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W03MAN, NOT YOUTH, VICTIM OF MURDER
TWO FUGITIVE OUTLAWS REPORTED KILLED IN FIGHT
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ALLEN AND EDWARDS
6Y DETECTIVES
LAST DF OUTLAW
Two Men Hunted for Weeks
Said to Have Been Shot
Dead by Mountain Posse.
RICHMOND GETS NEWS.
Another Story Is That Court
Shyers Were Captured After
Killing Pursuers.
'netTtal to Tks Ersesn WaMI.
RICHMOND, V.. April 4 Persistent
reports are rseclved here that one of
tk posses hunting for Sldna Allen and
Waaler Edward the laat of the Hllls
vJls oourt house sssealni at lance, ran
tkakr aaea) town to-day In the wild
rjoatry between HlllsvlUe and Mount
Airy and bad a battle with than.
On report la that both outlaw were
killed after seriously wounding aeveral
of their pursuers. The other la that
thsy war oaptured alive, but that two
of the Baldwin and Felts detectives
ware kllisd.
Dan Baldwin, the head of the agency,
wtea office la at Roanoke, a little marc
than en hundred mile from Hlllnvlll.
was resashsd ova the telephone from
thla dty at aoon. II aald that the
rumor kad been coming Into hie office
aH rnss-nlner tout not from any at hia
qaa ataa ar from any source whloli
"tt H poaalble for him to confirm the
story, though ha found It eaay to be
lieve that audi a battle had occurred.
Tom and La Felts, who have been
laadlnaT squads of ten and fifteen men
(to the routheat part of the mountalna,
bar all along predicted that Wd Allen
aa We Bdwards would die rather
than be oaptured. So sure were the de-
teatlvos of this that those who know
I ham bast had a grim suspicion that
I say would shoot Allen and his nephew
dwa on right, without givlrai them a
nktnos to saorUca the Uvea of mem
bat of the posse.
HUNTED BY POSSES SINCE THE
14TH OF MARCH.
Tk hunt for the outlaws ha been
long and thorough. It began March 14,
whan Baldwin and Kelts agents col
lected from tVougnout the Southern
mountains began pouring Into HlllsvlUe
sag Mount Atry, N. C, which Is twenty-five
mte away aoroas the baok
ban of the Blue Ridge.
careful system of elimination was
sad. As aoon as one hollow or guloh
had boon scoured a man was left there
to guard against any possibility that
tk members of the Allen clan would
go back to It after the hunt had niovec
on. Ths work was necessarily flow, but
It has been proved effective.
The taottoa of the pursued men were
adapted to the nature of the country.
AS along ths foothills are families
either relative of or under obli
gations to the Aliens for credit In hard
times and many kindnesses. From these
the fugitive! got food. A single cabin
at ths and of a guloh may overlook
mflss of open country. Every movement
of detectives from that side could be
thus noted. If none appeared during the
day It was quite safe at night for a
messenger from the hous to go with
food to the wooded guloh and hand It
to ths Allen.
Thar wsrs five of the clan In the
band that took to the mountalna. Sldna
Bdwards. crippled by a scalded foot,
hart In hit Illicit distillery, gave him
self an In Lambsburg, a moonshiners'
settlement two weeks after the mur
der la the court house. Last week
Clauds Allen was found and a day or
two later Freel Allen surrendered near
ths home of his father, Jack Allen, ten
mils from Hlllsvtlle.
When Free Allen was brought In he
eaJd that his uncle flldna had been shot
twice In the court house battle and In
hlf subsequent duel across the lawn
with County Clark Ooad, once In the
sMt and once In the log, and was suf
fering acutely.
POSSE STARTED OUT TO-DAY
FOR FINISH FIGHT.
J A Dsn and his nephew were reported
this morning to be In the mountain
between Hlllsvllle end Mount Airy,
serosa the North Carolina line. With
ifood weather to-day the searchers dt
'lared they would end tne long nunt
by either capturing or killing the
outlaws.
