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Show I ASSAULT OPI I TIALLI8 if Little Army of Officers III K Preparing- to Attack HIS ' ' Virginia Outlaws 19 ' Hlllsville, Va., March 19. Cordons I ' ' tro0Ps 0 mst adaptable being II ' cavalrj, equipped for a long and sys- lllll ' tcmatlc siege and search of the til mountains of Carroll and adjoining I jil ' counties, seem today to be the only II : practicable method by which Uie III I A"en clansmen can he captured. Ill Reports from Mount Airy received III ner0 e t-ay e serious doubt as I III . , to whether the outlaws had been sur- III rounded at Squirrel's Spur as had IB been reported last night. Detectives ill : I 'iave searched the roads and bouses III . '" l's v'c'n'ty within a radius of lp' ill W nil,cs anc have been unable to find III L any clue of the hiding place of the III I fugitives. IIH Without facilities for camping, the II . posse has not dared to spend a night II S n tne mountains anywhere near the Hi summit of the Blue Ridge where the B Aliens are belloved to bo biding, 9 f Four members of the posse who H accompanied Deputy Field Ajgcnt Steve Faddls. of Uue revenue servlco, B . to- Floyd Allen's homo to confiscate B illicit stills and other paraphernalia, B returned hero todaj B They brought with them four out- B; ' Hts and also about fifty gallons of IB :y moonshine whiskey. Great quantities Hj' of the illicit whiskey was poured out jK on the mountainside. Two stills were l found at Sidna Edwards' house. The II paraphernalia Is being held here as H evidence. Hi Hillsvllle has also regained its com- Hj posure, but women are still afraid to 91 out of doors When the shadows be- jjHf gin to lengthen, men's hands Instlnct- jB Ively no back tpheir hip pockets. Mff There hro f,ow ihien, who do not be- jfHJi liec t,bip( Al)en,S(w)llmake good their Ml?. threat (.io 'kllU'VfltfoVncy Tompkins, SK Sheriff Edwards and James Early. Mr Hillsvllle. Va., March 10 An as- flu sault nn the heights of Squirrel's ffi Spur, In the Blue Ridge mountains, jH where Sldua Allen and a part of his H gang now are believed to be entrench- HR ed, wns planned early today by a jB posse of forty detectives and citizen K volunteers, according to reports Bt i caching, here through Mount Airy, Bh Confident that they had located the HI outlaws, tho detectives stretched a Hi cordon around the base of Sqirrcl's Hf Sur late last night and guarded ov- Hi cry approach lgilanth as they waited H for a survey of the surroundings by Hff daylight before undertaking to close Hit in In the meantime a messenger has Hgf been sent to Mount Air, 11! miles I IB avaj, railing for volunteers to aid In Hr rtormiug the position of the fugitives. lHl Interest shifted from the Devil's Don (Hr lclnity to Squirrels Spur late yes- Hi terda when a large posse, which had ' SH been scouring the mountains on the Hl iorth Carolina side, barely missed HL catching Weslcr Edwards, a nephew K'ft- of the older Allen, at his cabin eight Hi miles cast of Sidna Allen's hnme. Ed- Ht wards escaped through a hack door. 3Hi His sister told the officers that Sld- H na Allen suffering from a severe SHf wound, had been at the cabin Suuday, H and had told Woslej to meet him at SHj Squirrel's Spur last night. 9H followed him to the rendezvous. Mot -3gH daring to do more In the darkness, wB the detectives placed themsches to H prevent the possibility of an escape. yam Here the belief Is growing that tho EH fugitives, with a full tlay start on H theii pursuers, have escaped and njflK scattered Into remote villages. Thoy jtt would not bo recognized after travel-czM travel-czM ing S't miles In any direction If they $H have fled in pairs, perhaps to reunite iyH f somewhere in North Carolina, West -iM I Virginia or Tennessee, there would 'H ' he no hope of immediate capturo. To m' 'ioteriuino luIt5 definitely Captain W. B.' H Davlnt. of the stale militia is be-nm be-nm lieved to be anxious to utirrodnd the MC' mountains with 200 men and PQcr x-SJB x-SJB 'i to eerj' nook and cranny day after vBf day. stationing guards on the public 'Bfj highways to cut off any food supplies. 'vl v A lne same t,me every effort Is B;r being made to circulate descriptions 'ml of tlle Aens "niong the country au- i' thorities of all neighboring states. - rJM'j Faith of many people here, how- vBr e"er still placed in tho abi)itr of . MJftthe mountaineer detectives to locate ( 'WJu the Aliens. It is beliced that by 'W watching tho activities of women H members of the Allen clan they may m Intercept somo communication, JB Mrs. Sidna Allen, at the home of JJM Steven Williams, expressed regret 2H Avhen told that Floyd Allen was still l alive. B "I have no Idea where Sidna went - ll wl,on ne ,cft Thursday," she contin- ' " lIC'd' "' only wisn T d,d' - wJsh thero B neer had been a guti made I loft S our home the night thiB awful thlnp I jM happened and my husband was still , -B there As I kissed him good-by he tM told mo to do everything I could for .m our two little children and bo kind cB to his dog and cat" ' -B Sidna Allen has two pretty children, 'M . both girls, Marguerite, aged 10 and ii; Jj Pauline, aged 5. &, rYM "I do not know If Sidna is lying ex- T' "yB Posed with his wounds, perhap's starv- ', B Ing to death," said Mrs. Allen. "Re- ft H saidIess of what lie did In county court i, B Thl,rRdn'' 1 wnnt to say that there yjj. - B k uevcr was a kinder, more loving huf5-'q huf5-'q B ' nand and thor. He has an awful jj B temper. That was responsible for II B . wllatever he did. 'it c; i 'ix . (Continued on Pago Six.) ASSAULT ON OUTLAWS (Continued from Pago One.) "I do not believe Sid plotted to shoot the court officers. "If I knew where he was I would go to him and nurse him. He is a good man, with many virtues and ono fault his ungovernable temper which makes him a wild man when ho is aroused." Mrs. Allen Inquired about the condition con-dition of Floyd Allen, now In jail at Roanoke. When told ho was improving, improv-ing, she remarked: "To bad ho didn't die, don't you think?" The opinion was expressed today that the membors of the detective posse pos-se going in and out of Hillsville daily arc being used as a blind, to throw tho Aliens and their friends off their guard. It is known that Chief Tom Felf.sxand at least a dozen of his men, all of whom are familiar with tho mountain section here, have secreted themselves on hills and among the roadways over which they believe the outlaws are traveling on fooL The detectives de-tectives say that none of the hunted men had a horse when he left home. Mount Airy. N. C March 19 Several Sev-eral citizens left Mount Airy at daybreak day-break for Squirrel's Spur, 12 miles away in tho Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia, just across tho state line, to aid in the capture of the Allen clansmen, if tho report that they have been located proves true. The men responded to a call from the head of tho posses who last night sent an urgent request by messenger, asking that every available man in town come to tho scene of the supposed sup-posed roundup The men were armed heavily and carried provisions for several days At Squirrel's Spur they will join the forty who left here two days ago to scour the country between here and the home of the Aliens about Devil's Den. Aliens Not Located. Charlotte, N.-C, March 19. A correspondent cor-respondent at Mount Airy, N. C , wires that officers positively deny that the Aliens are surrounded in the Squirrel Gap section. They say that if the Aliens Al-iens had been located up to this time the officers on the Mount Airy sido know nothing of it |