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2 FATHER AND SON = PAY THE PENALTY 2 he cep Floyd and Claude Allen Die in of Electric Chair Few Minutes ^*? thr Apart?Governor Manu Was am Firm. Richmond, Va., March 29.? rei] mumming a prayer ana crymg nan ass audibly that he was ready to go, gat Floyd Allen, whose refusal to accept mil a short prison term for a minor of- pre fense led to the wholesale court wa murder in Hillsville one year ago, Wt limped to the death chair in the unl state penlntentiary yesterday, 11 cor minutes ahead of Claud Swanson ?oc Allen, his son. del The sentence of me court held wh up for six hours while desperate and ant dramatic efforts were being made to ran save the condemned men by eleventh-hour appeals to the lieu- I tenant governor was speedily order- the ed to proceed when Governor Mann vill hastened back to Virginia soil to tea take charge of a situation which wit ti'ftc CfitwfitiAYinl nnrl nvoh itur t<\ o ,!??:? degree. The prison superintendent. >i n acting entirely within the law. strt n greed at 2 o'clock to postpone the in si execution giving Attorney General v. n< Williams an opportunity to pass >" I upon the constitutional right of ''d Lieutenant Governor Ellysou to in- dea terfere. nur GOVERNOR HASTENS BACK. But the young son of Governor ' 1,1 Mann reached his father in Philadelphia by telephone less than an hour after the delay had been or- j M dered and by 8 o'clock yesterday the Governor was again on Virginia , ,ls ! HOT1 soil. Incensed, as it afterward de- ( ( vcloped. by the unexpected effort to . take advantage of his temporary absence when he had repeatedly re- j 1 fused clemency, the governor boarded an early morning train, arrinving in Richmond at 11:30 o'clock. On the way lie telegraphed ? the secretary of the commonwealth >v " that he would be in Virginia by 8 ""M o'clock, this information suddenly ' r checked the plan of Allen sympathizers in further urging the lieu- (1 II o tenant governor to Interfere. While every proceeding had halt- Il K' ed, pending the governor's arrival, word reached police headquarters ' that a crowd had assembled at the ' station, patrolmen, detectives anil uas Wei plainclothes men being hurried noli thorp to prevent any demonstration. When the governor stepped on the ' platform he was quickly surrounded by officers who escorted him to a 1,ar taxicab which took him quickly to ' the capitol. ro,>< In his office at the state prison, Superintendent Wood was pacing the floor nervously as lie awaited ^ no developments. Tin* situation there had become more intense. l'recisely at noon the superintendent was '*?l called to the telephone. * u ^ 4'The governor of Virginia is at 1,101 his desk," was the message lie re- '"r ceived from the capitol at?d instantly preparations weie made to obey ( ^ the mandate of the court. The wit- * 'a' nesses who had assembled at 7 ,mi. o'clock, tiie hour announced for the execution, had left the prison with instructions to return at 1 o'clock. Just itter sunrise the .Miens " practically collapsed when inform- " ed that a half-day respite had been ; . > . . . . I t\Vf) Kraut* <1 by ;t comhinntion <>t b*K?il and technical circumstances as '1, ' strange as any that had ever been ! ' presented to a court o justice, j 11 Claude Alien, who had retained hidI V! nerve throughout, tin- trying ordeal " In his behalf, gasped and trembled, but he regained his composure as lie noted the hopele-- and dejected appearance of his aged father in tin Cell across tin- corridor A the | morning hour: pa-sed tln-> sat with 1 their spiritual advi-ers, but they " nerve 1 themselves again foi the end * lien tin y heard that (lovernor Mann had returned to Virginia Men prominent in official irch-s ot the state, who waited In the capi t i'. for .t 'inai Dlea to tin irovrnor vver turned away, as his sperctary "" hand eel out his stateim-nt from tin- ' ! ,. the executi vo snr MANX'S FINAL OltDKH. a 'Hearing ai flvp minutes to .1 ,1,, o'cloek this morning of tho action taken in the Allen < ne after I left j,,,, the < ityf I ron-iderod it my duty to |.