Aa stated abovs, It was three wstks
ago that tha Carroll court houat trag
edy with lta toll of five Uvea was
enastsd. Of the seven members of the
Allen clsn who ars Indicted for the
l rini.il fl.nA. mnA v.mI Allan
Plgaa BKIwaras sna oyra jibiio ssss est
SLAIN
HUNTING
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TWO OUTLAW CHIEFS
REPORTED KILLED IN
FIGHT WITH POSSE.
STATE COMMITTEE
Member from Nassau District
Gets No Chance to Attack
Leader Murphy.
Henry B. Keith, newly elected Demo
cratic state Committeeman from ths
First District, which Includes Suffolk
and Naasau, wss bowled over, If not
silenced, at the meeting of the Htate Com
mittee this afternoon In the Knicker
bocker Hotel. Mr. Keith had gone to
the meeting full of fight because ha had
bean shorn of the patronage In his dis
trict. Ha had lost his M.ooo a year job
aa conael In the district for the State
Comptroller and his friend had been
ousted from hit M60 a day place as a
'oreman of highways,
Mr. Keith wat armed with a resolu
tion that ha wanted read, but It waan't.
This declared that county organisations
should be "fro and Independent" from
outttdt influence. The resolution de
clared that "tha Democratic party In
ths State requires that Charts F. Mur
phy and Tammany Hall confine their
trftvltles to ths Borough of Manhattan.'
KIETH STARTS IN EARLY TO
RAISE A RUMPUS.
The committeeman from out Long
'aland way got going sarly. Osorgs M.
"aimer, of Sehoharls. had been re
lented chairman and John A. Mason
eerstary. whan Kslth began.
"I bars bar a certificate of election,"
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AFTER RUMPUS IN
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FLOOD SMASHES
LEVEES AT CAIRO;
500 ESCAPE DEATH
Waters Rush Over the River
Banks After an Army of
Men Works All Night.
THOUSANDS HOMELESS.
Conditions Grave at Memphis,'
Hickman, and Other Places.
Taf t Orders Army to Aid.
WAHHTNOTON, April 4. With floods
In ten States, the levee at Cairo, III.,
smashed, the Mississippi Rtvsr at Mem
phis t feet above the high record mark,
and at Cairo 1.7 fast above the highest
previous mark. Weather Bureau officials
to-day were unable to predict any ces
sation In the constantly rising flood be
low Cairo. Reports to ths bureau Indi
cated the water would continue to rise
slowly, sod no prediction waa made as
to when the flood would turn.
Results of the great rush of watsrs
up to data aa reported hero are:
Eight thousand persons homeless.
Bight persons drowned.
Property loss many million la Cairo
alone, S, 000,000
Tan dates affected.
Mna thousand aoree of manufacturing
Ms trim of antra under water. Future
City and Urbandal. outlying homo sec
tions of Cairo, with open state popula
tion of 1,100. flood.
Mlalnitti. sty., rewtorr district and
part of ho'ma section flooded. Two thou-
I'sand homeless. .
TAFT ORDERS ARMY TO AID
SUFFERERS.
Columrbus. Ky with outlying country
under water, depriving 1,000 parsons of
homes.
Memphis, Tenn., rtvsr sections flooded,
driving 1,200 from homes. Many fac
tories under water.
New Madrid, Mo.. M0 I slsas
Dorena, Mo., TOO homeleaa.
Hundreds of persons fleeing from flood-
threatened home In town between
mcsoman. Ky . and Helena, Ark.
President Taft to-day ordered tha
Quartermaster-General of the Army to
supply rations to people driven from
their homes by ths Mississippi flood,
wherever there Is suffering for food.
This action waa taken after an ex
tended conference with Senator elect
OlUe M. Jams of Kentucky, who pre
sented ths so peal from all ths flood dis
tricts along the river.
Th fact that many refugees ar In
itaed of food supplies waa urged upon
She President as a reason why he
should ask an emergency appropriation
of 1250.000 tor a relief fund. President
Taft told James that quicker action
could be secured by having the army
aupply food, and ordare ware sent to
tha Quartsrmaeter'e Depot in 8t. Louis
to rush ration up to ths Cairo district
to-day.
