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Show !FIGHT TO THE DEATH SAYS THEALLENS HUlsvllle, Va., Match Si). "It will bo a battle to tho death. If tho do-tectlves do-tectlves ever take us back to Hills-villa Hills-villa It will ba In a v.ngon, with our toes turned up nnd our bcots on. And thero will bo somo of them In tho Bnmo wagon. "Neither of us expects to bjo homo or family again". Wo havo three revolvers re-volvers and ft pump gun and plenty or ammunition. If wo nro sighted we will shoot to kill Wo will never surrender." sur-render." TIiIb meBsago from Sldna Allen and Wesley Edwards was biought Into town this nfternoon by young Freol Allen, glrllBh looking Ind of seventeen who hnd been hiding out In tho mountains moun-tains most of tho tlmo slnco tho courthouse slaughter. Ho was captured cap-tured today, unresiotlngly, hiding in the carriage house behind his fathers homo, eight miles away from here. He loft hjs Undo Sldna nnd his Cousin Wesley two nights ago bccntiBo bb ho expressed It, ho was "plum star ved out." In addition to the thrilling deflaued ha brought In tho grnvo and Important Import-ant news that tho courthouso shooting shoot-ing really was tho result ot a con-Bplracy con-Bplracy that tho AllenB planned It In advance and thnt Sldna Allen and Wesley Edwarda at least had tholr victims selected. Sldna Slays Massle "When wo wcro lying out there under un-der a shalvcd rock and hiding In tho laurolB and Ivy," said Kreel to tho detectives, de-tectives, "Undo Sldna Bald ho had killed his man. That was Judge Mas-slo. Mas-slo. Cousin Wesley allowed that ho had killed Woll Poster, tho prosecutor. prosecu-tor. .Undo Sldna told mo nnd Wes-loy Wes-loy that ho had emptied his plBtol 1 three times and thnt what ho wnB trying try-ing to do was to kill tho judge, tho JurorB and tho whole d d push. Ho and Wes said that they had made It up beforehand. Uncle Sid was tu j get Judge Mnssle, Wes to shoot at ' Will Poster tand Bomo ot tho others I or our crowd wcro to kill Sheriff Webb nnd Dex (loud, tho clerk." When Freol left tho. others on I Wednesday -light they wero In n wild rugged section or tho mountain tops, about twenty-ouo inlleB southewst of hero. They had boon thero about olght or nlno days then, ready Tor a fight at any moment. Every nlghtB' ciimp was cloao to somo trunk or a rnllen tree which thoy might uso us n breastworks to protect them and a resting place for their wcapoiiB. Bound to Die Fighting I Tho little fellow bolloves that beyond be-yond n doubt they will both die fighting. fight-ing. So, too, do tho detectives. There was n grimmer look than ever upon the faces of the mountain scouts who rodo out or hero this evening to re-llovo re-llovo comrnds who woro In tho general gen-eral vicinity or where the desperadoes desperad-oes w-ero last seen. It was noticed that somo or tho scouts shook hundB with associates whoremalned behind nnd with friends they havo made slnco thoy camu to this territory. Somo ot them may not coiuo back ullvo. it Is probable, according to Captain Cap-tain Tom Pelts of tho dctcctlvo force that Allen nnd Edwards have not movod away, but will mnko their stund where they nro. This Is a plnco cnlled "No Man's Land." Thoro Is not a house within flvo miles ot their last camp nnd the laurel nnd Ivy thlckets aro so donso that a search er can scarcely mako his way up tho mountain afoot. Tho fight mny ho In tho darkness after nightfall It may bo tomorrow. It cannot In any cvont bo long doferrod. o |
