Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1912-09-20
rlonterey.Va. Friday. Sept 70, 1911
CATCH ALLEN AND EDWARDS

Des Moines, Iowa, Sept. A.
Sidna Allen, leader of the clan
which shot u p the Carroll county
court at Hillsville, Va, March IA,
killing Judge Massie and others.
and his nephew, Wesley Edwards,
are tonight manacled in cells in the
city jail as the result of love affairs
which led detectives to them. Both
announced their willingness to re-
turn to Virginia without requlsl-
ton.
Wesley Edwards, for the love of
whom Maud lreler, of Mount Airy,
N. c., innocently led detectives to
Des Moines, was captured tonight
returning to his boarding house al
ter working all day with paving
gang. Officers surrounded stree,
car as Edwards boarded it. He
tried to escape through the front
door when the officers caught him.
The visit of Edwards to Miss Iroler
at her home month ago put de-
tectives on the trail.
The fugitives have been in Des
Moines since April %; Allen wo y.
ed as carpenter and Edwards was
with the city paving gang. 81 IA.
A!icn was arrested at the home Of
.t4nn Cameron, where he and his
.apnew had been rooming, by De-
tec!ives Baldwin, Lucas and Mum
DIV, of Roanoke, Va. They follow
ed Miss iroler, who was to have
we'd Edwards tonight, according to
arrangements, when he visited her
at her home. Allen in an upper
room, came down to confront re-
volver in a detectives hands.
Guess I'm your man." he said.
Allen was handcuffed and guard
e while detectives went to search
for Edwards. Miss Iroler, al
though surprised, showed little con-
Germ at the arrests. She did not
know detectives had travelled with
her. She said Edwards had visit
ell her a month ago and given her
money on which to come to Des
Moines. Sidna Allen said he and
Edwards remainedin North Carolina
about a month after the tragedy
and then went into Kentucky, 60
ing to Louisville and thence to st.
Louis where they remained a week
before coming to Des Moines, AL
len declared the court house TRACE
DIV was the fault of the court Off
GERS, who began the shooting. He
said Sheriff Webb bought a hun
dred rounds of cartridges before
FLOYD Aliens trial, remarking that
he would show the Allen gang
some "real court"
Roanoke, Va, Sept. t.: Ac-
companied by bet ctives Baldwin,
Lucas and Munday, and Miss Iroler,
the Mount Airy, N. c., girl limo,
Gently responsible for their capture,
Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards,
the last of the Allen outlaws to be
rounded up, arrived here shortly
after noon today.
A great crowd thronged the rail-
road station and it's approaches,
the hundreds of men, women and
children all eager to get a glimpse
of the two desperate men who elud-
ed several scores detectives for SIX
months and were captured by &C
cident in Des Moines, Ia, last Sat-
urday. A Gordon of policemen was
thrown around the station and eN-
perienced difficulty in keeping
crowd in check.
The two prisoners, handcuffed
together and watched closely by
three detectives, were placed in a
waiting vehicle and hurriedly drlv-
en- to the Jail, where they were
locked in cells before which special
guards were placed.
Roanoke, Va. Sept. H. In the
court room at Hillsville, where the
Allen gang killed FIVE six months
ago, Sidna Allen and Wesley Ed
wards, the last of the clansmen,
will be arraigned next week.
Governor Mann today issued a
call for a special grand jury to
mete out quick Virginia justice.
The prisoners appeared unconcern-
ed.
Miss Maud Iroler, sweetheart of
Edwards, says she will wait years
for her lover.
Memphis, Tenn, Sept. IT, Two
bandits robbed the Memphis Ex-
press on the Southern Railway,
today, after burying the mail
clerks under mail sacks and nearly
suffocating them, securing about
$500, O00rn registered letters.
After they had rifed the mail
pouches, the bandits pulled the
emergency cord and escaped.
The passengers on the Express
were not molested.
The conductor rescued the half
dead clerks.
A posse is in pursuit.
Mbot Mo Nox1or ForSat