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XXXIII
M0UJV2 AIRY, NORTE CAROLINA, THURSDAY. APRIL 3, 1913.
70. 32
Aliens Meet
Death Bravely
Last Chapter in Carroll Tragedy Written
when Floyd and Claud are Electrocuted
Floyd First to
Riolnnond, Va., March, 2$4h.
Mumbling a prayer and eryirg
half audibly that he was ready to
go, Flovd Allen, a lawless pro-1
duct of the irgmia juountauw,
whose refusal to accept a nliort
prison teim for a minor of fen
ltd to tin wholesale court mur
der in Hillsville one year ago,
limped to the death chair in the
State penitentiary today eleven
intimites aheftd if C'latule Swan
son Allen, his son.
Tlitt sentence of the court, held
up for six hours while desperate
and eiramatic efforts were being
made to sve the condemned men
by eleventh hour appeals to the
lieutenant governor, wan speedily
ordered to proervd when Gover
nor Mann hastened back to Vir
ginia soil to take charge of a
puliation which was sensational
and exciting to a legree. The
jvisoit superintendent, acting en
tirely within the law, agreed at
two o'clock this mcrnirg to de
fer the execution, giving Attorney
General Williams an opportunity
niian-while to j.ss upon the con
Kt it i:t iona 1 right of Lieutenant
Governor Kllvson to interfere..
Young Sen Telephones Governcr.
Hut the young noil of Gover
'MP Mah'ir'feivchwl his .father in
Philadelphia by phone less thun
an hour after tin d .lay had been
ordered and V eight o'clock the
governcr was again on Virginia
.soil. lnctned. as it afterward
developfd. by th.' uuexpi-cti d cf-j
fort to take advantage f his
temporary iiJiseive, when he had
repeatedly refuse I chituciiey. the
governor bearded an early trim.
arriving
o'clFck.
In Richmond at U :M
On the wav he trle-
vraphfd th. Secrttary ef the
Ccunnoii wealth that he would be
in Virgin u by 8 o'clock, this in-.fi-rma.tii
n. suddenly checking tfie
plan of Allen sympathizers in
further urging the Ijeuteiiant
governor to intercede.
While every proceeding had
halted, pending the governor's
arrival, word reached police head
quarters that a cr wd ha l as
sembled at the station. Patrol
men, detectives and plain clothes
men were hurried there to pre
vent any dcm:ui.st latum.
When tlie governor .stepeped on
the ilatfonn he was quickly sur
rounded by officers who escorted
him to a ta.xieab which (co.k him
quickly to the capitol.
In his ol'i'ie,' at the State pris
on Superintendent Wood was
.wvciifg the floor, nervously, as
lie awaited developments. The
Mtusitioiu there had become more
tenw. Precisely at neon the mii
perinteiidej:t was called to the
ti bjiilioiu.
"The Governor of Virginia, U
at his desk," wa.s the message- 'he
received from the capitol and in
stantly preparations were made
to obey the mandate if the court.
'Hie witnesses who had assembled
at 7 o'clock, the hour announced
for the exception, had left the
prison, with instructions to return
at 1 o'clock.
Ccll&pecd at News cf Respite
J'tkst after sunrise the Aliens
practically oollajwed when inform
fd that a half ehy rpsoite bad
heeu grajrted by a combination
of legal and technical circumi
HtaiM'en as strange, as any that
had ever been presented to a
court of justice. Claude Allen,
who had rctaimsl his nerve
throughout thetrying ordeal in
hi behalf, gasped and trembled,
hilt he regained his composure as
he. rioted the hopeless and de
jected appearance of his aged
father in the cell aortxw tlw cor
riUr. Am the morning hours passed
they, sat vrith their apiritual ad
Tiwrs, hut they nerved tiiem-
lve again for the end when
they heard that Governor Mann
IibuI returnctl Virginia. Men
be Electrocuted
' prominent t in official circles of
the State, who waited in the
, ea'pitol for a final pica to the
governor were turn l away, as
Ibis secrttarv hainled out Uiis
statement from the executive:
"lltaring at five minutes to
three o'clock this morning cf the
aet: n taken in the Allen ease
afKr I left the city, I considered
it imy duty to hurry back. I
simply desire to repeat that af
ter the most careful examination
(f the evidence in thus ease, I
have not the slightest dor.lt of
the guilt rf Floyil anil Claude
Allen, aiil 1 will not interfere.
