Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-08-18
is 1T MURDERp
The Body of a Drowned Woman
Found in the Chrlstlana.


of covering up the crime, is the only
reasonable solution in regard to the
finding of the body of woman by
Bridge Tender Andrew Conner early
Tuesday morning.
About o'clock Mr.. Conner saw an
object floating up stream south Of
Market street bridge. Procuring boat
he soon discovered the object to be the
body of colored woman Fastening a
rope around the neck he towed the body
to Shipley street wharf, made il fast and
then notified the coroner,
Meantime the news spread rapidly
and score of people collected at the
wharf. Among them was Mrs. Frank
iiarkins, whose husband runs a Front
street restaurant AS soon as the body
was hauled upon the wharf Mrs. lIar-
liins identified il as that OF Mariana
White, who was better known as Mari
anna Price, as she mad cohablted with
Thomas Price for the past five years or
| longer
The body was removed to the city
/ morguo and the coroner and the police
authorities AZ once started an inyestiga-
| ton. II was soon learned that Price
and his wife had frequent quarrels and
| night, when they left theirframc shanty
on Tatnall street below Water. On
| Wednesday night last, the coroner was
informed, Price beat the woman shame
| fully and threatened to kill her.
Upon this information il was deemed
| prudent to arrest Price pending further
investigation, and the coroner ordered
his apprehension 1T once He was
/ al. n -, -
King streets, by Sergeant Chambers, and
is now confined in Il cell at police sta.
! ton.
When taken into custody lie denied
| having seen Mariana after O'clock
| Sunday night subsequently he told
| Sergeant Chambers that he left her at
Frontand ShiPiey streets about s O'Clock
and when he returned for her later she
was gone and he hadn't laid eyes on her
since.
These little discrepancies were re.
garded with suspicion by the sergeant
and an GAZETTE representative, who
Immediately began a quiet hunt, and
thecvdencc thus gathered seems to point
Enthusiastically to Price as the murderer.
Mariana did general homework for
Mrs. Frank llarkius, al No, Fast
Front street. She left there about 7
o'clock sunday evening and went home.
shortly before 8 o'clock she and Price
left their shanty, and Mrs. Hester
Collins, who lives next door, saw
them going along Water street i'll
the direction of Market. Various col
orcd persons saw them on Orange,
Shipley, Market and King streets, be-
tween and lOo'clock that night. About
II o'clock Hannah Marsh and Albert
Floyd, who live at No. III East Water
street, passed them on Water street,
near Market AT that time they We're
qUarrcling over letter which Mariana
asked Price to let her see, He refused
to do so and swore he would kill her
before he would let her have ii.
Hannah and her escort continued
their walk TO Front and Shipley streets,
and whom they returned along Water
street, 10 or 90 minutes later, Price and
his woman had disappeared.
1t Was between II and 70 o'clock
Sunday night when Price started home.
William Ward, who lives near by, saw
him returning. He asked Ward if he
had seen anything of his woman, as she
had left him early in the evening.
Ward had not seen her. Monday
morning Price went TO Harkins' res,
taurant and inquired for her, saying
She had not been home the night before
and he did not know where she was
But Mrs llarkins had not seen her since
Sunday evening.
: Prices ncighbors say that he nearly
killed the woman between 3 and A
O'clock, last Wednesday morning, be-
, cause She threatened 10 leave him If he
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THE POST MnRTEM,
Police Surgeon Charles Il. Baird madt
post norton examination and saw
the wound on the head was not cause(
Z by q pistol ball, The lungs We're ful
o. water, which is evidence that sht
was not dead before being thrown over
board
At the inquest held Tuesday evolinl
nrllgetcndrr Andrew Conner told O
, the finding of the corpse and stated tha
J he neither saw nor heard any fighting a
Market street bridge or in its vicinity.
{ Susan \, Wilson, coiorcd, WHO occa
pics part Of the house in which III
:, deceased lived, testified that she had ul
:, seen the woman since sunday after
T., noon Thomas Price rnd Mary Anna
Il she said, passed as man and wife. Sh
/, often heard them Quarrel. bul not sine