1893 Delta Bank Robbery Left Three Dead, No Money Taken

What happened

A bank robbery involving the McCarty Gang took place in Delta, Colorado, in 1893. The episode ended with three men dead, and the gang gained no money from the robbery.

The event is described in an account published by Kool 107.9. The account’s central facts are the year, the Delta setting, the gang’s involvement, the deaths and the lack of financial gain.

Why it matters

The incident is part of Delta’s 19th-century history and connects a bank robbery with a deadly outcome rather than a successful theft. The result was three deaths and zero money taken.

The event also shows why accounts of historic crimes depend on identifying the basic facts clearly: what happened, where it happened and what resulted. Here, those facts place the robbery in Delta in 1893 and describe an outcome in which no money was obtained.

What is established

The McCarty Gang is tied to the robbery. Delta, Colorado, is the location. The year was 1893. Three men died, and the robbery netted zero.

Those are the facts that define the episode in the historical account. No candidate, election or current policy issue is connected to the event.