Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-04-10
Arrested for the Murder Of sallie Dean.


Sallie Dean, school girl. IA years of
age, was murdered, with her throat
cut and with cash on her head, whilst
on her way to school about 8 O'Clock
on the morning of March Goth, near
Harmony, Caroline county, Md, and
at first, a tramp or a negro was sus-
pected of the crime. 1t turns out that
these suspicious were unfounded, and,
through the agency Of detectives,
Marshall E. Price white man, aged
% years, with wife less than 90 years
of age, has been arrested, with strong
evidences of his guilt. He helped to
carry the body of the murdered girl
from the place of the murder, and was
a member of the jury Of inquest, and
was very accommodating to the parents
of the murdered girl, and went on sev
eral errands for them after the murder.
After the detectives had strong sus.
picions against Price, they took him
into their confidence and asked him to
assist them in ferreting out the crime.
He showed much willingness and he
was led to believe that suspicion rest
ed heavily on another man near the
village. On Tuesday of last week they
had Price to accompany them to the
scene of the murder and said it was
quite important to find the knife
which the murderer had used. Price
remarked: "Three thousand people
have searched these grounds, but it re
mains for me to find the knife" He
went near where the head of the muir
dered girl lay when found, and,
scratching under pine leaves and dirt,
unearthed large knife, to which blood
still chung. He also found bow made
of ribbon which the girl wore. These
were all voluntary acts ON the part of
the prisoner.
He was afterward arrested. When
his wife learned it she was shocked,
and asked to see him. She kissed him
goodnight and broke down under the
excitement. Before taking her depar-
ture the prisoner said: "Maly, 1 am
charged with the murder of Sallie
Dean, and the evidence is very much
against me. I know they will hang
me, but am an innocent man." The
wife declared that Marshall is limo
cent and his imprisonment is an out
rage" She was taken to the residence
of NJ. H. Wright. where she spent the
night,
| THE MURDER OF sALLlE DEAN.
The murder of Sallie Dean occurred
somewhere between and o'clock on
the morning of March 26. AS was her
custom, Sallie Dean left her fathers
house (which is less than a mile from
the village of Harmony on that morn
ing at 8 O'Clock, and taking path
which leads down to the county road
leading from Denton to Harmony,
with her lunch basket and lunch, soon
reached the house of Solomon Cock
ran, located 300 yards from the scene
of the murder, and called for little
son of Mr.. Cockran's, who was in the
habit of accompanying her to school.
The boy not being ready Sallie went
on, and this was the last seen of her
living. In fifteen minutes the Cock
ran boy went over the same route as
she did, but saw nothing unusual. Her
absence from school that day aroused
no search or ing uiry on the part of the
school, the teacher supposing she had
been detained by her parents, as was
sometimes the case.
| The mother of the young girl hap
pened in the village at the close of
school, and it was then that she dis
| covered Sallie's absence. The mother,
hurrying home and finding no clue to
her daughters whereabouts, at once
informed her husband, and all the
members of the family began a dill
gent search. In less than an hour the
body of the dead girl was found, with
head terribly bruised and her throat
cut from ear to ear. The body was
covered with dead cedar bush, and
| the basket and books were concealed
under some rubbish not far away.
LATER-Marshal f Price, flor fear
of being lynched was, taken from the
jail at Denton to Baltimore. 1t is re-
ported. that he finally broke down and
confessed, and implicated U. Grant
Corkran, a school-teacher, as the prin-
cipal in the crime, who has also been
arrested This statement is false as
the girls father proves.
The detectives said they were led to
suspect Price from his manner while
on the coroner's jury and also from
the fact that he could not remain away
from the locality where Miss Dean was
murdered. He gave as reason for
| being about the scene that he was
anxious to discover who the murderer
was. The detectives said Price found
the knife which was used to cut the
throat of Miss Dean in a place where
it was hardly possible for a person to
find it without having knowledge Of
its hiding place.
The grand jury was adjourned till
Monday last when the case was to be
heard.
BENJAMIN HARRISON.-Barkis is
willin'. Gen. J. s. Clarkson says that
Ex-President Harrison is a candidate
for re- nomination for President-that
whilst not an active candidate, he
would be glad to get the nomination.
| GEN. MALONE ASsIGNS.-Gen. Vim.
Malone has made an assignment for
the benefit of his creditors to Judge
Edmund Waddill, jr., of Richmond as