-j( 1. irry back. I -ir.?i?l; I re to re In>, peat that after Hip m<> e ireful ox- tju amlnation of tin- evident in this ^jJ( case, i navf> 1101 me siigniesi uouui; t||( of the guilt of Floyd and Claude jj,. Allen, and I will not interefere. Tin- lr( law must take 11h course." -p| What brought forth the greatest f.(| Indignation from the governor was 1oi the reported faet that the plan to appeal to the lieutenant governor was agreed upon a week ago. While yo there was no intimation from Lieu- CQ ? ?? ? Cc For rheumatism you will find re nothing better than Chamberlain's ha Llnement. Try It and see how ce quickly It gives relief. For sale by pr all dealers. Fc / % THE Li ant Governor EUyson that he minutes bul uld interefere, his willingness Judge Ma ursday night to await a written Poster and nion from the attorney general, down and 1 o had already ruled verbally that number of was without authority, was ac- jured. Twi ited outside to meat that the life Fowler, a J' Claude Allen might be spared, girl of 19, vernor Mann, however, cut after a few ough the mass of uncertainty The Alle 1 doubt by hastening home. len, who ha rhe jury which under the law ii mounted th [uired to witness all executions, the mounta embled outside the penitentiary ltidge, whe: es shortly before 1 o'clock, sent out tc ngling there with the crowd. The governor of >gram as originally announced which was s carried out without change, for the arr* lile two ministers, who have been Floyd A1 faltering in their loyalty to tlio following d idemned men, were telling them special grai >d-bye, the prison superinten- ments ngaii it stepped into the corridor Swanson A Ich separated the cells of father sons of h 1 son, and read the death war- brother ot it. # Wesley K< FARKWE1 jLS SAID. wards, ne Mo yd Allen, still limping from Marion and wounds he receh ed in the Hills- later was in e court battle, said the last assisted the rful farewell to his boy and vent Victor h the prison guards to tit" j were arrest* th chamber. \ groan escaped j and taken i as he sat in the chair while the ' wards was ips and electrodes were being , March 22. li ned about him. The current almost star j turned on at 1:22 o'clock and hidng in th "our minutes the sutgeon motion- ' self up nea lo the superintendent that In* was and on the d. The body was .speedily ro- len followei vod. Allen and I ig; in the chair was tested while t wards, mam tide Swansou Allen, namesake j captured at a United States senator, was be- | her 14. led through the corridor to the I Floyd All mbcr door. Though a trille pale, ] were tried march) d with measured stride, \ <ler of Stab head held high, his wonderful found guilt) re with him to the end. As he to be exeeu i his seat ho moved his arms to last year, I st the guards who w ere ad- ; spites, the ing the straps and Ilk*- his father for March went silently and unafraid, given .'15 ye en the autopsy had been per- years, Friel nod the bodies were given over lOdwards 18 Victor Allen, Floyd's son, by tiary. Vict ?m they were taken to the and John F lnluins of southeast Virginia for (Juestioii*? crowds vikw nonius. iver the protest of Victor Allen, rj.jK> so<.ja rowd estimated at 15,000 last f()ii0wi it visited the undertaking os- ,.j?,ver aml ishment where the bodies of In;in 0f yd and Claude Allen were being chronicle* pared for burial. The protest conveved m fi.n.r i?..n? Dear So< rner, who ordered a squad of A,'f' som< ce to clear the street, although ,'>ou^ liad no power, as he explained, to 1^?11 ,l p the crowds out of the place, j w or'(i ?a^?l ly In the evening It became j ?* n. ? ',us'n' ussary for the police to stretch ! 's' *>s0 r>s around the establishment, but 1 inp th<* ruo tors were freely admitted after | fonrorn'"P police departed, without the I 'a'rs "us< wledge of Victor Allen. will ask a d 'he bodies of Floyd and Claude ^a'r 's "?itu >n were shipped a? midnight to ^^era does int Airy, N. C., from which point ns,'K J f will be conveyed over the r last intain roads to Carroll county ' s'1-v* With _ j ther will sa^ interment. ! i nee; did yo\ he execution of Floyd and j n(' Cik? iide Allen, w ho had been the ' "^OU s icipal actors in the "shooting nt' of the Carroll county court at ' \ ir.tl?l> ,isk svllle, March If, 1012, is the *ir,^a*om ing chapter of one of tiie most * r,< ' .11 liri national murder tragedies ever 1 cterl in this countrv. WMI L ... .... ? huv it or r onto tune mi rebruarv, IP 12, 1-1 1 von?' f w< nephews ot ! iovd Allen ?ere first reipiisi ?sted tor some minor otTense by 1 . .1 fo refrain eputv slieritl. \\ liile they were ig taken to the jail. Floyd Allen ' ' r icked the deputy, knocking him ' '* '' sides with the butt of u r?.v<.l- '' ... . ,, ! asking or Mud rosi-m-d ins prisoners. II. . . . tho da v mat arresti i ami lndiet"d am1. In, , , , nrrl hclng bonan in tin- ?arly part ot art ualh .1 "**n. i ii.ii .1 t i . you aa\? oo :<ivd \ 11 11 hud op?