The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 4, 1922, Page 14

Obligation to Parent Is Nothing But Youthful Criminal Will Pay Back Those He Has Robbed By Fred L. Boalt Dallas Pope tells « —- ® . Much of it is, by Ite very sans, i je of substantia thon, Some of it, I know, is true, And 1 have not caught him in & Ne. Therefore, I must assume the entire story is true. 2 I know that Dallas Pope tn 1915 was “a delinquent child.” So were his three little sisters. The record ts at the court of domestic relations. In that year David B. Pope con vinced the court that his wife, an ac- tress, was not a fit person to have charge of his son and daughters, ‘The little girls were placed in an Imstitution. They and their mother go out of the story. I know that in 1915 Dallas Pope ‘was arrested at Astoria for theft and that he was committed to the state training school at Salem. After two weeks he escaped and was not appre: bended. I know that Dallas Pope was a pri- wate, first class, in Company B, 2ist machine gun battalion, that he was accounted an expert machine gun- ner, that he fought on two fronts in France, that he was gassed and sheli- shocked, and that he is today a “totat disability case," receiving $100 a month from the government thru the vocational training board. He is 21 years old. The boy remembers but little of his mother and sisters. He eaw but lit- tle of them. His life was spent largely with his father. FATHER PROMISED HIM ™man, sullen and morose by nature, bat subject to sudden and violent fits of temper. There is a scar on the boy’s undertip made by his father’s knuckles. Father and son moved mysterious from city to city, from rooming house to rooming house. The boy his tather: school like =z Baltes ay gb i: f > - . i : use a “jimmy” in burglary, the pay- chology of the right approach in highway robbery—short, sharp and snappy: “Stick "tm up, or I'll blow your brairs out!” FIRST CRIME COMMITTED IN SEATTLE AS BELLHOP Dallas Pope's tirst crime was perpetrated in Seattle. Guided T. A. Stiger and Sheriff W. W. West are “at it” again. Stiger and his dry equad, un known to the sheriff, were raiding J. J, Dowling’s home for liquor yes- terday. Dowling phoned West that his house was being wrecked. West and three deputies rushed Marzie Matthews (above),| 17 years old, of Rosebud,| Texas, shot and killed J. S. Crosslin (insert), prominent | | Waco (Tex.) real estate man, | in a Waco courtroom as she) left the witness stand at the) opening of Crosslin’s second trial on charges of mistreat-| ing the girl. She is free on) | $4,000 bond, signed by sev- eral Waco business men.) Crosslin, at a previous trial,| was convicted and sentenced to nine years in the pen, but secured a reversal of the case. | He leaves a wife and four children. apt puph, aid not nes- . _____—STHE SEATTLE STAR Boy Led by Fagin Fat (— Principals in Cot Shooting |11¢ held up scores of people at the her to Crime Will Now Go Straight . aiid time and pretended to be deep lhe proposes to “come buck’ Portland North End, and ordered | suicide to escape prison. end of a gun, him to get ready to leave (4 4/ Dallas Pope went to the training} in slumber, After shouting at other sense. Under vocational tag | He of had a boy friend—a|burry. school, and during a sojourn of two| him and Kicking the soles of his jing, he has mastered typewnitigg johance acquaintance, With boyieh They caught a northbound train | weeks he experienced a great feet, the trio caught him by and stenography, but these nce, pride he showed thin boy the weapon |and went to Canada, Arrestod on | awakening, Viret, he realixed that| head and heels. plishments are of emall use tog his father had given him-—a Colt|the other side of the line for enter | bin father had robbed him of his) “One!” —swing—“two!"—swing | whose nerves have been ‘the, | 45, The boy talked too much ing the dominion without author-|boyhoed. Second, he realized that) three! Heave' | shocked. | At that time the Troy laundry |ity, they were returned to Sumas, /he did not enjoy and never had en ‘The bluff failed. Dallas was | In his wanderings about the in Portiand was having trouble with | Wash. where « police officer, prob | joyed the life of crime. stilt limp avd slumbering, They [he meets detectives. They pir |to fat lect, before leaving the room, to wipe with a cloth the doorknob and every- thing else he had touched to efface finger prints, I have @ picture of Dallas taken when he was 15. He was then 5 feet 10 inches tall, weighed 140 pounds, and looked to be 18 or 20. He was, after three years of inten- sive training, an accomplished crim. 1. Tt ts odd that he loved his father.’ I suppose a boy must love some body. There was little for that love to feed upon. David Pope never con- fided in his son. He never per. mitted the boy to live at the same rooming house with himself, but at one hard He never permitted the boy to enjoy the proceeds of his crimes, He doled out money to Dallas, $5 or $10 at a time. If the father was ever anything more than a Fagin, the boy never found it out, altho there were occasional unexplained absences. BOY FRIEND IS CAUSE OF TROUBLE Dallas committed almost every sort ef crime. He prowled hotels and rullroad depots, stealing money and suitcases He burgtarized houses, He snatched pocketbooks C. Attle heard a familiar voice on; | Second ave., and turned. “Well, Tt be.” he said, om “doggoned! Where have you been |for a year? Never saw you looking |better. Been wondering what had become of—"* | “You've heard.” said the other, | ‘of the landlords’ trust? “Considerabie,” C. Attle confessed, truthfully. “Well, the landlords’ trust finally | got my goat. You know we—the| Mrs. and I—had been living around | in apartments here for years, It! was costing us, just for bare living. | |mind you, $165 month. ‘Then, when the Mrs. got sick, I couldn't jstand that expefse and pay her doc: | tor bills.” ALL WANT TWICE WHAT FLAT’S WORTH j “So something had to be done. 1 looked for another apartment. No juse. All rent for about the same/| |money. Landlords’ trust sees to} jthat. All want about twice what an | | apartment's worth.” | “Yea,” C. Attle agreed. “That's | true. How’s the Mra. now? “That's what I was getting at.| |The doctors gave her up—said ehe was a gover. They didn’t know |what was the matter with her. | ‘There was ’nothing they could do. | | She might live six months, or maybe | a@ year.” | C. Attle Learns How to Wallop Landlord |rest of the stuff we raise right on told me she wanted a sledge-hammer end a wedge to split logs with.” LIVING COSTS $10 A MONTH NOW “You don't mean—” “That's what I mean. Y got her the wedge and hammer and she went at it, She worked in the garden. 1 helped. And right now our living ts| costing us about $10 a month, do you understand, $10 a month. The our place.” “And the Mrs. ——" “And the money we were paying the landlords’ trust we're now paying in installments, buying the home property, For the first time in our lives we're going to own something.” | He grinned thru a heavy coat of | tan “And now about the Mra. You ought to see her—come out some time, will you? You never saw a healthier looking woman in your life. Can you beat it?” “Can't,” C. Attle admitted, “Mighty glad to hear it. Iq there any more | property out around Haller Lake?” “Tl look around and see.” “Do that. I'l tell Mra Attle, and we'll be out.” Legion Denies Loss Due to Bonus Stand INDIANAPOLIS, March 4.—Tho/ American Legion today deniea} jthe I arming suspicious characters, They |approached the tall, gangling youth, |for a year. simple but ingenious it. them, and, because his nerve | “I will not be mumpectear* be & | who ran to the Hawthorne oridge And David Pope broke down ‘There was snow on the ground, delighted them, they let him [clares, “I have never been ¢ and toned the gun and 100 rounds! and blubbered! Me ran round and round in a ¥ but I will be a man! 1 wif lof ammunition into the river. ‘They were not crocodiv immense cir then, when he He journeyed to New York city|eneak, I was a thief because: y | Then he returned to the but real—tho tears of fright. : hood of the laundry and subm‘tted tion, fortunately destroyed, altho disillusionment al- most broke his heart. FATHER BROKE DOWN AND CRIED ‘They far south as San Francisco, as far I ning, entered the boy's room in the| red-handed in crime and committed W. W. The police were dis |ably bluffing, told the elder Pope Me ran away. A posse pur- he could send him “over the road” laid him gently down. Then he sued. He eluded the posse by a jaskance. This angers the new Dalig opened his eyes and laughed at | Pope. car motor-| father made me one, not bee All this| wanted to be one. So far as Peel wondering | remember the people 1 In|there were hundreds of th bor: had beaten a path easily fol- lowed, he