The law must take its course ,"
WliMt brought forth the great
est indignation from the gover
nor was the retried fact that
the plan to appeal to the lit-u-t
hi ant governcr was agre .1 njn n
a week ago. While there was
!io intimation" frcm Lieut enat
Governor Kllyscn that he wouhl
interfere. his willingness last
night to await a wr'ttei:. opinion
from the atttorney general, who
had already ruled vefaTly th-d
he wi.s without authority, whs ac
cepted outside to tucm that the
life cf ("iaude Allen mi'lit be
spared. Governor Mai
n.
1k.w-
o'vh, cut through tji- maze of
uneritainty ,;,.(! doubt by hastkii
iii.tr heme.
Flcyd Alltp ExcctiUd Fint.
The jury, which under the law
is required to witm.vs all ex-
"eutwins assembled outside the
I
1
nitentiaiv gates lo rHv h.-fore
ochv,.k. miuglirg there with
rowd. Tl.e progia!.. as original-'
ly anncunee,!. was earri.vl out i
uitlumt cluing.. While two min- j
isteis, who have been unfaltering
in their loyalty to the condemn
ed men, were telling them irood-
n e
the
pris-Mi
s"iierintendetit
-stepped into the corridor, which
sej m rated the Us if fath r and
son, id renl the death warrant.
Floyd Allen, still limping frmn
the wounds he nceivil in HilLs
ville court battle, said the last
tiarful far'Wefl to his boy and
went with the pristm guards to
the ibsith eh.'inilter.
A groan escaped 1 : i n as he .sat
in the chair, while the straps and
electrodes were being fastened
about him. The current w.'.s
tuiiusd on at 1 :22 oYU-k and in
four minutits the surgeon motion,
tsl to the siiN-riutendeiit that he
was dead.
The hodv was speedilv remov
al. CDaude Died Like a Man.
Again the chair was tested
while Claude Swanson Allen,
nanntiHke of a I'nited States sen
ator, was being led through the
corridor to the chandler door. A
trifle pale, he marched with
mcasurul stride, his head hel l
high, hi wonderful nerve with
him to the end. As he took' his
seat he moved his arms to as
sist the gMaiLs who were adjust
ing the straps and, like his father
he went silently and unafraid.
When, the autosy bail been per
form eel the hodies were given
over to Victor Allen, Floyd's son,
by whonn they were taken to the
'nountajiM of Southwest Virginia
f r burial. '
Morbid Crowds Gaze cn Bodies.
Richmond, Va.. March 28th.
Hoyle's undertaking establish
ment, where the IkkIics of Floyd
ami Claude Allen were carried af
ter their execution iu the tttate
penitentiary today, was the Mec
ca this afternoon and tonight for
thousamla of morbidly curious
men, women and children,. The
throngs became ao dense that
a pecial. force of police had to
e ent to the scene to maintain
order.
This afternoon vast crowd,
roobtljr wnwnen, filed through the
room where the bodies- of the
dead clansmen Lay and gazed on
the grim feature of Fiord Allen
and the gntler countenance of
Claude, both cold ami expres
sionless iir death. Some cf the
womieii who visit(-l the uiilertak
ing room-s carries! little babies in
their arms, who prattled ami
Laughed in chiUlih glee, all un
eonjseious cf the grim prewne of
Death in his nut hi 1,-ous ami
nwful fonn. N
liiiter the seluwd children came
in great nitinbers and little lads
and lassies with school hooks un
tlir their arms looked, in their
turn, on the fi atunS of the dead
A I lew.
Tonight tliere was no let-up
in the erowH until cl ven o'clock
when the hedk's were turned over
to Victor Allen, son and brother
of the executed men. Yoiujg
women ami their ts rts, attired
for the theatre, visited Poyle's
and viewed the bodies before en
tering uipoo an evening cf pleas
ure and gaiety.
Tonight Victor Allen started
out for hi distant hinne in Car
roll county with the bolus of his
kiiwm-.-li. He went v;a the South
ern Railway to Mt. Airy. N. C,
whence the bodies will he con
veyed to Fancy Cap by private
conveyance.
Town Electicn.
I5e it ordered and onlained by
the Hoard of Commissioners of
the Town cf Mount Airy North
Carolina i
1. That an election by the
qualified voters of the Town of
M'uuit Airy Xerth Carolina, for
t'.e 'pnrpos.' of electing a Mavor.
