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ATONE FOR CRIME FAIRER AND JON PAY THE PEN- ALT) FOR HORDER ALLENS DIED IN CDAIR Eleventh-Hour Appeals to the Lieu tenant-Governor in Behalf of Young Claude Allen Stopped When Governor Mann, Apprised of the Plans, Returns to Richmond. Mumbling a prayer and crying half audibly that he was ready to go, Floyd Allen, lawless product of the Virginia mountains whose refusal to accept a short prison term for a minor offence led to the wholesale Court murder in Hillsville, one year ago, limped to the death chair in the State penitentiary at Richmond, Va., Friday. The sentence of the Court, held up for six hours while desperate and dramatic efforts were being made to save the condemned men by eleventh hour appeals to the Lieutenant-Gov ernor, was speedily ordered to pro ceed when Governor Mann hastened hack to Virginia soil to take charge of a situaMon which was sensational and exciting to a degree. The prison superintendent, acting entirely within the law, agreed at 2 o'clock Friday morning to defer the execution, giving Attorney-General Williams an opportunity in the mean while to pass upon the constitutional right of Lieutenant-Governor Elyseon to interfere. F*ut the young son of Governor Mann reached his father in Philadel phia by 'phone less than an hour af ter the delay had been ordered, and by 8 o'clock Friday the Governor waa again on Virginia soli Incensed, as It afterward develop ed. by the unexpected effort to take advantage of his temporary absence, wh*-n he had repeatedly refused clem ency. the Governor boarded an early morning train, arriving In Richmond at 11 .10 o'clock On tiie way he telegraphed the Sec retary of the fommonmealth that he would be m Ylrglaila by S o'clock, this Information suddenly checking the plan of Allen sympathizers in fur ther urging the Lieutenant-Governor to Interfere \S hile every proceeding had halted pending the Governor s arrival, word reached police head^uar'ers that a crowd had assembled at the station, patrolmen. detectives and plain clothe* men being hurried there to prevent anv demonstration When the Oos.-rnor stepped on the plat- torn) he was quickly surrounded by officer* whj escorted him to a taxl- i lit which took him quickly to the <'apltol In hi* o'* i <- a' the State prison S’ljor :.t*-n,),'tit Wood was paiing the t’oor I *■» \ 1111-: \ ah lie a A alied devel o; uo rr- Tbi situation tin-re had be- <oi!;. ."ure .ntense 1’reclscL a* noon "tie Mi ,.er I ii t ended t w a s called to tile telephone The Governor of Virginia is at his desk ' w as the message he received from the Capitol, and instantly pre parations were made to obey the mandate of tiis Court The witnesses who had assembled at 7 o'clock, the hour announced for the execution, had left the prison with Instructions to return at 1 o'clock. .lust after sunrise the Allens prac tically collapsed when informed that a half-day respite had be>en granted by a combination of legal and techni cal circumstances as strange as any that ijad ever been presented to a Court of justice. Claude Allen, who had retained his nerve throughout the trying or deal in his behalf, gasped and trem bled. but he regained his composure as he noted the hopeless and dejected appearance of his aged father in the cell across the corridor. As the morning hours passed they sat with their spiritual advisers, but they nerved themselves again for the end when they heard that Goveme 1 - Mann had returned to Virginia. Men prominent in official circles of the State, who waited in the Capitol for a final plea to the Governor, were turned away as his secretary handed out this statement from the Execu tive: “Hearing at five minutes to three o’clock this morning of the action taken in the Allen case, after I left the city, I considered it my duty to hurry back. I simply desire to re peat that after the most careful ex amination of the evidence in this case, I have not the slightest doubt of the guilt of Floyd and Claude Al len, and I will not interfere. TSie law must take its course.” What brought forth the greatest indignation from the Governor was the reported fact that the plan to ap peal to the Lieutenant-Governor was agreed upon a week ago. While there was no intimation from Lieutenant-Governor Ellysson that he would Interfere, his willing- neat Thursday night to await § writ ten opinion from the Attorney-Gen eral, who had already ruled verbally that he waa without authority, waa accepted outside to mean that the life of Clauda Allen might be spared. Governor Mann, however, cut thru’ the mase of uncertainty and doubt by HITS THE SCHOOLS HARD GOVERNOR BIJ£A8E REFUSES TO OBEY THE LAW ♦ Fails to Attend Meeting of the Board •m- ttf Arrange to Borrow Money to Carry on Schools. Governor Blease did not attend the meeting of the financial board of the State, called for to-day to make some arrangements looking to borrowing H 0,0o 0 for the use of the rural schools. The meeting was held in the office of the State Treasurer with only Comptroller General Jones and State Treasurer Carter present. The Legislature at its recent ses sion imposed a special one-mill tax levy for the support of the free rural schools and empowered the financial board of the State to borrow $150,- 000, if so much be needed, for the schools and pledge the income from this tax in payment of the loan. State Superintendent of Education Swearingen the other day called the Governor’s attention to the pressing and immediate need of about $30,000 to enable the rural schools to contin ue right now and asked the board to meet and make arrangements for borrowing this amount. It was for this purpose that today's meeting was called. The Governor in a mesage to the General Assembly stated that he did not speak to the State Treasurer and Comptroller General and would not serve with them. Howe' er, the Leg islature put it in the hands of theee two officials and the Governor to bor row the money and the matter is up to them. It is authorltively stated that un less tho money is borrowed by the end of the week that some 25,009 children In the rural schools will be deprived of echool and many of the schools forced to cloee their doors Intense Interest has been aroused throughout the State, for scores of the schools have applied to the Sup erintendent of Education for aid it all depends on the attitude the Governor will take If he declines to act with the other members of the financial board it will hardly be pos sible to borrow any money, It Is said. KI Ll/S HKKSEIJ- IN STORE. Chattanooga Woman Take* Polaon In New Orleans. Mrs Isabel G Temple, thirty years of age, daughter of H N Temple, of Chattanooga, Tenn , committed sui cide In s Canal street department store in New Orleans. Friday Miss Temple, who went to New Orleans three weeks ago suffering from ner vousness, was found In s Isrstory by a shopper after she had swallowed the creater part of a viol of poison She d:**,! before she could be taken io a hospital Mis* Temple went w.th her mother f o ’he public library Friday after noon The yoiiiuc woman excuse i herself for a moment and walked uto ’be Street The mo’! . ■ w.l (• d .» while, an 1 w hen her I luthier tiad not return started in -• itch ot her When found the oing woman was urn on<( ions A Chattanooga dispatch says Miss Temple was a daughter of 11 F Tem ple. a retired manufacturer of tha: city Miss Temple was an arti c t and had been In New York for severa’ years, employed as a magazine Illus trator She returned to her home a year ago. suffering from nervous breakdown. Her condition did not improve and she )>ecame despondent. Miss Temple was widely known. The family is one of the most prominent in the Central South. hastening home. The jury, which, under the law, is required to witness all executions, as sembled outside the penitentiary gates shortly before 1 o'clock, ming ling there with the crowd. The pro gram as originally announced was carried out without change. While two ministers, who have been unfaltering in their loyalty to the condemned men, were telling them good-bye, the prison superin tendent stepped into the corridor, which separated the cells of father and son, and read the death warrant. Floyd Allen, still limpibg from the wounds he received in the Hillsville Court battle, said the last tearful farewell to his tkjy ajid went with the prison guards to the death chamber. A groan escaped him as he sat in the chair, while the straps and electrodes were being fastened about him. The current was turned on at 1:22 o’clock and in four minutes the sur geon motioned to the superintendent that he was dead. The body was speedily removed. Again the chair was tested, while Claude Swanson Allen, namesake of a United States Senator, was being led through the corridor to the cham ber door. Though a trifle pale, he marched with measured stride, his head held high, his wonderful nerve with him to the end. As he took his seat he moved his arms to assist the guards who were adjusting the straps, and like hie father he went silently and unafraid. When the autopsy had been per formed the bodies were given over to Victor