Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1912 — Sidna Allen Sentenced to A Long Prison Term. [ARTICLE]

Sidna Allen Sentenced to A Long Prison Term.

Sidna Allen, leader of the Allen clan, which shot up the Carroll county court at Hillsville, last March, resulting in the death of five persons, was found guilty of murder in the second degree Friday for the killing of Judge Thornton L. Massie. The jury fixed the penalty at fifteen years in the* penitentiary. Floyd Allen and Claude Allen, father and son, other members of the clan, will be executed at Richmond December 13th.