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Ijllp ' f 1 i * . / -h * i * ATONE FOR CRIME FATHER AND SON PAY THE PEN. , ALT) FOR MURDER :<-J ? ? ALIENS DIEI IN CHAIN I . Eleventh-1 lour 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-Governor, was speedily ordered to proceed when Governor Mann hastened back to Virginia soil to take charge of a situation 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 meanwhile to pass upon the constitutional right of Lieutenant-Governor Elysson to interfere. * But the young son of Governor Mann reached his father in Philadelphia by 'phone less than an hour after the delay had been ordered, and by 8 o'clock Friday the Governor was again on Virginia soil. Incensed, as it afterward developed, by the unexpected effort to take advantage of his temporary absence, A when he had repeatedly refused clem^Hftncy, the Governor boarded an early ^PRiorning train, arriving in Richmond at 11:30 o'clock. On the way he telegraphed the Secretary of the Commonwealth that he would be In Virginiia by 8 o'clock, this information suddenly checking the plan of Allen sympathizers in further urging the Lieutenant-Governor to interfere. WJiik/every proceeding had halted f^M^dlng'the Governor's arrival, word reached police headquarters that a crowd bad assembled at the station, patrolmen, detectives and plain clothes men being hurried there to prevent any demonstration. When the Governor stepped on the platform he was quickly surrounded by officers who escorted him to a taxicab which took him quickly to the Capitol. In his office at the State prison Superintendent Wood was pacing the # ? floor nervously as he awaited devel/?p\nents. The situation there had become more intense. Precisely at noon the superintendent was called to the telephone. 4 4 1 - ^ ? " ? " ^ I n n i fi 1 n ""I 110 uovornor til Virginia is ai mn desk," was the message ho received from the Capitol, and instantly preparations were made to obey the mandate of the 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. Just after sunrise the Aliens practically collapsed when informed that a half-day respite had been granted by a combination of legal and technical circumstances as strange as any that had ever been presented to a Court of justice. Claude Allen, who had retained his^erve throughout the trying ordeal in his .behalf, gasped and trembled, but ho regained bis composure as he noted the hopeless and dejected appearance of his aged father in thfe 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 Governor 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 Executive: "Hearing ait fivo 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 repeat that, after the most careful examination of the evidence in this case, I have not the slightest doubt of the guilt of Floyd and Claude Allen, and I will not interfere. The law must take its course." What brought forth the greatest indignation from the Governor was the reported fact that the plan to appeal to the Lieutenant-Governor was agreed upon a week ago. While there was no intimation from Lieutenant-Governor Ellysson that he would interfere, his willingness Thursday night to await a written opinion from the Attorney-General, who had already ruled verbally that he was without authority, was accepted outside to mean that the life of Claude Allen might be spared. Governor Mann, however, cut thru' the maze of uncertainty and doubt by WSBA 1 \ p ,j' ' -W'" " L ^ ^ - )t - , HITS THE SCHOOLS HARD GOVERNOR HIiEASE REFUSES TO OBEY THE LAW Fails to Attend Meeting of the Board to 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 .5u,uuu lor iue use 01 me rurai 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 session 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 continue 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. However, the Legislature put it in the hands of these two officials and the Governor to borrow the money and the matter is up to them. It is authoritively stated that unless the money is borrowed by the end of the week that some 25,000 children in the rural schools will be deprived of school and many of the schools forced to close their doors. Intense interest has been aroused throughout the State, for scores of the schools have applied to the Superintendent 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 possible to borrow any money, it is said. f KILLS HERSELF IN STORE. i Chattanooga Woman Takes Poison in New Orleans. Mrs. Isabel G. Temple, thirty years of age, daughter of H. N. Temple, of Chattanooga, Tenn., committed suicide in a Canal street department store in New Orleans, Friday. Miss Temple, who went to New Orleans three weeks ago suffering from nervousness, was found in a lavatory by a shopper after she had swallowed the greater part of a viol of poison. She died before she could" be taken to a hospital. Miss Temple went with her mother to the public library Friday afternoon. The young woman excused herself for a moment and walked into the street. The mother waited a while, and when her daughter had nf rof 11 m oi o vf n/1 in cnu rr?li r\ i hor II WL 1 UIU1 If OKU tvy\? lit >n/(ll V. 11 VI IIV1 When found the young woman was u nconscious. A Chattanooga dispatch says Miss Temple was a daughter of H. P. Temple, a retired manufacturer of thai city. Miss Temple was an artist and had been in New York for several years, employed as a magazine illustrator. She returned to her home a year ago, suffering from nervous breakdown. Her condition did not improve and she became 