Allen, Floyd’s sou, by whom they were taken to the mountains of Southwest Virginia for burial. BODIES IN STREET KANT SDRYIYORSSTIU CLING TO TREE TOPS ♦ DEYOND TDE RESCUERS Others, Frozen, Drop to Death In the Waters Below — Two Hundred Dead Found in a Church—Hun dreds of Bodies Are Said to be Partly Submerged in Streets. A dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, says the first direct communication was established with the West Side shortly after four o’clock Thursday afternoon, when Undertaker Osman said over the telephone that he had nineteen bodies in his morgue and or ders to care for sixty-nine more as soon as possible. He says that he estimates the num ber of dead in the United Brethren Church on the West Side at 200. From 100 to 150 bodies, he said, are lying partly submergrd in Avondale avenue. About 200 more, according to Mr. Osman, are lying in West Park avenue. Tho section between Central ave nue and Sandusky street was almost wiped out. After two nights of hor ror during which hundreds clung to hoireetops calling for help until their voices gave way, while dozens were perched in the branches of the trees, many are still beyond the reacb of the rescuers. The cold caused many to freeze, lose their grop and drop in the water. With military glasses, rescuers standing on tbs Baltlmor# and Ohio railroad near Ceatral avenue could see several dead forma lying on the roof of a building to the east. At the corner of Glenwood and Thomas avenues, the lifeless form of a man was still hanging In a tree He had frozen during the night Van dals looting the besieged territory added to the horrors. G W Giver, justice of peace at Brlggsdale. swore in several deputies Thursday and gave them Instructions to shoot down all looters Company E. Fourth Ohio National Guards at Marysville, assumed guard duty around the stricken district Th ursday Relief trains from Marysville and I-ondon bearing food and clothing relieved the situation In the refu gees quarters in the hilltops Eatlmates of a heavy loss of life In the West Side are the stories told by the hundreds rescued and by scenes witnessed by the reseirers, who have been working continuously with rough boats for forty hours Between 6u0 and l.oou persons lost their lives in the flooded W.-st Side of Columbus, according to rgp resentatix es of the Columbus Dis patch. alio nave jutr* gotten into com m u ni cat loti aith the neaspaper of fice from the previously isolated s-c Don of t he city The same eMimate Is iriven h\ per son* In charge of the relief stations on tin- hilltop west of the flooded sec tion Discoveries made Thursda' morning among the stricken popu lace, they say, are appalling According to those who Invaded the stricken district, the big State in stitutions and store rooms in the hill top section are crowded with refu gees, many of whom were rescued from the murky waters and who tell stories of indescribable horrors. Former Mayor Geo. S. Marshall, who was in telephone communica tion with Attorney Qecil Randall, his law partner, said Thursday that Mr. Randall said the death tbll would reach at least a thousand. Throngs of excited groups of peo ple from the flood-stricken section of the city who were crowded into the temporary rescue quarters assert ed that the estimate of Mr. Randall is not exaggerated. The true extent of the awful trag edy will not be known for days until the mass of wreckage, houses and uprooted trees, which are strewn ov er the lowlands south of the city are uncovered. This mass of debris is under several feet of water with swift currents running In many di rections. Many of those rescued tell of es caping from their homes by the frac tions of minutes just before the rush ing waters swept their homes away and crushed them like egg shells against bridges. Scores of entire families, those people assert, were swept down with their houses in the swift currents. Every available Inch of space in the Columbus State Hospital for the Insane and Mount Carmel Hospital on the hilltop is occupied by refu gees, according to those who Invad ed the stricken district Thursday. Four children are reported to have been born In a school on a hilltop. Fire Chief Laner, wh« was ma rooned on the hilltop, Just beyond bhe flooded section, reaching that point of safety in his automobile just before the waters swept the low lands, said he saw scores of people standing on their porches as the wa ters swept down and that he cailnot see how scarcely any escaped. Who would have thought It? Illi nois sends a Georgia Democrat to represent her In the