Evening journal., 1912-03-15
ARREST BANDIT ALLEN
WHO SHOT UP A COURT
Big Posse of Detectives
Searching for the Noun
fain Clan Thai Com
miffed a Triple Murder.
MILITIA READY
FOR WARFARE
By ND unlted Press.

| D3 int 0nlleQ IIRbS.
HILLSVILLE. Va, March 15.-De-
tectiye Felts and twenty picked men
reached here early today; took charge
of the legal machinery, formally ar
rested Floyd Allen the desperate who
yesterday started the murders in
Judge Massies court and his son, Vic
tor. and Immediately instituted a
search for the seventeen mountains
GERS who yesterday made a shambles
OF the court room. Floyd Allen is
! severely wounded
A mountaineer named Strickland,
who last night paraded the streets of
the village. showing fire arms, was
! also arrested. Victor Allen. son OF
Floyd Allen swore that his father
would never be taken alive. but was
overpowered before there was any
necessity for gun fire.
A telephone message here says that
hardware store at Mt. Airy, N. c.. 20
miles distant was broken into last
night and its entire supply Of firearms
and ammunition taken. II was believ-
ed that the fleeing mountaineers did
the job.
Everything looks like trouble"
said Detective Felts today I'm pre-
pared for everything"
On his way to Pulaski today Judge
] Staples declared his belief that there
would be no disorder at Hillsville
The shooting was deplorable, but
| II is all over for the present" he de-
clared. Those who did the shooting
are no longer near Hillsville. When
they are captured later. there prob
1 ably will be some excitement and
state troops may be needed to prevent
the mountaineers from taking justice
IN their own hands. | believe that the
n Allen following is much in the minor
ity and that 1000 real men will be-
found trailing down the criminals
not from cupidity for the $4,000 re-
ward but from a just sense of indigna-
ton that lawlessness has hrazenly
ravaged their court Of justice"
\ Hillsville today is practically with
. out a judicial system. Assassin
1 bullets killed or manned every legal
r officer in the county seat. Posses
x are without actual heads. Today At.
\ torney-General Williams of Virginia
= and Judge Staples of the Roanoke
Corporation Court are expected to
! take charge of the legal machinery
+ at the bloody town. Meanwhile the
, village is In the grip of a reign OF
terror, for word comes down from
. the mountains that the Aliens are
determined 10 rescue young Floyd
Allen-he who started the killings In
the court room by shooting Judge
Massie, and who now lies dangerous
" wounded In the little jail
But meager word came today from
Hillsville. There is only one tele-
phone line to the outside world-that
10 Barron Springs and the downpour
of rain Of the past few days has put
1t partly out of commission
Floyd Allen was the mountaineer
whose trial and sentence 10 a years
Imprisonment by Judge Massie start
cd the trouble. He is be-whisker-
ed, powerful man who boasts that he
carries thirteen bulleth6les in his
body -five-thirteenths the work OF
his brothers. against whom he waged
a feud at one time.
His brothers are Sidney and Jack
both hcwn out OF the same un-
yielding mountain stock. Sidney Is
now under sentence for alleged per-
Jury I'm connection with a counter
feitlng case. Jack is the younger
brother.
DesperadOes Did the Shooting.
These three desperadoes with four
teen of like ilk did the killing yes
terday and all save Floyd Allen es-
caped 10 the mountains.
They left a bloody trail Of wounded
as we'll as dead i'm the shooting that
followed Floyd's murder Of Judge
Massie Clerk Dexter Goad, Jurors
Faddis. Fowler and Kane and A. T.
Hewlett, Bruce Marshall and Stuart
Worrall, spectators in the court room,
were struck in the hail OF bullets.
Sidney Allen is believed 10 have
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