Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-03-21

POSSE PURSUING COURTHOUSE
AseAssINs RETURNS EMPTY
HANDED.
MAY HAVE MADE ESCAPE
Governor Mann Offers $4,000 Reward
for Raiders, Dead or Alive Posse
u hampered by Lack Of
Fl Supplies.

supplies.
Aillsvil1s. Va, March 19.-Another
days chase of the courthouse assas-
sins ended with the posse back in
town weary and empty-handed and
with suspicion gaining ground that
while the searchers have been beating
the bush, the Aliens with good start
are likely to have got across the line
to North Carolina or Tennessee
This possibly was recognized, but it
may have been too late. The word
was passed over to the sheriffs on the
Tennessee line to be on the watch and
the North Carolina sheriff started out
10 work over toward the Ararat river
country to head the outlaws off.
The difficulties of the search caused
call fl-' the state militia to be seri-
ously considered, but that plan was
temporarily abandoned and Governor
Mann issued proclamation increas-
ing the total rewards to $4,000 for the
outlaws dead or alive and sent their
full descriptions to every store, postof-
ice and cross roads for miles around.
Detective Felts took posse off into
the hills up the road that goes over
the Bartlett Knob and Elk Spur and
past Fancy Gap near Devils Den,
where the outlaws were reported to be
barrlcaded in an almost impregnable
fortress of mountain rock.
The posse saw none of the outlaws
and no evidences of their presence but
kept on over Gamers creek and the
Lone Cedar Fork to the Carolina side
and brought up at Mount Airy. At
least a dozen houses, the homes of
members Of the Allen clan or their
Bympathizers were searched on the
way, but not trace of the outlaws
was found.
One great disadvantage under which
the posses work is the lack of COM
munication and commissary facilities.
Hillsville is the base from which
they are operating. A few post roads
wind through the passes between tho
knobs and spurs with which the geog-
raphy of this country abounds.
The territory is sparsely settled and
It is next to impossible for a posse to
stay out much more than day. Men
SO equipped are not much of a match
for such woodsmen as the Aliens and
their followers who could live bounti-
fully while posse was being starved.
Sldna Edwards with a price of
$1,000 on his head is supposed to be
somewhere with an injured food. He
has had time to join the Aliens if he
knows where they are. Meanwhile the
indictments for the murders of Judge
Massie, Prosecutor Foster, Sheriff
Webb and the two by-standers wait to
be served. Some folk in this country
declare that no Allen was ever arrest.
ed while he could fight and that none
will be. The posse believes that.
Floyd Allen, the outlaw, whose sen:
tenoe by the court precipitated the
massacre lies in the Roanoke Jail with
wounds and a broken leg to fret him
and moaned that he wished he had fol
lowed his Wife's advice.
I've got a good wife, said the
outlaw. If I'd done as she told me
wouldn't be here now"
The men who found Mrs, Allen. al
Il
her home say she was distracted.
The posse. will get out again while
she North Carolina officers are work
ing over to meet them. They hope to
drive the gang to cover between them
The state authorities continued t.
pile rife and ammunition up into thu
troubled country. Two shipm ents Of
rifles and bullets were made from
Roanoke. They. will be unloaded, a,
Galax and brought here, in. wagons
The posse are we'll armed with stat,
militia equipment.
Surrounded Again.
Greensboro, N. CA long distance
telephone message from Mount Airy
N c., announced that messenger hat
arrived there asking that every avail
able man be sent to Squirrels Spur, 1,
4 miles from Mount Airy and just insid,
the Virginia border, where it was be
lieved Sidna Allen and several Of hi,
band were surrounde by posse o
40 Smen.
| According to the messenger, til,
posse has formed a Gordon abou
Squirrels Spur and the leaders wer,
confident that the outlaws were col
nered. An attack on the place 1
4 planned:
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