Commissioner at large, and two
Commissioners in each ef the two
wards of the Town of Mt. Airv
North Cirolina, for teims of two
years each, be held on the first
-Moi.tiay in .May, r.M.s, it tieing
the oth day cf May l'Jl.J.
2. That the voting" or polling
dace in the Firt Ward shall be
t Pred.nor.tWa rehouse tin Moore
street; the voting tr polling place
in the Second Ward shall be at
the Reel House on Main Street.
That J. M. Hill be and is
hereby appointed Kegistrar for
War. I '.i 1 iin.l tli.it i". ( Aton.
1 -
t .1 i i it n i i
" , au' M,"1 '1 f'!tl
XhP rtn.' uVh? -'"dges
i'3 S .?'" " n -. 1 J thatJ.
alter be and lu hereby
; 'm iu''l 'V ts ,"'' :!r Uar
- ami i ii ni .. n. raniuson anu
T. Heiinis be and they are here
by appointed Judges of election
in Ward No. 2.
4. That the Hegistration Itooks
for the Kegistration rf voters
'shall be opened in the two wards
of the said town at 0 o'clock on
the 7th day of April l'.M.'l and re
main pen until sunset of each
day thereafter, Sundays excepted,
till sunset t.f the 20th .lay of
April IDld; and that on Satur
days during such registration per
iod the Registrars shall attend jit
their respective polling places
from !) o'clock A. M. until sunset
for the registration, of oters.
.1. That mtice of this call of
election be jMtsted in three or
more public place in the Town
of Mt. Airy and in The Mount
Airy News for thirty das pre
ceding the day of election.
Hv order td the Hoard.
This April 1st, 131.1.
W. (J. .Svdmir.
F. yt. Poore. Mayor. ,
Se. ami Treas.
Notice.
By virtue of a decree of the
Superior Court of Surry County,
here bofore made in the case of
R. M. Cox and W. A. Martin
Ad rans. of C. P. Cox va. C. V. S.
Hoyden, Aelmr. of N. A. Hoyden,
herein appointing the undersign
ed Commissioners for the purjwee
we will sell on the premises on
the 18th day of April, 1913 the
following real estate towit.
About CM acres of land lying
ami being in the countv of ur
ry in Shoals township lying on
the Yadkin River, and bounded
on the South by the Yadkin Riv
er and adjoining the lands of W.
A. Sullivan, John Y. Philips, the
Uauser lamb and being the N. A.
Hoyden home place. Terms of
sale one half cash and one half
in six months time. This is a
valuable tract of land containing
about 60 acres of bottom land on
the Yadkin River and Gray
Creek, also fine water power on
this creek. '
This March 13th, 1913.
W. L. Reeee,
T. W. Fohjer.
Cocnmiaaioneri
FLOYD AND CLAUD ALLEN
LEAVE Mil STATEMENTS
Clansmen leave to World Sweeping Denials of Charges Against
-Them Floyd Goes Into Details of His life's History
x Claud Says Ha Shot in Defense of his father
(Hy Claude Allen.) Pth all things, even our thoughts;
Virginia State Prison, ami then all will he made right.
Marc.li 27th, l'JU. i If I sutler here it will be made
A I am now condemned to die? j right in the great day when every
and realize that all hope is gone, one must be juelged according to
I thuught it my duty to tell what j their dt eeis.
I know of the' trouble for which ! Life Ls sweet and we would
I have lteeu trie!, for which I j rnther live if jossLble. but if
must pay my life. Hefore going; death must eoine I am not afraid
further will give a few things of i to d'e. Of course I am coni
my juist llt'e. j deiimeil to die a disgraceful
I wan born June 11th, 18!), ! death but I know I don't eleserve
ami from my earliest recollections it; although there is no wav for
ami to the present tune 1 have
been taught to speak the truth in
everything, anel 'ileal honestly with
my fellow man, which I have
tried to do. Our parents have;w"l be known sometime, al-
trieei to raise us to feel that we
must be honorable mid that under
no conditions must we speak
falsehoods. When fourteen years
oil I start ed in at Fairview
Academy, near Hillsville, Virgin
ia, ami was there a part of two
yens ami afterwards attended
buin-s college at Haleigh, X. C.
