Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1895-07-05
PRICE LYNCHED.
Little Sallle Deans Murderer
Hanged by a Mob.
GOV. GRANTED A RBPRIEVE.

L liCC was W nav % oCOh Z ~ ONtSN
on Friday, but this morning
Sheriff b Try received telegram
announcing that Gov. Brown, act
leg on the advice of Attorney Gen.
Poe, had granted areprieve until
tbs court OF appea could plss
npon the Case. When this became
known this morning the general
discomfort which has begun TO
manifest itself as sOOn as the ap
peal proceedings were commenced,
broke into storm, and a strong
Iyncbing party was quietly and
quickly organized,.
When sheriff Berry this morning
received Officiil notice of the Ie
prieve, lie withdrew the death
watch, aud the Jail, which is a
poorly constructed affair, was lett
practically unguarded. 1t could
not have heen defended against n
determined mob, however, except
by strong armed force.
About ten o'clock tonight a
crowd OF strangers cegan gather
ing in town, aud tn IT presenc
created ii great deal Otexritemenl
among the cilizsnS, who hAd not
retired to rest. sheriff Berry was
Notified, and he aud his dep itieS
gathered at the jul, determined 10
defend the prisoner until the last.
An ff1rl was made to fluid some
avenue Of escape by which Price
could be taken from the reach of
the aveuging mob, but every street
leading from the Jail was found to
be closely guarded 10y strong
force.
A delegation from the 'ynchers,
all masked, waited up II Sheriff
b rry, and Motif d him not to at
tempt to remove the prisoner. Then
it was known that the attempt at
lynching, which has been rumored
for several days would be m Ide,
was near at hand.
PRICE TERRIBLY EXCITED.
Price had been resting quietly In
his cell during The early part OF the
evening, bat the sudden and un
expected appearance OF the sheriff
and his deputies warned him that
.omething unusual was trAn>pir'
ing.
Thc prisoner became much eX
cited. Finally one Of the guards
told him of the threatening mob
about the iAil, and he cried out:
"For Gods sake, let me out. l
will bide, | will not run away
The lynchers completed their
arran ements about IL o'clock,
aud IN body advanced upon the
iiiI, and surrounded 1t. They d.
manded the keys from Sheriff
b rIy, and when that officer de
clined TO give them up, they easily
knocked open the door. Once In
side, tue guards we're quickly over
powered, aud soon Prices cell was
reached.
The prisoner was in a pltldble
state of excitement and fright, AMI
bis condition was such that 1t was
an easy matter to get him ont OF
the Jail. A rope was thrown over
his head, he was hurried to a tree
near the jail and strung up wiIho' /
delay.
The mob stood arOlnd for some
t me, watching the dying man
swing In the moonlight, and whe"
it WAS known that he was dead, all
departed.
GOV. BROWNS COMMENT.
Gov. Brown, when Uniformed by
th representative of the Assocl
ated Press of The yinching of Prlc
SAID that he considered it a great
misfortune that the law was nOl
allowed to take its cOurs'.
In granting The reprieve, he said,
he had only taken the one course
to be pursued. EScrp ions had
been filed by Prices counsel and
these had eel sent TO the Court
Appeals. AS this was neces-
Sary according to law he could MOI
10 otherwise than grant tho respi' e.
He recounted the suggestion
m ,de IN his message TO The gen.
eral asse nbly of tue lncaIceratlng
in the penitenfiary in Baltimore all
prisoners under sentence of death
If the suggestion had been acted
u ION the two lynchings which
Maryland has been the scene OF
during the past month would nave
b zen averted.