Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-03-23
AN ALLEN TAKEN
 WITHOUT 4 SHOT Two Detectives Cover One of the Mountaineers and
 He Surrenders.
HE IS NOW IN JAIL
Others Offer to Surrender ii Their Conditions Are Grantcd-Of-
 fer is Refused.

Hillsv lle Va, March 22-Ou tfc side of steep wooden mountain near LamsbETg, IS miles zoWh of here, and close by the North cara. ina line, two men lay in a lauro5 clicks. 'Sidha Edwards, hal'., plf They We're flat down in the growth, invisible from d stance of ten feet.
 They were mo'ionless except foq, an occasional hand along rifle barrel az some sound of the woods came 70 their ears.
 Presently, just as ,she gray of dawn was dispclling, another approached. coming down narrow mounta Y path with a soft cautious to those born to the wild places. When ha drew within few yards of he lau- rel clump there were two ominous hours which his hard riding, du e4 up your hands"
 The newcomer, tall, lank, slouch matted and hickory shirted, did not need the spoken command lie hafed at he clicks for he knew ey- actly what they meant. They meant that he, one of the desperate Allon elan that shc,s up the Title cou,,t house here last week and Killed five persons, was covered. His hand, i went up and he walked forward { With the. Allen smile on bis foronz2tl face
 Hell" he said, q ain't got no gun Look me over and then let me put 'em down. You can have me all righf.''
 The other .wo men, Lee Foltz and Bill Phaup, detectives from Roanoke did not take his word. The word of an Allen or Allen kinsman Is never taken when gun play is question, One kept the muzzle of a 3o-3o at the young mountaineer'e breast while the other left about him and confirmed his statement.
 "All right sid "said Foltz, "come on along. You're kind O lame so we'll find you horse and you can ride into sown
 Thus. qu etly and without the fir. ing of a shot, ,he first of the fuei- tive mountaineer clansmen was talk en. He is behind fhe bars now in the little jail close by the court house which his hard riding, k,l ok shooting relatives devastated Thurs lay week.
 Somewhere ill a similar wild piece Of country, perhaps on a rocky pro- minotary or may be sheltered by one of fhe almost impenctrable pinc woods h,ch cover the mountains, is his brother, Wesley; his cousin, Friel and Claud Allen, and his Ola Sidna Allen, the clan leader. Blts they will not be there long. according to the indications of the day, for &hey have already made tc the detective chief and the offic als of Carroll, a proposition of surren- i der.
 Tn round about fashion from mouth to mouth so that the organal recipient of the message may not be known this offer came from them:
 "We will give up and lay down our arms on these conditions:
 "First, we must be guaranteed ab- solute protection from the vengeance of relatives of the persons we shot, or from other people of Carroll coun- ty.
 Secord, we must have fair and inn partial trials in some other county.
 Third, we must be allowed to plead guilty to second degree murder Oth- erwise We will fight to finish.'
 The offer of the Aliens was refused by the officials at Roanoke, who have decided that they must be tried for first degree murder if captured alive and they must be tried and doomed in the very court room here where they doomed the officers of the law with Cut trial. Their message was taken as indicating, however. that they are close to the end of their resource; and the fact that one of them has been captured has apparently dis heartened them.