I found this in the Worth County Index, (Iowa) November 1, 1894. Could this be the Bob Dalton of Coffeeville fame? I don't remember ever reading that he was arrested and condemned to hang for murder in Tahlequah, but it has been a long time since I read anything about the Daltons.

A DESPERATE light occurred In the
Tahlequah, I. T., jail betwoon Eli
Levy, Chulo Starr, and Bob Dalton, all
of 'whom ' wero under sentence of
death. Levy got possession of a razor
and made an assault on the other
two prisoners, cutting Starr fatally,
when ho was knocked senseless by
Dalton, who used a chulr. fracturing
Levy's skull and otherwise Injuring him
so that he cannot recover. Jim Cook,
a brother of tho loader of tho noted
Cook gang of desperados who was
under arrest for murder, has made his
escape. While in charge of two
guards he made a break for liberty,
and. after giving his captors a severe
tussle, got free of them. Although
hampered by a heavy chain locked
about his wrist and ankle, he outran
the guards and warded off the bullets
directed at him.

Since Bob Dalton was killed at Coffeyville on 5 October 1892 the "Bob Dalton" mentioned here must be another guy.

--meursault

Hi,

That is correct!

Mike

Thanks guys, I should have looked that up my self, but I was thinking Coffeeville happened later than it did. I wonder what happened to Bill Cooks brother after his escape?

By the way, I am sorry about the typos in the newspaper article. I cut and pasted it from the newspaper archive and a lot of the letters did not come out right. I noticed it toward the end and corrected a lot of the mistakes but I see now that I missed a lot of them early in the article. Also, Levy survived his cracked skull and died on the Tahlequah gallows about three weeks after this happened.

Jim Cook was killed by some black cowboys up near Nowata, Cherokee Nation.

Thanks Art. Loved your book.

Dr. Rigsby, Thank you. My next one will be on the infamous outlaw Cherokee Bill, who once stuck up a stagecoach near Tahlequah.