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, assembled outside the penitentiary gates shortly .before 1 o'clock, mingling there with the crowd. The program 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 superintendent stepped into the corridor, which separated the cells of father and son, and read the death warrant. Floyd Allen, still limping from the ( wounds he received in the Hillsville , Court battle, said the last tearful farewell to his boy and 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 1 led through the corridor to the chamber 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 i straps, and like his father he went i silently and unafraid. i When the autopsy had been performed the bodies were given over to Victor Allen, Floyd's son, by whom they were taken to the mountains of Southwest Virginia for burial. J \ BODIES IN STREET MANY SURVIVORS STILL CLING TO TREE TOPS BEYOND THE RESCUEBS Others, Frozen, Drop to Death in the Waters Below ? Two Hundred Dead Found in a Church?Hundreds of Bodies Are bald 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 orders to care for sixty-nine more as soon as possible. He says that he estimates the number of dead in the United Brethren Church on the West Sid? at 200. From 100 to 150 bodies, he said, are lying partly submerged in Avondale avenue. About 200 more, according to Mr. Osman, are lying in West Park avenue. Th? section between Central avenue n ml SnnrliiKkv ntreet vviik nlmnsf wiped out. After two nights of horror during which hundreds clung to hopsetops calling for help until their voices gave way, while dozens were perched In the branches of the trees, many are still beyond the reach of the rescuers. The cold caused many to freeza, lose their grop and drop in the water. With military glasses, rescuers standing on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad near Central avenue could see several dead forms 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. Vandals looting the besieged territory added to the horrors. G. W. Giver, justice of peace at Briggsdale, 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 Thursday. Relief trains from Marysville and London bearing food and clothing relieved irc situation in 1n e reiugees' quarters in the hilltops. Estimates of a heavy loss of life in the West Side are the stories told by the hundreds rescued and by scenes witnessed by the rescuers, who have been working continuously with rough boats tor forty hours. 'Between 600 and 1,000 persons lost their lives in the flooded West Side of Columbus, according to representatives of the Columbus Dispatch, who nave jus*, gotten into communication with the newspaper office from the previously isolated section of the city. The same estimate is given by tiersons in charge of the relief stations 011 the hilltop west of the flooded section. Discoveries made Thursday morning among the stricken populace, they say, are appalling. According to those who invaded the stricken district, the big State institutions and store rooms in the hilltop section are crowded with refugees, 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 Cecil Randall, his law partner, said Thursday that Mr. Randall said the death toll would reach at least a thousand. Throngs of excited groups of people from the flood-stricken section of the city who were crowded into the temporary rescue quarters asserted that the estimate of Mr. Randall is not exaggerated. The true extent of the awful tragedy will not be known for days until the mass of wreckage, hon es and uprooted trees, which are strewn over the lowlands south of the city are uncovered. This mass of debris is under several feet of water with Bwift. currents running in many di rections. Many of those rescued tell of escaping from their homes by the fractions of minutes just before the rushing waters swept their homes away and crushed them like egg shells against bridges. Scores of entire families, those people assert, were Bwept down with their houses in the Bwlft currents. Every available Inch of space in the Columbus State Hospital for tha Insane and Mount Carinel Hospital on the hilltop is occupied by refugees, according to those who invaded the stricken district Thursday. Four children are reported to have been born in a school on a hilltop. Fire Chief Lauer, who was marooned on the hilltop, just beyond the flooded section, reaching that point of safety in his automobile Just before the waters swept the lowLands, said he saw scores of people Btanding on their porches as the waters swept down and that he cannot Bee how scarcely any escaped. Who would have thought it? Illinois sends a Georgia Democrat to represent her in the United States Senate. Surely the war is over. uy. T' V -: ) . , ? \ " * . I I ' , 3 HISTORY OF THE CRIME * FOIl WHICH THK AL.LENS WERE E LiECTROCUTED. Bevei-al Other Participants in the Crime Serving Various Terms in the State's Prison. The execution of F'loyd Allen and hiB eon, 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 Virginia mountains in terror and culminated early last year in the shooting up of the Carroll County Court, when five persons lost their lives. The news of the crime sent a thrill of h Arrni* mil f*R nut * h a n .i f n 11 <i "v/iii/i mi v/u^nuui uiv uat'vii) 4iiiu the shocked Virginia authorities moved expeditiously to .bring the criminals to justice. On the morning of March I i Zioyd Allen stood before the bar of the Car roll County Court House, ac Ilillsville, to receive sentence for hie part in aiding the escape of another mountaineer from the custody