Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1894 — BILL DALTON KILLED. [ARTICLE]

BILL DALTON KILLED.

War Against the Bandits on the Frontier. Conflicting Account* of the Hostilities— The Robbers E«cape. Deputy United States Marshals havs been on the trail of the Dalton gang in Oklahoma for some time. It seems that Bruce Miller, near Ingalls, fifty miles from Guthrie, O. T„ has been harboring the Daltons of late, and that the Daltons spent Sunday night at Miller’s. The posse of deputy marshals surrounded the house Monday morning. Miller, his brother, his wife and daughter and a hired man were there, but the Daltons had left only twenty minutes before. The marshals guarded the bouse till Tuesday night when a storm came up and they left. Miller and his crowd were in ths house all this time, and in the meantime hundreds of shot were fired by both sides. Bruce Miller and his brother left the house and when morning came a reinforcement of twenty men came in. Mrs. Miller and a hired man appeared at the door and the latter was killed. Mrs. Miller tried to drag the body of the hired man fromjths door and was struck by a stray shot In the shoulder. The woman and little child at last accounts were in a precarious condition. James Dunn’s place was next visited by the marshals’ posse and there the gang was found. A battle took place Wednesday night, and the marshals think Bill Dalton and Bill Doolan were both killed, but the darkness prevented them from learning this to a certainty. The marshals arc certain that some of the band were killed and a number wounded. The St. Louis evening Times has information that both Bill Dalton and Bill Doolan were killed and borne off by theli comrades, but this cannot be vsrified.