The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-15
s;dna Allen and Wesley Edwards Caught In
Des MONIES By Detectives Through Ro-
nance Of The Mountains.
|BACk TO BLOODY VIRGINIA COURTROOM
Love Aided the Law in the Long Search for
the Last Two Members Of Allen Gang
and Ends In Capture.

necessary to be married. Father told
me If | tried to write to Wesley or to /
join him they would follow me and /
now have sent him to trial and per-
haps to the electric chair.
For years and years" Miss lrolier
said with her mountain drawl, Yves /
ley and | have been acquainted and
have been sweethearts for year. 4
don't think he had much to do with
the killing OF Judge Massie and the
others but may have fired a few
shots Our families are well acquaint-
ed and / love him very much.
after he escaped in March | did
not hear from him for long time,
then | got letter signed Joe jack
son. knew it was my wesley. Hel
told me to look for him back and said
he was working in Des Moines.
waited and waited and month ago
he came through the mountain trails
to me one night and we decided that
| / should follow him later and marry.
He gave me the money for the trip
but my parents did not want me to
| join him now but they did give me
permission to go to High Point and
visit relatives and / bought a ticket
for Des Moines expecting to marry
| Wesley tonight
! John Cameron and his wife who
manage the boarding house where for
/, over five months the two hunted men
have made their home, tell of their
arrival here and of their life here.
i They came together but said they had
I met on the train. Allen said he was
from North Carolina and Edwards
4 from Kentucky They took room
4 together, paid their bills, were quiet
4 and orderly and Edwards told the
: women of the family of his romance
with a Virginia girl whom he said
would join him here as soon as he had
enough money to wed.
Joined the Union.
q Allen was a carpenter and worked
!, at his trade and had joined the local
! carpenters union and attended their
meetings. Edwards worked as a com
mon laborer.
Il With bloodhounds and posses the
J, detectives hunted the two men over
!. the hills OF Virginia and North Caro-
!, lima with no success. Time aftel
. time 1t was reported they were cor
: nered, that they were out of ammuni
J ton and starving, but always the.
escaped, thanks to the aid OF theil
q friends. Then the hunt dragged ant
4 clues were hard to get and the detec
i tives commenced watching the mails
True to detective instinct the.
9 reasoned that while Allen was too oil
and crafty to write letters to any one
!. Edwards would be more likely to hay
Il a sweetheart and probably woul
n communicate with her. In time afte
K watching several mountain girls the
II found that Miss Irolier often v1slte
IS the mountain postoffice and that sh
/. received letters. They watched an
waited and ascertained that Edward
4 was writing to her, under the assun
ed name of Joe Jackson.
Then the mountain folk commence
d to talk of the approaching journey 9
Al Miss Irolier to some point in the ives
" TO marry. Constant watch was keT
1t Of her movements and when she lei
id detectives followed her, boarding tn
BE same train and trailing her to IN
ofj hiding place of the hunted men.
Baldwin detectives handcuffed I
d. Allen and Edwards boarded a Roc
is Island train for Chicago at seve
tx o'clock tonight and will hasten !
is Hillsville and place their prisoners
I'd iail With them went Miss lrolier, TN
n. innocent cause of her lovers captnr
re-. and still dazed with the happening
of the past few hours. She Will Z
S. sent to her Mount Airy home.
ne
en- On the Trail.
nd Before leaving Allen gave out
istatement, asserting that he fired
self.defense and charging Sheriff Wei
with opening the court room batti
en- He said he was willing to go back al
to- stand trial without extradition pape'
se.
III CONTINUED on page 81.