United States Senate. Surely the war ie over. HISTORY OF THE CRIME _ i FOR WHICH THE ALLENS WERE E liECTROOUTED. ♦ Several Other Participants la the Crime Serving Various Terms in the State’s Prison. The execution of Floyd Allen and his son, Claude Swanson Allen, at Richmond, Va., marks the first blow of justice upon the notorious Allen, clansmen, whose lawlessness for years held the natives of the Vir ginia mountains In terror and culmi nated early last year In the shooting up of the Carroll County Court, when five persons lost their lives. Tne news of the crime seni a thrill of horror throughout the nation, aud the shocked Virginia authorities mov ed expeditiously to bring tho crimin als to justice. On the morning of March 1 l /joyd Allen stood before the bar of the Car roll County Court House, at Ilills- ville, to receive sentence for hie part in aiding the escape of another moun taineer from the custody of the sher iff. A crowd packed the little Court room, for the character of the pris oner was well known. Members of the Alien family were known to be in Court and trouble was thought imminent. The jury having announced a ver dict of guilty, Judge Thornton L. Massif sentenced the prisoners to one year at hard labor. With the last word of the sentence a crash of fire arms broke from the spectators’ benches. Floyd Allen, the prisoner, with a smoking revolver in his hand, leaped fram the prisonar's dock and joined the rush of the gang toward the door. When the Court room was cleared the body of Judge Mamie, riddled with bullets, was found lying over his desk; CommonweaRh Attorney William M. Foster and Sheriff L. F. M ebb lay dead on the flood, Augustus Fowler, a juror, and Elizabeth Ayna, a sp^tator, were bleeding from wounds, which proved fatal the next day, and iK-xter Goad, clerk of the Court, lay shot through the neck Goad was one of the principal wit ness* s for the State at the conviction of the prisoner* When the Gourt room was exam ined later it was found that more than 200 shots had been fired. Twen ty-seven shots took effect uj>on those killed or wounded An array of de tective* and newspaper correspon dent* soon was scouring the muddy roads of the mountains In search for the prisoners Lloyd Allen, the cause of the shooting, who had been wounded by Sheriff Webb in the Court room, was taken the day of the < rime, together w ith his son. Vic tor Vilen, and his nephew, Bird Marlon. Si ina Edwards, a nephew of the Mien brothers, was captured in a hut : ti the mountains, March 22 Kd ward*, w tio is lame, had eaten noth ing for several days and^was very weak w hen found Claude Swanson VlUri. another son of Floyd Allen, walked up to a posse in Die moun- t i n* and surrendered himself on Man h 2* Th*- next day Friet Allen, youngest member of the gang, was taken at his lather's home Floyd Allen, charged specifically with the killing of Commonwealth Attorney Foster, was found guilty of first degree murder on May 17. and sentenced to death Claude Allen, ins son, was tried on a charge of kill ing Judge Massie, and convicted of murder in the second degree. The jury recommended a sentence of fif teen years in the penitentiary. The State demanded a new trial and a verdict of guilty in the first degree was returned on July 27 and he was sentenced to death. Friel Allen pleaded guilty of mur der in the second degree, and on Au gust 14 was sentenced to eighteen years in prison. Three days later Sidna Edwards pleaded guilty to a like charge and was given a sentence of fifteen years. Victor Allen was acquitted of a charge of having par ticipated in the murders. ■ Sidna Allen, brother of Floyd Al len, and recognized leader of the clan, and his nephew, Wesley Ed wards, eluded pursuit for many weeks, and eventually escaped out of the Virginia * mountains and made their way West. They were captured at Des Moines, la., September 14, as the result of a love affair of young Edwards. A letter from him was lost by Maude Iroler, of ../ount Airy, N\ C., and detectives followed its in formation and captured the two men. Sidna Allen was placed on trial November 11 at Wytheville, Va., charged with the murder of Judge Massie, convicted and sentenced to thirty-five years in prison. Three Candidates for Senator. Three candidates have already an nounced for the United States Sen ate. The campaign will be held In 1914, and the candidates already out are E. D. Smith, Incumbent; C. L. Blease, governor, and N. B. Dial, of Laurens. Mr. Dial was a candidate last summer for the place of Sena tor Tillman. I ^ ^ ^ ■ . We have no doubt of