grounds and Helen, his little fivo- year-old daughter, rode up to the car at Ap in bed and asmured her on her pony, attended by a groom. father that she was not in the least Armitage lifted her from the px hurt, and when he had talked with and Kissed her and they romped to- | her for a moment Armitage was of ether, quite unconscious of the mai, the same opinion; and, indeed, the evolent gaze of Tony, as he scowed | child, thanks to Tony, had been only through the thick hedge, not far| stunned, But into the bedroom Tony away, Armitage was improving his | came, carrying the kicking and pro- already magnificent place by the at-| testing doctor, and “cashed him in” dition of an artificial take, and the |at the bedside, Armitage, happy in men were at work on it, He and Uei-| the knowledge that his child was en watched them for a time, and Tony | uninjured, saw the situation and, had no chance to settle his accoun:, | Shrieked with laughter; and the doc | ‘Then Armitage and Helen went int)! tor finally saw it that way too, He the house, t ‘ony waited examined the ehild, however, aad said The contractor decided it was nec- | that she was unhurt ssary to blast a particularly hard! All this time Tony had been stand spot and he warned the men back | ing by, swaying a little and getting while he adjusted the cartridge and| Whiter under the tan. Little Helen th He It the fuse and ran, w him and called attention to him r nad great respect fo a biast—| but before any one could reach him he knew what it could do—and he| Tony collapsed and fell to the floor drew closer into the he Out | Here was a real pat for the doc- | house cume little Helen, romping | tor! Tony was put into Helen's bed, | with a dog, and right toward the| and the doctor shood his head gravely Jeu bia eran. Ton, saw her,)* & ¢ and bis blood froze, He thought ef) In Jelirium of tue dong fever, je Hosa in far away Italy, and all] Tony talked wildiy abou ‘ailure ) the matey vanished, and hor-|of the bank and of Giulia and little pans ts place. | Rosa waiting in vain for the money Nearer abd pearer uild san to] that was to bring them to him. Arm- almost certain death, ‘tony |itage spoke to the doctor, and he darted from his concealment, and al-| seemed to approve, and Armitage most over the biast he took her in| hurried out. It wasn’t many daye be- his arms and started to run, There} fore Armitage met them at the pler was 4 tremendous exprosion, and| and drove them away in his big ear when the smoke had cleared away a| to jouse, ‘The doctor, nurse, and there was Helen unconscious | Armitage stood at Tony's bedside, the Ie the ground, and Tony was cover-| doctor very grave. ng her with his protecing body from| “It is bis only chance,” said he. 1s and debris that) Armitage motos Tho men rushed to was there almost as 4 to the nurse, and she admitted Giulia and little Rosa, well dressed and well cared for, and them -Armi svon a8 any one~-but Tony staggersd| they stood at Tony's bedside as b | Ls feet wita the cuild in his arms,| tossed from side to side. Then b | sptrvonid Aet aly up, dat car nd his eves, and as one who ees | jer tenderiy to the bouse, and/@ Vision, he saw Giulia and Rosa 1 Lo by the bedside waits th see] He blinked daxedly a moment, and af what he could d hen he 1 out his arms, and Giulia | Get a doctor!” #houted Armitage. and Rosa knelt by the bed, their nea: | The butler and the maids ran to the| upon his breast. Doctor, nurse, and j elephone, The doctor could not| Armitage quietly withdrew, and the ; eave a patient that he had at his! doctor was smiling. house was all dressed for oper-| Tony sat in a big chair on the ; sting mpossible,” and he | piazsa, weak, but on the way } hung wp the ‘phone, Armitage raged. | health. Giulia sat on the arm of the All that Tony could understand was! chair, and Armitage stood behind, all / that they wanted a dootor, He alipped | watching Helen and the small Rosu | wut, unnitched & work ore from| playing on the floor, The little girls ; 4 team, mounted, and rode away urg-| kissed each other affectionately | ng the horse, A nurse came to the| Armitage put his hand upon Tony’« | Joor of the doctor's house when Tony|and the two hands clasped. ‘Tony i pounded on it. 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