TO BE ELECTROCUTED.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 13685, 20 May 1912, Page 5

TO BE ELECTROCUTED.

AMERICAN DESPERADO SENTENCED. SEQUEL TO A SANGUINARY TRAGEDY. Other Captures Expected. Press Association. —Telegraph.—Copyright NEW YORK, Ma 18. Floyd Allen has been found guilty of the murder of the Common wealth atiomcy Foster, oue of the five victims of the recent Hillsville Courthouse tragedy, tie will tip electrocuted. Three others of the gang lied to the mountains. They have open surrounded, and their capture is momentarily expected. Floyd Allen was the leader of a band of desperadoes known as the Allen Gang, whose lawless exploits lias made them the .>est-hated men in Carrol County, \ irginiiu Flovd was captured, and a remarkable scene took place at his trial. die had just been sentenced to three years' hard labour, when a man shouted, ‘ Tim’ is hell, ain’t itAs if these words were intended for a signal, the Court room became a veritable hell. The hr-t shots came from the direction ot where the Allen Brothers were standing then from all parts of the room bullets began to tlv. It was all over in a minute Seventeen men rushed through the room, knocking over chairs and fables and anything else that got in their way. Fiy ■ were killed, and many wounded, while, several outlaws were also wounded.