The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-03-21
Posted Their Notice of Re.
ward Beside That of
Governor.
HAVE PLENTY Of BULLETS AND
KNOW HOW TO USE THEN
Declare Mountain Huts are Unhealthy
Places for their Enemies and De.
claro they will get tho Officers Be-
fore They Themselves Die.

Hillsville. Va. March 21.-sidney
nearer capture today than they were
a week ago when they rode back to
the mountains after the tragedy that
blotted out the circuit court of Carroll
county. The posses have surrounded
three different mountain strongholds
in which the Aliens were believed to
have been run to cover. only to find
the outlaws had escaped or had not
been there at all.
Nothing has been heard today from
the detectives who we're in the field
yesterday and last night.
The town is excited over the report
pathizers rode to a point within three
miles Of Hillsville last night and
placed a notice Of their own beside
the governors posted proclamation Of
fering a reward for the wanted clans
men. dead or alive. This Is the notice
said to- have been posted:
. - . .
To those who have made it =
their concern: We have plenty :
Of arms and bullets. We know :
how to use them. These huts are .
an unhealthy place for strangers
to visit. Remember this: You :
can get us in the end, maybe, but
we will get you first.
1t is said there were a dozen OF
more in the party who posted this.
ssss sssss . .
History of tho Tragedy.
(The following history of the trag.
edy was written last Sunday by one
Of the correspondents on the ground
and has just reached the public via
the biweekly mailD
Hillsville, Va. March 21.-While
armed men stood about the streets
and barricaded outlaws at Devils Den
awaited the coming of those who rep.
esent law and order. the tolling Of q
church bell here today ushered in the
most grim Sabbath that this noun
tain section has ever known.
Within the week Htllsville has fur
nished q story of outlawry which IL
without parallel iii the criminal l,is,
tory Of this state or the nation. Brute
forceh as claShed with the courts
the superstructure Of American insti.
|tutions-and has won a momentary
victory.
Five are dead and four Of them
were officers OF court whose duty
it was to. say that old man Floyd AL
len must 60 to Jail. That is the SIM
PIC eloTS VI lIlo SeH6edu Ol SHe AZ
len band Of mountain feudists who
have ruled the Blue Ridge hills for
years. They stood at bay in the Car
roll county court house the other day,
defled the officers of the law to touch
one Of their number, and then trans
forming themselves into the savages
of former times. wiped out with q
hail Of lead practically every vestige
Of the courts machinery.
Ma =
the first chapter Of the bloody story
A Sabbath sun falls not upon a peace.
full town, nesting in the shadows OF
surrounding peaks, but upon glistenine
Winchesters held by men who are pre-.
pared to invade the hidden retreat OF
the score Of outlaws who escaped
-Four. of the lawless gang. already cap
tured. have been removed to Pulaski
for Hillsville isn't itself today and
there might be retribution other than
the electric chair for those who have
mourning and suffering.
The Aliens have been pictured as
uncouth, wholly illiterate. daredevil
mountaineers. Only the latter descrip-
ton entirely fits. They do not live In
mountain dugouts, they are not as re-
mote from civilizing influences as
some Of. the feudists of bloody
Breathitt" in Kentucky. nor do they
habitually slouch into town with a
rifle over the shoulder.
The more the pity Of the crime laid
today at their door.
But they are of the daredevil sort
who detest law and order unless it be
of the Allen making. It has been the
family creed that the profaning touch
Of an officer Of the law must not be
laid upon an Allen. That is the un-
derlying secret of the outlawry which
today makes Hillsvflle the black spot
nation.
Aliens Dcfied Arrest.
: II the law wanted an Allen, let the
law send word to that Allen and he
would come. "as a mountain gentle
man should" The psychology of the
Hillsville tragedy Is furnished in the
words of, old FLOYD Allen, who
slashed his throat soon after he was
put in Jail. He said:
sent to prison yet. There amt no
Judge .,or sheriff that's goin' to send
him thar now."
He uttered almost the same words
when Judge Massie sentenced him
to year in prison, and then satd: {:
Take the prisoner away. Mr.. Sheriff -
The full story Of what transpired
In the dingy little Carroll county
court room may never be written, for
those who were there to see "Old
Floyd" arise and bid defiance to the
sheriff had their power Of observation
and description swept away moment
later when whistling bullets sped
through the room and powder smoke
settled pallltke upon the bloody scene.
The death toll tells the real story of
unprecedented outlawry and the wan
ton disrespect Of established institu-
uons. .".
Hut this, much is believed today: It
was not the outburst Of momentary
passion. The Allen gang shot as one
man and each henchman Of the chief
who stood at tho supposed bar Of Jus
tice selected q designated victim.
Sydney Allen Accused.
Judge Aaasie fell first, shot three
times. He lived long enough to say
that sydney Allen had shuffed out his
life. Prosecutor Foster was shot six
time. He followed one of the Aliens
to the doorway. leaned . moment
against post ana then went into the
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