Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-03-16
SIDNA ALLEN HAS
NOT BEEN CAUGHT
AS At FIRST
REPORTED
Outlaws and Their Friends,
Numbering Twenty Men,
Are Entrenched in the
Mountains.
GOVERNOR DETERMINED
TO CAPTURE THEM


(By EveninE Herald a. q. Leased WtreD
Pulaski. Va. March uiiIsvllle
has practically been cut off from dl-
rect communication since early to-
day. a long distance telephone mes
sage from there, just received here,
however, declares that the reports
from the mountains yesterday OF tho
arrest OF Sidna Allen and the killing
OF his wife proved erroneous. and that
the outlaw, with his brother Jack and
their clan. is still as large Organized
hunt for the murdereFs Of the Carroll
county court officers began In earnest
today.
Many wild rumors OF captures and
killings filtered In 90 town last night.
They came BY word OF mouth and
through the mysterious wireless
methods of the mountains. organized
principally to tell Of the advent Of "a
revenue officer into "moonshine'
district.
Reports over tho one wire leading
into Hillsvlle were that sldna Allen
had not been located and IL presumed
70 be with his clan
II Is now definitely known that the
number of outlaws engaged In the
court room shooting WAS ten. Il has
been reported that the Aliens were
reinforced after their retreat to the
mountains and the authorities pr0b-
ably will have twenty or thirty armed
and determined men 20 deal with,
Governor Mann has sent word that
the Aliens must be captured at any
cost and that the stain on the COM
monwealth must be wiped out
Roanoke. Va. March ie.--The flu
neral car bearing the body Of Judge
Massie passed through Roanoke today
on the wey TO Lynchburg.
Mrs Massie and one Of her daugh-
tors are m al the Massie home In
Pulaski and were unable 90 20 20 the
funeral. Two sons. Cnbeli and Will
bar, accompanied the body to Lynch
burg. az weli Hs members Of the bar
from Wythevilie and Pulaski.
The prisoners IN jail az Hilisville
are Floyd Allen. his son Victor. Cabeli
Strickland, Byrd Marion and John
Moore, the last named being arrested
today. Moore held tho Allen gangs
horses while they were In the court
room.
Members of tho clan al large In
the mountains are sidna. Jack and
Claude Allen and Wesley ana Sidney
Edwards
Hillsvllle, Va, March 16.--No at
tempt has yet bee made 20 capture
sidna Allen or any OF his followers
involved IN the shooting OF three court
officers here last Thursday. Until
the men now in Jail have been moved
80 as TO release the heavy guard Il is
unlikely an attempt will be made
The grand jury returned six indict-
ments against the men In Jail.
Organized pursuit Of the fugltives
began early today. sixty detectives,
picked men from all over the state,
most OF them carrying army rifles IN
addition 10 their royolVers. were mar
shalied for the periious task Of scour-
Ing mountain stronghoids for the
main body that wiped out the circuit
court OF Carroll county here Thurs
day.
stories as 70 the strength OF the
desperadocs are conflicting, but Il 10
beiiaved that from a dozen 60 eighteen
OF them are together. probably hid
den and entrsnchrd in some out-of-
the-way mountain hole just across the
North Carolina line.
with price on their heads these
men are expected to battle TO the
death when cornered.
Charlotte, n. c.. March i6.-The
staff representative Of newspaper
here wires today from Fries, Virginia.
that sldna Alien. Claude Alien Ga son
of Floyd. sidney Edwards Ga nephew
OF Floyd Allen), and Freeman Allen,
son of Jack Allen, with twenty OF
their clansmon, have boen located AZ
Devils Den. Ia the Blue Ridge noun
tains. on the North Carolina Virginia
border.
RIVERS ~ FkVORTrE