The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-09-19
FRIEl AND SIONA
NOW IN RICHMOND
Youthful Members OF Allen Clan
Begin Long Terms in
Penitentiary.
ARRIVAL WAS UNHERALDED
Bows Were Bundled Into Wait
ing Prison Van Before Crowd
Could Gather.

Friel Allen and Sdna Edwards,
youthful members OF the Allen ciah'
which wiped out a court OF justice
were lodged in the penltent!ary yester-
day afternoon at $3.50 oci ock. Friei
Allen is to serve eighteen years and
Sidna Edwards afteen years.
Without even the gaze Of che idly
curious throng to disturb them. the
two arrived in Richmond aboard the
Norfolk and Western train at 2:lo
o'clock. Guard r. r. Penn. OK Major
Woods STAFF. acc ,mpanied the pris-
oners and quickly had the handcuneo
pair in an open carriage, wnich was
waiting outside Drawn by a single
horse and accompanied only by the
driver and the guard, a short ride
brought them to the prison ONCE.
Hurriedly the formallties were con-
cluded, and these SONS Of the hills
were surely and safely locked within
the detention cells until the details OF
giving each a number and assigning
them t. the work which is TO De their
portion during the term Of imprison-
ment are completed.
1t is largely due to the precau-
tions OF Major Wood. Superintendent
of the Ienitentiary. that SO lew khe"
that the famous criminals were to ar
rive Yesterday. No informatin was
given that they would begin their
terms at once. Certain it is that in
the smiling. boyish countenances Of the
prisoners none could read murder.
They were handcuaed. but they man
aged to walk in such fashion as to at
tract little attention. Sidna Edwards
carried in his left hand a small suit
case and the two gave more the I'M
preston IF rural visitors about to en-
bark on a sightseeing expedition than
criminals starting on penal servitude
covering a maximum period If eighteen
years.
Friel Allen. scion of family which
for years had terrorized Carroll County,
Is frail. insignificant looking youth.
much the same as one will find in any
country district There is nothing
about him to attract attention. unless
it be that he is understood. One might
pity but never fear him. At least that
was the impression obtained as he
quietly walked. locked t. his compan-
ion, Sidna Edwards. while Guard
Penn, a few feet in advance. directed
the way through the gate.
No crowd followed, Indeed. there
was no crowd present Few of the
passengers aboard, the train knew who
the two soberly dressed boys were.
The march through the station, into the
carriage and 70 the penitentiary was
accomplished in such short order that
the heeting camera man who sought
to take final Photographic record of
the men as they appeared on their last
day for many years in the open was
left far behind.
Sidna Edwards seemed to regard it
all as joke. 4 powerfully built
young fellow. he literally exudes the
air of the mountains. His smile dis
closed a mouth with frank, boyish lines.
He walked jauntily. even anxiously, to-
ward the vehicle which was to carry
him to his exile Of months from the
haunts OF men and far removed from
the bounding hills Of his native coun-
try.
Numbered and Tagged.
Arrived at the prison, Major Wood
made quick work Of it, A brief exam
ination Of the men, and then the big
iron gates changed and locked. while
Sidna Edwards and Friel Allen lost
their identity as men and became con-
yicts. to be numbered and tagged, to
work out behind the massive walls the
crime which set the ears OF the ccun-
trv ringing. Major Wood expects little
trouble from his latest wards Indeed,
no remarked that there go two men,
two prisoners I mean. Of whom I ex-
pect little trouble They are going to