the success of the Wilson Administration. The most prosperous periods ever enjoyed by this country was when It was under the rale of the Democratic party. Why should not history repeat Kaelf? LATE FLOOD NEWS ♦ THE DEATH LIST NOT AS URGE AS REPORTED — — ♦ LOOTING IS REPORTED • Thousands Thought to be Drowned in Dayton Are Found to be Safe— Seventy Thousand Marooned in That City — Fifteen Thousand Homes Submerged and Untenable. Revised estimates of the losses of life in Dayton, Ohio, received Wed nesday night, give ground for hope that the dead in all sections affected by the flood will not exceed 2,000 and may go below that figure. Daring Investigators who penetrat ed the flooded section revealed hun dreds safe whom it was feared were lost. Unless swelled by a death list in the foreign settlement on the north side, as yet unreached, there may not be more than 200 dead in the whole city. There was far heavier loss of life in the west side of Columbus, Ohio, than was thought. One estimate placed the number of dead at more than six hundred. Apparently authentic reports from Piqua indicated that twenty were dead there. At Peru, !nd., the authorities esti mate the death list will reacb at least 150. From Hamilton fifty persons were reported drowned in the collapse of a hotel where they had sought refugs. Twenty-five deaths wers reported from Troy, Ohio, thirty in Middle- town and five at MasUlou. Deaths from the flood In Chillico- the will not exceed 2 5, sccerdlng to latest advices. EarHer reports were that from 200 to 500 lives had been lost A report from Linton, Ind., gave sixteen persons drowned at Howee- ville. 25 miles south of Terre Hiute. There were ten deaths at Sharon, Pa Estimates are that 70,000 persona are marooned In Dayton a flooded dis trict. where 1 5.000 homes have been submerged Rescue station* are pro viding for 5,000 homeless The prop erty damage In the dty la figured at $25,000,000. Alarmiat reports were frequent during the day. In most cases these were quickly contradicted. Rumors that the Grand reservoir near St. Mary a. Ohio, had brokau proved un founded. Similar report# about tho I/ewlston reservoir likewise were found to be untrue. Threatened breaks In both were repaired and re ports to Governor Cox. at Columbus Wednesday night indicated that the danger from this source waa passed Later report* from Zanesville are t hut fifteen live* are believed to have been lost there Atniut Ifi.Onp are honu-l* *s A ecore of buildings col- lupe* I Fire broke out at one point, h it it »a* not believed It would spread. Twenty were found dead among refugees in the Court House at Peru, Did , the victims of exposure, accord ing to a telephone message. Conta gion has broken out among the refu- eee*. the report (dated. The police and militia report that looters are working in the central district All persona not able to give a satisfactory explanation of their actions are arreated. Persistent, but unconfirmed rumors, tell of looters being shot. Excitement Is running riot. The wildest rumors were In cir culation andjerious trouble Is expect ed. THEY MUST ALL WORK. •— Postmaaters Muni Give Full Time to Their Offices. Hereafter postmasters in the larg er offices of the country are to be held strictly accountable for.the time and personal attention they give their official duties. Postmaster-General Burleson announced Friday that he proposed not merely to discourage, but to stamp out the practice said to be followed by many first and second class postmasters of imposing a con siderable part of the duties upon subordinates in order to utilize the time for personal ends. Further more, the Postmaster-General, in making recommendations for ap pointments to these offices, will re quire, in addition to the usual quali fications, an assurance from the ap plicant that his whole business time will be devoted to the duties of the position. Surgeon Dies From Infection. Dr. Algernon T. Bristow, sixty- two, one of the best known surgeons in Greater New York, died at bis home. No. 2 34 Clinton street, Brook lyn, of blood poisoning which result ed from Infection received while per forming an operation at the Long Is land College Hospital on March 1$. Fell One Thousand Feet. At TokHo two Japaneee army offi cers were killed Friday while giving an exhlbRloir flight In an aeroplane for the members of parliament. Their machine broke when making n turn at a height of 1,000 feet and they were dashed to the ground. CRIMES OF THE ESKIMOS HUMAN LIFE CHEAP IN THE ARC TIC AMONG THEM. A Missionary Who Was Sent tv Them Tells of