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Crawley P.
Dake (1836-1890) - Union soldier during the
Civil War and U.S.
Marshal for
Arizona Territory from 1878 to 1882. Dake was born at
Kenfield, Ontario, Canada in 1827 but moved with his family to
Ogdensburg, New York when he was a child. When he grew up he operated
a retail store in Michigan but when the
Civil War broke out, he raised
a company of soldiers and was commissioned in the 5th Michigan
Cavalry. He served at Gettysburg and in several other major actions
until he was wounded and retired as a major in August, 1864. He then
worked for the Internal Revenue Service for a time before being
appointed as the U.S. Marshal for
Arizona Territory on June 12, 1878.
For the first two years, he dispatched a number of posses to the
Mexican border, attempting to control the lawlessness taking place
there. Working for him were a number of well known frontier characters
including Leslie Blackburn,
Virgil
and
Wyatt Earp, Joseph Evans, Joe
Phy and others. After the
Gunfight at the O.K. Corrall in
Tombstone,
Arizona in October, 1881, he was heavily criticized and replaced in
July, 1882. He remained in
Arizona, living in Prescott, managing
mining and business interests until his death on August 9, 1890.
 Edwin B. Daniels (18??-1874) - A
deputy sheriff in St. Clair County,
Missouri, Daniels was traveling
with
Pinkerton Agents,
Louis Lull and James
Boyle, searching for the
elusive
Younger brothers,
who were thought to be in the area. On March 16, 1874, they set out
from
Osceola to Roscoe,
Missouri. After
spending the night at the Roscoe House Hotel, the left the day for the home of Theodrick Snuffer, a family friend of the
Youngers, some three miles out of town. Posing as cattle buyers, they
questioned Snuffer, but got nowhere. Little did they know that
John
and
Jim Younger were watching from Snuffer’s attic. When the lawmen
left, the two Younger Brothers followed and ordered the three men to
halt. Panicked,
Pinkerton Agent James Wright, spurred his horse and
kept on going. However; the other two lawmen,
Pinkerton Agent
Lull and
Daniels, stopped and within no time a gunfight ensued. When the smoke
cleared,
John Younger
and Deputy Edwin Daniels were dead,
Louis Lullwas severely wounded
and
Jim Younger received a flesh wound in his
hip.
Lull was taken to Roscoe for treatment,
but later died of his wounds.
Lon Davis -
U.S. Deputy Marshal
commissioned in the Muskogee Court in 1898,
serving under Marshal Leo Bennett. In 1898, Lon worked with U.S.
Deputy Marshals Bud Ledbetter, Dave Adams, Bill Barker and Harry
Adams, to close down a number of gambling operations in Sapulpa,
Oklahoma and arrested the Hughes Gang in Bristow. When the gang of
three brothers refused to surrender without a fight, and one of them
was killed. On May, 1905, while Davis was trying to arrest a drunken
man named Will Dunn, who was disturbing the peace in Sawyer,
Oklahoma,
the drunken fool refused and when the guns began blazing, Dunn was
killed.
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Donald
H. Dillingham (1837-1863) - Born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, Dillingham received a good education before making his
way west when he grew up. Landing in
Bannack,
Montana, he
was named a deputy under Sheriff
Henry
Plummer, along with three other men named Charley Forbes,
Buck Stinson
and Jack Gallagher. However, these other three deputies were little
more than outlaws masquerading as lawmen. Dillingham was an honest man
and when he heard of plans to rob travelers along the roads, he was
known to warn the intended victims. As a result, he was shot down in
Virginia City,
Montana on June 26,
1863 by Deputies Charley Forbes,
Buck Stinson and another man named Hayes Lyons.
Though the killers were arrested and tried in a miners' court, with
several witnesses to the murder, they were acquitted. This incident
was just one of many that prompted the organization of vigilante
groups in
Montana.
James "Jim” M. Dodson (1842-1907) - Dodson was born in
Missouri, and by some
accounts had been a member of Quantrill’s
Raiders during the
Civil War.
