The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-10
TOKILL HER
Awful Cry Of Murder" Heard in
the Still Hours of the Night.
DETECTIVES DISCOVER THE CAUSE
Sequel to the Romantic Attachment OF z. D.
Price aud the Woman He calls His Wife
twice Welded, but No Wifs

fr1cs aud the Woman He Calls bis Wife
twice Welded, but No Wife.
/ Especial to TIE HERALD-Exauiner Dispatch1
NEw York, Aug. .9.-There was a cry of
murder" in the Manhattan beach hotel at
O'CLOCK Sunday morning. 1t was q
womGn's cry and it came from room 221. on
the second floor. The room had been as
signed for the light TO Mr.. and Mrs E. ID.
Price, New York, according TO the eutry in
the register. Mr.. and Mrs. Price had ar
rived ct the hotel early in the afternoon and
dined on the porch facing the sea- Several
bottles o. champagne helped digestion to
walt on appetite, and by the time the meal
was ended Mr.. snd Mrs. Price appeared to
be on the best Of terms Price is a well
known theatre manager Of middle age. The
woman Was tall brunette and seemed no
older than % years. Both were
DRESSED IN THE HEIGHT OF FASHION.
During the evening the couple spent thor
time idling with thousands Of other visitors
to Manhattan beach, and towards midnight
they sat down to q second meal and another
bottle Of wine. Then they retired TO their
rooms.
The lights had been out for two hours or
more and there were none awake in the
hotel but the night clerk and watchmau
when the cry OF murder rang through
the hallway. The nightwatehm9n ran up
stairs and hastily summoned Dstec-
tives A. G. Price and Peterson,
telling them that there " AS trouble on
the second floor. The detectives dressed
IN hurry and FASTENED to room DBL They
pounded on the door and asked 10 be ad-
mItted. The cries Of murder had ccaaed
but they could hear the sObs OF q woman
and the angry though suppressed voice OF
man through the open transou After
they lad demanded admission a second
time and threatened 10 break open the door
the key was turned on the inside and the
detectives stepped in. Mr.. Price was
standing in his night clothes with an open
penknife in his right hand.
MRS. PRICE LAY ON TIE BED
with her left arm stretched fat across the
pillows, and blood flowing from q cash in
the back Of her left hand. In her right
hand she clutcaed q handkerchief, which
she applied to her eyes frequently. When
the detectivas got into the room Mrs. Prics
exclaimed:
''ArresThin. he has tried to kill me.p
Her face was bruised and her eye was
blackened. The officers gathered that the
couple had had a quarrel and Price had
struck his wife. The detectives arrested
Prica and locked him up in the Easements
OF the hotel. They also placed guard out
side the door of Mrs. Prices room Both
were taken before Justice Gladding at
Sheepshead Bay, and Mrs. Price refused
TO MAKE any charge against her husband
Ihereupcn the officer preferred charge OK
disorderly conduct against Price, and the
latter was fined $40, which he paid in
stanuy.
Price spoke to the justice and admitted
that he mad bssn intoxicated aud assured
his honor that he had no evil intentions
toward his wife. He said he was theatrical
manager OF New York and that he had
lately managed Mrs. Leslie Carter.
Mrs PRICES stage name was Caroline
Emerson, he said, was a member Of inc
company, and he had married her last
Tuesday at the Little Church Around the
CarGsr. a theatrical man who was present
at the Manhattan Beach hotel, and who
knows ell the circumstances Of the case,
said To-Day:
The whole trouble is this: Mrs. Price,
as sue calls herself. il the daughter of q
wei to do California merchant, 8 Mr..
Walker. She married 2 man named Elmer.
SOD, from whom she got divorce soma
years ago. She INST Ed Price, who
is really very nice fellow,
he FELL IN LOVE- WITH HER,
but as he had wife living from whom he
rad not obtained divorce. no marriage
could OCCUR The attachment was mutual
between Price and the woman and they
lived together, although on her promising
10 keep the matter e secret he went
through some sort OF marriage ceremony
with her in Jersey City. They have lived
together for years. Whatever possessed
Price L don't know, but e went TO the
LITTLE CHURCH AROUND THE CORNER
last week Tuesday and again married the
woman. I KNOW positively that the late
hrs. Price mas made the managers life
anything but paradise. There is q big
story back of it all which l cannot tell
now, but " hich is bound TO come out sooner
or latar, and when it does it will create q
sensstiOn. Price, as / said before, is q
man OF ability, who is popular in the pro-
fession aud this trouble is simply the out
cropping Of a vein Of the domestic unhappi-
ness"
Mr.. Price, according to the testimony OF
his friends, determined last week to have
the marriage ceremony performed to o.
lice Mrs. Emerson. The pride declared
herself TO be Caroline Walker Emerson,
aged 30, and widow. Her birthplace was
stated TO De Silver City, New. Both seemed
to be self possessed, and after the
ceremony, which was only witnessed by
the domestics of Mr.. Houghton's house.
hold, they lett for the Manhattan Beach
hotel. Price arrived from chicago
Wednesday and was in the city on Friday.
He had wife and child in Detroit several
years ago. He married when ne was on
the staff of the Detroit Free Press. He
came to New Z ork last week with q
TALL, FINE LOOKING WOMAN,
of dark complexion, doubtless Mrs. Emer-
son, with whom he had been seen a great
deal in Chicago.
Price brought out Mrs. Leslie Carter
when she began starring. When Marian
Manola was playing at the Fifth Avenue
theatre in the ''Robber of the Rhine Mrs.
Price or En- erson occupied box a. one or
the performances and sh0wered the prima
donna with flowers. After the perform
snce she waited Miss Manola and wanted
the singer to spend vacation with her.
Thereafter she sent flowers and presents,
which finally Manola was forced TO put
stop to.