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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Emmett Dalton
(May 3, 1871 - July 13, 1937) 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.
