Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-21
DELAY Of FORTNIGHT ALLEN GANG CLUE
Early Action Public Utilities Boys Purchase Provisions in
Bill Unlikely Town of Mount Airy
TWO MEASURES COMPARED MAY BE FOR OUTLAWS
Committee Will Meet Prisoners In Make
Plans For Defense
NUM1SMATISTS TO BE HEARD FUGITvES BOLD NOTICE
a. to Be Of Arms
Gallnger's Trip. Ammunition ~
Boys Purchase Provisions in
Town of Mount Airy.
MAY BE FOR OUTLAWS
Prisoners In Roanoke Jail Make
Plans For Defense.
FUGITIvES POST BOLD NOTICE
Said to Have Given Warning They
Have Plenty of Arms and
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Ammunition. AZ

ROANOKE. Va, March cr.-Detectives
Dan Baldwin and Joe Funk. with four
assistants. are in Mount Airy, n. T., to-
day seeking to follow the tracks Of two
country boys who went into the town
yesterday and bought twenty loaves or
bread and some canned goods and disap-
peared before the detectives knew any
thing of their mission.
That the boys purchased the food for
the Allen outlaws is the theory on which
the officers are working
n. j. Smith of New Jersey and Will
liam A. Wiser. mail clerk on the Nor
folk and Western. whose sister is Victor
Aliens wife, are here today in consulta-
tion with the three Carroll county pris-
oners relative to plans for their defense.
Running Down Clues.
h1LLSFlLLE, Va. March 2I-Sidna
Aieh ana ms gang today appa: emily are
no nearer capture than they were a week
ago when they rode back to the moun-
tains after the tragedy that biottcd out
the circuit court OF Carroll Nearly
every clue run down Dy search ns uetec-
ives and possencn has proved To Dee
false. and il a warm traIl really has been
StfuCh the iu1itiyes nave been too willy
iCf tneT pursdeis. Posses nave sur
rounded three ffe.ent nlou.t-.n strong
holds in which the Aliens were believed
TO nave been run to cover. only 10 tina
upon closing in that the outlaws either
had escaped or had not been cornered at
all.
Nothing had been heard early today
from the detectives who We're i'm the
field yesterday and last night. So far as
known here no definite idea as to the
whereabouts of the outlaws has been
advanced since it developed that the move
on Chestnut Ridge yesterday had been
without results
a party of the Aliens, their sympathiz-
ers, rode to a point within three miles
Of Hillsyille last night and placed a no.
tice of their own beside the governors
posted proclamation offering rewards for
the wanted clansmen, dead or alive.
Notice by Outlaws.
This is the nttice said to have been
posted:
ITO those who have made it their con-
I'VE have plenty of arms and bullets.
We know how to use them. These hills
are an unhealthy place for strangers to
visit. Remember this. You can get US
in the end. maybe. but We will get you
first"
1t is said that there were a dozen or
more in the party that posted this. but
whether or not any of the men charged
with the courthouse murders We're there
NOBODY seems to know.
Patrick c. Massie, son of the murdered
Judge in his first interview since the
tragedy said. in speaking to newspaper
correspondent
Il believe my father realized to a large
extent the desperateness of the situation
in Hillsville but he never spoke of il to
members of his family. l believe my
father thought ii was an even chance
whether the Aliens would submit to the
sentencing of Floyd or not. but he was
determined that the law should assert it
self without the backing of arms He
went to court that morning without arms
That Goad and Foster were armed was
unknown to my father. 1 do not believe
the fact they Were armed had anything
to do with precipitating the tragedy, nor
do / think when the Aliens entered the
courtroom that day they INTENDED 20 Kill
my father.
Bitter Against Foster.
'They We're unusually bitter against
District Attorney Foster, who has de-
feated one of their number for district
attorney, and that fact undoubtedly had
something to do with the shooting. Sidna
Allen was the man who fed the first
shot, and il was that shot which killed
my father.
believe they feel safer where they are
than they would anywhere else. and for
that reason alone l do not believe they
will leave the country i think they can
defy arrest for some time. il not indeti-
nitely, for it must be remembered that
these people are not sticking together
in a bunch They are ali scattered
throughout that region
MY father did not receive letters
warning him that he would be shot if
he sentenced Floyd to Jail. On his per-
son after the tragedy were only two
letters relating to the Aliens. One was
from a woman asking him to excuse L.
D. Easten from testifying at the trial
because she said the Aliens would surely
get him If he testified against them. Tho
other was from an old man who desired
to be excused from serving as juror Oh
the ground of old age, and was excused
by direction Of my father"
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