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Show POSSE CAPTURE MOTHER ALLEN HILLSVILLE. Va., March 29. Friol Allen, a blue-eyed stripling of 17, youngest of the eight of the Allen gang, each Indicted for the five murders mur-ders in tho Carrol county courthouse a fortnight ago, was taken late today In a carriage shed at the home of his father, Jack Allen, eight miles from here. Ho cheorfully submitted to arrest and tojiight orcupies a cell In the Hlllsvillo Jail with his cousin, Claude Swanson Allen, who surrendered without resistanco yesterday Only Sldna Allen, a man of middle age. and his young nephew, Wesley Edwards, both bold mountaineers of reckless daring, aro fugitives tonight. Thoy aro the last of the outlaw band whoso fusillade killed a judge, prosecutor, prose-cutor, jmor and bystander on March 14 th. Fricl Allen two days ago deserted the two men still at large and brought back tonight their ultimatum of defiance. defi-ance. Both aro prepared to TeslBt until un-til death. A fathor's anxiety to havo his youngest son spared a terrihlo death In the mountains Is assumed to be the cause of Frlel Allen's capture. Jack Allen was not involved In the courthouse court-house shooting, but it is known that since his sn Frlel Joined the outlaws ho has been cndcaorlng (o advise him to submit, to tho 'mercy of tho law." - ' T v Just how tho, parent communicated with tho boy liaH not boon disclosed, t INllsvllIe hardly had digested the excitement Incident to Claude Allen's bloodless capture yesterday when Frlel Allen galloped into toAvn today,' the prisoner of two detectives. The young mountaineer was not handcuffed and smiled and nodded to i those who recognized him. He showed, show-ed, however, the ill effects of two weeks ulth llttlo food 6r shelter. The. young prisoner talked glibly of his conversations with Sldna Allen and Wesley Edwards. Tho former, he said, admitted killing Judge Massie, while the latter acknowledged shooting shoot-ing Commonwealth's Attorney Foster. His own part in tho tragedy ho discreetly dis-creetly evaded discussing. He brought, howeer, first-hand information in-formation of the desperate straits of Sldna Allen, leader of the baud, and his consciousness of guilt. "Undo Sldna told me," related the bov, with unrestrained frankness, "that he never expected to see his family again Ho hopes the detectives detec-tives will get discouraged so that he can get away, but if they keep after him. Ithink he will be shot killing them He will never surrender He didn't like it when I left him. He told mo I was making a mistake, but I was tired and hungry. "Sldna said ho shot his pistol empty three times. He always was angry with Judge Massie Ho said bo shot Judge Massie and that Wesley shot Mr Foster. Uncle Sldna said he intended in-tended to get as many of the court officers as he could. When he was shooting tho people in tho strcot, ho really did not know he was firing at any of the jurv Ho saw men running run-ning and thought they needed shooting shoot-ing at. "' "Tho day after, Uncle Sldna and Wesley and I went to the mountains Wesley had two pistols and Uncle Sldna had a reolver and a shotgun "We were on tho ridge and wore hidden under a ledge by leaves From there we moved to another rock nnd saw the officers raid my Aunt Alberta's Alber-ta's house. Some of tho detectives came within 15 or 20 yards of us. I wanted to leave, but Uncle Sldna said that if tho detecthes came closer ho would fire. "Uncle Sidna was shot in the arm at the courthouse and tho same bullet went Into his side and back It Is still there, I was starved out and I left them on the mountain top." Frlel disclaimed knowledge of the part Claude Allen took In the shooting shoot-ing nn |