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Show 4 ALLEN ASKS THROAT CUT & EVIDENCE UNNERVES HIM The uj)er fiJiotogratfh is of Siss Jezebel Goad, court sten- ) ograjiher at the time the Allen gang shot ujb the courthouse at ) I Hillsville, Va. 'The lower jshotografih, left to right, shows ? Freel Allen anal his cousin Claude Allen, and was taken soon after they were arrested. A witness yesterday swore Claude Allen and Sidna Allen did the first shooting- Claude is a X ) son of Floyd Allen, the defendant. I : i Witness Declares .Prisoner Took Part in Fatal Court-. Court-. -house Shooting. By International News Service. W- YTHEVILLE, Va., May 3. In less thau a minute's time fifty-seven bullets were fired and nineteen of them found human marks when Floyd Allen and his cang shot up tho Carroll count court house at irillsvillo. killing Judgo Mussie and four others. Clerk Pextcr Goad, who was seriously wouuded before be-fore the eyes of his daughter, Miss Iczcbol Goad, court stenographer, was iu the path -ol.no less thau twelve of tho bullets., He was hit in the chcok and. on the witness stand today, he showed eleven- bullet . 'holes in his clothes. Cyrus Phibbs, a. surveyor, was perhaps per-haps the most, important witness at today's to-day's session of . the trial of Floyd Allen, Al-len, who is charged with tho murder of Commonwealth . Attorney Foster. Phibbs has made several maps of tho courtroom in which tho tragedy took place. Small models. were used to indicate in-dicate the furniture in tho room and the path of oyery bullet was markod. Ifo showed that .thirty-eight bullets went wild. The most of the shooting and-the quickest, tho witness said, came from tho direction of Sidna Allen Al-len and .Wesley .Eelwards. Phibbs surprised the defense by dc-clariue dc-clariue that when tho verdict lludiug Allen , guilty was announced he saw .Sidna and Victor Allen walk up . to the bar. in the meantime putting their hands in their rear pocket and grasp-inc grasp-inc their pistols. Dexter Goad Testifies. Doxler Goad testified that tho shooting shoot-ing commenced immediately after tho sheriff took charge of Allen. "The first shots came, from the direction di-rection -of Sidna uud Claude Allen," ho said. "I was shot iu the right cheek by oue of the early bullets, 1 rcaehed for my own pistol and bogan firing. I exchanged possibly six shots with Sidna Alien.'" Goad said he received three other slight wounds about the hips. lie wore the same suit in which -he was attired . on 4 ho day of the shooting and at the request of counsel displayed eleven holes through which bullets had 7'assed. He would not say that ho saw Floyd Allen do any shooting. He declared de-clared that he saw neither Judge Mas sio, Commonwealth Attorney Foster nor Sheriff Wibb all of whom were killed with pistols, lie denied that Sheriff Webb drew a revolver wheu ho ad-vanced ad-vanced to take chnrgo of Allcu. Saw Floyd Shooting1. Georgo Edwards, a rosideut of tho Fancy Gap district and a lifelong friend of Floyd Allen, testified thai tho latter told him ho did not think ".Bill'' Foster would give him a fair trial and if ho didn't ho intunded to put tho biggest hole in the court that (Continued on Pago Four.) "COT I TOUT," IM URGES GOiO (Continued from Pago One.) ever was. Sid Towo, another close friend of .Allen, declared he heard Allen Al-len make tho samo statement. That Allen made such a throat was also testified tes-tified to by still another witness yesterday. yes-terday. ir. C. Gilmer, a lawyer, who was in the courtroom on tho day of the Allen trial up to within fivo minutes of when tho shooting began, said ho saw Floyd and Sidna Allen emerging from the court with the crowd. 'Thev were both firing," said Gilmer. Gil-mer. "I heard Floyd exclaim that he had been shot in tho bowels, but he added, 'but I got the damned scoundrel scoun-drel anyway.' In all I saw four fir. ing Sidna and Floyd and two others whom I did not know. ' Flo3d Allen spent another agonizing agoniz-ing day in court today. ITe slept but slightly last night and at one time became be-came so wrought up that he -asked tho prison attendant to cut his throat or to give him a weapon with which he might do it. |