The Detroit times., 1912-03-29
FUGITIVE SURRENDERS
TO POSSE IN VIRGINIA
Claude Swanson Allen Charged
With Having Taken Part in
4 Courthouse Crime

HlLL>SVILLE, Va, March 20
Starving, sleepless and fatigued,
Claude Swanon Allen, namesake OF
United States senator, came out or
the laurel thicket in the Blue Ridge
yesterday, pointed two six-shooters
toward the sky. and gave himself to
the posse which for nearly two weeks
has hunted him.
Complacent and almost happy he
sat tonight, sheltered from a driving
storm In the little brick jail. a stones
throw from Carroll county court
house, where on March IA, the Allen
gang yengefully killed the judge, the
prosecutor, the sheriff, a juror and
bystander.
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
rold o graphic story of the assassina-
ton.
/AlE day the posses, divided into
small numbers, had been following
trail thought to be that of Wesley
Edwards, nephew of the Aliens.
Claude Allen, the son OF Floyd Allen,
who has the cause of the court house
shooting, had been given up as hav-
ing escaped. Detective Lucas and
four men were working toward Floyd
Aliens house when % yards or so on
the Mount Airy-rd., figure creeping
stealthily through the underground
WAS dimly seen through the mist
which overhung the mountain slope.
Close behind Lucas, the other men
brought their rifles TO their shoulders
when to their surprise. Allen stepped
out into the road his hands appraised,
a pistol in each.
I'm glad to get chance to come
in he said. II haven't slept in a
bed since the shooting. I'm hungry.
The young mountaineer swung in
between the men OF the posse and
they istarted back TO Hillsville. His
pouched eyes and roughened face
confirmed his plea of exhaustion, but
his broad shouldered form lowered
above the men who had taken him.
II could have shot you," said AL.
len, As he smiled and nodded toward
Detective Lucas but / was little
sxcited at having you come up on me
SO soon. Any way | didn't want TO
have to kill anybody"
Some bread and a cask OF water
were Hound hidden in the thicket and
Allen said they were all he had been
living on for several days. Detectives
declared one of the Tevolvers in his
hands was used in the court house
shooting.
The boy talked freely on the long
tourney over soggy roads back TO
AfrI y, tha m ri
the hil the drizzle had turned to>a
Sownhour, The troop OF hofsemen'
-pieker their way into-theD village,
where hardly a light broke the dark.
Though the who.e countryside had
learned by the wireless" OF the wood
land country that another Allen had
been taken, there was no excitement
jrhe young fellow was put in charge
'of two armed deputy sheriffs.
Cl8ide's capture gives renewed
hopeiof the capture OF the three re-
naming fugitives-Sidna Allen, his
nephew, Freel, and Wesley Edwards
Although Claude stoutly denied any
knowledge OF the hiding place OF the
three. Il Is believed he was attempt
lag TO carry some of his meager stock
OF food to his relatives when he was
taken. Young Allen probably will be
taken today to the Roanoke jail,
where some of his kinsfolk already
are.
movement has been started
among Virginia women to present a
gold medal TO Jazabel Goad, the
daughter OF Clerk Goad, who ran to
h,r father's side when he was under
hre d. the Allen gang and brought
freshly loaded pistol for him to con-
tinud the battle. Mrs. William II.
Mand wife OF the governor, is head
ing HE movement.