Aboard the train at Wharton robbed by the Dalton Gang. Later photographed at Coffeyville standing between two of the dead Daltons (at least some sources so identify him). Fired by Marshal Grimes for "misstatements of fact." Does anybody know what happened to him? In the early 1900s a Ransom Payne served as the Chief of Police in East St. Louis. Is this the same guy?

--meursault

Below is what I have on Ransom Payne:

Ransom Payne was born in Iowa and was a nephew of the famous Boomer, David L. Payne. He received a deputy U.S. marshal commission from U.S. Marshal Jones of Kansas to police the Oklahoma District before and after the opening in 1889. He was later commissioned a deputy U.S. marshal in Oklahoma Territory in 1890 at Guthrie. He was alive as late as 1910.
**REFERENCES**
-“Daily Oklahoman”, April 22, 1910
-West of Hell's Fringe, by Glenn Shirley, pgs. 48, 50, 56-57, 59-61, 80, 378-381
-Smith’s 1890 Territorial Directory
-Oklahoma Supreme Court Network Website, Payne v. Long-Bell Lumber Co., 1900 OK 34,60 P. 235, 9 Okla. 683
-Oklahoma Supreme Court Network Website, Payne v. Foster, 1893 OK 17, 33 P. 424