The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-05-10
STRICKEN JUDGE
SAID He WAS shot
BY SID Ma ALLEN
CONTINUED t'rom First Page.


industry Victor has a small home
while Sidna's is an elegant place
On cross examination, Judge Bolen
said the Aliens are inclined to be
clannish, and that Victor and Claude
are obcdicnt to their father.
$ w. Tompkins had not heard Vie
ior's or C!audc's reputation discussed
lie also thought the Aliens clannish.
Harry Wilkinson. youth, insisted
chat Wesley Edwards nnish>d his
breakfast on the morning OF the shoot
ing. while Friel Allen abandoned his
Thcn the courthouse bell rang.
Just after court began that day En-
nett Bolen, the next witness. saw
f'riel and Wesley in the drug store. lie
also saw Victor Allen come out OF the
courthouse early in the affair.
Tom Hall. hotel keeper of Hilsvillc
told Of the hight of w w. Hodges, a
witness for the prosecution. Hodges
knocked Hall over, and seemed TO be
distancing the bullets, Floyd Allen
was taken wounded TO his hotel, where
ais brother Jack visited him during
the afternoon.
Cashier Robert Wilkinson, of the
Peoples Bank of Carroll, thold of de-
posits made in his institution Sidna
Allen placed S29l.7l there on March S.
and $3.50 on March II. The former was
in checks and the latter III paper cur
rency. At the time of the shooting
Sidna had balance of $672.5S. lie
drew small checks on ebruary IS
March |. 1 AMI T. Jasper Allen de-
posted on the day before the shooting
the sum of Si53 by his elder son, Bar
nett.
Walter Hewlett, editor of the
Carroll Journal, said that his
paper sometimes publishes court in
dictments. when there is room. lie
thought Victor, Claude and l'ricl Al
len had good regulations.
Victor Allen was seen standing quiet
~ in court just before the tragedy by
Ellis NJ Stanley.
Just before the shooting, perhaps
five minutes Sidna Edwards was seen
on the street by Robert Mclaughlin
Witness Not scared.
The first shots seemed TO have come
from about the sherff's stand, accord
ing to Green Robinson. He helped to
examine Fosters pistol after the dying
commemorative attorney entered the
jury room. While the witness admit
It'd he was under Indictment in Carr
roll for a felony. ana was given ii CRU
cling cross-cXamination. he was not
shaken in his statements. He insisted
he was not at all excited. but that
Of the courtroom.
Noah Rigney was in ths grand jury
room when the shooting began. He
thought 1t safe place, and stayed
there. Mr.. Fosters pistol was picked
up from his side when he fell and ex-
amln.d. The witness saw no cartridges
in the magazine.
The automatic pistol carried 10y Shcr-
iff Webb had been borrowed the pre-
ccding Monday hy Church Alderman,
the next witness. II then contain ID
eight bullets. AT Mr. Webb's burial the
witness was handed a pistol supposed
TO be his but which turned out to be
Fosters. 1t contained five bullets.
Two weeks elapsed before his own was
returned. and 1t was then empty. Mr..
Alderman said when the sheriff secured
the pistol he did not know how TO use
ii.
The evidence of H. C. Quesenberry
was distinctly favorable to the prose.
cution. He was In the courtroom and
tried to get out, but the crowd pre-
vented. Turning. he saw Foster clos,
by, and saw a small young man near
ing at the commemorative Attorney
This was the position OF Fr!el Allen,
according to much testimony.
Walter Petit heard the first shots
near the door to tho Judges office. He
left. and saw Sidna Allen on the out
side, shooting at Dexter Goad.
''Jack" Allen Is Called.
There was a stir in the courtroom
when Jasper Allen was called to the
stand. He Is known throughout Car
roll county as Jack" and is the active
agent of the family for the defense.
He Is younger than Floyd and older
cular. forid. Jack Allen presents a not
unpleaslng nppenrance Save when his