By the mid 1870s; however, he was in
Arizona,
working as the Prescott City Marshal. In 1876, he, along with
Virgil Earp
and Sheriff Ed. F. Bowers, were in a gun battle with two rowdy cowboys
in Prescott, when
Earp
killed one of the offenders. Three years later, in December, 1879,
Dodson, along with Sheriff Joseph R. Walker, Al Seiber, Thomas Simmons
confronted two stage robbers when a shoot-out erupted. When the smoke
cleared, one of the bandits was dead and the other was arrested. In
April, 1882, Dodson killed another fugitive named Joe Banks in the line
of duty. Though Prescott,
Arizona
had a few accounts of lawlessness, some say that the town never
developed into lawless chaos like other popular mining camps of the
time, primarily on account of Dodson. After retiring as the marshal of
Prescott, Dodson moved to Yuma,
Arizona,
where he worked as a wall guard at the
Arizona
Penitentiary. His shooting skills proved invaluable on at least one
occasion when a prisoner attempted to escape. He spent the last part of
his life in Phoenix,
Arizona,
where he died on May 10, 1907 at the age of 67.
Cornelius "Lame
Johnny" Donahue (1850-1878) - A
lawman
and an
outlaw,
Donahue attended college in Philadelphia but moved to
Texas to become
a
cowboy.
However, because of a physical he didn't fair well and turned to horse thievery.
In the 1870s, Donahue left
Texas and wound up in
Deadwood,
South Dakota,
where he was hired as a deputy sheriff. Some time later, he was
working in the mines and was recognized as the
Texas
horse thief that he was. He fled
Deadwood
and returned to his old lifestyle of stealing horses and added
stagecoach robbery to his "job" tasks. In one robbery he was said to have taken
about $3,500 in currency, $500 in diamonds, hundreds of dollars worth
of jewelry, and 700 pounds of gold dust, nuggets and bullion from a
special "treasure coach” called the "Monitor" belonging to the Homestake Mine. With a take like that, the law was quickly on his tale
and he was soon tracked down by livestock detective,
Frank Smith, who arrested him. However, as Smith was returning Donahue
to
Deadwood,
the stagecoach was pulled over by a masked rider who took Johnny from
the coach. The officials first assumed that he had been "saved" by one
of his outlaw cohorts, but that was not the case. The next day, "Lame
Johnny" was found hanging from a tree. When he was buried, his
headstone, which is long since missing, read:
- Pilgrim Pause!
- You’re standing on
- The molding clay of Limping John.
- Tread lightly, stranger, on this sod.
- For if he moves, you’re robbed, by God
E.L.M Drake -
U.S. Deputy Marshal
in
Oklahoma Territory. On May 25, 1892, Drake was
looking for two horse thieves by the names of William Miller and William Hostetter. When he tracked them to the Deep Fork Creek near Sapulpa,
Oklahoma and attempted to serve the warrant, the two pulled their guns and
began firing. Drake's horse was killed and he took a shot in the side and
a thigh. However, he returned fire, killing both of the outlaws. Though
some newspapers of the time reported that Drake had died of his wounds,
other records indicated that he was re-commissioned as a
U.S. Deputy Marshal
in 1894.
Charles N.
Dugger - (18??-1896) - A
U.S. Deputy Marshal
in
Oklahoma
Territory, Dugger was killed int he line of duty on June 20, 1896. An
lawman for some 20 years, Dugger was shot on August 31, 1890 in southern
Oklahoma Territory but survived to telegraph for assistance. Several
years later; however, he would not be so fortunate. On June 20, 1896,
while riding with posseman Joe Boyle, the pair tried to arrest three
whiskey peddlers in the Osage nation. However, the outlaws resisted,
killing both officers.
John Riley Duncan
(1850-1911) - Duncan served as a Dallas police officer, detective, and
Texas Ranger.
He's most noteworthy in the capture of
John Wesley Hardin. After tracking Hardin to Florida, Duncan,
along with
John Barclay Armstrong, and Florida sheriff William Henry Hutchinson
captured the
outlaw, who was soon tried and sent to prison for 18 years.
Perry DuVal (18?-1873)
- A
U.S. Deputy Marshal
in Indian Territory, DuVal, along with U.S.
Deputy Marshals, Will Ayers and James Wilkerson, were escorting a several
prisoners from Indian Territory to
the federal court at
Fort Smith,
Arkansas
on November 2, 1873. While the marshals and prisoners settled down for the night
northwest of Muskogee,
Oklahoma, one of the prisoners, a man named John Billy,
somehow got out of his handcuffs, grabbed Marshal Duval's weapon and shot him in
the head. He then shot Marshals Ayers and Wilkerson, though both survived. John
Billy was hanged for the murder at
Fort Smith,
Arkansas
on April 3, 1874.
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