Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-01-26
HEADLINE PERSONALITY N
Williams Free Again
After Life Of Crime

After Lite
Crime may not pay. but for
Dallas o. Williams 1t does not
bring punishment either.
With q quarter Of q century
Of violent crime behind him,
williams Is Q free man today.
Called the bad Man Of
Swampoodle. he has one Of
the most shocking criminal
records In the iiles Of the
washington Police Department.
But the record Is not keeping
him on the streets Of the city.
williams walked out Of the
United States Court House here
January Il after he was or
dered released from st. Eliza
beths Hospital by Federal
Judge Richmond b. Keech.
The United States Court Of
Appeals upheld Judge Keech's
ruling In Q decision handed
down Tuesday.
This was the end Of q court
fight started by williams after
he shot q man in both legs
during a dice game in Septem-
Der. 1919. Since that time he
has been the defendant
charged with assault with q
deadly weapon--in FIVE trials.
He was convicted three times.
and there were two mistrials.
Started in 1888
But williams career as a
public menace goes back fur
ther than l949. It started in
1888 when he was 10 years old.
He pleaded guilty to attempt-
ed robbery in Newberry. S. c..
this hirthplace) and was sem
fenced to q year in prison.
The next year he was con-
victed OF assault and battery.
and in 1886 again collided with
the law In Newberry. serving q
four-year prison term after q
manslaughter conviction. In
March 1910. again in Newberry.
he was given q three-month
Jail term for assault with in
tent to kill.
williams Washington police
record started in May. 1910.
when he was picked up. ques-
toned and released with no
charge being placed against
him. The record now fills 10
card files in a drawer at police
headquarters and lists arrests
for more than 90 offenses.
In March. 1912. he was ar
rested in Clintwood. Va. and
sentenced to six months on q
shooting charge.
Later the same year he for
feited $40 on two charges of
disorderly conduct in the Dis
trict. He was also arrested on
an assault charge but this was
dismissed.
One Arrest In 1898
The year 1913 went by with
only one arrest--again for as
Sault-and he was sentenced
10 pay . fine Of SIS or serve
Is days In Jail.
BY 1914 Williams had earned
his nickname Of bad man."
and he was arrested six times.
The charges: disorderly con-
duct. assault and selling liquor
without q license. He forfeited
SIS In three disorderly cases,
was put on probation IN the
liquor case. found not guilty in
one assault case and never
brought 20 trial In q second as
sault case.
The year i945 was another
banner enc for williams: IL
arrests and q sentence Of i20
days IN fail for assault with q
knife. The record also shows
he paid out SIS for five dis
orderly conduct fines the same
year. OF the remaining charges.
he was found not guilty for
assault. and the rest were dis
missed or no disposition is
shown on the record.
And 1916 got worse. He was
only arrested eight times. but
the sentences got sitter. On one
assault with q deadly weapon
conviction he went to Jail on
q sentence Of from six to 10
months. A knitting brought him
4 sentence Of 500 or 90 days.
He also forfeited $40 for several
drunk and disorderly charges.
The record shows no charges
actually brought into court
after the other arrests during
1915.
Got on Light
In le47 williams got OF rath-
er light. He was arrested five
times, but served only three
minor sentences on drunk. dis
orderly and assault charges.
Two other cases were dropped.
with no action shown on the
record.
The following year was q bad
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