The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-15
HUNTING DOWN
THE ALLEN CLAN
CONTINUED from rage ~

who yesterday started the murders
in Judge Massie's court and his son
Victor. and Immediately instituted a
search for the seventeen mountain
GERS who yesterday made shambles
of the court room. Floyd Allen is
severely wounded
mountaineer named Strickland.
who last night paraded the streets Of
the village, showing fire arms, was al
SO arrested. Victor Allen, son of
Floyd Allen, swore that his father
would never be taken alive. but was
oyerpowered before there was any
necessity for gun fire.
A telephone message received here
today says that hardware store or
Mount Airy, N. c., twenty miles away,
was broken into last night and its
entire supply of fire arms and am
munition taken. 1t was believed that
the fifteen mountaineers did the job.
Everything looks like trouble, !"
said Detective Felts today. I'm pre-
pared for anything.
Floyd Allen attempted TO cut his
throat when detectives placed him
formally under arrest, but will recov-
err. In addition to his self inflicted
wounds, Allel is suffering from three
bullet wounds and a broken leg.
Word received here from Barren
Springs says that Captain F. w.
Davant, of Company F, second Nir.
ginia volunteers, and twenty men,
heavily armed, are enroute here this
afternoon.
Three more lives may be added to
the grim toll Of yesterdays mountain
tragedy enacted in Judge Massie's
court room, making total Of six.
Reports this afternoon were that
Bette Ayres. thirteen year old
daughter of mountaineer's family,
friend of Floyd Allen and a spectator
in the court room, had died in the
Ayers cabin in the mountains; that
Juror Fowler was at the point of
death and that Baldwin detective,
one of the score sent from Richmond,
had been killed in a skirmish back in
the Blue Ridge passes.
Word was brought here today which
indicates that the Aliens carefully
planned yesterdays outrage in adj
vance. 1t was reported that the
mountaineers had ordered all the
Winchester cartridges carried in stock
by all hardware merchants in Pulaski
This was on Monday las,.
Floyd Allen has four brothers and
there are a score or more families
in Carroll county bound to them by
blood ties-all of the same fearless
character.
Attorney General Williams of Vir.
ginia is expected here this afternoon
to take up the duties of Commonwealth
Attorney Foster, one of the victims
of the Allen bullets.
All that makeshift court can dc
now is to summon q jury to- investi
gate the crime and identify the mur
derers.
Authorities here were notified toda,
that Secret Service Operative Thomas
who formerly lived in the Hillsvill'
district and has known the Aliens in
ltimately for twenty years, is in his
way here from Charlotte, N. c., t.
aid the commonwealth in bringing the
outlaws to justice. Thomas worked
up the counterfeiting case agains
Sidney Allen and knows every foot o
the mountains where the Allen out
laws are supposed to be hiding.
". S. May Take Hand.
4 WASHINGTON, March 15.-Tha
the federal authorities may take
hand in the man-hunt in the Virginia
North Carolina mountains for the Al
len elan, murderers of Judge Massie
Attorney Foster and Sheriff Webb
was intimated here today. At the de
partment of justice it was stated tina
if Sidney Allen attempts to jump tn
bail under which he is now at liberty
, federal agents will try to take him
Allen is on bail pending an appea
from the Atlanta federal court whicl
convicted him of perjury in counter
; feiting case.