| Show HILL GUNMEN WHO SHOT UP COURT a GIVEN FREEDOM Release of Two Convicts in to Virginia Recalls Tragic Battle Richmond Va Prison Va doors have hn opened for the last members of a desperate desperate des des- mountain clan which shocked the world In 1012 when it shot situ up Ul the courtroom at Carroll I c county Va killing the Judge the states state's attorney and the sheriff and a u juror Wesley Vesley Edwards and SIdna Allen members of the clan have Just been pardoned b by Governor n Byrd Politics In Feud The Edwards and Allen families were ere Democrats The Republicans In control of county politics were their deadly enemies Time and again the Allen find and Edwards families charged that their foes were pers persecuting them through arrests for petty offenses s and raids on their homes l i r FW A w n t g v. v Shot Up the Courtroom I I The feud reached a climax when Flo Floyd d Allen lIen one of the leaders lenders of the clan forcibly freed two of his nephews who had hind been arrested Allen was arrested arrested arrested ar ar- ar- ar rested and brought to trial He lIe was convicted and sentenced to spend a year In prison I wont won't go I 1 These words from from Allen started the blood bloody battle When the smoke cleared a away a three were dead two were d dying ing and several were wound wound- ed The Allen and Edwards feudists were uninjured except for Floyd Allen Allen Allen Al Al- len who was wounded In the body SI Six of them were tried for murder after armed posses captured them Two Later Freed Floyd Allen and his son Claude died In the electric chair Four others others others oth oth- ers of the clan were sentenced to prison Four years ears ago ngo however friends of the Allen and Edwards families made mude madean an Investigation They pointed to the fact that sentiment had changed and that lint an anyway anway way It never nc was proved who started the fight Two of the prisoners prison prison- ers rs Sidna Edwards and Friel Allen were freed I The other two Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards remained In prison until freed b by Governor Byrd And I then ended the tragedy |
