[embed=425,349]http://youtu.be/pg0x7EhfqDc[/embed]
There was a little more to it than finger pointing....but yeah, here we go with the finger again. :-\
Wow. pointing a finger. How touchy "peace officers" have become in the past century.
"Tragedy in Carroll County Court Room Follows Conviction of Floyd Allen For Complicity in Escape of a Prisoner After Penitentiary Sentence Is Pronounced by Jurist Mountaineers Begin Fusillade of Bullets and a Triple Murder Follows In the Hall of Justice"
http://www.blueridgeinstitute.org/ballads/allensnews.html
Somehow I just don't believe this guy's "cigarette extraction" theory. Sounds a bit farfetched. I do feel for his elderly mother though; she seems genuinely saddened by the incident. So, the man's son is being tried for a felony and he admittedly has an outburst in court, yet he tries to make us believe he didn't do what is alleged. I gotta give him credit though - the cigarette story made me laugh out loud! [rofl2]
Mike, the Courthouse Tragedy was in the county next door. It has been 100 years but there are still strong sentiments in places. Interestingly, they are planning on a movie about it sometime soon. There's been some real mixed feelings about that. There is plenty of fodder there and enough mist of time to really skew things.
The history of the Baldwin-Felts agency is interesting. If you remember the pictures of "company men" vs striking coal miners from the period, these are them, another form of "government" besides the clans and the state at the time. To my knowledge we don't know who shot the sherriff... who was also the person who chose to let the courtroom fill with guns. We did have that forensic capability at the time. As an aside, the Sidna Allen house, Floyd's brother, is a beauty. A queen Anne finished the year before the shootout.
edit, here's a pic of the Sidna Allen house;
http://www.michaelunderwoodphotography.com/US-States/Virginia/17132966_WLDmW6#!i=1298351904&k=czQL8Sz
Quote from: Don_P on March 30, 2012, 08:32:15 AM
Mike, the Courthouse Tragedy was in the county next door. It has been 100 years but there are still strong sentiments in places. Interestingly, they are planning on a movie about it sometime soon. There's been some real mixed feelings about that. There is plenty of fodder there and enough mist of time to really skew things.
The history of the Baldwin-Felts agency is interesting. If you remember the pictures of "company men" vs striking coal miners from the period, these are them, another form of "government" besides the clans and the state at the time. To my knowledge we don't know who shot the sherriff... who was also the person who chose to let the courtroom fill with guns. We did have that forensic capability at the time. As an aside, the Sidna Allen house, Floyd's brother, is a beauty. A queen Anne finished the year before the shootout.
edit, here's a pic of the Sidna Allen house;
http://www.michaelunderwoodphotography.com/US-States/Virginia/17132966_WLDmW6#!i=1298351904&k=czQL8Sz
Not sure if you're talking about just the Courthouse killings Don, but the movie Matewan portrays the Baldwin Agency. And yes, feelings are strong. Hill people don't forget their enemies.