Evening star., 1912-11-03
Detectives to Be Employed in
Ninth Virginia District.
ENDS FORTY-YEAR SERVICE
Rev. J. B. Hutson of Richmond Has
Seen Congregation Grow
ALIENS BEGIN TO WEAKEN
Iron Nerve Is Giving Away Under
Strain of Prison Life-Wants
Sentence COMMITTED.

RICHMOND Va. November Elk
citing times are promised in the ninth
congressional district ne1t Tuesday. when
Ihc election of i representative will take
place. Both democrats and republicans
have promised TO refrain from the use of
money in the contest. and yet the state
ments which have been printed show that
Representative SIemp has ridden himself
cf something like s.. 800 i'll the campaign,
while Gen Rufus A. Ayers. the demo-
cratic nominee, has spent less than 500.
There may be reason for this in the fact
that Representative Slemp was nominated
late and was forced to make a hurry
canvass and was compelled to pay the
expenses Of men who have been making
speeches for him and working for him,
whereas Gen. Ayers has been campaign
fuc for several months Detectives have
been employed to keep watch in the coun-
ties of that district, and if there are
evidences of the use Of money the facts
are to b. reported promptly to the Off
.erS. arrests to follow at once.
Tomorrow tne Rev. !. +. Hutson of
Pine street Eaptis; Church Will enter
upon his rorty-frst year as pastor of
that church. having begun there Novem-
ber =. 1ST2 From i membership of ibi
when ~ took charge there are now more
than I so on the rolls. In that forty
years ne has seen no less than three con
gregations formed from this church. due
L. the congregations growing larger and
the community developing
nd
son. occupying death cells directly OPP
posite. have begun TO show signs of the
ordeal through which they are passing.
The men spend much of their time in
reading tracts and Bibles, but talk little
20 others. On one side Of Floyd Allen is
Fred Arrington of Halifax, under sem
tence of death for the murder of a farm
eT. on the other side is a negro muir
derer Claude Allen is in a cell opposite
all these-the one which Henry Clay
Eeattie occupied before he was taken
Ia the death chair.
Il never cared as much for wanting to
live in ali my life as | have since 1 have
been in here, remarked Floyd Allen to one
Of the penittntary guards q day or two
ago That is the nearest the men nave
come to making any reference to their
crimes. They are beginning to look
p.'e and hollOw-eyed. their steel nerve
ia Piying way. Once since the men have
nCg~, there they have asked if their coun-
Sci f'ad succeeded in getting a new trial
Scr them.
Wants Sentence COMMITTED.
Tn" Rev. George W. Mcdaniel. pastor
of the First Baptist Church. is heading a
movement To get up a petition To be pre-
sented 10 the governor asking for a COM
mutation of the sentence OF Claude Allen
, To lite Imprisonment. II is not believed
that the sovernor will consider the case
Of Floyd Allen or Of Sidney Alien, but
-the cases of Claude Allen and Wesley Ed
wards. the latter yet to be tried. stand on
a different plane from the others. Claude
Allen was "A participant in the shooting,
and no began to shoot. he says, when
he saw Dexter Goad, the court Clerk,
lire at MS father. Wesley Edwards did
the same when he saw his, uncies made
inc target for the shots OF the officers,
and they did not count the cost.
Claude Alien and Wesley Edwards are
young men. and II is he'd that when
they saw their kin attacked they would
have been ungtateful had they not acted
as they did. Several OF the officials OF
the state are also Interested in the move
ment. all of them asking that the gov
trnor gIV. all the men life sentences
Slaughter Of tine members Of one family.
The belief is that the petitions Will be
-gTeo by many thousands of people III
this CITY and IN other parts of the state.
Gov. Mann. " ho IS 10 he host on the oc-
CaSi0n of the conference OF the governors
L. be held here December =, is busy az
the task Of arranging the details of the
pFogFam Tor the conference. The gov
eIuprS are To have headquarters al the
Jefferson Hotel and et the Richmond
Hotel, many Of them having announced
that they will hring along their wives,
and several viii also by accompanied by
ttc5T'- secretaries. The conference viii
last for three days. While here the gov
rEuosS will be entertained at ali the lead
ing clubs. w.ll bc given automobile trips
sroungs the city and will carry away with
them souvenirs Of unique design as re-
lAtnGcrs OF their visit To the old Domin-
ion These are now being prepared and
wift be of q character not obtained else
where. IN America.
Results of the grand juries in the
counties are beginning to appear. The
grand jury Uf UcnriCu county lately al
lowed a recess and informed the taXpay-
rrs that they could have till November
] iu which To look over their assess
meutS and ta make corrections In TIL,
Hfst WeeS more than $lCJ.HJ) WAS added
4H tienTico. and now another adjourn
neat has been made to permit others tc
come in and save themselves from being
prosecuted for making false returns
The same course is being pursued al
over rne state. and when all have beer
completed IL Is believed that scvera
millions If dollars of increased values
W1u bc listed for taxation.