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On May 23, 1894, a bloody day in early Longview, Bill Dalton led an armed gang to the First National Bank and presented a note demanding money. A gunfight erupted when Sheriff Jack Howard, City Marshall Mat Muckleroy, and citizens resisted. Three local men, J. W. McQueen, Geo. Buckingham, and Charles Learn, along with one outlaw, died of gunshot wounds. Bank president J. R. Clemmons and cashier Tom Clemmons were held as hostages for a short time as the outlaws escaped into Oklahoma, and forged $20 bank notes led to the capture of the survivors.
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