The evening world., 1912-03-25

ncwspaper. II 10 necessary for the pur-
p0c Of the man hunt.
Tho only alternative for tho corrss-
pondents II 10 send dispatches nj by
courier - The Evening World has
ooae. TO me railroad sixteen miles
away and thence to . telegraph ofiicc
which y competent to handle news
matter.
The real reason for the s~trictnsss Of
the censorship has been revealed by ono
Of the detectives. n y moro than that
every one Of the local lines Of teie-
pbsnss. which centre It the home Of
Tinsmith Wilcox and are run by his two
pretty daughters IL . circuit line. open
to the evesdropping Of . soors Of sub
mtbsrs. any one Of whom MAJ 10 .
sympAthissr q the Allens-the moo
sinners have a telephone system Of
their 0wn.
Several times In tho past ten days"
said the aetectve. I'm ranging through
the mountain We have come upon tele.
phone wires. We have searched the
houses where We suspected the Aliens
might be hiding. or At any ate visiting.
n have found concealed telephone Ia.
struments. We have cut the wires only
to ind that the crafty onos have put
out dummy. wires In plain sight. with the
real wires cunninyly hidden until we'll
out In the laurel thickets. This means
that anybody "a b regular telephone
circuit. who stole any news Of our In
tanhioos BY eavesdroppinxand the
Gross talk" OF echo from circuit to CIR
cult In the Hillsvilie Central Exchange
In aimsst - strong ~ the direct wire
conversstlon-could spread Il all over
the mountains for forty miles by I'M
ming 20 the nearest station Of the Moon
hin Circuit. 1t 10 an old story for
farmers In the west to organise mutual
telephone exchanges. but Il WA a new
one ON 10 70 md that the 0oonshiners
~ taken ~ ths idea
'But We think we know whose plan II
vas. II u that crafty timber wolf We
are after out yonder. Sidna Allen. Do
not forGet that he worked on. his own
plan for counterfeiting 50 gold piccert
making his own mouids. casting the coins
In Babbit metal n gliding them with
an apparatus he ordered from Chicago
Don't forget that when he had refused
to tell the court where he had hidden
the mouids. he spoke up aud said: =
could make another set In twenty min
utes. anyway
The man who could do that 10 ca
pahie of supervising the installation o.
telephine circuit"
The reporter then remembered tina
travelling up on the train from Pulaski
to Galax before riding out to Hillsvtlle
he had heard a m%ountaineer seated Il
A.A. - Ill.,. AlaL..t-.. ..lst. a
salesman for n set OF telephone appAra
tus and enough wire to connect with
. circuit about a mile away
4, The band Of trained manhound
. whi.h baldwin and Faltz have collcc,a,
. for the allen hunt Is made up OF me-
: no less reckless Of their own lives o
. those Of others than the outlaws them
. selves. Here 10 one instance out q
h a SCORE. Of tho spirit IN which the
: face death all day ANA much OF eva
i. night without alnching:
$ Lee Feitx has worked for his brothe
n for many years. In that time hi hai
o IN moonshins hunter language, "cu
n on" nearly thirty blockade stills" o.
In other words. has raidcd and dss
a troyed ~ many unlicensed whisks
factories lie 10 hated with a veno,
only less than that which Is fs
through the mountains for his broth,
Tom. Ut Ii reported. by the way. ths
= at = meeting over which Rev. GaNan
D Allen. one Of the brothers Of the cid,
% generation whose cloth has kept hi
out OF Drawing. presided, sidna Allel
Z In the zeal of worship, q \ his SOL
FREQ rsign and pruyed earnestly tn
4. his Maker might give him . chance
d take Just one shot at Tom Fel,z. an
that the sentiment was 20 universal
10 shared by his fellow worshippers tn,
10 there was no rebuke and no protes,
~ In thrsShing out the wilderness
y eliminate every possible hiding pla,
70 the . Of Fancy Gap and Lamb
Q burg. Lea Tsats anne near Q cave whsl
y ~ ~ "cut . b,oekaAs suu'' ssvse
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