The Washington times., 1912-03-17

Carrou county court IN order TO show
the transient supremacy OF mob rule.
The attorneys for the prisoner are
said TO have assured the judge and the
prosecutor that rumors of violence wero
ungrounded, and that the majesty Of tho
law would BE upheld.
Reach for Guns.
They reckoned, however, without the
knowledge of the fires of hatred that
smoldered l nthe breast of every AL
len, who reached for his gun as old
Floyd stood up to receive his sentence.
The bloody tragedy OF Hillsville is
without a parallel in the criminal his
tory of this country. There have been
Individual acts of lawlessness; there
have been the shouts of mobs bent upon
the overthrow of capital; there have
been lynchtngs, incendiarism, and riots,
but never before has any man or any
group of men endeavored to destroy in
one bloody blow all that stands for law
and order in an ordinarily peaceful COM
munity.
once in Breathitt county, KY, a feud-
ist walked to the bench, placed a pistol
| in the face of the judge and said
II guess you had better adjourn this
cote"
| Court was adjourned for the day, but
the next day the militia came and the
! Aliens, who are said to be possessed
| of more intelligence than the feudists
who made the name OF Breathitt n re-
proach, were not even that considerate
Of court of Justice. They warned not.
They shot and then fed to mountain re-
treats that must be invaded perhaps
with more bloodshed, II the defiance OF
| lew is to have atonement.
| Newspaper correspondents and detec.
| tives who fiocked to Hillsville expected
| to find that the Aliens lived in squalid
| cabins, as do some of their more un-
fortunate mountain neighbors. They
found instead that the Aliens are fair
| ly well to do; that some of them are
ever wealthy, and that their homes
| transplanted to a less remote spot
| would not be out of harmony with their
surroundings!
Aliens Are Hospitable.
Those who have visited the Aliens in
their homes say that they are hos
pitab'e and kind to the stranger within
their gates. They are good providers
they live we'll for people WEc are tbir-
teen miles from railroad; they are
not unusual folks-eXcept that they pc.
lieve that the mountains in which they
have been reared are particularly theiI
own. and that the law OF personal
retribution should rue instead Of the
laws which are made by legislature.
and carried out by regularly consti
tuted courts.
THE Aliens have got sort of an idea
that they ought to run things hero,
abouts," said a Hillsville villager to-
day. They've done pretty much a.
sorter get r1led when anybody crosses
their path. We have got used to 1
down here in Carroll county. and We
just stood it. That's all. ! never ex
pscted; though, that the Aliens woule
And old FLOYD Allen. wounded nigf
unto death, and realizing that rescu,
from the band in the mountain fast
nesses is now impossible. griml!
For two weeks my wife has been
tellin' me that l ought to go on ant
take what they handed out to me.
thought l was a goin' to do It, but yol
see ! didn't I amt never been to jail
until now"
That is the sum and substance Of tn
tragic story of Hillsville. The Law
ranges and to take hold OF the destinie
of section hitherto ruled by brut
force and what the Aliens term man
hood
Full" of Moonshine.
One day a man met an Allen on on
of the muddy mountain trails-the mu
: is often two feet deep on these hi
roads This Allen was in street an
mountain parlance full"
What are you full Off" asked tn
traveller.
l Full of moonshine and manhood.
) said the Allen. The quesdoner turne
out and gave Allen the roadway.
Judge Masste. the country prosecutor
t and the sheriff didn't give old Floy
Allen the road in the Carroll count
t court house the other day. They ar
dead now, and the electric chair a
/ Richmond waits for the lawless ALE
2 gang.