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ale.— iblic road^ ssary out- good pas- i red soil of the best r for sale. I on public rust Co. - N. C. nail. S(‘c if Tif‘as (' V Selhtrs Chti. DJohnsou ir M' Brown K I and are in a po- |i kinds, prompt- PANY treets lNSREUNION 1912. kres. ILWAY luthern Railway will 'ON GA., and return ROUND TBIP S 8.75 9.15 |h 8.50 Im 8.00 [her stations. 7th and 8th, with )refer to stay longer^ I fee of fifty cents you ne 5th, 1912. Itted on these tickets, ly Southern Railway N. C. »ase Ball. rJiTP UlSpatCn. ALLEN TELLS Koanoke, Ya., March 20.— Fiovde Allen, whose sentence to one year imprisonment led to the pgedy in court at Hillsville last Thursday, today gave his story of the tragedy. It reads; ‘ i and my son have been lock- pd up here nearly a week now. I ^yant a square deal. In the first, place, my son "^ctor never ftred a single shot. We both ex- Let to be electrocuted. Our murder is as certain as the sun wili rise tomorrow. But it will hP olain murder, if they put Vic in the chair. Me? Why, sure, bvisiness men seeTving yoiat —and show ambition to than indorse all other busi- ts. Internationa] reputation. Itiiuetie, letter Writinp, BasinM* I under lecsonable conditions, idy. Thousands of batikcas^' \eepcrs^ and stenographers ' >od posttioTis as the resnll ^vijjhon’s Home Study. _ )GUE. For prices on lessoDb write Jxo. F. DrauGHOS. I Xasl'iville, Tenn. Yorfreec.'sX- '.rse AT COLLEGE, ilNESS COL.L.EGK ■ Na«hville, Tenn. i'fired. But before God I give my solemn oath I did not Et the firing, I did not know u’hen Judge Massie pronounced sentence that there would be any shoot ing. It came unexpected ly to me. That there was a con- spitscy is a lie. “Of course, when everybody else started shooting I got my pis to! and joined in the fray. Why shouldn’t I? It was in self-de fense. When our people went into the courtroom they intend ed to kill nobody, and I at heart was ready to go to jail. I am i,ut afraid of death, and that is what is looking us in the face. “Judge Hairston is my lawyer but they won’t give him any show. We will be all tried in Carroll county if I have any say abour it, and we Allens—we are ficrhting men—will show them bow an Allen can go to his death; but Vic, 1 want you to help save him. The boy never drew his gun, Maybe he ought to have, bui’ne didn't. 1 Ex-Judge N. H. Hairston said: "i W&6 asked by Mr. Allen to visit him today, and when I saw him he insisted on my acting as hi? counsel. I have not decided whether I v/ill do so or not, but no matter what position I take I would like printed this statement “Both Victor and Floyd Allen have given me their solemn oaths that they did not start the firing that day in the Hillsville Court house. I believe them. These are not the ordinary type of mountaineers. These people are men of property and sense. No matter what crime a man may have committed he is entitled to a fair hearing, and these people will get theirs or I will know the reason why.” Floyd A.Uen is, comparatively speaking, old, but he is still strong and vigorous. Standiing’ over six leet in his socks his car nage is erect; he is alert and vig oroiis with a mass of curley gray hair covering his head. His brow is broad: his eyes twinkle and iiash as he speaks. He is better educated than the usual moun taineer and he talks with intelli gence upon ordinary current top ics. Judge Hairston was permitt ek to visit him today only after repeated attempts. A minister aiso visited him for more than an fiour and after he left said: Whatever this man’s crime Way be he has repented and the gates of Heave’' will not be clos ed against him.” In his talk with his lawyer. Alien bent down and wept. Jud- he said, “lam not afraid to Qis. but my wife, I love her to- oay as much as I did when I mar nea her when I was a boy. These people won’t let me see het or ^end her a message.” . you advise them to give asked Judge Hairston, ^ever!” was the emphatic reply. "We are now marked To give in would be to our own death warrants, the Allens will fight.” Here old man broke down and I'ept pitifully and implored the ‘^wyer to save Victor. but Governor Mann and the auth orities are patming a coup. A plan is afoot which is expected to materialize the last of this week or the first of next. The Governor admitted this today and declined to discuss his plans, “I don’t think it proper to say what these steps are, ’ ’ he said, “but they are vigorous and, I think in the right direction.” The posse which left here so hurriedly on Tuesday night has not been seen or heard from since. It is now know that the hunt^irs will not quarter in Hills ville but will stay out in the mountains and camp on the trail of the outlaws. This latest move supports the theory that the two small posses which have been operating in and out of town were merely blinds to conceal the naoyemente of the larger posse, which hi^ been