member of an outlaw gang in the nineteenth-century
American West; also a
character in early westerns.
a
character from an
old-fashioned melodrama titled Curse You,
Jack Dalton! It is a one-
act play from the early twentieth century with a villain, Egbert, and
Jack Dalton, the hero.
Jack falls in
love with his family's maid much to the dismay of his aristocratic
mother and the Spanish adventuress (Anna) who herself loves and wishes to
wed Jack. The villain plots with Anna how to remove the maid from the
scene by drugging her and
shipping her to a lunatic
asylum, thus enabling Anna to have
Jack as her own.
Jack foils their
plot and finally
ends up with his
love, Bertha, the maid.