Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-09-18

ALLf CLA NsN1EN ARE CAUGHT.
: Love Afair Causes their Capture
S SEetectivcs Follow Finncc.

DesSsioines, Iowa, Sept. 14.-Sid-
na AlEn, leader Of the Allen clan
whichERhot up the Carroll county
court; puse at Hillsville, Va, March
Ia, aIM his nephew, Wesley Ed
wardsMo-night are en- route to Vir-
glnia,&pr trial as a result Of love
affair." #hich led detectives to them.
Both lave announced their willing
ness return to Virginia without
requisfAon.
Ed9Srds. for the love of whom
Miss Maud 1roler, Of Cana, Va, had
innocently led detectives to Des
MoinesE was captured tonight as he
was returning to his boarding house,
afterahhying worked all day with
paying8gang. Just as he boarded
street Gar detectives and officers sur
roundeHH. Edwards was trying to
escape BY crawling through the front
end oftthe car when officers caught
him. he arrest of Sidna Allen was
effected&earlier in the day.
Tho Fatal Clues.
A visit by Edwards to Miss Iroler
in heSsy Virginia home about a
month Shgo, and the accidental loss
OF a LETTER. put the detectives on the
trail. The fugitives had been in Des
MoinesBince April 28. Allen, under
the name Of Tom Sayre, worked as
carpentsr, and Edwards, under the
name Oh Joe Jackson, was employed
with aHity paving gang.
AllenEwas arrested at the home Of
John SCameron, at Eleventh and Lo-
Gust stEsets, where he and his ne
phew Ind been rooming, by Detect
ives Baldwin, Lucas and Mundy, of
Roanoke, Va. The arrest occurred
few minutes after Miss Iroler step
ped into the Cameron home to meet
Edwards, whom she was to we'd to-
night, according to an arrangement
made when he visited her in Vir-
ginia.
DetecHve Lucas was at her heels.
Allen WAS in an upper room. When
lnformed that visitors wanted 10 see
him, hesicame down stairs. AS he
did SO Detective Lucas covered him
with a rsYolver and asked him to sur
render. ESAllen hesitated and then
threw upIhis hands, remarking as he
did so;:3M guess I'm your man"
searcfi for Edwards, AZ, &,
Allen was handcuffed and placed
under a guard of city detectives while
Col. Baldwin and Chief Jenny, of the
local department, went in search of
Edwards, who was said to be at work
in the western part Of the city. Ap-
parently Edwards had heard that AL
len had been captured because he
was not to be found until night.
Miss Iroler arrived here this morn
ing, unaware that on the same train
were detectives who wanted her
sweetheart She went straight to
the Cameron home, having previous
ly been provided with the address,
and the officers followed.
Although surprised, she took the
arrest Of Allen and the capture of
Edwards with little show of concern.
wesley was down home month
ago." she said. 1--WE were to be
married and he gave me the money
to come to this city and this address.
had no idea that any one was fol-
lowing me-"
Wouldn't Say Much.
] Sidna Allen, in his cell tonight,
| talked freely Of the events Of the
| last few months, but declined to say
| much concerning his movements i'm
| mediately after the court house trag-
| edy. Edwards and he remained in
the mountains of Virginia and North
Carolina for about month and then
| got over In Kentucky, going to Louis
vile, where they spent several days
Their next stop was in st. Louis,
where they remained a week. They
had sufficient money for their needs
and Travelled as first class passen-
gers.
II don't know why we came to
Des Moines," said Allen, "unless it
was that l thought we would be
safer here. Several years ago ! was
in the Klondykc, and ! figured that
the officers would think had gone
back there. So we came to Des
Moines and got work as carpen-
ter and expected to remain here un-
til it was safe back home
81 would have given myself up
long ago If I had thought we could
get square deal. But see what they
have done to Floyd, my brother, and
Claude"
Allen declared that the court
house tragedy was the fault of the
officers, who, he said, began the
shooting.
1--WE heard a few days before
Floyd Aliens trial began that Sheriff
Webb had bought a hundred rounds
Of cartridges and had made the re-
mark that he was going to show that
Allen gang some real court but we
did not expect trouble that day and
there would not have been any If the
officers had not begun it"
In Handouts They Go Home.
Cincinnati, Ohio Sept. 15.---IIand-
cuffed, guarded by three stalwart
detectives and accompanied by the
girl who unconsciously gave the po-
lice the clue to their hiding place,
Sidna Allen and his nephew, Wesley
Edwards, arrived here tonight from