Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1912 — One Virginia Outlaw Gives Up; Was Weak From Hunger. [ARTICLE]

One Virginia Outlaw Gives Up; Was Weak From Hunger.

Claud Swanson Allen, one of the Virginia outlaws who has been in hiding in the mountains* in the western part of that state since the murder of the Judge, the prosecuting attorney, the sheriff, a juror and a by-stander, surrendered himself to a posse Thursday. For almost two weeks he has been dodging about in tbe Blue Ridge mountains, without sufficient food, without proper shelter and with his nerves wrought up to a high pitch. He emerged from a laurel thicket, pointed his two sixshooters into /the sky and seemed happy to be over his fatiguing effort at concealment In the jail at Hillsville, he related his part in the duplicate murder. Three of the murderers, Sidna Allen and Friel land Wesley Edwards, are still at liberty.