of the sheriff. A crowd packed the little Court room, for the character of the prisoner was well known. Members of the Allen family were known to be in Court and trouble was thought imminent. The jury having announced a verdict of guilty, Judge Thornton L. Massie sentenced the prisoners to one year at hard labor. With the last word of the sentence a crash of firearms broke from the spectators' ! benches. Floyd Allen, the prisoner, with a smoking revolver in his hand, leaped from the prisoner's dock and joined the rush of the gang toward the door. When the Court room was cleared the body of Judge Massie, riddled with bullets, was found lying over his desk; Commonwealth Attorney William 'at. Foster ana snerm L?. F. Webb lay dead on the flood; Augustus Fowler, a juror, and Elizabeth Ayres, a spectator, were bleeding from wounds, which proved fatal the next day, and Dexter Goad, clerk of the Court, lay shot through the neck. Goad was one of the principal witnesses for the State at the conviction of the prisoners. When the Court room was examined later it was found that more than 200 shots had been fired. Twenty-seven shots took effect upon those killed or wounded. An army of detectives and newspaper correspondents soon was scouring the muddy roads of the mountains in search for the prisoners. Floyd Allen, the cause of the shooting, who had been wounded by Sheriff Webb in the Court room, was taken the day of the crime, together with his son, Victor Allen, and his nephew, Bird Marion. Sidna Edwards, a nephew of the Allen brothers, was captured in a hut in the mountains, March 2 2. Edwards, who is lame, had eaten nothing for several days and was very weak when found. Claude Swanson Allen, another son of Floyd Allen, walked up to a posse in the mountains and surrendered himself on March 2 8. The next day Friel Allen, youngest member of the gang, was taken at his father'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, his son, was tried on a charge of killing Judge Massie, and convicted of murder in the second degree. The jury recommended a sentence of fifteen years in the penitentiary. The State demanded a new trial and a verdict of guilty in the first degree was returned on July 2 7 and he was sentenced to death. Friel Allen pleaded guilty of murder in the second degree, and on August 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 participated in the murders. Sidna Allen, brother of Floyd Allen, and recognized leader of the clan, and his nephew, Wesley Edwards, eluded pursuit for many weeks, and eventually escaped out of the Virginia mountains and made their way West. They were captured - A IX ~ t ~ T? 1 A nfl ill. 1JUB MUIIUJB, lit., or|nwinut;i it, ?ir> the result of a love affair of young Edwards. A letter from him was lost by Maude Iroler, of mount Airy, N. C., and detectives followed its information and captured the two men. Sidna Allen was placed on trial November 11 at Wytheville, Vn., charged with the murder of Judge Massie, convicted and sentenced to thirty-five years in prison. Three Candidates for Senator. Three candidates have already announced tor the baited States Senate. The campaign will be held in 1914, and the candidates already out are E. D. Smith, incumbent; C. L. Rlease, governor, and N. B. Dial, of Laurens. Mr. Dial was a candidate last summer for the place of Senator Tillman. i ? ? We have no doubt of the success of the Wilson Administration. The most j prosperous periods ever enjoyed by this country was when it was under the rule of the Democratic party. Why should not history repeat ltsolf? *?' :r* a : i-(- y * . ^ *; i fi * -T"1 -;*J" 1/ %< V- "jM LATE FLOOD NEWS THE DEATH LIST NOT AS LARGE AS REPORTED LOOTING IS REPORTED ? Thousands Thought to b? 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 Wednesday 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. Darins? investigators who nonetrat ed the Hooded section revealed hundreds safe whom it was feared were lost. Unless swelled by a death list in the foreign settlement on the north side, as yot unreached, there may not be more than 2 00 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, Ind., the authorities estimate the death list will reach at least 150. From Hamilton fifty persons were reported drowned in the collapse of a hotel where they had sought refuge. Twenty-five deaths were reported from Troy, Ohio, thirty in iMiddletown and five at Masillon. Deaths from the flood in Chillicothe will not exceed 25, according to latest advices. Earlier reports were that from 200 to 500 lives had been lost. A report trorn Linton, ina., gave sixteen persons drowned at Howesville, 25 miles south of Terre Haute. There were ten deaths at Sharon, Pa. Estimates are that 7 0,00 0 persons are marooned in Dayton's flooded district, where 15,000 homes have been submerged. Rescue stations are providing for 5,000 homeless. The property damage in the city is figured at $25,000,000. Alarmist reports were frequent during the day. In most eases these were quickly contradicted. Rumors that the Grand reservoir near St. Mary's, Ohio, had broken proved unfounded. Similar reports about the Rewiston reservoir likewise were found to be untrue. Threatened breaks in both were repaired and reports to Governor Cox, at Columbus Wednesday night indicated that the danger from tills source was passed. Later reports from Zanesville -are that fifteen lives are believed to have been lost there. About 15,000 are homeless. A score of buildings collapsed. Fire broke out at one point, but it was not believed it would spread. Twenty