The Sentinel=record., 1912-03-29
CLAUDE ALLEN l. SURRENDERED
ANOTHER MEMBER OF ALLEN GANG GROWS WEARY OF PLAY.
 ING AT HIDE AND SEEK.
crawls Out of Thicket and Gives Up to Detectives-Hunery, Weary and Worn Out, He Expresses
 His Satisfaction

Hillsville, Va, March 2S.--Starying. sleepless and fatigued, Claude Swan son Allen, namesake of United States senator, came out of the Lati- rel thicket ill the Blue Ridge today, pointed two six-shooters toward the sky and gave himself up to the posse, which for nearly two weeks has hunt ed him.
 Complacent and almost happy, he sat tonight, sheltered from a driving storm, in the little brick Jail, a stones throw from Carroll court house, where on March IA the Allen gang venge- fully killed the judge, the prosecu- tor, the sheriff, juror and by stander.
 All day the posses. divided into small bodies, had been following trail thought to be that of Wesley Edwards, a nelhew of the Aliens. Detective Lucas and four men were working toward Floyd Aliens house when 25 yards or so off the Mount Airy road, a figure creeping stealth fully through the undergrowth, was | dimly seen through the mist which | overhung the mountain slope Close behind Lucas, the other men brought their rifles to their shoulders, when, to their surprise. Allen stepped ou. into the road. his hands appraised, a | pistol in each.
 l I'm glad to get a chance to come 1 in he said. q haven't slept in a bed since the shooting. I'm hungry.
 The young mountaineer swung in between the men of the posse and they started back to Hillsville. His pouched eyes and roughened face con | firmed his plea of exhaustion but his broad shouldered form lowered above the men who had taken him.
 T could have shot you" he said as he smiled and nodded toward De tective Lucas, but 1 was a little ex cited at having you come upon me s' soon. Anyway, 1 didn't want to have l to kill anybody"
 Some bread and a cask of water were found hidden in a thioket and I Allen said they were all he had been living on for several days. Detec tives declared one of the revolyers in his hands was used in the court house shooting.
 The boy talked freely on the long journey over soggy roads back to Hillsyille, and when the party reach ed the jail the drizzle had turned to d downpour. The troop of horsemen picked their way into the village, Though the whole country side had learned by the wireless" of the wood land country that another Allen had been taken, there was no excitement The young fellow was put in charge of two armed deputy sheriffs. Claude's capture gives renewed l hone of the capture of the three re maining fugtives- -Sidna Allen, his nephew, Friel Allen and Wesley Ed wards. Although Claude stoutly de nied any knowledge of the hiding place of the three, it is believed he was attempting to carry some of his | meager stock of food to his relatives when he was taken. Young Allen probably will be taken tomorrow to the Roanoke jail where some of his | kinfolk are already.
 l A movement has been started among Virginia women to present a l gold medal to Jozebel Goad, daugh ter of Clerk Goad, who ran to hei | fathers side when he was under fire
 by the Allen gang. and brought
 freshly loaded pistol for him to con tinue fine battle. Mrs. William H Mann, wife of the governor, is head | ing the movement.