The Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, W. Va.
Sunday Morning, May 26, 1912

STATE’S EVIDENCE IN ALLEN CASE COMPLETED

Ten Witnesses Testified Yesterday But Nothing New Was Developed.

Wytheville, Va., May 25. —After ten witnesses were examined this morning the state’s evidence was completed. There were no new developments, the testimony being much the same as that brought out in the trial of Floyd Allen. Counsel for the commonwealth tonight declared that they expected to close their case Monday. Allen’s counsel believe that they can present all their evidence by next Thursday and it is thought the case will go to the jury by the end of the week.

Those who testified in behalf of the state today were Louran? King, Brayton Mabrey, Solomon Ayers, Harry Quesenberry, E. L. Howell, Frank Fowler, F. D. Kline, Roscoe Mabry, R. M. Blankenship, and J. B. Blankenship.

The testimony given by these witnesses did not vary from the evidence already published. All were generally of the opinion that the shooting began in the northeast corner of the court room where Sidna and Claude Allen stood.

E. L. Howell, the foreman of the jury which convicted Floyd Allen, told of his endeavors to get into the jury room, and the shots of Sidna and Claude Allen passed over his head.

Frank Fowler, a Carroll deputy saw the shooting start in the northeast corner of the room, and saw Floyd Allen shoot at Commonwealth’s Attorney Fowler.

Roscoe Mabry, a young son of John W. Mabry, of Roanoke, is the youth who was in the court room when the verdict was brought in. He was waiting to hear the verdict and hurriedly left the court room to let his grandmother, who resided about 300 yards away know that Floyd Allen was sentenced to a term in prison.

Young Mabry ran home and back, and was standing in the courthouse before the shooting began indicating the considerable time elapsed from the time the jury reported the agreement on a verdict until the trouble started. He saw the shooting from the outside of the court house.

R. M. Blankenship is assistant postmaster at Hillsville. He ran out of the court house and went into the post office, where he watched the fight on the ground in front of the courthouse through a window.