The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1912-09-24
Edwards Sweetheart Innocent
Cause of Capture

house, at !,;lsville. on March Il
last, killing Judge Massie anc
three o;hers the prosecutor, the
sheriff, the clerk with his neph.
ew. Wesley Edwards, tonight
are manacled in cells in the city
Jail. Young Edwards sweet.
heart WAS the innocent cause OF
their apprehension, after months
of a relentless but till now futile
man-hunt.
Love letters exchanged be-
tween Edwards and Miss Maud
lroler, of Mt. Airy, Virginia, led
the Baldwin men to them and
Edwards was taken just as he
was to meet Miss Iroler here.
They were to be married tonight.
Both Edwards and Allen an
nounc ID their willingness to re-
turn 10 Hillville without reuuisi-
ton.
Sidnl Allen had been arrested
this af' ernoon by detectives who
had Swallowed him. following
their Innocent betray al by Miss
lroler' ) correspondence and her
subsequent appearance here. she
having virtually led the Baldwin
men to their quarry.
Edwards was taken tonight as
ne was returning to his boarding
house, after having worked all
day with a pairing gang on Des
Moines city streets.
The visit by Edwards to Miss
lroler in her Virginia home about
month ago, and the accidental
loss of a letter put the detective
on the trail. The fugitives had
been in Des Moines since April
%. Allen went under the name
of Tom Sayre and worked as a
carpenter, and Edwards, as Joe
Jackson. found steady employ
mant with the city paving gang.
Allen was taken at the home
of John Cameron, where he and
his nephew had been rooming,
by Detectives Baldwin, Luc, and
Mundy, of Roanoke. The ar
rest followed the appearance
there of Miss Iroler. whom the
officers had Swallowed. She had
gone there to meet Edwards and
following his return from work
they had planned to be married.
In Miss Iroler's presence, De.
tective Baldwin covered Allen
with gun and demanded his
surrender. Taken by surprise
Allen hesitated, then threw Up
his hands, remarking Il guess
I'm your man."
SHOWS LITTLE CONCERN
Miss Iroler showed little con-
Germ over the arrest. Allen in
his cell talked freely of the
events of the past few months.
He said he and Edwards remain.
ed in the mountain country oil
Virginia and North Carolina fol
about a month after the tragedy.
He described the suffrrings anC
privations they endured and tolC
the Baldwin men they were otter
close to the Aliens hiding pl zee,
He laughed as he recalled how
they had thrown the detective,
off the traii time and again.
He says once they had escaped
from the cordons of detective
and troops which were supp SEE
to have cut off all avenues of es
cape, they made their way int,
: Kentucky and for time ii, ed a
, Louisville.
, The next stop. he said. was a
ST. Louis. He said they cam
to Des Moines because the
thought 1T would be safe
here"
5 I would have given myself u
j long ago, and so would Ed
wards" said Allen, If we ha
s thought we could get a squar
S deal. But see what they've don
K to Floyd, my brother. an
5 Claude"
y Tnc two referred to are ser
2 fenced to the electric chair
: Victor Allen, the last of tn
3 clansmen indicted and in custod
prior to the arrests todight. wa
I freed by a jury lat Wythevill,
Virginia, yesterday.