the Ways of Xortliern Tribesmen Who Never W ash. A great work ia being done far op on the northeast shores of Hudson Bay in converting the wandering In diana and Eskimos who Inhabit that desolate region to Christianity. A devoted little band of three or four Christian pioneers is stationed there, and a member of that “Arctic mis sion”, who is iu England for n short “leave”, gave some of his experiences of the country and its people recent ly. He said: I am stationed at a tiny settlement on the Great Whale river, and the town cousista of two houses and a store I live at one of the houses with a Hudson Bay trader. We get two mails a year out there, but the newspapers only visit us once, so that you can imagine our expectation when newspaper day comes round. At the end of August every year a ship calls, and we have to be very careful to remember to order every thing we want, because if we forget anything we should have to wait an other year. The Eskimos never wash them selves. I have oft»n seen an Eski mo woman washing her young chil dren like a cat does a kitten—by licking them all over. Their only means of livelihood He* in catching seals. They are always on tbs look out for seal holes in tbs ice. They eat the blubber, that is, tbs fat of the seal, and clothe themselves or at aay rats make their trousers out of seeJ- sklo. It is very sold—4$ degrees be low aero as a rule—aid we Buro- peaas have to keep roarlag fires go ing in every room of our kouoo'. The people don’t lire in villages but separately In families, so as to have as wide a field for huatlag as possible. They are a very revenge ful people. A short while ago an Eskimo waa out hunting and saw a black dot In the distance on the tee. On approaching he made certain that it was a seal just protruding from a seal hole. He fired and bit it, bat whan he got up to It he found that ho had accidentally shot a man. He called on the widow, sold how sorry he was, and, promising to the woman, asked for forglveaeoa. The son of the dead man entered, and, when he heard the story ho rushed off and killed all the huator’a family In revenge. Ia retaliation the hunter killed all the dead maa’s fam ily. and so tho fond began. When w# were Informed of thin sad came to Investigate we found that there was only one man surviving ont of two families of a boat 17 persona They ware terribly lawlean until we came, and even now when in tho grip of starvation commit tho most awful deeds. Lately a mother, rav aged terribly by hunger, ate her two children. An other killed bis wife and lived on her, and when she had been eaten up tried to murder three other men's children. Luckily he was prevented. There are no native laws. They don’t steal, but think nothing of murder. When they are “put out”, a* the saying goes, they must take a life They don't mind whom they kill when they are angry as long a* they kill some one. There ia no sort of punishment for the crime. They are very fond of singing and their favorite or only game la con nected therewith. A piece of seal bone, with a little hole In it, is sus pended from the roof. They all ait round the room, and each tries to throw an arrow Into the hole. He who succeeds has to sing a song, most songs wins the game. They have large families, and the race would increase tremendously wers It not for accidents and murders. They are, however, very impressed by the Christian creed, and we are gradually getting them to change their ways: Driven From Their Homes. At Louisville, Ky., more than two thousand families were driven from their homes last Friday, 3,000 men were out of employment and thou sands of dollars' damage to rroperty had been done by the waters of the Ohio River, which early crashed over the “cut off” at the east end of the city,' flooding a large section to a depth of four feet. Rebels Surround Federal*. Gen. Ojeda, with four hundred Federals, is surrounded by a thou sand State insurgents ten miles be low the border at Naco, Sonora, and making a last stand. Gen. Obregon, commanding all Sonora insurgent troops, is on his way from Can&nea with six hundred insurgents rein forcements. Boat and Soldiers Are Lost. A report, which this far lacks con firmation, is current in Mexico CUy to the effect that a boat, with more than four hundred soldiers on board, has been sank off Oayamss, In tho Gulf of California, ail tha result of an explosion. There are ploaty of rich Daaso- crats, bat they are not tha klad that Is needed to rapren* this ooontry ^ at foreign coarts if hollar diplomat / •s no loaffar to ha la favor. ^ * -*■ — _ *