The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-16
HELPLESS CALM IS
STATE Of PEOPLE
RESIDENTS OF HILLsNILLE ARE
SIMPLY WAITING FOR WHAT
EVER HAPPENS.
GANG ARMS MEMBERS
STORE At MOUNT AIRY BROKEN
INTO AND PISTOLS AND AN.
NUNITIoN IN QUANTITIES
ARE STOLEN.
t6y international News Service.

HILI4SVILLE, VA, March 1.-THE
younger members of the Allen clan.
that fell upon the Carroll county
courthouse yesterday, killed a Judge.
an attorney. a sherin. juror and Il
woman were over the North Carolina
border this afternoon, when old sid"
Allen, head u the family, was fighting.
at bay. in his mountain home. against
ten detectives.
The battle was brief. Sidna Allen
and his Wife were alone there. blazing
away with Wfnchesiers at the posse,
who We're ambushed tifty yards from
the cabin. II was simply question
OF putting bullet holes through all part
of the house. When the return fire
was sileneed and the detectives went
/, in, odd Sid" was lyong under a win
dow with a bullet wound In his leg
His wife. one of the typical. tall. loyal
and dangerous women of the hills. lay
dead behind the door. A rifle was in
her hands.
This was the first sequel OF ven-
geance for the Carroll courthouse raid.
Repienish Ammunition.
Six men, mounted on foam-fiecked
horses, rode into Mount Airy. Just
over the North Carolina border. early
today. They were not Aliens by name,
but they were Aliens by clan tie. They
drew rein in front CT .ther towns eaiAy
hardware store, and three OF them
dismounted. The other three drew
their Winchesters from the saddle
sockets, and laid them quietly across
the withers OF their painting steeds
In fifteen minutes. the three men
who had gone into the store. came
out in leisurely way. They were
carrying guns. pistols and boxes OF am
munition. They distributed the hard
ware among the other three. ana
then all six galloped out OF town to-
wards the n,ssre isolated mountains,
This was the second move OF the
Aliens in their battle for liberty--the
liberty that can never now be assured
for they are in hostile territory. ana
they are few against hundreds OF enc
mies--enemies whose rancor goes BACK
= Colonial days-enemies who know
how to fight the Aliens
Floyd Alien Arrested.
The third development OF the day
was the arrest OF Floyd Allen. the
man who was being sentenced to
prison Yesterday when Judge Massie,
Prosecutor Foster, sherin Webb and
the others were shot down by the
desperate Allen clan. Floyd Allen
was himself shot through the Abdo-
men and they thought he was going
to die.
So they had to arrest Floyd Allen
today. After the shooting yesterday
Floyd Allen was carried out Of the
smoke filled court room. not to jail,
but 10 the hotel. There his son. Vic
tor. stood guard at the door. but De-
tective Baldwin placed them both un-
der arrest without difficulty.
1t Is the young men who do the
killing among the clan. The old heads
direct: the boys execute. That Is
why tho main force Of the law Is
riding after the fugitives who crossed
the border this morning.
They will get them" said an old
mountaineer today. land THEY will
get THEM
1t was not publicly reported until
this morning that young. woman
was among the victims OF the des-
pcrate fusillade In the courthouse yes
terday. She was, Miss Bette Ayers,
eighteen years old. one of the pref
tiest girls OF the neighborhood, and In
no way connected with the feudista.
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