I DRENCHED IN BLOC BlOO VIRGINIA COURT ROOM SCENE 0 OF- OF IT TERRIBLE TERRIBLE TRAGEDY FOLLOWING FOLLOWING FOLLOW FOLLOW- ING SENTENCING OF PRISONER Judge Upon the Bench Prosecutor Before e Bar Bar and Sheriff Are Killed and Clerk and Several Oth Others rs Wounded by Troop of Outlaws Va A A troop of mountain outlaws rodo rode down out of the Blu Blue Ridge Thursday to the Carroll count counts count courthouse here hero and assassinated th the judge upon the bench the prosecutor before beCore the bar and the sheriff at the thedoor thedoor thedoor door in less time than it takes to tel teJ it while sentence was being l i upon Floyd Allen one of ot of time be number When the crack of the rUles died away only one member of the human fabric of the court Dexter court Dexter Goad the clerk was clerk was alive lIve and he had been een i wounded Jurymen and ana onlookers were struck by the fusillade but none was wounded seriously Floyd Allen was before the bar Thursday morning convicted of oC taking a prisoner from Crom a deputy sheriff Alen Al Al- len en had struck the tho sheriff over the head lead with the butt of a rifle and the prisoner escaped Sheriff Webb had gone jene up into the mountains and taken Allen despite dire warnings of what I such a venture might mean Attorney Foster roster had prosecuted him fearlessly and a mountaineer jury gathered from the Inland section for no man nian in Carroll Carroll Car Car- roll county cared to sit on the trial of an Allen had convicted him Just as Allen was about to be called up for sentence his two brothers Sidney Sidney Sid Sid- ne ney and Jack at the head of a troop of twenty mountaineers rode up to the he courthouse The two brothers and their companions compan compan- Ions ons some carrying rifles and others armed with revolvers crowded into the theall rail all and about the door Floyd Allen was in the dock Judge Massie l mounted the bench and Prosecutor Foster moved sentence upon Allen who stood up There was wasa a shuffling of feet and a general movement move move- ment meat among the mountaineers in the back backof of the room The usual legal formalities over Judge Massie began pronouncing sent sent- ence The last words that fell from his lips precipitated the tragedy Judge Thornton L L. L Massie rose from his chair as the bullets struck him and andell fell ell across his desk Commonwealth Attorney William Foster with half a dozen bullets in his brain crumpled down to the floor Sheriff Lewis Webb was shot and killed as he reached for his revolver Bullets grazed Clerk Goad and in the confusion he was reported reported re reo re- re ported killed Jurors who had been wounded slightly were reported dead and by that indefinable method of communication com corn which prevails In the woodland wood wood- land and country reports of a wholesale slaughter went out to the countryside The governor has offered a reward for capture of members of the band and posses are are aie being organized 1