The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-18

/, hesitate to resist. and IL necessary to
mako his resistance effoctual. shoot up
the court and its officers. They further
| informed mo that Floyd Allen had fire.
| aucntly declared that he would mover
submit to any Jail or penitentiary SEN
tence for any offenSe he might com.
NIT and requested me to have him dis-
armed. / refused to have him dfsarmcd
and gave it as my reason thnt II men
like Floyd Allen In Carroll County wcro
made to think that the. court and Its
officers feared violence at their hands,
nothing could be done to mnintain tho
supremacy OF the law in that section.
I Instructed the officers. however, to
select several true and tried men, arm
them and station them I'm convenient
reach OF Floyd Allen and any of his
clan who might be present. with IN
structions that if he should be CON
victed and attempted resistance. to do
whatever appeared necessary 10 sup
press any such effort.
Would Not Go to jail.
''On the trial of this case Floyd AL
len was convicted by the jury and
fined 500 and given one hour In the
county Jail. a motion was made to set
the verdict aside, which motion was
overruled by the court, and thereupon,
Aliens counsel signified n desire to APP
peal the case. and asked bail for the
prisoner. Bail was granted, and in
Nhe meantime the Governor was pc
| Ntioncd by Aliens counsel for par
| DIN I'm so far jail sentence was i'm
pdved upon him. and the prayer OF the
petition was granted.
/ "After this trial, ] was informed by
number OF reputable citizens that
! Floyd Allen, in their presence. declar-
| ed than If an attempt had been made
to send\him to Jail. nc intended TO kill
| the 1udSS of the court and us many of
the officesS as he possibly could before
being taken. Floyd Allen was defend.
ed al that Nrial by Judge Oglesby and
Mr.. Upton. VA day or two after tho
March TRAGEDY Judge Oglesby was in
terviewcd by oNe of the Bristol papers
and in that interview gave brief ac-
count of the trial of Floyd Allen for the
assault on Combs in 1904, and stated
that the same thing would have oc-
Cured then that occurred In March
/ had it not been for Me course the trial
| happened to take.
Fcud Is Rcccnt Excuse.
| "A good deal has been said in con-
nection with the HillsvilIc tragedy
about a political feud between the AL
Ions and the officers OF Me court |
| heard of no political feud Setween the
during my term of office. Atthat time
/ part of the Aliens were Republicans
At the time Floyd Allen WAX being
tried for assaulting Combs ard was
planning TO Kill the court and lis Of
ficers. commemorative Attorney Fos-
ter and Lewis Webb had been in Nof-
flee only very short while, and Dex
ter CiOad had not at that time been
elected clerk. ana had nothing what
ever to do with the administration OF
law in Carroll County
THE only feud | knew about be-
tween the officers of the court and the
Aliens during my term OF office was
IL feud of law against lawlcssncss-y
fcud between men engaged on one
hand in endeavorinE TO discharge their
duties and enforce the law and on the
other hand men whose disposition and
purpose was to trample all law under
their feet.
Hated the Law.
The disposition, temper and atti-
tude OF the Aliens towards the Carroll
court and it's officers in March, 1912
was in no wise different from what II
had been from 1904 down to that date
Politics had nothing whatever to dc
with it, The Aliens cared nothing
about politics. They hated the court
and the officers OF the Carroll court
because they were engaged in enforc-
ing the law, and this would have beer
the attitude regardless OF the polite.
OF tho court and it's officers
u desire to say further. that / knew
intimately and we'll tho Carroll officer:
who were slain b. these men las
March, aud 1t gives me pleasure l,
testify TO their worth as men and "A!
officers
"Of Judge ATasse. | need not sneak
His splendid character as a man ant
as judge of this Commonwealth j:
well known to Your Excellcncy.
In section in which condition:
demand a stern and rigid enforcement
of law. I found William Foster, Levi!
Webb and Dexter Gcad true and loyal
They We're not only faithful officers