FLOOD BREAKS CAIRO LEVEES;
CITY IS CUT OFF.
A quartsrmaatar of tha army with a
sufficient oorpa of assistants was or
dered to the scons last night and ha
will have charge of Issuing the rations
and determining what quantities are
needed In the future. Tha army will
follow the course of tha flood down the
river and thua be enabled to have food
and tents to be Issusd ths moment the
people are drtvea from their homes to
higher ground.
Meanwhile an emergency appropria
tion bill hat bean Introduced In Con
gress and aa soon aa this is paaaed the
President will sign It.
CAIRO. IUm April 4. Cairo Is without
train service and la almost surrounded
by water by tha breaking, early to-day,
of tha Mobile and Ohio levee which
protected the drainage district. All rail
roads pass through ths drainage dis
trict, which la now under from to it
fsst of water.
Ths lives of too workmen wars -dasgsrsd
and utupaits valued la aaosss
sf M.000,000 was sabmsrgsd wksa tks
Mississippi tore a orsvasss 111 foot
long la ths tub.
Ths levee broke after mors thsn 100
workmen had fought for Ave hours to
fill a depression seventy fsst loag and
flvs fast dssp, rive hundred men were
fighting on ths Big Four levee , an ef
fort to stem the rtes of ths Ohio. Fser
Ing this dlks would not hold under the
strain, a tug was ordsrsd out with a
rescue party on board and brought ths
workers In.
Ths levee broke at a paint near the
bridge Junction. Tha river overflowed
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East Sidh Portia
in Ceremony
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IS SECRET BRIDE,
DESHMMl
Frieda Thomas Wed to Bosler
by a Magistrate in
Philadelphia.
(Spenal to The Bneiiuj W.ntit).
PHILADELPHIA. April 4 --Although
they declared hi New York to-day that
their plana to wed secretly In this city
had been spoiled by an Inquisitive re
porter and that they had returned to
their homee with the ceremony unper
formed, It was learned to-day that Miss
Fredarlcka Thomas, the "East Side
Portia" of New York, and William I)
Bosler, an assistant to former District
Attorney Jerome, wero married In this
city Tuesday evening.
Magistrate Joseph fall said this after
noon that tho pa r drove up to his house
In a taxlcah during the heaviest period
of the rainstorm Tueaday evening. They
as kad to be married Immediately, and
he compiled with their wishes. They
left hla home without delay.
"The only thing mat attracted my
attention' " aald tho Magistrate, "was
rhst tha bride was a remarkably pretty
girl."
OOT LICENSE AT HOME OF BU
REAU CLERK.
The license on wh.r'n lliey were mar
ried was Issued by Kohert K. Kerguscn,
ths clerk of the Marrlfe License bu
reau, at his home, No. J015 Marshall
street.
"Th couple came to my house about
7 o'clock Tuesday evening and asked
for a marriage license." said Mr. Fer
guson this afternoon. "They said they
had come from New York I asked the
neceasary questions, and as they an
swered satisfactorily l issued the li
cense. The couple said they wanted to
be married Of a Magistrate and asaed
me to direct them to the nearest one.
I aant them to Magistrate Call's home,
two squarea away."
In getting the license, Bosler said that
he wss born Feb. 21, 1877 n.- gave
New York as hla place of residence and
aald he was an attorney at law by oc
cupation. Miss Thorns said ba was
bora March IS, She said that she
Uved at No. SO Second street, New York.
She said she was a clerk by oocupa-
DENIED SHE WAS WED, AD
MITTED TRYING TO BE.
In this city yesterday the girl lawyer
admitted she snd Mr. IValer had gone
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at Philadelphia
OF TWO HOUSES
TO SITINDUBLIN
Home Rule Bill Also Provides
That Forty Irishmen Be Mem
bers of House of Commons.
