Emmett Dalton
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Emmett Dalton (May 3, 1871 – July 13, 1937)[1] was a train robber and member of the Dalton Gang in the American Old West. He was born to Lewis and Adeline Dalton and was the youngest of the Dalton brothers.
The Dalton Gang's criminal enterprise was ended on October 5, 1892 when they attempted to rob two banks at once in Coffeyville, Kansas. Four of the gang were killed in the ensuing gun fight. Emmett Dalton survived the raid but received 23 gunshot wounds. He was given a life sentence in the penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas and pardoned after fourteen years. He moved to California and became a real estate agent, author and actor, dying at the age of sixty-six. He was married to Julia Johnson Dalton, who survived him. They had no children.[2]
In 1918, he portrayed himself in the movie version of his book Beyond the Law.[3]
In 1931, he published When the Daltons Rode, which was later made into a movie starring Randolph Scott.[3]
In 1954, the actor Robert Bray played Emmett Dalton in the episode "The Dalton Gang" of the syndicated western television series, Stories of the Century, starring Jim Davis as fictitious Southwestern Railroad detective Matt Clark.
[edit] References
- ^ "IMDB - Emmett Dalton bio". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0198276/bio. Retrieved 2007-07-11.
- ^ "Last of the Daltons". Fresno Bee. 06-27. http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes;read=4294.
- ^ a b "IMDB - Emmett Dalton". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0198276/. Retrieved 2007-07-11.
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