secretly brought over into the mountains from ♦•he coal fields, and that the det ectives have been feinting with the smaller posses foi* the benefit of those friends of the Allens who are supposed to have been keeping them posted. tol at the court house or while 1 was tryiiig to keep from beingar rested.” It is understood that witnesses before the grand, jury which re turned the indictment testified that Sidna Edward.s handed a pistol on the court house green to Sidha Allen to enable the latt er to contin\ie his pistol duel with Clerk Goad truth, liberty, and redemption. “And indeed in all that related to Tne World and to Mr. Pulit zer’s unwearying activity on its behalf I can bear testimony to ^is passion for accurate informa tion. No trouble was too great, no exertion too burdensome, fio expense too heavy if at the end there was a reasonable prospect of the truth being discovered.” Hillsville, Va., March 22. —Sid na Edwards, aged 22, a tall rug ged mountaineer, sat calmly in the darkness of the little brick jail here tonight, the first catch of the posses who have been scouring the mountains for those of the Allen gang who got away after the court house assassina tion of March 14, when a judge, prosecutor, sheriff and two by standers were killed and two ot hers were seriously wounded. Tonight young Edwards, em aciated and worn from a week’s wandering in the thicket, pro tests his innocence of the indict ment of murder against him, and the hunters, spurred on by ? days success, are up in the Blue .Ridge bunting for the same charge, his brother,- Wesley Edwards, his uncle Sidna Allen, and his cou sins, Claude and Friel Allen. Detective Legrand Felts and W. W. Phaut, heading a posse, came upon Edwards at 4 o’clock this morning, asleep in an empty hat a mile from his home. He was unarmed and when he awoke th^ detectives were at his side. He made no resistance and went to a farmer’s house near Lambs- bttrg, ya., and started for Hills- viile With his captors early today, Ja^ik , Allen, his uncle—one of the Aliens who was not. at the court house on the day of the tragedy, joined his nephew on the way in and galloped along with the party They 'canteyed in and paused while the moving picture men clicRed off a lew hundred feet of riiirt. Detectives carrying rifles luiiuwed closely. The party t-n ueu in at a little lane where ciic raiue. ci a week ago drew rein a,iid icit tue.r ponies while they vvent to wipe out tiie human fa- oiic ui Cairuil coiit'L. iiiida. left nis mount iUiU was husiled to the iittie jail across froin the stable. tie pfuLeijLfcjJ rigaiii">t being P'lt into a rnasiy cell atid watueU to accupy the coiTidor, but his keep er Was stern and lucked him up. Jack Alien came out and said to ihe newspaper men; ‘’Aiy nephew rfidna is the most peaceable man in th« county. He wouldn't know what to ao With a gun if he had it. Spencer, March 22,—H. T. HacKet of Spencer gives an inter esting aecoujit of a visit made last fall to the Hillsville section of Virgiaid.' He stopped at a splendid farm house and made arrangements with the landlord to hunt a few days in the moun tains. Taking their guns, they started out up the mountain and were fiied upon from ambush when only half way to tiie top. Mr HacAtt laid flat down in tiie wag^n beu while his host took shdter behind the oxen they were drivii ij^. The owner of the team, realizing the dangerous situation took Mr. Hacket^s gun and returned the fire, shooting a dozen or more times at his as sailants. He received a score or more shot in the fac^ and neck and had to return to Mouiit Airy for treatment. The effect of the shots fireu by himself were un known. His assjiiiiciuts were al so unknown. This occured in the neighbor hood of Sidna Allen. Mr. Hack- et states that he spent a short time at his home, a splendid brick mansion with all modern conven iences. Although Mr. Hacket went to Carroll county to buy land, it took him but a short time to decide that he did not want to Fun Ahead We are expecting some fun from that Senatorial primary. It will be remembered that in 1900 when the Democrats stole: the election, that it was reported that through Mr. Simmons* ef forts as State Chairman, Halifak county went Democratic by 5000 majority, when in fact there was not that many voters in the county. It wi^s also , reported that Mr. Simmpns, when inform ed ias to the tremendous majority wired back, “Foir God sake re duce your majority.'^ The people over the. state thought that it was Simmons who did the worK, but come to think of it, Halifax county is where Gov. Kitchin was born and raised, it is the home of the Kitchen’s. It looks to us like its going to be blackgum against thunder and lightning.—News Dispatch THINK THIS OVER. own a farm in that section mountains. 01 the (Continued on First Page). Pulitzer’s Passion for Tiiitl>. lool Vs— Graham'Grad^ Bingham. Atlantic Christ- |ool| “ Graham Graded ‘ ‘ Whitsett. “ Oak Ridge. “ Davidson. “ Lenoir. “ WakeF»^t. Hillsville, Va., March 21.