The Sentinel=record., 1912-03-20
MAN HUNT IN
 MOUNTAINS
PossEMEN LOCATE VIRGINIA OUTLAWS AND SETTLE DOWN
 TO STEADY SIEGE.
Every Available Man in Hillsviile Turns Out to Hunt Down Mur- derers-Martial Law May Be
 Declared by Governor.

Hlllsyille, Va, March 19.-Messen- gers from the posses guarding the roads in the mountains have reported the Hillsyille court assassins at a point above. five miles from Floyd Aliens home.
 Every available man in Hillsyille went to the hills in the hope of sur rounding them before they get away.
 Just after dusk man riding horse covered with foam rode into town and had a hurried talk with De tectiye Felts, head of the posse. Not even men who had been in the sad dle all day were spared from the call and the party galloped off on what is expected will be an all-night ride. At best they cannot reach the point the messenger indicated before dawn.
 The chase of the Allen outlaws, who shot up the Carroll county court house last Thursday and now have five deaths to their score for that sortie, has settled down to a siege.
 All the posses men know is that the gang is up in the Chestnut Ridge. Travellers coming down from Fancy Gap today said the Aliens had de- serted their stand at Squirrel Spur and plunged into the still thicker country over toward the Patrick county line That is more of a will derness than their previous stand. At some places the boundary lines have never been traced.
 1t now looks like an attempt to starve out the assassins. By this method they hope to cut off foodSSup- pli9s and probably medical assist anee It was reported that today a physician, a friend of Sidna Allen, had stolen out and dressed his wound on Saturday.
 Allen himself was reported to have been seen coming down the trail from Squirrel Spur yesterday. The posses beat the bush about Wards Gap and Harper's Gap but did not find a trace of him.
 Jack Ale" one of the brothers who did not take part in the court house assassination, came into town today to consult lawyer about the attachments authorities on Sidna and Floyd's properties. Allen galloped up to the court house and created a furore. The townsfolk thought he was heading another raid
 lie said his brother probably had shot in self.defense and would fight to the last ditch.
 Sidneys wife came to town in a rickety barouche, a gpitiful contrast to her former visits, She wanted the prosecutor to exempt her husbands store from the attachments. but he refused About $3O,O0O of his prop erty has been tied up for the heirs of his victims.
 Telephone wires have not been cut as reported. Ella Wilcox and her sister, the operators, refused to take fright at the Aliens and have been sticking to tlhe switch night and day.
 A day or two before the shooting one of the Aliens called for a num- her and not getting it quickly said to the operator:
 q guess you don't know who l am. I'm one of the fighting Aliens"
 Yes returned the country girl, and I am one of the fighting Will coxes and when you come I'll be pre- pared"
 Woman nerve hasn't been lacking in Hillsville, although the stories of it have been delayed. When Clerk Goad was doing pistol battle with two of the Aliens, his daughter, Jag abet ran to his side, with a freshly loaded revolver and probably saved his life.
 The maudlin ones who write notes to criminals have not missed Floyd Allen in the Roanoke jail He got letter today from New York tell ing him that he and his companions in the mountains were real men,
 There was talk today of calling for federal troops Those in authority however, did not consider it serious iy. It is not unlikely that before much more progress toward tine cap ture of the assassins is made Gov ernor Mann may declare martial law in CarroR county and call on every man.m the mountains not in sym psfny with the Aliens to come out