The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-06-14
WESLEY EDWARDS
REPORTED CAUGHT
Man Answering Ills Description
Arrested in Clay City,
kentucky.
POLICE ON LOOKOUT FOR HIM
Await Answer From Virginia
Authorities in Regard
to Prisoner.
POLICE ON LOOKOUT FOR HIM

An uncontirmed special dispatch from
Clay City. Powell county. Ky, forty
miles east of Lexington, told last
| night of the capture of Wesley Ed
wards. one OF the two fusitives from
justice in Carroll county and par
ticipant in the courthouse murders of
March II last.
The man. who gave his name as
fiathlcy, and said he was from West
! Virginia, is understood TO answer the
description of the long sought fuGi-
tive In every particular, and Chief or
Police s. b. Petit is now waiting an
answer from the Virginia authorities
in regard 10 the prisoner
Chief Petit. IL is said received a
letter Tuesday morning from Frank
Wyatt, OF Jackson Ky, who knows
both the Edwards and the Aliens. say
ing that Sidna Allen and Wesley Ed
wards Were headed towards Clay City.
and giving him a description of the
men. Petit took the tip and watched
all trains and roads leading into the
city. He arrested his prisoner as he
was boarding a freight train to leave
Clay City.
Many other Reports.
There Is. OF course. Il possibility of
the capture of the man at any hour
and il is regarded as certain that
so;Ilcr or later he will be apprchcnu-
cd y ct so many 81 have hcen fol-
lowed and so many arrests made that
skepticism is natural in the absence
OF confirmation. one such arrest was
made last month at Mar.in.>n. W.
Va. ana the man t!icn in custody was
said 10 answer TO the I. cription OF
Wesley Edwards in every way Yet
be was found to be the wrong party.
Men supposed IL he this young N;r!-
tive nave bson seen all tic way from
Georgia To Itaho.
If he is actually captured, /, would
seem that he has parted company with
his uncle Sidna Allen, perhaps at the
latters request Red lubled activity
in Carroll county during the pas
week on the part of detectives has
made it evident that some clues are
hcing followed there. S.una .Nlien has
Il wife and children ana large prop
erty interests In Carroll. all OF which
b., has forfeited through his acts. yet
which might hold him Ia the Ieighbor.
hood. Many Carroll people have never
ceased to believe that me has always
iccn In the county since the murders.
while others dissent from this view
Opportunities for hiding are in plenty:
IL is a question of friends and money
and food and endurance
Iind Part iu Crime.
Wesley Edwards Is but twenty
years old. He is brother OF Sldna
Edwards. who j. In thu Roanoke jnil.
and nephew of l'lt.sd. Sidna and lack
Allen. His name is byword in Car
roll county for objectionable traits OF
character While serving his term or
s.X months in. jail las; year Tor inter-
fcring with a religious gathering. he
displayed his characteristics to an en-
tent which made him <,tested in Hills
VILE.
His automatic pistol was much in
evidence AT the tragedy Standing
with Victor Allen on bench on tho
north side OF the courtroom. he began
hr' nE early in the proceedings. So
eager was he To do his part. accord
ing to evidence in sc Floyd Allen
TRIAL that he leaped from the bench,
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