The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-03-23
S|DNA EDWARDS
MADE PRISONER
Nephew Of Allen Captured by
Detectives in Mountain
on Carolina Side
THREE OTHERS ARE
STILL IN HIDING
Officers Belle, e Fugitives Will
Speedily Be Rounded Up
in Woods of Carroll
County
By JOSEPH J. o'NEILL.

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the size of steep wooded mo,n-
tain near k.nbsburg, eighteen miles
louth of here end close Ly the Nor,h
Carolina line. two men lay in a laurel
thicket at oay break. this morning.
They were HAT down In the growth,
invisible FROM d distance Of ten feet.
They were motionless except for an
occasional slipping OF a hand along
q rifle barrel ~ some sound Of the
woods came to their ears.
Presently. Just as the gray OF lawn
wSa dispeiling. another Apr oa.hsNd.
ot.E;iEg down IL narrow mountain path
With the solt cautious tread, pccu-
liar to those burn to the Wild places.
When he drew within a few yar,ls OF
the laurel ciunip there were two
omiEious clicks.
''Sidna Edwards halt, put up your
hands" -
Halted a. Clicks.
The newcome.. tall. lank. s.ourh
hated and hickory shirted did not
neec the spoken ce,.l.rnand. He halted
a. the clicks. .,r he knew exactly
y hat they meant. They meanl that
he. one OF the 6ssperate Allea clan
that shot up tbs little courthouse mere
last week and killed Ave persons was
covered" His hands went up and
he walked forward with the ALLEN
smile on his brozed face"
HE'LL" he said. Il Amt got no gun.
look me over and then let me put
EN- down. You can have me all
right"
The other two men. Lee Felts and
Ban Phaup. detectives from Roanoke.
did not take his word. The word Of
IN ALLEN or m Alien kinsman 10
never taken when gun play 10 in Ques-
ton. One kept the muscle Of . 1880
at the young mountAineers breast.
while the other felt about him and
confirmed his statement.
All right SID" Then said Felts:
Come on along. You're kind Of lame.
50 we'll find you horse you can
ride into town."
First Fugitive Taken.
Thus quietly and without the firing
of a shot the FIRST OF the fuEitives
mountaineer clansmen was taken. He
is behind the bars now In the little
Jail close by the courthouse. which
hard riding, quick shooting relatives
devastated Thursday week.
Somewhere in similar wild piece
OF country, perhaps on q rocky promo
tory or maybe sheltered by one III
tho almost impeneuaple pine woods
brother. Wesley. his cousins. Friei
and claude Alien. and his uncle. Oid
oiuna Alien. the clan leader.
But they viii not be tnele long, ac-
cordlng to the tnUicALiOns OF the day.
Tor they have already maze TO Inc
" oOCS ana the mouhtaino VI CarrOit.
The Aliens, presumably. are afoot
and probably hall -famished. Either
a surrender or q desperate hight that
will result in the bringing in OF the
ouartette alive or dead Is expected
txNn
may happen at any hour.
Just wnere the Aliens are IL not
known. Sidna Edwards. today prts-
oner would not tell. Of course. The
detectives themsei. es siimed all the
impossibility OF their queriy a. they
asked:
"i1sil." said the boy. reaching fos
a. new tobacco chew. II. AM seen
'em, nohow. done left 'em that
day. They all had horses then and
l was a-walkin'."
..lou walked all tho way from
Hillsville down here to Lambsburs.
Is miles?"
Sure" said young Edwards. Ny
leg kinder bothered me . little, but
l kept steppin' along"
Walk Was Som, Feat.
This walk was more Of feat than
IL 3Ouuoos AOu0B GOWAsNo. Aow
weeks ago scAided one Of his ANKLES
to the BONE by accidentally over
turning q pot OF "hot mash" from
moonshine wh.skey plant around
which he was working. the day OF
the court house shooting. de iimped
along in agony. yet he covered these
Is miles In less than day. ne said
and over rock and through woods.
for her had to keep away from the
public highways. Where he ad spent
the time since he would not say.
Young EdwarGs was put In cell
Immediately. He will be taken to-
morrow 70 Roanoke, lodged in the
biz TAIL there. where his Uncle Floyd.
whose sentencing caused the shoot
inx, his cousins, Victor Allen and
Byrn Marion, are locked up.
Young dwards and his brother.
wesley. were really the ones that
started the whole affair which Is
progressing - startingiy. They broke,
up a S0nday-school meeting. A
deupty sheriff arrested them. Old
Floyd Allen beat the shsriff and re-
leased. the boys. only 10 be arrested
himself later for interfering with an
ofncer. II with this charge on which
r. was convicted. The fatal bat