FOLLOWING the Adair holdup, the DaltonGang again disap-
peared in mystifying fashion. A score of deputy marshals, the
Cherokee police and the Creek Light Horse (the Creek police),
spurred on by the rewards posted by the Katy, totaling $6,000,
failed to turn them up. Rumors circulated that they had been
seen in Denison, Texas, even in Fort Smith, "living it up," but
when investigated, the tales proved to have no substance.

There is some reason for believing that they returned to Mann-
ford and the Dalton Cave and buried their loot in that neighbor-
hood. When he appeared to be dying from the wounds received
in the Coffeyville battle, Emmett Daltonsaid, when questioned
about their hiding place: "We had a rendezvous near Tulsey
Town."Tulsey Town, the old Creek village which became Tulsa,
was, at the time, of little importance. Mannford was only twenty
miles away. His vagueness, even in extremity, is understandable,
if the gang had buried money in or near the Dalton Cave. In later
years, after he came out of prison, Emmett refused to be pinned
down. Possibly, he dug up the money.

We have his word for it that in the weeks before the Coffeyville

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