The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1912-03-15

| mountain Wilds.
Hilsyille, va, March l4-A troop
OF mountain outlaws rode out OF the
Blue Ridge today to the Carroll
county court house here, and assissi-
mated the judge upon die bench, the
prosecutor before the bar and the
sheriff at the door in less time than
it takes to tell it, while sentence was
being pronounced upon Floyd Allen.
one of their number
When the crack OF the rifles died
away, only one member Of the hu-
man fabric of the court-Dexter
Goad, the clerk-was alive and he had
been wounded. Jurymen and on
lockers were struck in the fusillade
but none was wounded seriously.
Tonight the outlaws. with a good
days start, are up in the mountains
with a citizens posse. little organ
lied, making semblance of pur-
suit
Sheriffs and deputies from neighDor-
ing counties can not reach here be,
fore early morning A special train
from Roanoke tonight brought 20 de-
tectives to Galax. the nearest rail
road station, nine miles away. It
will be midnight before these men
can get over the mountain roads hub-
deep in spring mud 1t probably Will
be daylight before the forces can De
assembled
reward of $1,000 for the capture
of the band made today by Governor
Mann, was tonight increased 10 49,
COO The governors proclamation
states that $500 each will be paid
for individual members of the band,
taken dead or alive
Captain f, w Devant Of the Sec.
ond Virginia regiment, has been or
dered to come here with militia.
The shooting terrorized Hillsville
to the point OF paralysis. There was
not a man to give an order, or or
ganize a pursuit Citizens fled to
places of safety. and mothers gather
ed up their children while the assas-
sins rode out pf town
Judge Thornton L. Massie rose
from his chair as uhe bullets struck
him and fell across his desk. Com
monwealth Attorney William Foster
with half dozen bullets in his brain,
crumpled down to the floor Sher-
iff Lewis Webb was shot and killed
as he reached for his revolver But
let's grazed Clerk Goad and in the
confusion he was reported killed.
Jurors who had been slightly wound
ed Were reported as dead and by that
indefinable method of communication
which prevails in the woodland eoun-
try, reports of wholesale slaughter
went out to the countryside.
Floyd Allen was before the bar this
morning, convicted OF taking prls-
oner from deputy sheriff Allen had
struck the sheriff over the head with
the butt OF a revolver and the pris-
oner escaped. Sheriff Webb had gone
up into the mountains and taken Al
len despite dire warnings of what
such events might mean. Attorney
Foster had prosecuted him feariess-
ly and a mountaineer jury gathered
from the inland section, for no man
in Carroll county cared to sit on the
trial of Allen. had convicted him.
This mornings sentence attracted an
unusually large gathering to the
quaint old red brick court house,
which stands on green square, well
in the center of the village. Those
who could not get in the small room
peered through the windows, opened
to the first days of spring
Just as Allen was about to be call
ed up for sentence. his two brothers
Sidney and Jack, at the head OF .
troop OF 20 mountaineers, rode up tc
the court house. Their hardy ponies