The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-15
sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards Caught In
Des Moines By Detectives Through Ro-
nance of The Mountains
RACK TO BLOODY VIRGINIA COURTROOM
Love Aided the Law in the Long Search for
the Last Two Members Of Allen Gang
and Ends In Capture.

necessary to be married. Father told
me il tried to write to Wesley or to
join him they would follow me and
now have sent him to trial and per-
haps to the electric chair.
For years and years." Miss Irolier
said with her mountain drawl, Yves
ley and | have been acquainted and
have been sweethearts for a year. /
don't think he had much to do with
the killing OF Judge Massie and the
! others but may have fired few
shots. Our families are well acquaint-
led and I love him very much.
| After he escaped in March did
not hear from him for long time.
then got letter signed Joe jack
SON. l knew it was my Wesley. He
told me to look for him back and said
he was working in Des Moines. I
waited and waited and month ago
he came through the mountain trails
to me one night and we decided that
| l should follow him later and marry.
! He gave me the money for the trip
4 but my parents did not want me TO
join him now but they did give me
permission to go TO High Point and
visit relatives and bought ticket
for Des Moines expecting to marry
Wesley tonight
John Cameron and his wife who
manage the boarding house where for
! over five months the two hunted men
\ have made their home, tell of their
j arrival here and of their life here
i They came together but said they had
met on the train. Allen said he was
from North Carolina and Edwards
! from Kentucky. They took a room
) together, paid their bills, were quiet
and orderly and Edwards told the
: women of the family of his romance
with a Virginia girl whom he sait
would join him here as soon as he hat
enough money to wed.
Joined the Union.
Allen was carpenter and worked
at his trade and had joined the loca
, carpenters union and attended theil
meetings. Edwards worked as a com
. mon laborer.
II With bloodhounds and posses thu
], detectives hunted the two men owe
]. the hills of Virginia and North Care
! lima with no success. Time afte
a time 1t was reported they were cor
: nered, that they were out of ammun
] ton and starving, but always the
escaped, thanks to the aid OF thei
a friends. Then the. hunt dragged an
4 clues were hard to get and the detec
1 tives commenced watching the mails
;. True to detective instinct the
: reasoned that while Allen was too oil
!. and crafty to write letters to any ont
= Edwards would be more likely to hav
d a sweetheart and probably woul
n communicate with her. In time afte
K watching several mountain girls the
il found that Miss Irolier often visite
IS the mountain postoffice and that sh
/: received letters. They watched an
waited and ascertained that Edward
/ was writing to her, under the assun
ed name of Joe Jackson"
Then the mountain folk commence
d to talk of the approaching journey
IL Miss Irolier to some point in the wes
v to marry Constant watch was keI
it of her movements and when she le
ID detectives followed her, boarding tn
,e same train and trailing her to tl1
of hiding place OF the hunted men,
Baldwin detectives handcuffed
d. Allen and Edwards boarded Roc
ls Island train for Chicago at seve
tx o'clock tonight and will hasten
is Hillsville and place their prisoners
ID JAIL with them went Miss Irolier, I'll
A. innocent cause of her lovers captul
e. and still dazed with the happeninf
of the past few hours. She Will |
SIS sent to her Mount Airy home.
IN On the Trail.
I'D Before leaving Allen gave out
statement, asserting that he fired
self-defense and charging Sheriff Wei
with opening the court room hattl
an He said he was willing to go back al
to stand trial without extradition papel
IL (Continued on page 3D.