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Show FLOYD ALLEN FOUND GUILTHf MURDER Few Persons Present When Verdict Is Returned, Fearing Fear-ing Another Outbreak. ; WYTflEvTLIES, Va.. Ma.y 17. Floyd Allen, first of the Hillsville mountaineers tried for the Carroll county courthouse murders, wan adjudged guilty -here today to-day and will pay the penaJty of hie crime In tho electric chair at Richmond. The jury w&m out all nleht. Floyd Allen was charged npcclflcatly at this tlmo with the murder of Com-monwealth'a Com-monwealth'a Attorney Foster, prosecutor In tho Carroll county court, at Hlllsvlllo last March, when tho trial of Floyd Allen culminated In tho killing of five persons Presiding Judge Thornton Lu Maaalc, Prosecutor "William M. Foster, Sheriff' L.. F. Webb, Miao Elizabeth -Ayrea and Juror Augustus Fowler. Arrests of several of tho Aliens followed fol-lowed the shooting, but five of tho principals prin-cipals escaped to tho mountains. Howards Ho-wards for their arrest nisuH&d In three of thorn being taken, but Sldna Allen leader of tho clan, and Wesley Edwards, his nephew, still aro at lorjre. The other prisoners, it is expected, will be tried Immediately. Im-mediately. Sentence was pronounced on Allen today, to-day, hh he may be called to tontlfy In the other casos. Allen was cheerful today to-day preceding the announcement of tho verdict, In expectation at a-mlntrlal, hut when the verdict was announced he relapsed re-lapsed Into despair. There was barely a handful of persons In court. Whether this was because of fear that the Aliens might attempt to repeat re-peat tho scene enacted at Illllsville Is not known, but there was no reason for Bitch fears. Armed detectlvcn searched persons entering the courtroom. |