On account of my mother's health
being very, bad I doci bsl to stay
at home after leaving school amd
to he of what comfort I could
to her, as my brother was mar
lied and 1 was the only child left
itt home. All my life 1 trie d to
live free from trouhle with any
on and regardless r,f the rela-
Ltio-n. ween any iiopl mp1 ntlu
ers i was never drawn into any
of their troubles. I have known
for sometime cf my father and
Dexter Goad being enemies but
never thought of their ill feeling
endii g as it has. I went to Hills
ville during my father's trial and
heard some of the evidence and
from what 1 heard Ihad no idea
that he would ev.-n get a jail
? tene.
iffid never thought
for
r ue moment ef any trouble be
ing there. .The first I knew of
it was when it began and what 1
did was without any premedita
tion whatever. There was no
plot, whatever. There was no
plot beforehand or any conspiracy
so far as 1 know, and I do not
believe that there was with any
of the others. It was all so stnr
deu ,nid unexpected that I had no
time to think and dkl on the
sour of the moment something
that I had never thought of do
ing It is listless for me to re
peat here what I have told on
Ute witness stand as that in
known already, and I have iu
change's to make. Of course
I here may have been statements
made liy others very different
fronii mine hut if the whole world
were apainst me I would tell all
as 1 saw it just the same. What
the other Aliens ami the Kd
w anlss did ami who they shot at
I know nothing about. When I
law Dexter Goad uhoot at my
father I tri'.vl to shoot him . ami
h is the only man I shot at.
Sonne probably think that I
shot Judge Massie, but I did not
nor elid 1 fire the first shot in
the court room. I always have
believeel ami new belu'Ve that
Judge MaKsie was a just man
and a friend of ours. And I haul
i'u reason in the world to take
his life or to harm him in any
way. 1 have been accused! of
conspiring and planning to shoot
up the court att Hillsvillo and oth
er things which I am not guilty
of. I had too much love and re
spect fcr my tlear mother and my
sweetheart, if there had been
nothing else to keep me from'
planning a deed which would
have separattsl me from than
forever on this earth. No one
could have persuadesi me into
trouble. This all came on so sud
den and unexpected and I had
no time to think of what was beet
If the truth alone had been told
I would not be where I am now,
but if enyone knowingly testifi
ed falsely against me I forgive
them and I believe some have
toll tuch a they knew was false.
There it a time coming when we
will not be by what oth
em say, but by Him who know-1
j only to take .what other pe-
po' give nif 1 here are a great
'many things in thisca.se which
i ftinnot be learned yet; but they
though tex late to help me.
1 wish to thank all who have
tried to help me to get justice.
iuu u is nam to eiie jor a
crime that you are nine-cent of
ami a death of this kimf at the
s;iane time it is much better to die
under these conditions, believing
ami knowing that Cod who know-
all things will make all things
right, than it would be to die
kixiwing that we were guilty uf
the crime as chargeel.
Eebukts Ministers.
We are charged with one ;f
tlu worst crime's that almost
could 1m committed and those
who have asked by letters to the
JSm Jtvim. &!al.thf cugk the papers
fcr our liv ami our blootl do not
Kesitn to realize that we were not
n'K j.sibb for trouble at Hills
ville; aibd that we are innocent of
this crime and were not the cause
of the trouble at Hillsville ex
cept in an indirect way. To be
under the condition that we are
lUhlor and to see arl know how
some who know nothing about
the case whatever art keen wt
to abuse us not only to the gov
ernor but to the papers it is
luml to understand why this is
done. It is hard for us to realize
why, after everything was prac
tically settled, a minister of the
gv-spel like Mr. Carter should
write the letter that he did; and
why Dr. Cannon should take the
time that he hail to take to write
the long column of untruthful
abuse which could i nly hurt eur
lsple and take the advantage
that wjim taken when we were con
find in the enitentiary ami soon
had to pay our lives. We can
not underst:ind why Dr. Young
should take the ' time which
sliuld be d.'Votcel in .saving souls
to hold us up iK'fore the people
as outlaws and to ay that we
had got a just punishment. We
cannot understand, yet all thev
things will come to light in the
great elay of judgment. I am
sorry that this matter happened
ami am more than sorry that I
felt it nsary to do what 1
(Jid do. At the same time I feel
that God, knowing all things as
he dot, knows that 1 slw t for
the purpose of defending my
father and saving his life, as I
saw it.
And, tlwrofore, I will be held
guiltless of, any wrong eloing in
connection with this trouble. I
wrote Governor Mann seime davs
bank that I had told the truth
and nothing but the truth and,
regardhvsa of whether I lived or
dwd, my statements were tnie.
