The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-21
MAUD IROLE
DID NOT BETRAY
Part of Reward Will Be Offered
Her Father. Who Did Not Bar
gain For It-State Pays
100000 for Capture
and Court
Trails.

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tween the state and the Baldwin Felts
Detectives. Inc. for services in seek
ing and capturing the men charged
with the Carroll Courthouse murders
on March II. for guarding prisoners
and protecting the court. w q. Bald
win. head o; the agency. came TO Rich
nond ma mace his report 10 Governor
Siann, presenting his accounts.
IncIuaing previous settlements, ths
Baldwin Eslts Detectives have now re-
ccived about $4,000. This includes
salaries and exp Of the posses In
the mountains. guarding the HtllsEilie
and Wytheville jails. and following Up
the hundreds of clues which came 10
nought, besides rewards for the pris-
u=rs taken in March. In addition.
warrants on the Auditor were given
Mr.. Baldwin for $4,000. the amount OF
the rewards offered for the apprehen-
sion Of Sidna Allen and Wesley Ed
wards. and Tor Information l-adinx to
their arrest. In all. finding ami Sc
curing the Aliens has cost the State
little less than $4,000.
VIII Have Cost $4,000.
II has been estimated that the court
costs. including Jail fees, jury fees
and expenses. sherifs' fees and ex-
pens.s. witness fees and expenses, wi.
r Zach total Of $4,000 more. But Nh.
Baldwin thinks this is rather UNDER
estimated. and by the time the Com
nlonwealth shall have executed those
who are to die in thu chair. 4 VIII
have spent $4,000. all told. in punish
ing the crime OF shooting up the
court. shooting down the law and IN
maintaining its own dignity.
Mr.. Baldwin did no, desire to make
public any detailed statement OF ths
distribution Of the award money. Like
Governor Mann. he thinks t not a
matter Of public policy to reveal the
names of those who give information
Two OF the detectives are. for special
reasons. to be given a share Several
people in the Carroll mountains. Att
perhaps one or more in North Caro-
lima, will be remembered in the d.
vision
But so far as the Irolers are con-
cerned. Mr. Baldwin maxi frank
statement. and detailed the entire
transaction TO a reporter for The
Times-Dispatch
Maude Not Party
Maude Irol=r. he asserts most post
lively. will receive not one penny. She
did not betray her lover. Wesley Ed
wards. he says. nor did she hay. the
slightest reason to think that she
would be the cause of his capture
Her father, Frank IroleI. gave the
real Information which the detectives
wanted. He will in a day or two be
rendered $500 rs a share OF the reward
Whether he will accept it or not is
to be seen- From what Mr. Baldwin
can learn of his character and dis
position. he is inclined to believe he
will refuse. He had no contract nor
agreement to receive any part Of it.
according - the detective. He acted
to proven. the marriage Of his laugh
ter with an outlaw charged with muir
der.
Mos~oeats Of Fagitives.
Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards.
according to Mr.. Baldwin. remained in
Carroll County from March IA, the day
of the shooting. until Tuesday. April
s. They were In hiding. in differ ent
places, and the officers were often %
close TO them that the conversation
could be n=ard by the fuxitives. On
the Tuesday after Easter sunday the
two men went to Mt. Airy. boarded
train and travelled to SALISBURY, wherc
they paraoed on the station platform
for som. time. They bought tickets.
frrst to Norristown. Tenn, BY way Of
Asheville. and then went At once ID
Chattanooga Without delay, they pro-
'ceeded to St Louis, Mo. Taeir stay
in the latter city was short, and they
4 .cided that Des MONIES would be 4
good place to aide In In the Iowa
city they lived nearly ave moatas-
sidna Alien secured work as car
lpenter After a few weeks ne joined
tine union. receiving thereafter d
ljourneyman's wage Wesley EDWARDS,
with l-ss intelligence and less educa-
ton. could get places Only AS an III
skilled laooreT.
Lived Very 0USetly.
They lived simply and Quie;ly-so
simply and quietly that when tie de-
tectives told the people at che house
where they rooned in Des Mo'nes tina:
they were the missing Aliens they
were scarcely believed
WHY. they cannot b. the Aliens
was the reply. They are as auie; and
pescesbie az anybody. they STAY in
their own room go out ana buy their
food. cook II themselves most OF ths
time AMI cause no trouble TO any
body
Wesley EDWARDS affection for
MAJ Isr!er was the undcipg OF this
life OF security. He vent back to hts
mothers home e. see bne girl De
testives Watching the house observed
unusua! activity and excitement there.
and thought something was ;he mat
ter Eut they found nothing. Ed
wards must have come tn the night
and departed In the night But he saw
Miss Iroier. who was brought 60 ID.
home Of his mother. Mrs. John Nundy.
lty hts young sister. By this tine the
d~sccss, - who had arss wSrk<3 Car
| roll County had been Withdrawn. and
new men. roeine a. farm hands. wer.
en- the Job Three Of them nearly m =;
death only . few weeks ago.
Nesssy Ksgoe9 O0evn.
% seems that Ssdns Alien left MS
sua nth Mra MundN hts aiAfer. Xea.