When the Dalton brothers walked out of the bank, a hail of bullets forced them back into the building. Thus, while Bob and Emmett were stuffing money into a grain sack, the townspeople ran for their guns and quickly surrounded the two banks. Unfortunately for the Daltons, someone recognized one of the gang members and began quietly spreading the word that the town banks were being robbed.

Two of the Dalton brothers-Bob and Emmett-headed for the First National, while Grat Dalton led Dick Broadwell and Bill Powers in to the Condon Bank. Perhaps success bred overconfidence, but whatever their reasons, the gang members decided to try their hand at robbing not just one bank, but at robbing the First National and Condon Banks in their old hometown of Coffeyville at the same time.Īfter riding quietly into town, the men tied their horses to a fence in an alley near the two banks and split up. Though the gang had more murders than loot to their credit, they had managed to successfully evade the best efforts of Oklahoma law officers to bring them to justice. Instead, they were nearly all killed by quick-acting townspeople.įor a year and a half, the Dalton Gang had terrorized the state of Oklahoma, mostly concentrating on train holdups.

But if the gang members believed the sheer audacity of their plan would bring them success, they were sadly mistaken.

On this day in 1892, the famous Dalton Gang attempts the daring daylight robbery of two Coffeyville, Kansas, banks at the same time.

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