The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-03-28

Those Now in Jail at Hills
Vile Will be Tried
April Is

.oc,ives and Posse Still Searching
.or Rest of the Allen Mob-There
: Report That Politics Caused
,be Terrible Tragedy-The Aliens
Arc Democrats and Most of the
Court Officials Were Republicans.
The Carroll County court at Hills
ellie Va, has been reorganiZed and
nudge Staples Is finishing up the bus
moss Of the court which was cut
sborf when the Allen gang murdered
,ra entire court over ten days ago.
rfovd and Victor Allen, Sidna Ed
Yards and Byrd Marion have been
canfured since the tragedy and will
30 nIaced on trial April Is, along
y.ifb any other members of the gang
that NAV be captured before that
time. Judge Staples has empaneled
q grand jury to-day to return new in
dirtments against all the alleged
murders. Detectives mad possemen
arc still in the mountains searching
for the other members of the Allen
gang.
something Of the Country and Its
Inhabitants.
A Charlotte, n. c., dispatch, under
date of March 23rd, says:
There have been so many differ
ent kinds of reports, real and mag
mary, printed throughout the coun-
try of the Carroll County tragedy at
Hills, Va, since it happened that the
average reader of the newspapers has
concluded that that part of Virginia,
bordering North Carolina, is inhabit-
ed by no other than ignorant, half
civilized ruffians. This is not true
and does the sections of the two Com
Wealths great injustice.
The inhabitants of these noun
tain counties are native bOrn-many
of the mare direct descendants of
the POcahuntas Indian tribes. Their
chief farm products are cattle and
blooded horses, cabbages and fruits.
In the mountain coVes the finest ap-
plies to be found grow and are ship
ped i'll carloads from GalaX, Mount
Airy and Stewart. On the farms of a
large number of these men will be
found blOoded cattle and thorough
bred stations for reeding-Sidney
Allen, one of the outlaws, owns a
Kentucky stallion valued at more
than $1,000. Some of the homes are
mountain log houses, but not the case
with the Aliens and Mitchells. Sid
ney Aliens home is modern one,
costing more than $4,000 and his
general merchandise store is one Of
the best to be found outside of towns.
Dotted in various school districts are
good schOol-houses, nicely painted
and many of them with patented
school desks. At Hillsville is locat-
ed the Bank of Hillsville, strong
financial institution, with comfort
able surplus and good deposits. On
the public square in Hillsville the
women of Carroll County have erect
ed a monument to the Confederate
soldiers who were numbered among
some of the bravest fighters. The
county of Carroll derived it's name
from the family by that name, one
of the foremost in Virginia. These
things do not atone for the Aliens
wrong-doing, but may show to those
who do not know that this is not a
country of heathens and barbarism
Politics May Supply Motive.
1T may develop, should the Aliens
ever be taken alive and given trial
that back Of this courthouse tragedy
last Friday there is political grudge
that has been boiling in the bosoms
of the Aliens and their friends. There
are only two parties
and emocratic-known in the coun.
ty of Carroll. The factions are about
evenly divided. The Aliens are
staunch Democrats and are always
at the polls early and work hard IL
elections for their party choice. Tha1
they are staunch Democrats is borne
out from the fact that the son o.
Sidney Allen is named "Claud Swan
son." named for the former Governor
of Virginia, and now junior Senator
of that State. Sidney Aliens wife i:
the daughter of ex-Sheriff Mitchell
who was defeated for reelection BY
the sheriff killed by their guns. The
deputies that had taken Floyd Allen
and the one he assaulted and forced
to release his nephew, were Repub
lican deputies. Commonwealth At
torney Foster was a Republican. TIL,
Clerk of the Court, who was wound
ed, is a Republican, and the jailol
who was to take charge of Floyd AL
len. 1t was Carroll County, if mem
DRY serves right, that J. M. Parsons
the Republican nominee for Congress
four years ago, who lives at Inde
pendence, in Grayson County, am
not far from Hil1cviIIo mazda an of