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William D. Allison
William Davis Allison (1861 – April 1, 1923)[2] was an American lawman.[3] He served as lieutenant in the service of the Arizona Rangers from 1903 to 1904.[4][5][6] BiographyAllison was born in Ohio.[1][3] He moved to Texas for which Allison was a cowboy and wrangler.[1] He was sharp and liked by people for which he was nominated to become sheriff in Midland County, Texas.[1] His nomination become successful for which Allison was marked as the youngest sheriff in Texas, in 1888.[1] He served as the sheriff for ten years.[1][7] Allison then served as the city marshal in Roswell, New Mexico.[1] In 1903, he was hired by the second captain of the Arizona Rangers, Thomas H. Rynning to become an Arizona ranger.[1] He served as lieutenant.[5][7] Allison had previously served as a inspector in the Texas Cattle Raisers for three years.[7] He then served as deputy sheriff in Chaves County, New Mexico.[7] Allison allegedly had killed Jack Dunlop in a train robbery in Fairbank, Arizona.[3] He also seized two brothers who were outlaws.[3] Allison had retired as a lieutenant for the Arizona Rangers in 1904,[6] in which he settled in Texas.[3] With settling in Texas, he extinguished Pascal Morosco.[3] Allison specified as a "Special Texas Ranger", in 1917.[1] He worked along with inspector, Horace L. Roberson on an examination.[1] In 1923, they've both had to attend a grand jury for which they had both conferred evidence against their suspects, but it never happened.[1] They both had met their attorneys at the Gaines Hotel for which in a while their suspects Milt Good and Tom Ross had carried a shotgun and a pistol.[1] Allison and Roberson were both killed by their suspects, in which Allison's body was on the floor in April 1923 in Seminole, Texas.[1][3] Roberson's wife had heard the shooting.[1] References
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