Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-03
FUG|T|vES LEAVE
THEIR BAGGAGE
Blankets and Canteens Thrown Aside
ia Mad Rush to Escape
Dogs
PROCLAMATION OF GOVERNOR
Alien Clan Threatened With Arrest
for Aiding and Abetling Outlaws
Officers Rely Upon Dogs.

Mt. Airy, N. c., April 3.-Bayins
blo0dhounds were. turned loose agair
at dawn today on the trail Of Sidns
Allen and Wesley Edwards the onl!
two uncaught outlaws of the Hills
Vile court room tragedy Of March Ii
Although washed by mountain tor
rents, the trails are thought dry en-
ough today for the dogs to follow the
scent they abandoned in their last
chase.
Time Spur, twelve miles from this
city, is where the two outlaws are be-
licvcd to be located today. Cordons
of detectives have been thrown around
the mountain, while the dogs were put
upon new scent.
From Fancy Gap, twenty miles
from Time Spur, the outlaws were fol-
lowed. Traces Of the quarry" in the
man hunt were found yesterday near
Fancy Gap, but the mountaineers now
declare the men are now amOushed in
the dense thickcts of Time Spur.
Desperation of the hunted men is
shown by their abandonment of all
baggage; even their blankets and can
teens were thrown aside in the mad
rush to escape before the dogs brought
from Richmond.
Detectives Payne and Lucas today
secuted the tale that Sidna ALLEN and
Edwards had been shot. at yesterday
by moonshincr named Ayers. The
mountaineer declares he was held up
by. Allen when they chanced to meet
on d mountain trail near Barren Creek
and that Sidna Allen enjoined secrecy
upon the man at the point Of his rifle
The detectives say that the hunted
men have only been seen at i great
distance upon two or three occasions,
as they fitted through open spaces
during their retreat to new and safer
faStneSS.
While the posse leaders are closing
in on the fleeing outlaws, detectives
are closely watching the homes of the
two men. They threaten arrests of
several Of the Allen clan for aiding
and abetting the men by giving them
shelter and provisions during the ear
lier days of the chase.
On the south and north sides of the
Allen retreat, several of the posse have
been out of communication with the
leaders of the hunt for two days, be-
cause of the heavy rains which have
made travel impossible. That these
members of the posse have sighted
their game" is thought probable.
Great reliance upon the wrinkle
jawed, sad-looking dogs is placed by
detective Tom Felts and the Baldwins
because of their success in convlctlng
Henry Clay Beattie, Jr, of the murder
of his wife. Detective Baldwin hand,
led the dogs in the Beattie case, as he
us in the chase of the HiIlsville muir
derers.
The bloodhounds have already con-
yinced the detectives that Allen ant
Edwards have been oscillating be-
tween the houses of Floyd Allen ant
that of another relative, Hubbard Es
ter, until turned into the mountain
depths when they realized the beast:
were on their trail.
Calm has succeeded the stormy eX
citement in Hillsville, but the noun
taineers are now on the quivive, eX
pecting news almost any minute o.
the capture, dead or alive, OF the twt
missing leaders Of the court room
Tragedy.
Richmond, Va, April 3.-Governo'
Mann this afternoon is preparing
proclamation warning all persons
against furnishing aid or shelter u
the two Allen outlaws now being hunt
/ ed down in the mountains near Hills
Vile for their murders in Judge Mas
sizes court room. The Governor threat
ems all who assist the fugitives will
prosecution.
The proclamation was decided upol
after a long conference between tn
/ Governor and Detectives Baldwin an
Felts. The man-hunters asserte'
that the search for Sidna Allen an
Wesley Edwards would be continue
until they were caught, but predicte
capture within the next few days.