Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-03-16

Special By United Press Wire.
Hillsville, March 16:-At the
moment when townspeople were re-
joicing over the report that Sidney
Allen, leader of the gang that was
responsible for the murder in Judge
Massie's court room, was on his way
back here, having been captured
after a battle in the mountains,
message was brought by one of the
posse that the outlaw had escaped
and was again at liberty.
A special grand jury convened
here today and Immediately return
ed indictments against Allen.
Both Floyd and Sidney Allen
were captured yesterday, both
wounded and one of them dying
from wounds received in the affra!
and from knife wound In his throat
self inflicted In an at,~nipt at suicide
Mrs. Sidney Allen, wife of the outlaw.
Is dead, killed by the bullets Of posse
of detectives In her own home whel
she and her husband, who had taken
refuge from his pursuers, had opened
fire on the men, and Nancy Elizabeth
Ayers, girl cogft witness, accident
ally shot at the time OF the court MUIR
ders, is dead Of her wonnds-the are
the developments In the Carroll coun-
ty tragedy.
The detectives arrived In Hillsville
early in the day and were sworn In as
special constables of the county. They
Immediately went to the hotel room
where Victor Allen was guarding his
father, Floyd Allen, and both were
placed under arrest without any sem.
blance of fght. Immediately upon
his arrest Floyd Allen drew penknife
and slashed his throat, but officers pre-
vented the carrying out of his inten-
tons. Victor Allen, Cabel Strickland
and Byrd Marion are held as witnesses
to the murders in the courthouse.
The thirty picked detectives then
struck the trail Of Sidney Allen and
his wife, who later were located at
their home in the mountains, several
miles from Hillsville. When the de
tecttves arrived at the clearing sur
rounding the house Allen and his wife
opened fire upon the officers, who re-
was returned with accuracy, every
window and door In the house being
shattered, the detectives shooting and
killing Mrs. Allen instantly, while Sid
ney Allen was SO seriously wounded
that he surrendered, and the officers
brought him to the county jail here
The Jail Is protected by forty heavily
armed citizens and deputy sheriffs
sworn in by Judge w. r. Staples.
The news of the arrest of Sidney Al
len and OF the death of his wife was
communicated to Governor Mann, who
earlier In the day had been apprised by
Attorney General Williams that Sid
ney Allen was the man who fred the
shot that killed Judge Massie.
A big surprise was the announcement
of the death of Miss Nancy Elizabeth
Ayers, nineteen-year-old girl. who
was in the courtroom as witness al
the time OF the shooting. No one in
Hillsville knew she had been wounded
until her death was announced. Wher
she left town for her home she did not
know she had been shot, but complain
ed of bruises, which she thought she
had received In the mad rush from the
courtroom Miss Ayers was undoubt
edly shot accidentally.
Word was received that the hard
ware store Of ]. w. Creed in Mount
Airy, N. C., just across the county and
state line, had been entered and all his
stock of rifles. pistols and ammunition
stolen.
That the Allen gang and their friends
are not leaving anything undone to pre-
vent capture is shown by the cripplins
OF the telephone and telegraph sys
TENS. The insulators were broken by
bullets from rifles and pistols, and
there is only one phone wire working
1 out Of Hillsville.