The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-03-22
ONE OF GANG
IS CAPTURED.
sda. edwards Surprised BY OFFICERS
Before he Had . Chance to
Make Any Resist
anee.
PRICE ON HIS HEAD
Young Man Was Present In oour'
Room When Murders Were Com
mitted and Allen Gang
Escaped.
PRICE ON HIS HEAD.

Iun1teQ FTeSS lodcou WhS oCA'iSS.i
ROANOKE, Va, March 22.-Sidna
Edwards, nephew to Sidna Allen, and
one OF the mountaineers wanted for
the murders in Judge Massie's court
room. was captured at Lambsburg, NJ.
G., at dawn today by Detectives Lee
Felts and w. W, Thaut, according to
long distance message to the Bald
win agency here this afternoon.
The message stated that Edwards
had been surprised and oyerpowered
before he had time to offer any re-
sistance. He will be brought to
Roanoke at once and lodged in the
iail where Floyd Allen, his uncle
Victor Allen, his cousin, Bird Marion
and Cabeil Strickland are now held
awaiting trial.
Sidna Edwards. mere youth, was
nm eye witness to the Hilisville trag-
edy and is said to have been in the
crowd Of mountaineers whose bullets
killed Judge Massie, Prosecutor Eos
ter, Sheriff Webb, Juror G. G. Fowler
and Miss Betty Ayers.
He has price Of $500 on his head.
The posse which left the town SO
hurriedly on Tuesday night and has
not vet returned from camping on the
trail Of the Allen gang, is absolutely
in the dark as to the whereabouts OF
the murderers. This was frankly ad-
mitted today by Detective Felts, now
IN charge OF the Baldwin operatives.
Eve have. not any definite inforrna
tion,s he added. "We are operating
on the belief that they are in the
mountains, but as to the probability
Of a capture at any time soon, no one
can make any predictions We viii
continue afte, them until we get them
that's all.
With this statement In mind. towns
people here today settled dowr
awaiting a long drawn out guerillf
campaign by the posses pursuing the
inurderers
Preparations are being made for thu
trial of Floyd and Victor Allen herr
next week.
It was learned today that the com
monwealth has secured verbal eyi
dence from {, former friend of th
Aliens, tending to show that TIL
murders were a part Of CAREFUL,
planned plot. Floyd Allen, 1T wa
said, was to give the signal for tn
shooting by voicing protest agains
further proceedings
Judge N. H. Haister and W. Fl
Willis, counsel for Floyd and Victor A
len arrived here today to prepare fo
their clients defense. Some of tn
stories of the wealth of the sllens ar
disproved by tax records here, whic
show that Sidna Allen, leader of tn
clan, rerorted as fabulously rich an
FLOYD Allen are assessed on very littl
real and personal property Every b
OF this property is now tied up wit
liens secured by heirs of those who
the Aliens murdered. 1t was said t
day, however, that friends Of tn
prisoners who are held at Roanoi
under strong guard, had offered fina'
cial aid
1t is upon the 100 mountaineers
the posse organized in the coal minir
region to the southwest that the a
thorities are pinning their faith
the early capture or death at bay
the outlaws. These men know u
ground almost as well as the Allen
They will do the actual huntingdon
OF the fllgitivee whf1e men hare llnd
Walter Belts chief assistant to Dete
I'VE Tom Felts, guard the outer pass
TO prevent escape from the northe
side of the hills.