The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-04-03
GIVES Up TO POSSE
ANOTHER MEMBER OF The ALLEN
GANG NOW In JAIL
Other OUTLAWS HUNTED

Starving and SleerIess, Claude
Swanson Allen, Thought to Have
EIuded Posses, Walks from Thick.
ct, Saying, I'm Glad to Get q
Chance to Come In.''
Starving, sleepless and fatigued,
Claude Swanson Allen, namesake OF
8 United States senator, came out OF
the laurel thicket in the Blue Ridge
Thursday, pointed two six shooters
toward the sky and gave himself to
the posse which, for nearly two
weeks, has hunted him. Complacent
and almost happy, he then sat, shell
tered from a driving storm by the
little brick jail, stones throw from
Carroll county court house, Hills
Vile, Va, where, on March IA the
Allen gang killed the judge, the pros
ecuting attorney, the sheriff, juror
and a bystander.
All day the posses, divided into
small bands, have been following a
trail thought to be that Of Wesley
Edwards, a nephew Of the Aliens.
Claude Allen, sen of Floyd Allen,
who was the cause Of the court house
shooting, had been given up as haV-
ing escaped. Detective Lucas and
four men were working toward Floyd
Aliens home, when suddenly 20
yards or so of the Mount Airy road
figure creeping stealthily through
the underground was dimly seen
through the mist which overhung
the mountain slope. Close behind
Lucas the other men brought their
rifles to their shoulders, when to
their surprise, Allen stepped out into
the road with his hands upraised, g
pistol in each.
II am glad to get chance to
come in," he said. ''I haven't slept
in bed since the shooting. I'm
hungry
The young mountaineer swung in
between the men of the posse and
they started back to Hillsville.
Il could have shot you," said AL
len as he smiled and nodded toward
Detective Lucas, but I was little
excited at having you come upon me
so soon Anyway, I did not want to
have to kill anybody"
In the presence of detective,
Young Allen described his own part
in the court house tragedy, admitted
that he had seen Sidna Allen shoot
and that he himself had aimed for
Clerk Goad's head four times. He
told a graphic story of the assassi-
nation.
4 don't know who started the
shooting" said Allen. "After it be-
gan. shot four times a. Clerk Goad
and aimed for his head every time.
I saw Uncle Sidna shoot at some
body, but don't know who. When
the shooting in the court house was
over, I went outside and saw Uncle
Sidna on the ground shooting at
Goad, so I shot at him, too. Ny
brother. Victor, called to me to stop,
but had shot all my cartridges.
Then We all went away.
1t developed that Allen was really
taken in North Carolina, probably
15@ yards over the line.
The sortie which took the prisoner
was directed by Detective Thomas
L. Felts, who had obtained clues
through the efforts OF the fugitives
TO get food.
no one was more surprised than
I I to see Claude Allen" said Felts to-
night
Some bread and a cask of water
was found hidden in the thicket and
Allen said it was all he had been liv-
ing upon for several days. Detec-
tiyes declared one of the revolve-s
ir his hands were used in the court
house shooting.
The boy talked freely on the long
journey over soggy roads back to
Hillsville ard by the time the party
reached the Jail the drizzle had
turned to a downpour. The troop
Of horsemen picked their way into
village of darkness where hardly
light was visible.
Though the whole countryside had
learned by the wireless OF the
Woodland country that another Allen
had been taken, there was no ex"
element.
The young fellow was put in
charge Of two armed deputies.
C!aude's capture gives renewed
! hope Of the capture Of the three re-
naming fugitives-Sidna Allen, his
nephew Friel, and Wesley Edwards.
Young Allen will probably be TAX
en- to tie Roanoke jail where already
-son,e OF lis kinsfolk are.
4 movement has been started
among Virginia women to present a
cold medal to Jezabe Goad, daush-
ter OF Clerk Goad, who ran to his
side when he was under fire by the
/ .Allen gang and brought freshly
loaded pistol for her father to con-
tinue the battle. Mrs. William IL
Mann. wife of the governor, is head