Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1912 — VIRGINIA OUTLAWS GIVEN SENTENCE [ARTICLE]

VIRGINIA OUTLAWS GIVEN SENTENCE

Sidna Allen Given 33 Years and Wesley Edwards 27 Years for Court House Shooting. i Thirty-five years in the penitentiary is the penalty Sidna Allen will pay for his part in the shooting up of Carroll county court house at Hillaville, Va., last March. Allen’s nephew, Wesley 'Edwards, will spend 27 years In the penitentiary. These two sentences were the result of a compromise Wednesday afternoon following a verdict of voluntary manslaughter in the case of Sidna Allen for the murder of Commonwealths Attorney M. Foster, the jury fixing the penalty in that case at five years imprisonment.