The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-18
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GOOD LOOKING, If A KILLER.
The Man who Ended the Career of
the Notorious Bill Dalton.
From the Cincinnati Tribune.


From the Cincinnati Tribune.
There was modest Texan a retiring,
dimdent democrat and United States
marshal with record for killing des-
peradoes at the Grand hotel last night.
The man who possessed all these unique
qualities was ]. S. Williams. a tall. broad
shouldered fellow with rather handsome
face and an eye that looked straight at
his questioner 1t is not often that ma
tive of Texas seeks to eVade having his
deeds of prowess made known, but Mar
shall Williams quailed before a newspaper
man as he never quailed before six-shoot
err that had as an appendage a desperate
at bay.
Now see here, he pleaded. II don't
like TO have any newspaper notoriety.
amt used to it. Let me go this time.
But after a while the marshal yielded
up some very interesting information. He
had Just been to Columbia with two car
loads of prisoners, he sent another month
ago, and between times despatched forty
criminals to the Leavenworth, Kan, jail
"You must have considerable to do down
there" was the remark of listener.
Eyes. My district embraces Eastern
Texas and the Indian Territory, and
manage to keep three or four jails full
all the time"
Williams admitted casually and with
out bravado that he had killed Bill Dali
ton, of the notorious Dalton gang, and
noted with apparent satisfaction that the
marshal of Oklahoma had killed another
of the robbers, Zip Wyatt.
Among the prisoners in the two car
loads were Indians, negroes and white
men. OF the latter most noted were Mar
tin, for twenty-five years, and Hall, for
thirty years. They, with others, robbed
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe train some
time ago, and made a heavy haul. The
wife of the section boss at the station
was compelled to remove her clothing
in the presence of the robbers, as they
believed that she had money concealed
about her person. They knocked her
down three times with the butt end of a
six-shooter and shot one-armed man in
the face. BY a curious coincidence two
men, Martin and Johnson, were arrested
for the crime, and they certainly an
swered the description of the robbers.
Several section men positively identined
them, and they were held. despite their
protestations of innocence. Willlams
rather believed them, and his judgment
was verified when he captured the right
men. recovering a quantity of stolen prop
erty and secured complete confession He
had sixteen guards to watch the prisoners
and got through without the slightest
trouble.
rs your country becoming ciVlllzeu
was the innocent question of a tender
foot.
"Becoming?" echoed the marshal in.
surprise why, we enforce the laws
down there better than you folks do here,
and then we amt got any anarchists"
but you have populists."
"Oh, those grangers; well. they only
raise h at the polls. We've got some
fool democrats, though, that believe in
free silver, but Wen get them in line
before fall
"How about the -Fitzsimmons
fght?"
1T will be the biggest thing in the coun-
try The Dallas fair is bigger than the
st. Louis fair, and with the fight an
extra attraction, there will be tremen-
dous crowd"
Some of the state officials say they will
not allow it," was suggested.
Those gentlemen will have front seats"
was Williams quiet comment.
There wasn't the slightest bit of dime
novelism about this marshal. He was
well dressed. clean shaver, but for a mus
tache. and his hair was cut quite short.
when he referred 10 killing a man. his
tone was the same as when he spoke OF
any ordinary event. II evidently seemed
10 him that the killing OF a desperate was
what should be done II the fellows re-
fused to obey the law and showed re-
sistauce 10 arrest