Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-07-25
PAROLE GIVEN
VIM. TRAYL0R
Graham County Youth Who
Killed Tom DdIIars
CLEMENCY OF EXECUTIVE
A citing Governor Young
Liberates Boy Who at the
Early Age of II was
Drawn into Quarrel End
ing in Homicide.

| signed by nearly a hundred men In
! Graham county. among them the most
representative citizens, Acting Cover
nor George L. Young yesterday granted
parole to William Traylor, 19-year-
old boy who killed Thomas Dallas near
| Clifton and was sentenced October g.
| 1903. to serve fourteen years in the
penitentiary, after conviction &c muir
| der in the second degree.
The petitions among other names
carry those Of Wiley f. Jones. a well
known lawyer, ]. ]. Birdno. editor of
the Stafford Guardian, NJ. J. Egan, coun-
sci for the Arizona Copper Co, Lamar
Cobb, a member of the late constitu-
tional convention, several of the trial
! jurors, John r. Hampton, w. J. Riley,
John NJ. Webster, John d. Williams, ID.
H. Claridgc. and about seventy five
other well known citizens Of Graham
county. The parole is granted on the
usual terms including a report to the
superintendent of the prison 1t stated
intervals during the next five years.
According to the story related of the
incident which led to the killing it was
far from a cold blooded affair and
seems to have been brought about in
large degree by the man who was slain,
Tom Dallas, better known as shorty
Dallas. 1t appears that the Arizona
Copper Co, in its personal property,
had a great many mules that from time
to time strayed away and it had been
the practice of the company &c pay
reward of SO to any person who would
ROT ~ MT al
Traylor had returned a mule to the
company and received his SO. At the
same time he appraised the company
that another of its mules was lame, or
sick or something serious the matter
with it and a company official told
him TO take the animal and care for it
and if he could cure it he could have it.
1t appears that Dallas had some real
or imaginary claim on the sick mule
In any event he went to the Traylor
home and got it but it strayed away
from Dallas and went back to TTaylor's
Dallas appeared at Traylor's place
later and the matter was further dis
cussed. though not with the boy, VIII
liam Traylor When Dallas left he
seemed to be in friendly state of mind
and the Traylors were not aware of any
animosity existing as the result of the
mule incident.
Traylor later went to the home of
Dallas, whom he regarded as Il friend,
to try and borrow a horse, riding his
own horse to the Dallas place and hitch
| ing it about sixty yards from the Dali
las home. Approaching Dallas a con
versation ensued which became acri-
monious, and Dallas said he had bill
OF sale of the mule. Traylor asked him
to go in the house and get it and he
said he would, accompanying his action
with wOrdy abuse of the boy. His re
turn was with a gun in hand which he
exhibited saying that was his bill of
sale, whereupon TraylOr turned and
ran toward his horse where he secured
revolver he had on the saddle.
Dallas pursued him and Traylor, ac-
cording to the story. ran on beyond the
horse and up a hillside where the men
engaged in a pistol battle that ended
in the killing OF Dallas.
The testimony as to who fired the
first shot of the incident however is
not material to the present consider
atlOn OF inc case DIS tile poiltS tidt dp-
peal for cleinency are the earlier facts
that led up TO the shooting and the
youthfulness of the boy who aid it. If
he served his full term he would be
released rather late i'm life to make a
new start. He has been model pris-
oner during the time he has been in the
penitentiary and has now suffered
practically two years of punishment
for an offense that in a measure seem
ed to have been forced upon him
Mrs Ella Poland of Clifton, sister
OF Traylor, was here yesterday in the
interest of her brothers parole