leaped to a patch of ground hardfrozen and blown bare of snow by the wind, and and worked a* a street man. Then to Chicago. time he tells me he was if he was by nature a crook, And Dallas Pope at last knew his father for » coward. But it is hard to overcome habit 4 search to disarm suspicion His her warned him to have nothing to do with boys thereafter, and training. thence to lowhanging branch | Chicago he Was adopted into a will make restitution when ie Dallas admired his father be-| «16 the pollee question you, dont of » tree family of modest means. Yor the|I can, But I want the worlg @] jeause he was strong and, prerum-|tet; them anything,” be had told) ‘The posse ran round and round/first time he glimpsed home life. | know that T am not now @ ably, courageous, But thin admire | tne boy hundreds of times. And) the cricle; paused time and again, Then, when be was 17, he volun-| All I stole from society wag a for the bey was teered in the regulars, lying about| which my father made me atest ee his age, and went to war, | which I did not spend. 1 owe 1 have his war record before me./ father's memory nothing. ay He was & good soldier, |bhas no right to take from me@ “There were times,” he tells me, | right I earned in France--the |*When I hoped I would be killed. 'to live honorably. I arn telfj There didn't seem to be anything | ciety, thru you, what I wag Dallas had become an adept at evasion So when, not long after, the po lee at Astoria caught Dallas “with the goods” he took his medicine, and father lost a willing worker. am inclined to suspect that | Ponpulased; then quit. The boy stayed in his tree until night fell. He went to Portland and hit an Oregon Short Line freight for th Kast. Some yeeus rned him to | look out for “Umatilla Red,” @ rath road detective, an energetic for of had reamed the coast, as north aw Seattle, as far east as|David Pope, up to the time of his! all hoboes. Ie escaped the fiery-\to come back to what J] am. I do not ‘. Butte, for three years. One day| son's arrest, was only a Fagin, Vor| thatched “dick,” but ran into three| NOW DALLAS WILL | From now on I shall fight for gy! the father, out of breath from run-|about a year later he was caught) brakemen. LEAD CLEAN LIFE lright to walk fn the open, an ime| He was in & gondola at the But he has come back, and now! orable man among honorable THE BON MARCHE Ba RGAIN BASEMENT The Biggest Event Ever in Bargain Basement History 566 Better- Kind Dresses $142 $198 106 Wool Dresses $7.50 66 Silk Dresses $9.98 For Most Every Woman 111 Wool Dresses $9.98 146 Silk Dresses $14.89 to Dowling’s assistance and found) “Is that so™ C. Attle sympathized. | claims of opponents of the bonus bill | County Commissioner Jack Boyle in|“I didn't know she was as badly off now pending in congress that the Le. front of the Dowling place. jas that.” | gion had lost members because of its West relieved Boyle of his deputy) “Yes, that's what they said—she| stand on the measure. sheriffs commission and rushed in-|might live a year. So I decided to} From a paid-up membership | of side. take her case in hand and be her | 433,000 in 1919, the Legion jumped to Deputies D. M. Beamer and/doctor myself. We struck out for | 896,000 in 1921, it was etated at na- George Boswell, the “dry squad,”|the country.” tional headquarters here. More than were deprived of their guns by the| “That's where you've been,” C.| half of these have paid their annual sheriff. | Attle guessed. “How is Mra. ——" | dues for 1922, and dues are being re- Stiger cried: “You'll answer in| “I want to tell you. We got a half | celved at the rate of 5,000 dajly. superior court for this, Bill West.” |acre out at Haller Lake. Got a few) ¥ Pe Said West: “You bet I will.|hens. Bought a rmall pig. Then I : Right to the superior court, that’s|Got the Mrs. an ax and a saw tnd | | ISLOCATES HIS es | JAW WITH YAWN where this case ts going.” |gave her a spade, and told her to get West and Stiger have been es-|out in the air and use them.” LARAMIE, Wyo. March 4.—Will tranged since Stiger prosecuted West | “And she sick?” C. Attle put m | Rickard, ranchman, , indulged in a/ several months ago on a liquor} “Yes. And she did get out. It! iargesized yawn. He traveled 13 | charge. West was found not guilty.|wasn't but a week or so until she|milen to a doctor before he could FIGHTING TRIM! 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