Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-03-16
HILL BIlL|ES
STILL At LARGE
An Organized Posse of Sixty
Detectives in Pursuit of
Murderers
BLOODY BATTLE IS FEARED
Outlaws Said to Number Eigh.
teen, and to Be Hiding in
Stronghold.
(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)

SITOngnOIO.
(By Special Leased Wire to New Mexican)
Pulaski, Va, March 16.-Hillsville
has practically been cut off from di-
rect communication since early today
A long distance telephone message
from there just received here, howev-
Ell, declares that the reports from the
mountains yesterday of the arrest of
Sydney, Allen, and the killing of his
wife proved erroneous, and that the
outlaw, with his brother, Jack, and
their clan is still at large. An organ
lied hunt for the murderers of the Car
roll county court officers began in
earnest today.
Picked Men in Pursuit.
Hillsville, Va, March 16.-Organ-
lied pursuit of the fugitive Allen out
laws began early today. Sixty detec-
tives, picked men from all over the
state, most of them carrying army
rifles in addition to their revolvers,
were marshalled for the perilous task
OF securing mountain stronghods for
the main body of the gang that wiped
out the circuit court of Carroll county
here Thursday.
Stories as to the strength of the
desperadoes are conflicting but it is
believed that from a dozen to eighteen
of them are together, probably hidden
and entrenched in some out-of-the-way
mountain hole just across the North
Carolina line.
With price on their heads, the
men are expected to battle to the
death when cornered.
Six Are Indicted.
Hillsville, Va, March 16.--No at
tempt has yet been made to capture
Sidna Allen or any of his followers in
volved in the shooting of three court
officers here last Thursday. Until the
men now in Jail have been moved, so
as to release the heavy guard it is un-
! likely an attempt will be made. The
grand jury returned six indictments
against the men in Jail.
|
Roanoke, Va, March 16.-The only
prisoners in Jail at Hillsville are
Floyd Allen, his son Victor, Cabell
Strickland, Byrd Marion, and John
Moore, the last named being arrested
today. Moore held the Allen gangs
horses while they were in the court
room. Members Of The clan al large
in the mountains are Sidna, Jack and
/ Claude Allen, and Wesley and Sidney
Edwards.
Wild Runors Via Wireless.
| Pulaski, Va. March 16.-Many wild
rumors of captures and killings filter
ed into town last night. They came
by word of mouth and through the
mysterious wireless" methods of the
mountains, organized principally to
tell the advent of a revenue officer in
to ''moonshine" district
Reports over the one wire leading
into Hillsville were that Sidna Aller
had not been located and is presumed
to be with his clan.
Ten Murderers.
1t is now definitely known that the
number of outlaws engaged in the
court room shooting was ten. 1t has
been reported that the Aliens We're
reinforced after their retreat to tho
mountains and the authorities prob
ably have 90 or 80 armed and deter
mined men to deal with.
Right Kind of a Governor.
| Governor Mann has sent word tha
the Aliens must be captured at any
cost and that the stain on the com
monwealth must be wiped out
Funeral Of Victims.
Roanoke, Va, March 16.-The fun
eral car bearing the body of Judg.
Massie passed through Roanoke to
day on the way to Lynchburg.
Mrs. Massie and one of her daught
ers are i'll at the Massie home in Pu
laski, and We're unable to go to tn
funeral. Two sons, Cabell and vii
bur, accompanied the body to Lynch
burg as well as members of the ba
from Wytheville and Pulaski.
Located in DEVILS Den.
Charlotte, n. c., March 16.-Th
!, staff representative of a newspape
, here wires today from Fries, Virginia
that Sidna Allen, Claude Allen, "a sol
of Floyd, Sidney Edwards, Ia ne
phew of Floyd Allen) and Freeman
} Allen, a son of Jack Allen, with twent
l of their clansmen, have been locate
at Devils den, in the Blue Ridg
mountains on the North Carolna-Vil
, ginia border.