The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-29
One Precedes the Other to
Eternity by just Nine
Minutes
AFFECTING PARTING
BETWEEN THE TWO
"We'll Be Together Again in a
Few Minutes" Says Floyd.
No Hitch in Double
Electrocution

FORGETTING their lives in atonemcnt
TO the Commonwealth of Virginia for
the part they playel In Decorating a
temple of justice by shooting down
q judge upon the bench, Floyd and
Claude Allen. the Carroll county out
laws, were executed in the electric
chair at the State prison yesterday
afternoon,
The electrocution was without fea-
ture or incident The sturdy noun
taineers, whose crime startled the
country, seated themselves in the
chair and faced eternity with the
same stoital composure that charac-
terized them when. year ago, they
stood In the little court room at Hills
vile, and poured out merciless fire
from their revolvers that wiped out
of existence in les slime than il re
quircs to tell 1t, almost an entire court
staying five persons.
Floyd Goes First.
Floyd Allen. who had exhibited
some nervousness during the last few
DAYS, went TO the chair first. He en-
tered the death chamber at 1;20 AMI
six minutes later was pronounced
dead. The rigid form was quickly
taken from the chair by the attendants
esand at 1870 Claude took his fathers
place in the engine of death. Al
1:s5 he was with his father in the
great beyond.
The parting between father and son
was pathetic. AS he was being led
to the room with the little door
The old man embraced his boy, saying
Goodbye, my son. we'll be together
again in a few minutes.
Sing Hymns While Waiting.
pev Dr. George w MCDANIEL ac-
rom ma MED the elder man TO his death
chamber, and uttered the final pray
srs as the current was applied, tie
then returned to the cell OF Claude,
and. with Rev. j. J. Scherer, sang
HYMNS with Claude while awaiting the
Anal summons for the boy Both min
listers accompanied Claude to the
death chamber. and both were WISH
blv affected, Dr. MCDANIEL almost
breaking down.
claude Allen met his end with COM
sd axnFeGStOn that
betokened absolute resignation--or
uudaunted courage. He looked neither
In right nor left, STROBE into the death
chamber with steady tread. and me-
chemically took his place In the chair
apparently unconsciously adjusting
hands and feet in manner to assist
The operations OF his execuuoners. His
countenance was impassive. with q
vacant stare In the eyes. though with
the features rigid in death there WaS
the suspicion OF smile.
At Ann Ready to Co.
Flova Allen who entered the death
Iehamber with firm step and unsup-
ported, showed no nervousness, be-
yand n rnomentary hesitation as he
anproached the death chair. Then he
sank into it with sigh and move
ment of the lips, which those near
him Interpreted into the exclamation
II am ready to go" Four minutes la
ter the form of the mountain feudist
leader of his clan, VINO had for years
bid defiance TO the law of the land
was removed TO the mortuary chape
to await the undertaker's wagon--vic'
tim OF the law he had defied,
Separate juries of twelve men each
as required by law, witnessed the ex-
ecutfon, and after the electrocution o1
Flody Allen the twelve who had wit
messed were conducted into the of
Aces of the prison, while the twelve
selected to witness the death of the
son were quietly ushered into the
death chamber.
No Hitch in Proceedings
While the plans of the prison au'
thorities for the elrctrocution were
disarranged by the unexpected actor
OF the sympathizers of the CONDEMNED
men the previous night, Superintend'
ent Wood acted promptly so that there
VISA no hitch in the proceedings The
citizens composing the two Juries re
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