New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-03-29
CLAUDE ALLEN IN JAIL;
SURRENDERED TO POSSE
Points His Two Six-ShooterS IN
the Air and Gives Himself
Into Custody.
ADMITS SHOOTING AT G0AD
Tells Detective He Fired at the
Clerks Head-Doesn't Know
Who Shot First IN
Courthouse.

HillsviIe Va. March 2s-Starving sleep
less and fatigued Claude Swanson Allen
namesske Of United States Senator, came
out Of the laurel iCket in the Blue Ridge
to-day. pointed two siX-shooters toward the
sky and gave himself up TO the posse when
for nearly two weeks has hunted him
Complacent and almost happy. he sat to-
night, sheltered from driving storm. IN
the little brick Jail, a stones throw from
the Carroll County Courthouse. where, on
March Il. the Allen gang vengefuIy killed
the Judge the prosecutor. the sheriff, a
juror and a bystander.
In the presence Of a detective young
Allen described his own part in the court
house tragedy. admitted that he had seen
Sidna Allen shoot. and that he himself had
aimed for Clerk Goad's head four times
He told a graphic story of the murder
Il don't know who started the shooting,
said Allen After it began ! shot fou'
times ar Clerk Goad and aimed for his
head every time l saw Uncle Sidna shoot
81 somebody. but don't know who. Nhe"
the shooting in the courthouse was over
went outside and saw Uncle Sidua on III,
ground shooting a. Goad, 50 ! shot at
him. too Ny brother, Victor called 10 me
.o stop. but ] had shot all my cartridges
Then We all went away"
All day the posses. divided into small
numbers had been following 'rail thought
10 be that Of Wesley Edwards a nephew
OF tho Aliens Claude Allen the son Of
Floyd Allen who was the cause Of the
courthouse shooting, had been given up aS
having escaped. Detective Lucas and four
men were working toward Floyd Allen 5
house when. twenty-five yards or 50 of
tine Mount Airy road. figure creeping
stesltmly through tho underground was
dimly seen through the mist which over
hung the mountain slope. close behind
Lucas. the other men brought their rifles
o. their shoulders when. to their surprise
Allen stepped out into the road, his hands
upraised, pistol I'm each.
I'm glad TO get a chance To- come IN,
he said. II haven't slept in bed since the
shooting. I'm hungry"
The young mouutaiueer swung Iu between
the men Of the posse. and they started
back 10 Hillsvile. His rouchcd eyes and
rouChencd face confirmed his plea Of eX-
haustion, lut his broad shouldered form
lowered above the mon who had taken him
OlVn w Cnt 10 MI HnJbCNJ'
j could have shot YOU" said Allen. as
he smiled and nodded toward Detective
Lucas. but | was a little excited at hay-
lug YOU come upon me 50 soon. Anyway,
j didn't want to have TO Kill anybody"
Some bread and a cask Of water were
found hidden in the thicket, and Allen said
they were all he had been living upon for
several days Detectives declared that one
Of the revolvers in his hands was used IN
the courthouse shooting
The boy talked freely on the long jour
r,y over socGy roads back to Hillsvillc. and
when the party reached the Jail the drizzo
had turned TO a dowupour. The troop of
lorsemen picked their way into the viilag"
where hardly light broke the dark
Though the whole countryside had learned
by the wireless" Of the woodland country
that another Allen had been taken, there
vas no excitement. tn, young fellow was
put I'm charge Of two armed deputy 'hcriffs
Hopes Of Other Captures.
,Iaude'S capture gives renewed nope OF
the capture of the three remaining fugitive;
Sidna Alien, his nephew. Fricl, and We
Icy Edwards. Although claude stoutly de
r,od any knowledge of The hiding place o.
Tho three, 10 is believed rc was attemptiu.
80 carry some of his meagr' stock OF fooc
e. his relatives when he Was taken. Y"un.
Allen probably will he taken tomorrow e
~. Roanoke JAIL whore some If his klns
folk already are
\ movement has been started amoni
Virginia women 10 present gold media
20 LAMB. Goud. ~" daughter ~ tleri
Go3a vino ran to her fathers side Whcl
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