[1] His nomination become successful for which Allison was marked as the youngest sheriff in Texas, in 1888.
[5][7] Allison had previously served as an inspector in the Texas Cattle Raisers for three years.
[7] Allison allegedly had killed Jack Dunlop in a train robbery in Fairbank, Arizona.
[3] Allison had retired as a lieutenant for the Arizona Rangers in 1904,[6] in which he settled in Texas.
[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.