Believes Minnie Williams Alive

Little Rock, Aug. 1. - Cinviot Allen persista in the assertion thac Minnio Williams was alive six months ago and in tho belief that she is alive now. He did not meet Holmes in Arkansa3, and his oonneotion with him was conflned to Fort Worth, Tex. He never wrote any letters to Holmes. Allen declares that the detectives from Chicago will get nothing for their trouble uuless they are able to secure his release from the penitentiary. The only place at which Allen met Holmes, he says, was at Fort Worth, and he knows a great deal about hls crookedness in that city. "When the authorities come to my terms 111 tulk, and not before." This is all that Allen will say in regard to the case. Allen undoubtedly knows all about Holmes' operations in Texas, but that he knows the whereabouts of Minnie Williams, or that he had anything to do with her disappearance, is considered extremely doubtful here. When asked if he would parole Convict Allen and undor ceriain coditions pardon him Governor Clark said the conditions would have to be presented and taken up in legal íorm betore he could return an answer to that nuestion.