IiOVDON, April . The Home Rule
bill which la to be Introduced by Premier
Asqulth In ths House or Commons on
April 11 will, socordlng to an evening
newspaper, the statement of whloh Is
based on the authority of a Nationalist
member of Parliament, whoaa name la
not given, provide for an Irish Perils-
mnt consisting of two houses, which
will alt In Dublin.
Forty Irish members will bs ssnt to
the Hours of Commons at Westminster.
Ireland will mako no direct contribu
tion to the Imperial revenue. The cus
toms and excise of Ireland will remain
under Imperial control, but the local
Parliament will have power to vary the
duties on articles, although It may not
vary the article themselves. The tax
ation of Ireland la to continue to be In
consonance with the financial system of
the I'nlted Kingdom.
The old age pensions and land pur
chase schemis are to remain under m
jTlal responsibility.
The Irish Parliament will have no
DOWN to Impose duties on Itrltlsh goods.
THREE KILLED IN CRASH
OF TRAIN AND TROLLEY.
; Eighteen Others Injured When
Freight Smashes Crowded Car
at Crossing in Chicago.
i CUICAO", April 4.-Three persona
' were killed and elaThteen Injured to-day
' when a ''lii ago vol Alton frekfrnt train
crashed Into a trolley atV Itllwd wtth
' imaertuttra at South Kedile avenu nasi
! Woart Thlrty-ewvetvth street,
j The bodl'is taken from the wreck
I were those of an unldentll.ed woman
I daeplng ID hrr arms ths llfelssa form
f a one-year-old baby The third vic
tim was a woman, also unidentified
There were about slaty passengers In
the -ar. Police ambulances Were hur
ried to the scene and tho Injured re
moved to hoepltals.
The bodl-s of the three victims were
Dot found for r.early an hour.
FKClaX hjAsiasi i airs
la OH Faul coailsn, SSSSMMB, saMaasa. Oats,
yaasiaa. katss, ssswisuues sad runs is
iuoo i . ww svsisi aorssa. arasaa
i norim nuu'iias. aa as ran as, a. s
IRISH PARLIAMENT
HOBBLE-SKIRT CAR
DAZES BROADWAY
ON FIRST PAY RUN
Stepless, Strapless Invention
of Wearied Straphanger
Makes Big Hit.
WOMAN LEADS RIDERS.
Mrs. Ackerman Hands Inaug
urating Nickel to Caged
Cashier at South Ferry.
Dtd you see It go down Broadway?
Thousanda stopped to stare at It. Stare
at what? Why, the new car which the
New York Hallways Company built at
th suggestion of the (tublk- for tha
benefit of the public, and the strange
part of tt la the puttllc la going to be
bnflted.
It's th first stepless, hobble-skirt, hy
gienic, foot proof, slds door publlo
safety or whatever you wilt (they
haven't named It yet) car, which made
Ite first trip from ths car barn at
Ninety-ninth street snd Madison ave
nue to South Kerry to-day, carrying a
party of newspaper men and officials
of th company.
The nsw car Is so different from the
ordinary Broadway "rattler" that the
flrat paying passengers to ride In it on
the return from tho South Ferry d
cMfwd tbsy might Just as well rids m
sal atttamobus. so car as sonnattan is
cjoO.sasnsjfl,
WOMAN FIRST FAY RIDER ON
STRARHANOER'S INVENTION.
The first passenger to enter the car at
South Ferry after It had been declared
open was a woman. Mra. A. L. Aoker
man of Huyonno, N. J., who declared
aha never felt ao free from confualon
and oomfortaible on a street car before.
Some months ago, when the Jollne
Roblnaon receivership ended with ths
reorganisation of the Metropolitan Rail
way, signs were placed In all the car
asking for suggestions regarding the
betterment of the service. Jan. It.
J. S. Doyle, far Equipment Superin
tendent, and Vice-President Frank Med
ley looked over the suggestions and
three weeks ago ordered a Oaf built em
bracing tho valuable Improvomenta
suggested.
