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COURT OFFICIALS MURDERED.
Judge, Prosecuting Attorney and
Sheriff Slain by Outlaws
When one of Their Number
is Sentenced Assassins Fled
to Mountains.
Hillville. Va., Dispatch, March 14.
A troop of mountain outlaws
rode down out of the Blue Ridge
today to the Carroll county court
house here and assassinated
the judge upon the bench, the
prosecutor before the bar. and
the sheriff at the door in less
time than it takes to tell it, while
sentence was being pronounced
UDon Floyd Allen, one of their
number.
When the crack of the rifles
died away only one member of
the human fabric of the court-
Dexter Goad, the clerk, was alive
and he had been wounded. Ju
rymen and on-lookers were struck
in the fuBilade but none was
wounded seriously.
Governor Mann has ottered a
$3,000 reward for the capture of
the assassins and holds State
troops under arms for orders at
Lynchburg and Roanoke.
The shooting terrorized Hills
ville to the point of paralysis.
There was not a man to give an
order or organize a pursuit Citi
zens fled to places of safety and
mothers gathered up their chil
dren, while the assassins rode out
of town.
Judge Thornton L. Massie had
risen from his chair as the bul
lets struck him and fell across
his desk a bleeding corpse. Com
monwealth Attorney William
Foster, with a dozen bullets in
his brain, crumpled down to the
floor. Sheriff Lewis Webb was
shot and killed as he reached for
his revolver and sprang forward.
Bullets grazed Clerk Goad and in
the confusion he was reported
killed. Jurors who had been
slightly wounded were reported
dead and by that undefinable
method of communication which
prevails in the woods and coun
try, reports of a wholesale slaugh
ter shot out to the countryside.
Floyd Allen was before the bar
this morning, convicted of tak
ing a prisoner from a deputy
sheriff. Allen had struck the
sheriff over the head with the
butt of a rifle and the prisoner
escaped. Sheriff Webb had gone
up into the mountains and taken
Allen, despite dire warnings of
what such a venture might mean.
Attorney Foster had prosecuted
him fearlessly and a mountain
eer jury gathered from the in
land section, for no man in Car
roll county cared to sit on the
trial of an Allen, had convicted
him.
This morning the sentence of
Allen attracted an unusually
large gathering to the quaint old
red brick court house, which
stands'on a green square, well
into the center of the village.
Those who could not get in the
small room peered through the
windows, opened to the first days
of spring.
Just as Allen was about to be
called up for sentence, his two
brothers, Sidney and Jack, at
the head of a troop of about 20
mountaineers, rode up to the
court house.
The brothers and their com
panions, some carrying rifles and
others armed with revolvers
crowded into the small court
room and stood behind the rail
and about the door. Floyd Allen,
aged 50. tall and gaunt, much
the familiar type of mountaineer,
v. as in the dock.
Judge Massie mounted the
bpnch and Prosecutor Foster
luuved sentence upon Allen, who
scood up. There was a snuffing
Judge Massiebegan pronouncing
sentence. The last words that
fell from his lips precipitated the
tragedy.
"One year at hard labor."
Before the last word was cold
the fusilade began. Allen, with
an oath that he would never go
to Drison. SDrang out of the pris
oner's dock as Judge Massie col
lapsed upon the bench. Another
roar of shots and Prosecutor t os-
ter was on the floor in a heap.
Sheriff Webb was springing for
ward for his prisoner hen the
lead found him.
Then holding the panic-strick
en jurors and on-lookers at bay,
although that probably was not
necessary, the assassins slowly
backed out of the court house
and across the green to their
troop of ponies.
In a second they were gallop
ing like mad men through the
aroused village and off to the
hills.
With them the assassins half
carried, half dragged one o
their number, wounded, and it
was said that this was Floyd Al
en.
The quiet of Hillsville had nev
er been disturbed by such a roar
of firing and 300 men, women
and children rushed to the court
house. Webb and Foster were
stone dead. Judge Massie died
in less than an hour.
When a semblance of order
came out of the chaos that fol
lowed some horsemen hurried
down into Beaver Dam valley to
spread the news and get help,
More intrepid men rode off to
ward Betty Baker, where there
is a railroad station and a tele-
rrra rY oriro
Word of the tragedy was slow
in getting to points from which
help could be asked, but the ma
chinerv of the law, once started.
worked quickly. Governor Mann
ordered the State companies of
militia at Roanoke and Lynch
burg to be ready to go to Hills
ville, if their aid should be neces
sary. ronce detectives and vol
unteers from nearby places took
all the means of transportation
to get to Hillsville.
Late today Governor Mann
telegraphed to Judge Staples, of
the Roanoke Corporation Court,
to go to Hillsville and take charge
of judicial proceedings. Attor
ney General Williams, of the
State of Virginia, has also been
ordered to Hillsville. He and
the new judge, Staples, will
meet at Pulaski tomorrow and
proceed together.
