Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1912 — The Allens and Marton Placed in Jail at Roanoke, Va. [ARTICLE]

The Allens and Marton Placed in Jail at Roanoke, Va.

Roanoke, Va., March 18.—Floyd Allen, his son Victor and Byrd Marion have been brought here from Pulaski and put in jail. The authorities thought feeling Against the courthouse assassins was running too high at Pulaski -for their safety. Allen was brought on a cot, with one broken leg in a cast. He is wounded in the other. The prisoners were widely separated in the jail and all outsiders were kept away. This order even extended to the religious workers and there were no services in the jail ybster- < day. Young Allen and Marlon, both under indictment for murder, protested to their guards that they took no part in the shooting.