Show DRENCHED IN BLOOD VIRGINIA COURT ROOM SCENE OF TERRIBLE TRAGEDY FOLLOW ING sentencing OF PRISONER judae upon the bench prosecutor before bar and sheriff are air killed and clerk and several other others by troop ot of outlaw outlaws Ifil laville va via A troop of mountain outlaws rod rode cown down out of the blue ride thurly to the carroll county courthouse here and assassinated the judge upon the bench beach the prosecutor before the bar and the sheriff at the door in lees less time than it takes to tell it while sentence een was being pro bounced upon kloyd alien allen one of the thel number when the crack of the rines died away only one member of the human fabric of the court dexter miter goad ho the clerk was alive and be bad been wounded jurymen and onlooker onlookers were struck by the fusillade but none was led seriously floyd alien allen was before the bar thursday morning convicted of taking a prisoner from a deputy sheriff A len ten bad struck the sheriff over the head with the butt of a rifle and the prisoner escaped sheriff welb had gone up into the mountains and taken alien allen despite dire warnings arn ings of what such a venture might mean attorney foster had prosecuted him fearlessly eari easly and a mountaineer jury gathered from the inland section for no man in car roll county cared to sit on the trial of an alien allen had convicted him just as alien allen was about to bu bo calle I 1 up for sentence hie his to a brothers sid ny ney and jack at the heid of a troop of twenty mountaineers rode up to the courthouse court houge the th two to brothers and their compan tons ions some carrying rifles and others armed with revolver revolvers crowded into the rail rall and about the door floyd alien allen nas in the dock judge masile mounted the bench and prosecutor roster moved sentence ion uvon all alls who stood up there was a shuffling of feet nd a beneral movement among the mountaineers in the back of at the room the usual legal formalities over judge macale began pronouncing lent tent ence the last words that fell from his lips precipitated the tragedy judge thornton 4 masele rose from his life chair aa as the bullets atrock bemand him and fell adrova hie his desk commonwealth attorney william foster with half halt a dozen bullets in hie his bralo brain crumpled down to the floor sheriff lewis webb was shot and killed as be he reached for his revolver bullets raica grazed clerk goad and in fn the confusion he waa was re ported killed kilted jurors who bad had been wounded slightly were ere reported dead and by that indefinable method of at corn com which prevails hi in the wood land coultry court cour try rv reports of a wholesale slaughter wen tout to the countryside the no Ko vernor bae bats offered a reward for capture of members of rhe the band and posses are are being organized sed |