The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-04-01
DETECTIVES CLOSE IN
TO FIND OUTLAW GONE
Sidna Allen Slips Out Of Ivy
Thicket Surroun ded by
Scntlnels.
HOLDS UP AN 1NfORMER
Mountnincer Bcgs for Life and Allen
Lowers His Shotgun.-Man Hunt
cx OFT on New Tnil.

MoUNr AfRY. n. c. March Si.-The
expected capture Of Sidna Allen did not
take place this morning when the Gordon
Of detectives closed the circle to the spot
where Allen was supposed to he. The
outlaw had escaped I'm the night from an
ivy thicket and tonight the detectives
are following another elite in another
part Of the mountains.
All night thirty detectives kept vigil
in the ivy thicket waiting fo1 daylight.
His escape IL not due to the failure of the
detectives TO do their duty but to the fact
that Allen knows every foot of the moun-
tains.
For the frt time in many days Sidna
Allen has been seen and the man who saw
him Ia not likely to forget the meeting.
Allen covered him and told him II he had
any messages to leave 10 get busy. IL
was about o'clock this morning that
Lafayette Ayers. who lives in the ynoun-
tains aud who had bern aiding the. off,
GERS. was coming down the mountain by
a footpath when he met Allen going up
by tho same path. Allen covered him
with shotgun and declared that he was
going TO xii, him because he had been
furnishing information to the detectives.
Ayers begged for his life and stoutly
denied any participation in the man hunt.
Allen finally told him TO move and move
quickly and Ayers took his advice.
The meeting occurred about five miles
from where the detectives stood guard
around the Ivy thicket.
Tonight the detectives are near where
Allen held up Ayers and where Wesley
Edwards is supposed to have spent last
night. This morning tho detectives
found at Buzasrds Rock. three miles
east of where Ayers encountered Allen.
under the shelter of Buszards Rock, a
bed OF leaves. q new blanket and some
provisions. 1t is here that Edwards
evidently slept last night.
1t ia believed that Edwards PASSED
the Gordon Of detectives yesterday morn
ing and made his way TO Buzzards Rock
where the outlwa~s had evidently made
a base Of supplies aud place Of refuge
from the weather, The inference now
il that after holding up Ayers, Sidna
Allen made his way to Bu&zards Rock.
where he joined Edwards and Rested
for to-day's campaign OF el,iding the
officers.
The detectives toni ght are divided
into two squads in the mountains while
the posse men are guarding every avenue
OF escape and the man hunt continues
with riGor, no: Tithstanding the ply
steal strain under which they are labor
ing.
Ayers. who was held up by Allen. de-
clares that the outlaw j. not suffering
from wound and that lie is the eame
quick witted. alert and fovy man who
has been 80 greatly feared by his neigh
bors. The fact that in the past two DAYS
much food has been found where the
outlaws have been means that they are
neither hungry nor fatigued.
ROANOKE. Va. March 3i.--This after
noon at $3.50 Freeland and Claude Allen,
the last two members of the Allen clan
captured. arrived in Roanoke and are
now in the city jail
The prisoners left Hillsville this morn
ing and rode to Jacksons Ferry, where
they took a train to Pulaski and thence
to Roanoke. They were brought here
by Detectives Albert Baldwin and Harri-
son. The trip was made without incident.
Several thousand people greeted the
prisoners here. They were driven in a
touring car to the jail. where they posed
for n photogra pher.
Thinking that bloodhounds would be
OF service in trailing Sidna Allen and
Wesley Edwards. the only two members
Of the clan now at large. Detective Felts
eent to tho State Farm for the dogs and
they arrived at Hillsville to-day.