The Washington times., 1912-03-16
SID ALLEN DEFIES
POSSES TO REMOVE
HIM FROM HOUSE
Reported Battle and Death
of Outlaw Proves
II Myth.
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mountain passes, the gang is waiting
for ~pursuers, waiting with hundreds of
rounds of ammunition per man. and
with the determination never to be cap
turcd alive.
Four lives have already been snuffed
out in the deadly game the gaunt noun
taineers play. a fifth may be added
today, as Juror Fowler is unconscious
and physicians hold out no hope for
his recovery.
Death Toll To Date.
Up to today nountsinerrs' bullets
had claimed
JUDGE THORNTON L. MAsSlE
COMMONWr N.THS ATTORNEY
WILLIAM FCSTEE
CARROLL COUNTY SHERIFF.
LEWIS WEBB.
MISS BETTY AYRES.
Partly accountable Cor this toll of
death, a maEeshrt shcriffs guard Is
night and day watching four men-two
of them wounded
Floyd Allen, brother to Sid"
Victor Allen. Flo, DIS son
CaHell Strickland.
Bud Marion.
Sid Allen, recognized as the most des-
perate spirit in he desperate Allen
gang, was reported captured late yes
terday after a pitched battle 1t was
said that the detectives only got him
alive because he was stunned by two
wounds. and because his faithful wife,
partner even in his defiance of law
and order, and aid in his battle against
the posse, was dead.
This report was brought to Hillsville
ny mountaineer. who declared that
ing rifles for her husband, who, barri-
caded in his home, was fighting the
posse The report was flashed to the
outside world, and it was not known
only told what he firmly believed
would happen should the authorities
attempt to take Sid Allen.
Waiting In Mountains.
Reports here today led the detectives
to believe that the outlaws are hiding
their time, waiting the battle in one
of their mountain passes. Watchers on
the North Carolina border do not be-
heve the men have come over the line,
except it Is believed, for replenishng
their supply of ammunition
The man hunt has been delayed be-
cause of the unfamiliarity of the de-
tectives with the mountain trails. To-
day, however, three internal revenue
agents, who know every foot of the
ground from long campaigns in the
Blue Ridge against "moonshining ar
rived to aid, and Secret Service OPERA
tive f.. II. Thomas is expected also
with these as scouts. and aided by a
rev grim mountaineers with a feud
vengeance against the Aliens. detec
tiveS feel confident of reaching the
gangs hiding place.
The officers are completely armed; so
are the outlaws. In their dash to the
latter rOnhp1 a
of its ammunition. 1t is the most des-
perate man-hunt ever witnessed in the
Virginia mountains, where the Allen
gang has ruled by power of lead for
years.
Further sensation was caused by the
attempt of Floyd Allen to complete the
work of the WoundS he had received
from the revolver of brave Sheriff Webb
by cutting his throat with a penknife.
Allen was captured in room at the
Elliot House here. His son Victor and
Cabell Strickland and Byrd Marion, two
other adhercnts, are being held in Jail
as witnesses to yesterdays outrage
against human life and the law and
dignity of the State.
Young Victor had stood guard over
his father with rifle, fearful of an at
tempt to lynch him. Late last night,
with the aid of Strickland and Marion,
he carried his wounded parent to the
Elliot House and put him in bed
there, Allen having been lying on the
bare floor of the jury room in the court
house.
ArrivalNef Detectives.
From the nearest railroad station,
through twelve miles of mud up to the
hubs of their wagons and in which they
sank to their ankles when they walked,
which they had frequently to do to rest
the horses on the steep grades, grim
company of tWenty-fOur men, under the
direction OF Baldwin and Feltz, heads
of a Southern detective agency marched
into Hillsville armed with rifles and re-
VolVcrs with saSging ammunition bel.s
around their waists. They had Deeh
advised to bring their own ammunition
beCOuse in preparation for the great
crime they intended to commit the gang
had bought up every cartridge Tor Shot-
gun, rifle or revolver in HilsV1!le ana
the neighboring town of Pulaski. The
situation has since been relieved by the
arrival of Captain DCNant, of the ROa-
nolIc company of the state militia, with
case Of Springfield rifles and 200
rounds of ammunition
Baldwin and Feltz and their men
constituted a searching posse, but fully
400 other citizens were armed and
formed into a guard about the jail.
gang is not questioned. and the possi-
biity Of their making sortie to rescue
the prisoners taken yesterday was not
lightly regarded.
rival of armed forces he sternly bade
his son leave him to his fate in the
Elliot Hotel. The boy, who had dehed
the whole town last night IN standing
guard over his father. obeyed the com
mand without q word of protest lie
and Strickland and Marion were Cor-
nered in the street by the armed de-
teCtives, and In parley. in which tHG
hOpeIesSneSS Of resistance was pointed