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With permission from Ron Owens, author of "Oklahoma Heroes - A Tribute to Fallen Law Enforcement Officers" (pp.116-117), here is his account of this incident:
Ingalls, a small town ten miles east of Stillwater in Payne County, Oklahoma Territory, was a well-known hideout of the Dalton/Doolin gang. In late August of 1893, half a dozen of the fugitives were reliably reported to be in Ingalls, including Bill Dalton, Bill Doolin, George "Bitter Creek" Newcomb, Red Buck Weightman, Dynamite Dick Clifton and Tulsa Jack Blake. On September 1, 1893, two covered wagons entered Ingalls. Concealed inside them was the ominous number of 13 Deputy U.S. Marshals; Thomas J. Hueston, Lafayette Shadley, Dick Speed, Ham Hueston (Tom's brother), Henry Keller, George Cox, M.A. Iauson, H.A. Thompson, John Hixson, Jim Masterson (Bat's brother), Doc Roberts, Ike Steel and Steve Burke.
Seeing Bitter Creek Newcomb leading his horse down the street, Deputy Dick Speed opened the battle by wounding Newcomb. Speed was killed by Roy "Arkansas Tom" Daugherty, firing down from a second-story hotel window nearby while the rest of the gang fired back from a saloon. With his advantage of position and concealment, Daugherty then shot Deputy Hueston in the left side and bowels. Lafe Shadley was shot three times while trying to climb through a fence by either Arkansas Tom Daugherty, Bill Dalton or both. Daugherty was trapped when the hotel was surrounded by the remaining officers and the rest of the gang escaped. As a testimony to the ferocity of the fight, the building that housed the saloon had more than 225 bullet holes in it. Daugherty surrendered to a preacher and was later sentenced to 50 years in prison. Tom Hueston died from his wounds on September 2, two weeks short of his 38th birthday, and Lafe Shadley died the next day.
No faint-hearted group, this outlaw gang would have made a mockery of many latter day so-called bad men who idly boasted they would never be taken alive and suddenly changed their minds at the moment of truth. To a man, these men meant it; however, it would take the lawmen another four years to run them all down.
Bill Dalton was killed by deputy marshals on June 8, 1894, near Ardmore. Tulsa Jack Blake was killed near Dover in the Spring of 1895 by a posse led by Chris Madsen. Bitter Creek Newcomb was killed by former deputy marshal Bill Dunn for the reward on his head on May 2, 1895. Red Buck Weightman was killed near Cheyenne on March 5, 1896. Bill Doolin was killed by Deputy Heck Thomas on August 25, 1896, near Lawson. Dynamite Dick Clifton was killed by deputies near Checotah on November 7, 1897.
The last survivor, Roy Daugherty spent 17 years in prison for the murders. Paroled, he later did another five years in prison in Missouri for bank robbery and, on August 16, 1924, was killed resisting arrest by two Joplin, Missouri, Police detectives, searching for him for bank robbery.
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