-A- “Other tr.agedy was enacted in old Carroll county court house joaay. Another troop of moun- vain outlaws rode in, shot the ■ pge down olf hib bench and du- P'lcated the gruesome assassina- .of a week ago—but this time ori]y for the moving pic- di u' moving picture actors ill more firing and made more ^t'Ket and caused almost as fuss a« the real outlaws j‘U and Hillsville almost had as Dnb ^^'^itement over again. The real fighting was between v® nioving picture men. Hills- ,‘le rialto, which extends from L^i^ourt house to the black- I ^th shop, was not replete with 1 j^ateur. Thespians who want- Jo take a part in the scene, ^^f«Petitions for their ser- i es was keen. The pictures je hnally made after much re- while the camera men aar ® stage (pv'^Sers with megaphone made \pes in the nearby hills. \r ” fcuc uearoy mas. luo^anwhile the chase of the for all that know, has sot most folk progressed. In the presence of Detective Felts, Edwards talked freely to night. “I know nothing of the cause of the court house shooting” he said. “I walked into the court room when I saw uncle Floyd jump up and say something. I could not hear what it was. Kight away somebody began to shoot from a- bout Clerk Goad’s desk, but I don’t know who fired the first shot. I saw my uncle Sidna after the shooting began. I did not see my cousin or my brothers. As soon as I could with my , lame foot I got oat of the court house and stood at the bottom of the steps. I saw uncle bidna and Mr^ Goad shooting at one another. After it was over I got my moth er’s horse and rode home. Be fore I left I saw Uncle Floyde on a horse and then I saw him lying on the ground. If he had been able to ride we would have taken him away with us. I saw my biother Wesley on the road and that afternoon I saw Uncle Sidna at his store. I have never seen any of them or heard tell any thing about them or where they are, since that evening. I stay- ed at home until Sunday and had started to a neighbor’s when I I saw the officers. I was in plain view from the road and they could have taken me then but I did not feo back home because I heard the officers had orders to shoot all of us on sight., I went al^ut and Uyed th^ ^st I until the officers run up on me last night, I did not have a pla in the April American zine there is a most interesting character sketch of the late Jos eph Pulitzer, the blind editor of the New York World, who died leaving a fortune of twenty or cwenty-.lve miiilion doilars. The article is by Alleyne Ireland, who was one of Mr. Pulitzer's secretaries. Following is an in teresting extrsict, showiug Mr. Pulitzer’s i^siiQn for truth: “In this connection I recall that it was Mr. PulitZjer’s inyar; iable custom tc^ enquire oc newly joined members of nis staflT what they deemed to the ^n^Jtions, dutiei, and feSponsibilities"c)f ah American newsi»aper. When it came to my turn ta discourse up on this topic I adopted a view which, in the absence of any stropg personal convictioji, I could at least defend as one com monly held by many Americans with whom I had discussed the matter. The chief duty of an editor, I said, was to give his l eauers an interesting paper. A 3ub-stratum of truth should run through me news columns; but since a million-dollar *fire was more interesting than ahalf-mil- lion-dollar fire, since a thousand deaths in an earthquake were moi e striking than a hundred, no iitce scrupulosity need be ob served in checking the architect’s estimates or in counting the vic tims: what the public wanted was the good ‘story, ’ and pro vided it got that there would be little disposition in any quarter to blame an arithmetical gener osity which had been invoked in the service of its own well-recog nized preferences. So far as pol itics were concerned any news paper could afford the strongest support to its views whilst print ing the truth and nothing but the truth, provided it exercised some discretion as to printing the WHOLE truth. The editorial, I added, might be regarded as a habit rather than as a guiding force. People no long**r looked to the editorial columns to forni their opinions for them, but, hav ing formed their opinions from a large stock of facts and pear- facts, bought a paper which sup ported their views, and read the editorials for the purpose of com fortable reassurance. ‘•This somewhat cynical oiit- burst brought down upon me an overwhelming torrent of protest ■from Mr. Pulitzer. If that was, indeed, my opinion, it disclosed a complete ignorance of Ameri can character and a deplorable misapprehension, alike of the high sense of duty which in the main animated American journa lism, and of the foundations of integrity upon which alone a suc cessful newspaper enterprise could be erected in the United States. 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