The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, April 01, 1913, Page 2, Image 2
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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
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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
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^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
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?p *. " J
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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
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r. Will
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m- bottle of GOWANS, King of
ist externals, keep it in the
he * home and just rub it on
sly when the first symptoms of
,k- a cold appear. This means
ch you head off Croup or Pneu111!
monla IT.vfnrn a 1 I f onottnM
it- inflammation.
ed
he Hundreds of tsetlmonials
?r- like this: '
ns I used Gowans Preparation for
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ier J. s. PELTON, ^
er Merchant,
u- Camden, Me.
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1 I could not rest At last, I tried B
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I The h
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hy Cardui is so successful, after I
d. The answer is that Cardui is H -k
:omposcd of scientific ingredients, l^1
womanly system. 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. |
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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. J
vii:s ix old 4 0 1
ATIOX FASTI MLS |y f
Vheel and Merry-Go-Round I
tied. Miss il and vow ft
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regret it. m