-nlv Pom i-i . w lin n is no i In- would newr no to prison altogether. I it l said that tho Aliens had t?-r not to li- tri-qtu-iit throats against Hurt mil ovi-n liodi ron nor-t oil with , .... . Ihtnn ahoiit II.- was trail .Mar--h 13, hut the It so?-i.ris i. did not brum io its vordiri un , , .. . . ' "> tiling t< tin'- follow inn da\ i In- prisoner, . , almost cove nn a man ot prominence, Ins trial much firtt. ractod a nr.-,it doal ot attention could put I on tho mormon of March I t , . , . . will 1/c or court room was crowded with , , ,. wardly din .tators, anionn whom woro hair people. n lozon or more ot tho members -r>t that uro a Minn fnmili rtu- jury r.'iMl*T?(l a verdict of ,""l> "'-it. il'v and i!i" court sentenced ,tn* our" iyd \ll"n to one year imprison- ' Wu nt ii. th" penitentiary. When > tn|?<?111i/; presiding judge, Thornton I?. ' I", turned the prisoner over to *''"'u' u ,,r sheriff, Floyd Allen, exlalmlng u'10 wrot>it lie would not go to prison, <0rr ".v a revelver and opened fire. I r i>'t?x ho e other members of the Allen PeoP! mily, who were in the court room, ^n" 1 lowed his example and for a few >ou '* you talkin other day? You will look a good while before 1 j,;,y that I u find a better mediclno for ughs and colds than Chambelain's ,'s ,, U * mgh Remedy, it not only gives ??" ' et('lief?it cures. Try it when you Hut the vo a cough or cold, and you are |s calculab rtaln to be pleased with the ompt cure which it will effect. ine g >r sale by all dealers. one over / ^NCASTER NEWS, APRIL 1, 1< llets flew' thick and fast, one who answers ssey, State's Attorney that?" If you ha Sheriff Webb were shot your name you tilled on the spot and a have done so, and other persons were in- reply, "Well that J o of them, Augustus with you!"?and s uror, and Nancy Ayres, a raging Inwardly, died from their wounds But probably e< days. own particular "bi lis, excepting r toyu ai- <-"u,cn i|ue?uuuii id been shot In the knee, ielr horses and fled hito A IlKADV in wilderness of the Blue re they eluded t)ie posse Who Was Not Thi ) capture them. The by the Id fered a reward of $1,000 But for all that later raised to $4,000 superior to an < jst of the gang. stance. A good len was arrested on the seen on the occash ay and two days later a of a Memorial dt (id jury returned indict- years ago. It wi nst Floyd Allen, Claude town and the sp lien and Victor Allen, familiar with his s "loyd; Sidna Allen, a knew beforehand Floyd; Friel Allen, i would have to stji 1 wards and Sidna Ed- ing liis oration, a phews of Floyd; Bird fore prepared an John F. Moore. The duction that he erely indicted for having catch the crowd < Aliens to .escape. j line. When the t Ulen and Bird Marion j vanced to the fron d at l'ulaski, March 17, j paused a moment to Roanoke. Sidna Ed- raising his hand si captured near his home "See yon flag i Claude Swanson Allen, tecting folds to th ved by 'two weeks of dorn," etc. e mountains, gave him- j It was a good r llillsville March U8 under ordinary eir< following day Friel Al- ( have been received J his example. Sidna thusiasm, but soui lis nephew, Wesley Ed- 'n Ike front row ? iged to escape, but were ""d the speaker dl lies Moines Septem- picture, pretty as { borne out by fact en and his sou, Claude, , breeze, and t li separately for the mur- 1 a" eyes were tu b's Attorney Foster and "throwing out its r. They were sentenced hung as limp as it ted on November 22 of out of the wash. >ut obtained several re- 'be speaker ha date being finally fixed oratorical banana 28. Sidna Allen was but he did not la ars, Wesley