 Only a month later, their petition for executive clemency was granted by Governor Claude A. Swanson, restoring their political rights to hold office.In 1910 Sidna Allen was tried in the United States court at Greensboro, North Carolina for making twenty-dollar counterfeit coins.The federal court in Greensboro found him not guilty, while Sidna's alleged accomplice, Preston Dickens, was found guilty and sentenced to serve five years in federal prison.