Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1912-09-27
THRILLING STORY or HOW 4
SWEETHEART UNDID
TINE. ALIENS
Detectives Unfold Faeinatinq Tale
OF Love, Intrigue and Flight.
GIRL IS ENTIRELY INNOCENT
Didn't Know She Was Being
Shadowed----E Edwards
Caught on Street
Car and Bit
Detectives
Arm.
Read Story of Pard's Capture in
Afternoon PAPER.
CASE COST 1000.


CASE COST $50. 900.
Richmond. Sept. Il. Settle
ment was made yesterday be-
tween the State and the Baldwin
Felts Detectives, Inc, for SER
vices in seeking aud capturing
the men Oh arged with the Car
roll Courthouse murders on
March IA, for guarding prisoners
and protecting the court.
The Baldwin-Felts Detectives
have received about Sl2,500.
This includes salaries and ex-
perses of the posses in the mount
aims, guarding the Hillsville and
Wytheville jails, and following
up the hundreds of clues which
came to rlought, besides rewards
for the prisoners taken in March.
In addition, warrants on the
Auditor were given Mr.. Baldwin
for 81, 300, the amount of the re-
wards offered for the apprehen-
sion of Sidney Allen and Wesley
Edwards, and for information
leading to their arrest. in all,
finding and securing the Aliens
has cost the State a little less
than $4,000.
WILL HAVE COST $4,000.
1t is estimated that the court
costs, including jail fees and ex-
penses, sheriffs fees and expenses,
witness fees and expenses, will
reach a total of $4,000 more.
But Mr.. Baldwin thinks this is
rather underestimated, and by
time the Commonwealth shall
have executed those who are to
die in the chair, it will have
spent $50, 1000, all told in punish
ing the crime of shooting up. the
court, shooting down the law,
and i'll maintaining its own
dignity.
MOVEMENTS OF FUGITIvEs.
Sidna Allen and Wesley Ed
wards, according to Mr.. Baldwin,
remained in Carroll County from
March IA, the day of the shoot
ing, until Tuesday, April 9.
They were in hiding, in different
places, and the officers were often
so close to them that the con-
yersation could be heard by the
fugitives. On the Tuesday after
Easter Sunday the two men went
to Mt. Airy, boarded a train and
travelled to Salisbury, where they
paraded on the station platform
for some time. They bought
tickets, first to Morristown,
Tenn, by the way of Asheville,
and hen went at once to Chatta-
nooga. Without delay. they pro-
ceeled to ST. Louis, Mo. Their
stay in the latter city was short
and they decided that Des Moines
would be good place to hide
in. In the Iowa city they lived
nearly FIVE months.
Sidney Allen secured work as
carpenter. After a Jew weeks
he joined the union, receiving
thereafter a journeyman's wages.
Wesley Edwards. with less in
telligence and less education,
could get places only as an UNI
skilled 1aborer.
LIVED VERY OUT ETY..
They Tired simply and quietly
so simply and quietly that
when the detectives told the pee
pie at the house where they room
ed in Des Moines that they were
the missing Aliens they we're
scarcely believed.
Why, they cannot be the
Aliens was the reply. They
are as quiet and peaceable as
anybody. They stay in their
own room go out and buy their
own food, cook ii themselves
most of the time and cause no
trouble to anybody.
wesley EDWARDS affection
for Maud Iroler was the undoin9
of this life Of security. He went
back to his mothers home to see
the girl. Detectives watching
the house observed unusual ac-
tiyity and excitement there, and
thought something was the mat
ter. But they found nothing.
Edwards must have come in the
night and departed in the night.
Bur he saw Miss Iro1er, who was
brought to the home of his
mother, Mrs. John Mundy by his
young sister. By this time the
detectives who had first worked
Carroll county, had been with
drawn, and new men posing all
farm hands, were On the job. |
Three Of them nearly met death |
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