Edwards 27 '"oment and then Allen 18 years, Sidna bad been a part ol years in the peniten- And whether i or Allen, Bird Marion fo,<1? In defiance ? . Moore were acquitted. *n "me war, or of peace it hangs . ., ' does this present I'ertinent or I inner! ithrows its prof eel nent. j !every one of us 1 editor is in receipt of tunate as to llvo ,, ing letter t rom a very envelops us when well known young wo- a|U, it protcct8 us ;usta, *says The Augusta i I That was enougl dety Editor:?Can't yon the people into bell thing in your columns made no mistake, prrible way people ques- front rank who h bout everything in the fore were smiling it matters entirely your looked as foolish ess, and not any one never can synchro one seems to mind ask- with a joke, st impertinent questions That the addre your most private af- can be shown by days. A slip of a girl town paper, which istingnished dame if her lion was a mastr rally brown?and if not speaker showed a I she get the stuff she iarity with his s ou say, 'I went to the triotic references ] night,' spme on* wfll to great ontli whom did you go?' Or Globe. 7, T saw you at the mati i get a pass, or did your "Farmer" >0"' The German en ay. 'I have an engage- no ,U(.k of recent it.' some one will In- ; . . 1 cursions into doni . 'With whom have vou , . . , elTusive lectures o ent?' The other dav I ! , . . , i of the sovereign s ; and before I was seat- ..... ,, authority have ofi ss said, 'Oh, where did . , ... caricatured. His new card case; did vou , , . and drama have o lid some one give it to ! . ... , the reputation of mid <nv that one of the , , , he recommended i< s of being a Iadv was , . . sped. Hut his cm from asking personal ... \S aterloo, seems t< 11 looks as if it uere . his encounter wit .'et too intimate w ith nnv . . stubborn tigricu ?ovr all. to refrain 1 rom Prussia. offering conlolence tor I he emporer / come wlien vou will re, . , lioasted at ail ag con Intent ml and niav . . , how all the prodi ls|ike a friend because were intinilelv sin i.tided in her too mu< h r just to the friend. So, ih it '1 think, it is I.et pfHUCC conu itli'-r a I. or gi*? fonHixihu:j l ni;.!l Von't you write some L i his subject?" Great Falls Happt hardly necessary to add teres! Qui > the lady's letter, which' After reading o r th? <ase. and certainly,'" ?"r town who r than the social editor ' >' "tan's Kidnej it but it i- timely, and tion naturally aris lie tie li t if read and ''in eine equally succei ested" by a great many ''"ring towns?" iere are certain questions statement of this bsolutely proper ques dent leaves no n simply show our interest this pot At. , and that lets tiie friend .Mrs. Ida Harlot a re ready to erve fir tJreat Falls, S (!., Hut the oh jet tionatde that ftonn's Kidtu the personal question teetive kidney me ivate matter, and the giri "" a world of gr the above letter is eer- that they will be ert about that? it Is sur- to other people wi w many otherwise well- unite awhile, I le will ask, "Where did dizzy and nervou hat suit?" "How much <|nc-r?tly had poin ay for it?" "Who were hips. Seeing Do g to over the phone the advertised, 1 got i " "How can you afford to "<>t taken them ror such-and-such?" and well." dstcr engaged to So-and- For sale by all cents. Foster-Mi question of all others that New York, solo a ed to arouse the wrath of ted States. entlest one la to call some Remember th< the phono aud have the and take no othe V ) ?p *. " J )13. it ask "Who is ducts of everybody else's farm. N d desired to give where else was there such buttc would doubtless or such eggs, or corn, or grass, yet one hates to cattle. "He had been obliged to gl has nothing to do notice to quit to the farmer for t o one "hangs up" ing exceptionally ,worse than t low level of everybody but the Ii k'ery one has her perial Majesty." This waB the la ste nolr," when it strew. The stalwart friends of t ! maligned farmer met and public declared that agriculturally spea OKATOIt. i"K> the emporer and king .was su a noodle that anvbodv could m rown Out of Oeur his leg, that he believed every flj ni|> Flag. tering yarn that was administer . a man may rise to hlm' that the farmer whom unhappy clrcuiu- had evicted