The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-09-17
GUILT YVES"
NO MATTER
Maud IroIier Will Stick To Out
law Anyway
EVERY MAN MUST DRAW"
Ethical Code of a Mountain Sunday
School Teacher-Sidna Allen and
Wesley Edwards Arrive
at Roanoke.
EVERY MAN MUST DRAW

Roanoke, Va, Sept. 1.-THE class o
twenty five boys and girls who sit t.
the left OF the aisle in the little Dunkarc
church just over the North Carolina linz
from Hillsville, Va, was without teach
er Sunday.
"And / reckon said the teacher, Maud
Irolier, yesterday, 'those young ones
must have been a heap surprised.
can't remember when | missed a Sunday
afore."
Miss Irolier is Wesley Edwards sweet.
heart. She is the le-vear-old girl whom
the detectives trailed from Canea, Va.
through several states to the hiding place
of Edwards and Sidna Allen, the last
two members of the Allen gang to be
arrested for the murder of five persons
in the Hillsville courthouse last March
She arrived heer yesterday with the
prisoners.
Il have always lived up in the hills
and | never got to 60 anywhere except
TO Mount Airy once in while" said
the girl "Mount Airy is about nine
miles from our farm. That's where the
railroad is.
"Why, | did not tell soul where
was going, not even my mother. She
thought | was going over to Mount Airy
to see Aunt Jane"
Suppose you had it to do over
againf"
"Wsll, | reckon I'd be careful to see
who was following me. But"-the
thought seemingly striking her for the
first time--"I couldn't have any way OF
knowing was followed, could II | low
ii just mad TO be.
DO | think Yves is guiltyf Why. /
don't see how that can make any differ
ence. Once in while every man that
thinks anything OF himself has to draw
his gun, and you can't always tell who's
right and who's wrong. Anyhow, wheth.
or Yves was right or wrong, | belonged
to him, and right or wrong I'll stick
to him.
q met Yves at preaching in the Dunk
ard church.
yes. I'll go to the trial, but | don't
suppose I'll be witness, for ! don't
know anything"
Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards we're
expected to arrive here yesterday noon.
Greet crowds iammed the depot here all
the morning. waiting for glimpse of
the two men who have been hunted for
six months.
Hillsville also was excited yesterday,
according 10 reports received here.
Mountain wireless messages brought
dozens of the mountain folk to the tiny
Carroll county village.
Operatives of the Baldwin Felts De
teetive agency, which brought about the
arrest of the two Allen clansmen in Iowa,
arrived here yesterday from Richmond
to help guard the two prisoners, although
il was thought improbable that any at
tempt to rescue them would be made.
Victor Allen. one OF the family acquitted
asst week at Wytheville OF completely
IN the courthouse murder, is in Rich.
nond, but was expected here to greet
his relatives.
Heavy rains have made the mountain
-oads to Hillsvlle almost impossible, and
I is thought that the two prisoners will
not be taken there Immediately.
Who will divide the reward of APP
$1,000 offered by the state
Tor the capture of Allen and Edwards
3 an open question. The detectives who
rallied Maud Irolier to Des Moines and
hereby captured the two mountaineer4
IRE expected to claim the entire amount.