Entrance to the ear Is through a wide
aide door. There Is only a ten Inch
step to the floor of the car, whtch Is
low and solid, like ths underslung body
of an automobile racer. The conduc
tor la behind a rail whlcti allows ten
i persons to untri before the door at the
car la ahut. The car cannot atart be-
tor Bl, ,i(or, ar0 dosed, nor can th
duors be opened until tl.o csr stops,
connection 'being made v an electric
, switch to tne mo to man s ;n -Insure In
front.
The seating capacity Is fifty-two per-
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Ulia, ail VI "'"" mtw3 li.i'l' .1 I'P rr
and leave th - car with rapidity.
The main Idea In this was to elim
inate chance" of accident. Aa Vice
President lledley put It to-day. "The
car Is absolutely fool-proof snd ths
Idesl of street car service."
The sanitary equipment is elaborate.
There is an automatic control on the
trucks whloh throws open the entlla
tora little by tittle as the load of tbe
car Increase.
ITS STRAPLESS BESIDES BEINQ
STEPLESS.
Following the suggestions of aspects
in The matter at tiiben-ulosls Infection
rYfim stre,is through perspiration of the
hands, tha car ha no at raps, their pla a
being taken by posts Of hollow steel tub
log with trlass t aaa at ."00 degrees over
the surfar-e. Then there is a coat of I
white enamel whlnh nan be wahel wtth
carbolic 1d solution every night, rut-
t!nic down the danger from germs which i
mhftit cling.
Another feature s the fende-r. Whtch is
bukt .-ii: k-. wrth a pnxumatt front
that strike at the knees, toaalns the
rt-tlm of the aor-ldent Into a Bitting po-
sltlon Instead 01 fracturing his skull, a
heretofore
1'rrhape the most remarkable of all
the Improvvments is in tne paying sy
tern. PassenKers approach the conduc
tor, who aits hlKh In the middle of the
csr, before a small brass wicket, like s
cashier Change Is made by him and
iropped by the pass. tiger into a smsli
raoaptsiOis wiia ssvsrai nuiee in n
No matter what tin amount of money
dropped may be, the machine assorts It
snd registers tha total. For instsnce,
If two nickels, one dime snd four cop
pers were tossed Into he coin receiver,
the register would Indtcate 21 cents, ami
(OuatUsuval on Uocood fugs.)
BURIED AS 'SLAIN' BOY,
WHO RETURNS ALIVE,
BODY MAY BE WOMAN
Theodore Furman Back at Middle
town; Murder Mystery, in Which
Mother and Brothers Accused
Each Other, Deepens.
HE DIDN'T KNOW, HE SAYS,
HE WAS BELIEVED DEAD
Police Suspect Family Is Trying to
Shield Some One Who Hid
Bones in Ashes.
(ftptctal to Ths Evening World.)
MIDDLETOWN, N. Y., April 4. In the mystery of the Furnun
family, which is troubling tho polles of this dty, there are hints of a
weird conspiracy to hWe a crime, which, if they be true, are stranier
than fiction. Theodore Furman. believed by the community to be dead
after a head and shoulders understood to be his had been found In a
carload of railroad cindtrs last January at West Bnookville, Is back In,
Midd.. town, alive and wall.
Since his disappearance two of his brothers, Joseph and Eufsm,
have indirectly accused each other of his murder, and one of them has
made statements amounting to a confession of the crime. There ait
rumors abroad now that a young woman from another city was mur
dered at about the time Theodore Furman disappeared, and that by coin
cidence, if not by conspiracy, the issue was confused until there was ao
chance that anybody could ever be brought to justice.
t Whsn Theodore cam hosts to-daw
HYDE WINS AGAIN
WHIT
MAN BALKED
IN LEGALBATTLt
Writ of Prohibition Nullitied,
Habeas Corpus Argument
Must Go On.
Foi-mer ("My Chamberlain Hyde won a
vloiory thla afternoon In the AposUate
Division at the Supreme Ooui t. secono
in a lengthy opinion the court
District.
wrlt f prohibition pro-
set aside
... . I ,i.i,ii Allnmsr
cured a ' " '" " '
Whitman restraining JusUo Woodward
erf Hrooktyn from taking any further an
Hon on the writ of habeas corpus Issued
by htm in r.half of Hyde.
