The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-16
WAS TRYING TO
GET A START
sIdna Allen, Working In Des Molnes,
Saved His Money and Was
Making Prog
ress.
HUNGRY TO SEE KIDS
Diary and Note Book Shows How He
Was Doing His Best to Get
Fresh Start In
Life.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1 |
DES MONIES, Sept. 16.--Although |
Colonel w. g. Baldwin, Virginia de-
tective who run down Sidna Allen and
Wesley Edwards here and took them
back to Hillsville, Va, to stand trial
| for the courthouse murders, refused
to talk on the subject, it Is understood
that Preston Dickens, mountaineer
who has known Aliens for years,
them valuable information. While he
| will probably get large share OF the
j $2,250 reward for the capture of Sid
ma and Wesley, revenge was his gov
erning motive. Dickens, it is reported,
was sent to prison for counterfeiting
on information furnished by the AL
i lens. After the officers failed to run
down the Aliens with bloodhounds
4 and posses it is reported that they
i turned to Dickens and secured his
4 parole from prison that he might re-
Il turn to his mountain home and work
on the case. 1t is reported that he
J. kept track of the Aliens and their
friends, watched Miss Maud Irolier,
Il sweetheart of Edwards, and gave the
. officers valuable information which
may secure complete pardon for him
! later.
] Police officers here are chagrined
) because they missed the big reward
and allowed Allen and Edwards. tc
live here peacefully for six months
They today assert that Miss Iroliel
was in collusion with the detectives
but this is denied 1t is pointed ou
D that woman rarely betrays her lov
er, that this is particularly true OF
mountain woman and that II Mis-
Irolier wanted to betray Edwards sh'
had only to tell the officers his ad
!. dress and remain at home instead o
making a useless journey here.
Among the papers of Sidna Allen
Hillsyille outlaw captured here Satur
day, reporters today found his dair,
and account book showing that sine
arriving here he had spent but 81
j week for room and about 25 cent
n day for food and had saved hi
NJ wages as a carpenter till he had
a balance of $26S.97 and had signed
e contract with the Winters Acetylin
q Lighting Company, and for Two week
r had been making trips to nearb
sr towns and was working up a bushes
u among farmers, several of whom ha
bought plants from him. The not
81 book contains names and addresses c
a. scores of central Iowa farmers VIII
At had talked with Allen, who gave hi
s name as Thomas Sawyer, about
M lighting plant
Here and there in the book ar
n such expressions as Il would like !
1t see the kids tonight"
lie "Wonder how things are at HON
t, tonight" but nothing that could fu
o. nish clue.
Evidently Allen was making plar
'e- to build up business here and, pc
ne haps in years to come, send for h
'ir family.
by The Sunday School Teacher
OF ROANOKE, Va, Sept 16.-If
no class of twenty-five boys and cir
ne that sits to the left of the aisle in Il
IL little Dunkard church just over Il
TO North Carolina line from Hillsvill
or Va, was without a teacher Sunday
And, reckon" said the teache
TO Maude Irolier, 81 reckon those your
7. ones must have been heap surpri
= ed. | can't remember when ! miss'
Sunday afore.'
Miss Irolier is Wesley Edward