It is, of course, hard fcr one as
young us 1 am to die ami to die
fer a crime of wlrfch 1 am in
nocent. It is hand for me to
leave my dear mother, sweet
heart ami friends; but I feel that
Gent has forgiven me cf all mv
.sins; and that I am saves! and
will soon meet my loved ones and
many of my dear friemls in
heaven.
My friend, Dr. J. J. Scherer,
stayed with me almost constant
ly since ray confinement, and has
given me great comfort and sup
port. I want to thank, my at
torney, 1 want also to thank Dr.
Mt Daniel for his words of com
fort and cheer and the friend
who have stood loyally by us en
deavorinr to see that we got jus-
tice; ewpecially Mr. Luther
Coherer and the lawvers and the
people who hive given to our
caii.se not only t'eu money bu
th'dr tune ami i-i.i ry. 1 v :;t
to thank the j 'rs that l.e
tri"d in every way t' put ou
cam b-f)re the pee pie. Th
Journal especially h...t made
wonderful fight and has helped
us in every way that it possibly
could. The Danville mA C;f
t. n Forg p;ijers have, also, en
deavored to "Set the tru facts be
fon the jHiiple. I wish also to
thank the penitentiary officials.
All of them have shown me every
possible kiudursM. We do n ,t
think our friends have taken the
p'fsition that if the facts, as
state!, went true that he should
not die but !ut the fai-ts and re
rts that have been slated arwl
a great many statemetns made
on the staml were untrue. I want
every one to feel that we appre
ciate everything that has been
dmie for uh more than they can
ever milize; and I hmpe" th-it
our giving i) i our live, as we
have had to five them up. will
be in some way a benefit to the
public m g,yiKral to see that
safe guards are thrown around
the lives of innocent people in
the future.
The Last Word's.
My last words to the people of
Virginia are, I knw a!solutely
nothing rf any conspiracy and do
note, hdicve there wiw one. 1 did
not fire the first shot and elid not.
sheet until my father had Imsmi
shot at. I elid it kill Judge
Massie. These who have wrong
eel nif I forgive and hope' we
shall meet in a b-tter world
w here sorts w is never known.
Pray God's blessing ujxm our
eb-ar iUl Sate. and to all her p'-o-p!e
I say farewell. 1 am, with a
ch ar conscience.
(Signed) CLAl'DK ALLKN.
- Floyd's Fical Message.
Richmond penitentiary, March
27th, 1!H:5: Hy n?piest of my
father, I am writing a short
vfatt incut (f his past life, as he
gives it to me.
Claude Allen.
(Dictate,! by Fh.yd Allen.)
"Knowing that I am to elle and
believing a great injustice has
been elone, I want to m-ske a
short aiM list stateaneJit of what
oecurre.; r.iM. also, rs to a tew
happenings that have been re-
ferrtel to in the papers, and
bv others that affis't mv past
life.
I was born in Carroll county,
Virginia, ar;! t now fifty-six
years old. Hived all my life in
Carroll county. My father was
Jerry Allen. Most of nyv life has
hem spei.t in tlie Fancy Gap
dUtriet. My father utove'd tliere
when 1 was fourteen or fifteen
years old. I have had very few
difficulties and cannot under
stand why 1 have been referred
to by some jx'ople and the papers
and jusMistsl of so many thiifjs
that I am not guilty of. The
first difficulty I rememlter since
I was a man was with Green Ed
wards. This wa.s over political
matters. I was a Democrat ami
he a Republican. This occurred
at a public speaiking. He called
me a name that I would not
stand for and I knocked him
down for it. I have been very
much surprised and hurt by the
statement f Judge Jackson. I
had always considered Judge
Jackson my friend. He iappoint
d me deputy sheriff ami I would
not acrept it under a Republican
sheriff; and at one time w rot fr
aud asked me to come to Hills-,
ville and to he at court; al
wanted me to protect bum, or
wonk amounting to about the
same as this.
tf I hail been such a terrible
man as he descrilKsl, why wouhl
he npoint me deputy sheriff?
Or permit me to be aptpointed?
His statement, also, as to the Al
len w being Democrats; I voted in
the first election after I was
twenty -one years old; votes! the
Democnitic ticket and' have een
voting at all elect ieuia since and
have been a very active worker
in the IVmocratie party. Ijuiid
poll taxes of other men in order
to keep them from being" dis
franchised. I have ncTer voted
the Repuldiean ticket in any r!ee
tion, except in a few instances,
in local matters.
Enter DexUr Goad.
When Dexter Goad first start- "
ed- out in politic I voted for
(Continued to Pag a 5.)