were found dead among refugees in the Court House at Peru, Ind., the victims of exposure, according to a telephone message. Contagion has broken out among the refueees, the report stated. The police and militia report that looters are working in the central district. All persons not able to give a satisfactory explanation of their actions are arrested. Persistent, but unconfirmed rumors, tell of looters being shot. Excitement is running riot. The wildest rumors were in circulation and serious trouble is expect eu. THEY MUST AIjVj WORK. Postmasters Must Give Full Time to Thoir Offices. Hereafter postmasters in the larger offices of the country are to he 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 considerable part of the duties upon subordinates in order to utilize the time for personal ends. Furthermore, the Postmaster-General, in making recommendations for appointments to these offices, will require, in addition to the usual qualifications, an assurance from the applicant that his whole business time will be devoted to the duties of the position. Surgeon l)iwt From Infection. Dr. Algernon T. (ftristow, sixtytwo, one of the best known surgeons in Greater New York, died at this home, No. 234 Clinton street, Brooklyn, of blood poisoning which resulted from infection received while performing an operation at the Long Island College Hospital on March 12. ? ? Fell One Thousand Feet. At Toklo two Japanese army officers were killed Friday while giving an exhibition flight in an aeroplane for the members of parliament. Their machine broke when making a turn at a height of 1,000 feet and they were dashed to the ground. CRIMES OF THE ESKIMOS HUMAN LIFK CHEAP IN THE ABOTIC AMONG THEM. . A Missionary Who Was Sent C > Theo Tells of the Ways of Northern * Tribesmen Who Never Wash. I A great work is being done far up on the northeast shores of Hudson Hay in converting the wandering Indians 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 mission", who is in England for a short "leave", gave some of his experiences of the country and its people recently. He said: I am stationed at a tiny settlement on the Great W halo river, and the town consists of two houses and a store 1 live at one of the -houses 0 with a Hudson Hay 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 everything we want, because if we forget anything we should have to wait another year. The Eskimos never wash themselves. I have oft?n seen an Eskimo woman washing her young children like a cat does a kitten?by licking them all over. Their only means of livelihood lies in catching seals. They are always on the lookout for seal holes in the ice. They eat the blubber, that is, the fat of the seal, and clothe themselves or at any rate make their trousers out of sealskin. It is very cold?45 degrees below zero as a rule?and we Europeans have to keep roaring fires going in every room of our house. The people don't live in villages but separately in families, so as to have as wide a field for hunting as possible. They are a very revengeful people. A short while ago an Eskimo was out hunting and saw a black dot in the distance on the ice. On approaching ho made certain that it was a seal just protruding from a seal hole. He fired and -hit it, but when he got up to it he found that he had accidentally shot a man. He called on the widow, said how sorry he was, and, promising to help the woman, asked for forgiveness. The son of the dead man entered, and, when he heard the story he rushed off and killed all the hunter's family in revenge. In retaliation the hunter killed all the dead man's family, and so the feud began. When we were informed of this and came to investigate we found that there was only one man surviving out of two families of about 17 persons. , They were terribly lawless until \ we came, and even now when in the grip of starvation commit the most awful deeds. Lately a mother, ravaged terribly by hunger, ate her two children. An other killed his 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 aro "put out", as the saying goes, they must take a life. They don't mind whom they kill when they are angry as long as they kill some one. There is no sort of punishment for the crime. They are very fond of singing and their favorite or only game is connected therewith. A piece of seal bone, with a little hole in it, is sus- \ " ponded from the roof. They all sit 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 largo families, and the race would increase tremendously were 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 1 were out of employment and thousands of dollars' damage to property had been done by the waters of the Ohio River, which early crashed over the "cut off" at tho east end of the , city, flooding a large section to a depth of four feet. t ^ v) Kobels Surround Federals, Gen. Ojeda, with four hundred Federals, is surrounded by a thousand State insurgents ten miles below the border at Naco, Sonora, and making a last stand. Gen. Obregon, commanding all Sonora insurgent troops, is on his way from Cananea with six. hundred insurgents reinforcements. ( ? ? Boat and Soldiers Are ljost. A report, which this far lacks confirmation, is current in Mexico City , to the effect that a boat, with more than four hundred soldiers on board, has been sunk off Guyamas, in the Gulf of California, as the result of an explosion. . There are plenty of rich Demb- M crats, but they are not the kind that is needed to represent thta country fl at foreign courts if dollar diplomacy I | <s no longer to be In favor.