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Show Heavily Armed Men Are Sent Into the Virginia Mountains Hillsville. Va , March 16 Organized pursuit of the Allen outlaws began this morning. Sixty detectives, picked men from all over the state, mo3t of them carrying army rifles in addition to their revolvers, were marshaled for the perilous task of scouring mountain moun-tain strongholds for the main body of tho gang that wiped out tho circuit oourt of Carroll county hero Thursday. Stories as to tho strength of tho desperadoes des-peradoes aro conflicting, but it is believed be-lieved that from a dozen to eighteen of them aro together, probably hlddon and entrenched In somo out-of-the-way mountain hole just across tho North Carolina line. With a prlco ou their heads, these men expect to battlo to tho death whon cornered, In spite of the fact that their real loaders, Sidna Allen, head of the clan, and Floyd Allen, for whoBe sake the court houso slaughter was planned and carried out, are prisoners, pris-oners, severely wounded, In the county coun-ty Jul". Iaw and order, all semblance of which was swept away Thursday with the assassination of judge, sheriff and prosecutor, reigns in Carroll county agnln todav. Judge Staples, designated designat-ed bv Governor Mann to reorganize Judge Massie's court at once,, .summoned .sum-moned a grand jury which convened todav to indict tho murderers of Judge Massle, Commonwealth Attorney Foster Fos-ter Sheriff Webb and Elizabeth Ayers. Miss Ayers. a 19-year-old girl, m court as a witness, received a mortal wound in a fusillade of hullets directod at the officers. This was not known until her death was announced yesterday yes-terday t . . . , Still another murder may be laid at the door of the Aliens before the Jurv Is through with Its work, for Juror Fowler is reported dying. AH of last night a heavy guard wntched the jail to prevent an attempt to rescue the prisoners, Sidna and Flovd Allen. Victor Alien. ar son ot Flovd, and a young man namod Strickland. Strick-land. The two youngsters wore taken tak-en yesterday with the wounded Floyd,' who they were guarding. |