The town is awkwardly situ
ated for such an emergency as
this. It is the county seat of
Carroll county, and lies in the
Beaver Dam valley four miles
from the top of the Blue Ridge
mountains, across the valley, a
strip of indigo along the sky on
a clear day shows the Alleghen-
les. The country is rough, the
roads are bad and at this time of
year with spring thaws, nearly
impassible. Illicit stills are said
to be many.
Floyd Allen lived on one side
of the town and his two brothers
on the other. All the men of the
family have been known as stern
characters and were feared by
many in the county. The deputy
sheriff who would serve a war
rant or a summons on one of
them was accounted a brave
man.
Judge Massie was one of the
most prominent jurists of the
State. - He was appointed to the
bench by Governor Swanson in
1908, was 48 years old and is sur
vived by a wife, two sons and a
daughter. Judge Massie had
been considered recently for pro
motion to the State Supreme
Court bench. Commonwealth
Attornee Foster had held his of
fice for eight years. He was 40
years of age and known as a
fearless prosecutor. He was a
Republican leader in the county.
Sheiff Webb had been a deputy
for 15or 20 years before being
elected sheriff last November.
Officers Expected to be Killed.
Richmond, Va., Mch. 14.
"Rather than indicate a fear of
law-breakers by sitting on the
bench with a weapon in my pock
et, I prefer to be killed in the
administration of justice, was
the statement made by Judge
Massie only last night to a friend
who urged him to take steps for
his own protection against the
lawless element he had determ
ined to bring to justice. Com
tnonwealth'Attorney Foster said
this morning just before he
walked into the court room that
it would probably be his last day
on earth. It was expected that
trouble WOUld follow tho rondpr.
of feet and a general movement ; ing of a verdict, if "the jury
among the mountaineers in the i should convict. When Floyd Al-
vl me iuuiij, uui uun iu i ien nrea, as sentence was Dro-
hnt. nn KiVr, tn
foretell the tale of the terrible
tragedy, then in the minds of ev
ery one of them. ,
The usual legal formalities over
nounced, Sheriff Webb ciuicklv
returned it, and it is believed
that a bullet from his revolver
struck Allen. But he did not
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Land Sale.
Davis, et al.
vs.
Moffitt, et al.
The undersigned, under judgment of
the Superior court of Robeson county
in the abeve cause, will expose to sale
for cash to the highest bidder at public
outcry at the court house in Lumber
ton, North Carolina, on April 1. 1912, at
12 m, the interests and estates of the
defendants in a -certain tract of land
descrilx-d in book G G G, page 434,
office of Register of Deeds of Robeson
county.' The description in which is
made part of this notice, as fully as if
set out in words and figures, the" same
being the lands of which Susan A. Davis
died yej.ed and possessed, and located
near St I'auls. N. C. Sale made for
partition.
T. A. McNVill. Jr.
commissioner,
February 15, 1912. :i-4-4 mon
fire igain, tor he was shot dead
by a mountaineer.
Mifrht Have Happened at
Greensboro.
Greensboro, N. C, March 14-
But for a combination of circum
stances United States officers
here believe that the Allen broth
ers. who figured in the court
room tragedy at Hillsville, Va
todav would have attempted
demonstration in the United
States Court here a y ear ago,
when Judge Boyd sentenced
Sidna Allen to a term of two and
a half years in the Federal prison
at Atlanta for perjury. Attor
neys made an appeal and only
recently the Circuit Court of Ap
peals, sitting at Richmond, or
dered a new trial. The case was
to be re-tried here in April.
During the trial information
was given tne united states
marshal that before leaving
Floyd county, Virginia, to come
here for the trial of the brother,
the Aliens declared that Sidna
should never be carried to jail
alive. Upon this information
the marshal took special precau
tions to prevent a demonstration
and during the trial the brothers
were kept under close surveil-
ance. wnen tne jury verdict 01
guilty was brought in and Judge
Boyd passed sentence an extra
force of officers was stationed in
the court room, and every pre
caution was taken to see that
the Aliens did not attempt a
demonstration.
The Allen family is well-known
by United States officers station
ed here. They have always been
considered desperate and have
engaged in frequent clashes with
officers. FloycLAllen, when here,
boasted of carrying 13 bullet
holes in his .body, five iof which,
he said, were put there by a
brother. He related at the time
that he and a brother engaged
in a pistol duel, both falling with
the first fire, and then, while
prostrate, emptying their revol
vers into one another. Both
later recovered and settled their
grievances.
Fled to North Carolina.
Raleigh, March 14. Res
ponding to a special appeal
from Governor Mann, of Virgin
ia, bovernor Kitcnin this aiter
no6n telegraphed the sheriffs of
Stokes, Surry and Alleghany
counties, that border on Carroll
county, Va., to take every step
possible for the apprehension of
the 17 desperadoes, who killed
the judge, commonwealth's at
torney, and sheriff of the Carroll
county court this morning. Gov
ernor Kitchin informed the sher
iffs of $1,000 reward the Gover
nor of Virginia had offered.
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