could teach the Impc illustration was ,al Majesty everything from drai on of the delivery to chickens. And the audacious f ly oration a few lowa have publicly signed th< as lu a Vermont naraes to a petition which rath eaker was pretty hluntly recommends the empor iurroundings. He unt* hing to try to talk in the f just where he ture al)out something that he u nid when deliver- derstands.?London Outlook, nd he liad there illustrative intro- A f00l insists on having h felt sure would own way? a wjse man mer >11 the patriotism jy has ancj says nothing. ime came lie ad of the platform, = = throwing its pro- ?9 e breezes of free- S| V introduction, and pa "I had been troubled, iu Distances, might ivl ?? 1 c- ' u , I with proper en- A MrS- L F,nCtlCr. In 3 le?< to of the persons ^5 not taken down, until Mar niiied. in a sec- I to have a doctor. He did iseovered that his ?d , ,. . . , tt it was, was not *j bcttCr* 1 hurt a11 OVCr? an( s. There wasn't kg Cardui, and soon 1 began iiag, to which | g00(j i^ealth, and able to < rued, instead of protecting folds," jj T A |C P come Ifinm i '1 slipped on an $ ft AAlNfl j| 5 peel, if you wish, ?8 fi 1a V**? W 11. He waited a W v n continued as if it ^ You maY wonder W iiis original plan. ^ other remedies have faile is snapping its M c.,/.rpccfM| hprince it ia r ">f all natiifhs, as LH . * .. , ^ whether in times p >hat act curativcly on the as quietly as it for women, and for womei moment, yet >: H restores weak and ailing iiiK folds around BMi ? ... ?. who are so for- KB ^ you Suffer like A/ n this country; it Fj will surely do for you, wi ever we may ro Writt to: Ladles' Advisory Dept w herever we may filj Sprcial Instrvtiions. andG4-pa?e i. II.- had fooled i? % in^ that, ho had . and those In the r ? ':lt ;,~Dbocw Jouannet's Frost irlv nnn u thorough fa mil- I^wrmte* b? roused the people I u,f?n?rt..n.?.i^ww ?????? ALFRED iusi asm."?Boston Wilhelni. COS iporor 1ms really years in his in- ~ lestic affairs ILis n the superiority _ ^B ^B^L ^B^L ^B ton B^^^| ukases on music JflB to Bi^l^l mmRB Bi ^B the artists whom for general re- ____________ \ f ( wiling defeat, his ! M v > have come off in ii the sturdy and mm had iii iio< ently ttv 25 ^BBB^ H BB ^bi icts of his farm ; wrior to the pro- ! I.ANCA! QDEATaus uri( |:|7 () filings tlways In- ' ' BjlB-^fc*. ' ' * Headers. f so many people ~~~? have been cured r|-*? > . 4 r?-i iiri r Pills, the que*- 1 Il(k I>tl? A I HUM ies: ''Is lliis meiii. I " *sfud in our neigh- liliuiupion At Tlio generous \1* I Ore at Falls roxi- MISS 1,01 "n*'ni for doubt on riii 411 v 1 %. I lie I liaiupioii Lady >> 1 11 "i1 " 1 ino ;i|l Comer: says: "I can say y Pills ar<; an ' f. ' ~ rllcine for they did ^ VfeW tod. I am certain P I & , 1 F I I Ax just as beneficial to tako them. For | A was bothered by 11 1* 1; N N ^ DA HI s spells and I fro- I B in my sides and I II I 1 an's Kidney Pills J a Hiippiy and I had ? lolIK before I WU9 | > i n a |i A Mammoth rerris V dealers. 1'rlce 60 Ihurn Co., Huffalo, igents for the Unl- /i , tiroinius wHI hi?li s name?Douit's? *11 r. Will 1 * = M? . ?r STAND IN or YOUR OWN LIGHT he No longer. 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It is a medicine |J n only. It builds, strengthens, and H wemen, to health and happiness. I . Irs. Fincher did, take Cardui. It KB hat it did for her. At all druggists. | Chattanooga Medicine Co.. Chattanooga. Ten*., fjg; ok, "Home Treatment lor Women," ?ent free. J 00 Proof Cabbage Plants I \ as the best to be had anywhere by thousands iced buyers, and are ottered to you at prices n yon pay for common, inferior plants. WILL VAIIniES. Plants tied in bunches of 25. Jl cents for 500 lots; $1.00 per 1000; 5000 and \ its per 1000. ! rS EARLY GIANT ARGENTEUIL ASPARAGUS ?|, year and two year old, $4 per 1000, $1 per 100. ' AMD SATISFACTION GUARANTEED I y Southern Kxpress Co. Cash with order, please. 1 >fitable crop send your orders early to i JOIANAKT, Box 1U. MT. PLEASANT. S.C. \ U HINGr I GE'S I = I )WS I >TKH, S. C. I F APRIL 7 1 IC Shows with Three V ? hleles, I iicliuli 111; i nise Clifford, jj| rosller of (lie World, Meet- l|| s, Mule or Fenuile. 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