The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-15
S Maud Iroler, Engaged to
lesley Edwards, Betrays
Ter Sweetheart and Uncle
Sidna to Officers.
PTURE MADE AT
DIES MONIES, IOWA
h Men Waive Extradition
Id Start for Scene of the
Crime; Girl Returns to.
Claim Her Reward.
Intcrns tional News Service.

y ! International News Service
al rs MONIES, Iowa, Sept. IL
~. Led by an lS.year. girl, who
'rH betrayed her fugitive sweet.
= heart to the hands Of justice,
ectives Baldwin, Lucas and Mum
Of Roanoke, Va, today arrested
!, De Allen and Wesley Edwards, lead,
L snd member, respectively. OF the AL
gang of outlaws who killed Judge
Z Saie and several other men in court
sIHillsville, Va, last March.
taud 1roler of Hillsville, sweetheart
Edwards, came here today 20 marry
She was followed on the same
! |n BY Detectives Baldwin, Lucas
Munger, who trailed her to a
FRing house where both men were
ing and where Allen was arrested
sr he had attempted to draw & re-
4 s}rcr on the officers. Wesley Ed.
Fds WAS caught late this afternoon
be was working with o street paw
gang in one of the suburbs of Des
ines. Allen has been known here
y his real name, but Edwards has been
> ma as Joseph Jackson
hayed by Letters.
Letters from Edwards TO the Iroler
:, while she was still in HillsviIIe led
= me discovery of the men s where
oRts. In Virginia Sidns Allen is
}oTn as ''the old fox of The Blue
. gt and is the leader of the Allen
whose members have been at va.
nee with the law for years. Floyd
Claude Allen arc under sentence OF
4 *fn IN Virginia now for the shoot
at the trial Of another member OF
family. Floyd is n brother of Sid
Allen and Claude is Floyd Allen =
20 other members of The gang,
I, Allen and Sidna Edwards, the
~ brother Of the man captured
today, have been sentenced to
terms. Victor Allen, another de-
aant was acquitted in WythevilIe,
4 Yesterday. Sidna Allen and Wes-
Edwards were hunted through the
Fpnla mountains with bloodhounds
] weeks until all trace of them was
iona Allou will not only 90 back
Rirgnis TO face tho charges against
there without extradition papers,
ne feels that he will be set free it
eau get trial before q fair jury.
Zen Tells Story.
ocHed in cell in the CITY tsn,
na Allen told the story Of every
~ tnat has transpired in the drama
!. enich he was central figure. He
now he had onco been within fif-
- rect of the posses TINT were
'nlng for him. He denied that he
ever sent threats against the Of
~ He told how he decided to run
,2 rather than face trial which
i snought would be unfair. He also
public the method in which his
y lug place and the hiding place OF
nepnow, Wesley Edwards, Ind be-
~ public In telling his story no
i the best of English.
There never WAS feud. do not
, ~" wnat that ID. ] have nevor bcet
ne," said Sidna Allen,
X LIE trouble in the court house
as unexpectedly as anything in
y hie- Floyd Allen WAS charged with
Il Aslng prisoners from the sheriff.
evidence was overwhelmingly in
iAVor, vet they convicted him.
nen Shooting Began.
= ne were standing there when the
s'0 near and around the officials
70 shoot. The sheriff, / have
E, hot long before that had secured
% cartridges and said that he
Wv snow the Aliens when they were
a court. They tried to get the
'E TO carry gun before he went
4, a the bench.
z started away from there the same
J' OF the trouble. The posses were
WITHIN fifteen feet of me, but they
IL, Aol Know it, / never sent wore
y Inht would shoot any Of the OF
y ~ l thought for u while Of 90
81 '", did not think that l coult
iy : falr trial. When I heard tha
y were orders to shoot me O,
y Nontinued On Pago Two.)