Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-03-29
CLAUDE ALLEN
CLAD TO GIVE UP
Detectives Say They Will Have En-
tire Gang By Tomorrow
Night
CAPTIVE STICKS BY HIS KIN
Officers Endeavoring TO Take Sidna
Allen, His Nephew ;, and Cousin,
Wesley Edwards.

Riiisville, Va, March 29.-Maxing
good with part of their prediction of
yesterday that the Allen gang would
be captured withir two days, by cor
railing Claude Allen, the posse in the
Blue Ridge today promised to take the
remainder of the outflow band before
tomorrow night.
Although Claude Allen, son of Sid
ma, the leader of the gang stuck man.
fully by his kin and swore that he
did not know their hiding place, de-
tectives are convinced that they are
cornered within a mile Of the spot
where Claude was caught. Moreover,
the man hunters gre encouraged by
Claude's surrender to believe that the
fighting Allen spirit has been broken.
The boyish prisoner, who today SEEM
ed happy in even the rude comfort
of Hillsville Jail after two weeks of
privation in the mountains, did not
live up to the Allen boast, sent def
antly by the mountaineers to the pos
Sc, that the gang would only be taken
dead
Hunted through the mountains, half
starved, exposed to driving rains and
unsheltered, a price on his head,
Claude Allen told his coptors he was
glad to surrender. He turned over
his two revolvers without regret, adj
mitted his participation in the court
room murders, and said he was will
ling to take his medicine
Today detectives centered their eff
forts to capture Sidna Allen, his neph-
ew Friel, and cousin Wesley Edwards;
only remaining fugitives. Once
again today mountain passes were
Shiny with mud after nearly twenty
four hours continuous down pour.
Since all telephone lines to the noun
tains are either cut by the posse or
out of order from the storm news
from the pursuing ,rarty was meager.
Mountaineers brought word that they
were enforced by another posse from
the North Carolina side.
Mount Airy, N. c., March "a
stranger who has been acting as 90
between among members of the fug-
tive Allen gang, and through whose
movements Claude Allen, son of Floyd
Allen, was captured, is under survell-
lance in the mountains near here, and
through him the posse expects to dis
cover the exact location of the three
outlaws still at large.
This was the word brought to Mt.
Airy today. The go-between was first
clipped off" to detectives at Roanoke.
They permitted him to slip through
the Gordon of guards around the noun
tains in Carroll county, and without
his knowledge trailed him close for
several days The messenger slipped
through the mountain trails like one
knowing an exact path until yester-
day afternoon, when he apparently
discovered that he was "shadowed." "
Then he dived into the bush. Part
OF his pursuers continued ON the trail
he was following and Q moment later
came ON Claude Allen. The man is
being followed today, and detectives
believe he is unaware Of their watch.
He is expected to deliver message
to Sidna Allen, Friel Allen, and Wes-
ley Edwards.
The tip on which the messenger was
first discovered was tnat he would at
tempt to take sum Of money to the
fugitives, together with letters map
ping out an escape from the mountain
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