Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-02-01
LAST APPEAL FOR ALIENS.
Y
to Have One-Hour Au-
q dience With Governor.

Richmond, ' d., eo'
ro, reconrse exhausted and all hope
from the courts gone, Allen sympa-
th;zers. who are bent upon saving
Tho condemned men from the electric
chair will make their final stand to-
dssv before Governor Mann in an APP
peal for executive clemency'
When the State Supreme Court OF
Appeals turned down the second ap-
zeal of the counsel for Floyd and
Claude Allen, in the form of petit
lion for g rehearing Of the case, sew
Saral weeks ago. with the opinion that
5tthe petition was without precedent
7 and that the so-called after discover
s8ed evidence was without sufficient
merit to warrant action anyhow, Gov
ernor Mann respited the Aliens until
March I, and further assented to the
appeal of those interested to grant
one more. hearing, fixing the date for
the audience as February l, and lin
ting it to one hour.
So today at II o'clock the delega-
ton will wait on the executive and
present to him the strongest reasons
at its command for communication OF
sentence. The gentlemen who VIII
probably compose the delegation are
keeping their own counsel as to what
pressure will be brought to bear IN
the last analysis, but in the opinion
of those who have watched the case
closely the same ground will be gone
over as taken in the former hearing
only that it will be presented IN
more concrete shape. There have
been no developments in the case since
the Supreme Court passed on the
second appeal, and at that time the
special counsel engaged for the pur-
pose marshalled an array Of every al
legation and presumption Of fact OBJ
tainable. all of which the tribunal pro-
nounced cumulative and not tending
one whit in extenuation OF the gilt oil
the father and son.
1t is the general impression that the
petitioners for executive mercy Will
lay stress upon the lighter sentences
imposed upon the members of the Al
len clan tried since Floyd and CLAUDE
for participation in the same crime,
and will renew the appeal for Claude,
based on his youth, GOOD looks, and
the theory that he used his gun in a
natural instinct in defense Of his Ia
Their. All of these arguments were
gone into exhaustively at the previous
hearing before the Governor, and I'M
less the Aller sympathizers have cards
I'D their sleeves which they have not
played, the hearing today will be a
condensed repetition Of the former
hearing. Limited to an hour, it is the
presumption that the audience today
with the Governor will be held in his
office in the Capitol.
Judge Bolen. counsel for Floyd Al
len at the time of the Huntsville court
house murders and the chief witness
for the Commonwealth in all Of the
trials followed, will form one Of the
delegation which will wait upon the
Governor. Miss Nellie WiSsler, sweet
heart of Claude, will visit Claude at
the State prison. Whether she VIII
add her appeal to the others is not
known, though it is presumed that
She will. Victor Allen, son of Floyd
nd brother of Claude, will wait upon
= he Governor with the others of the
legation in an appeal for his father
d brother, and Judge Hairston and
III, Willis. of Roanoke, who were
nsel for Floyd and Claude in their
err trials, and will add their voices
ihe final appeal for clemency for
Condemned men.