. . -. i,u..ia VilrW w eras
The supssssn t
without Jurisdiction in isw.ms -ess
of aaaMMUtW, inasmuch as the Appal-
ktts Uvlaton of the n-eme "Nurt.
! Firs' IrtsirV-t. was prantlcally In aa -
aval aVlhousrn In r
Whioman a.p;Hel
at tha time Mr.
the writ. It was!
Mr. Whitman's duty to gn to the Ap
pe4lati lnvksksn In Brooklyn for a writ
prohibiting a Justice of the Huprem
(urt rf that JurtsdlM.on from taking
any aotlon In a court matter.
The action o' th Ajspeilate Dlvtalon of
Nw York Oruntjl revlva the wrrt of
lltlhra, ,.,rpu. whlc. Is returnable b-
. .... urmntvanl wUki lansatsa
1 rur "aur-
i .... .i nt . i imrn.v Whltiiiin went to
nimroi
Hi ooklyn thl. afternoon for the purpose
of applying to the Appellate IMvlslon.
Hccond Division for a writ of prohibition
restraining Justlca Woodward from
i h..,1Iu. .rBuments on Che writ of habeas
coriaia. The Appellate Division of
Brooklyn was not in session. Presiding
Justice Jrnks so Informed District-Attorney
Whitman and advised him to ap
pear with his application next Monday
morning.
FOR RACING SEE FADE TWO.
he pretended not to have known that
his disappearance Nov.
anxiety or scandal here and said as
never suspected his brothsrs would bs
aroused of murder or that ths
Jury had been asked to
mother and all hsr othsr so.
NO CLUE TO IDENTITY
Ths bonss burled In lb Potter's !
afford not tha slightest clue to Idsaslty
of ths person of whom thsy way otsts
part. For months It baa bssn hsWarsd
by every one tntersstsd thsy war Ska
remains of Theodore Far
young man's return has
authorttlas by stunning proof that
bonea are not hie.
District-Attorney Thomas
said to-day that while he waa oatsr
pietely at a loss to account far Ok
Identity of the body found In tha SJBfc
heap, th whole Incident ssamsd as tank
It clear that a crime had bean awas
mltled. "The peculiar behavior of th -
i e. s or tne r urmsn family." bs saM.
-arrant tne Better that ths Caaa-
- eonieining. no other
" upon tne
Utterances of the brothers, th.
snd ths little sitter at the Urns ws
me oase before the Urand Jury. I
'""a wrona naa oeen done and It la tks
,auiy or tne rspresentstlvss of this
this I
kaw if
! ' o seep working until ' we
whst it la."
Tn, ,., hy
j roprsiatlon which makea thwn .hinh .a.
unidentified body was that of a woman,
j They say they will make additional ar-
rests whloh will bring out the fact that
the oonfeeslone of the Furman brothsrs
wra inaoe to aruetd another person
i thsy knowing full well they could avoid
I conviction when they csme to trial.
MAO TO LET MOTHER KNOW
W. IN HE ESLISTEO.
The discovery that The.idore Furaaan
was alive was made through hla appli
cation for enlistment In the Marine
Corps, fnder the rules of the service
! his mottier's consent was neceassrv.
I He wrote to her, telling of hla daslrs
to see the world. He was apparently all
'
'unconscious of the sturv rht h.
-baan murdered by his brother This
wss the letter:
Dear Mother: I am well and hops
you are all the asms. I hope Webb
Is better I have Just taken an ex
amination for the Marine Corps, and
I passed the best examination of
any. 1 would like to see soms of the
world, and this is the best chance for
a young man. We have a chance t
aave money and we get good pay.
Please sign the papers, ml I wli
come hortie for a vlalt befoie t go
the ssrvlcs. I bavs been trsrkUU .is
1n at Hoanoks awaiting
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