Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-05-09

street, and the feeling against the ac-
cused is very bitter. The guards around
the jail kept up "a constant patrol all
night, and squads OF three and four
pqlrolled the town during the entire
night to dispcrse any crowd that they
might find.
THE SHERIFF TAKES NO RISKS.
Sheriff Berry has decided to take no
risks. He had an escort Of 20 special
police to conduct Price to the Court
House from the Jail and back again.
In the court room he placed guard
of 10 men directly back of Price, be-
tween the prisoner and the crowd,
while scattered about the room could be
seen men wearing the little silk badge
with the word police" stamped On il.
Prices wife arrived here this morning,
but did not see her husband until after
court adjourned. On account of the big
crowd that every day Aas filled the
Court House, Judge WiCkes to-day
ordered the sheriff and deputies to
allow no one in the room except those
that could be seated. 4 crowd of
nearly 500 persons stood outside of the
building, and kept the air filled with
their cries and yells to be admitted.
THE DEFENCE PUTS IN no TESTIMONY.
The prosecution closed to-day and the
defence announced that they would pro.
ducc no testimony, which announce
ment caused much surprise. The de.
fence relied on technicalities in regard
to the confession To get u verdict of ac-
quittal, When court opened this morn
Ing Detective Albert Gault of Baltimore
fGt.lF stand nunin and Mr.
for the state, resumed the direct exami.
nation. Gault testified about the type
written confession, which was admitted
yesterday. On cross-examination, Mr..
Russum, for the defence, puzzled Gault
on the confession. The detective testi-
fled 10 certain things that Price is alleged
TO have said when the confession was
taken, but which cannot be found in the
paper Jacob Frey, marshal of the Bal
tlmOrc police, testified to the confession
made by Price. Grant Corkran, the
school teacher whom Price duplicates
IN MS confession, was the next witness
examined. lie testified that on March
goth he was in his home aud saw Sallie
Dean pass on her way To school. lie
was mendinG Il horse collar, and after
finishing II went out in tile field 10 plow.
About ) O'Clock he saw Mr.. and Mrs.
Dean bunting Tor Salie, and in a few
minutes heard them call from the dircc-
ton 0i the creek. lie went over there
and saw the parents standing over the
| body Cf their cniid.
CoRERA% RErUrEs PRICES STATEMENTS
"Did you follow her up the hill and
strike Egr with u stone?" asked Mr..
| Brown, Tor the state. mo, sir; didn't
| even FOLLOW her, was Corkran's answer.
"Did YOU see MARSHALL Price GA the day
of the murder" "Ycs, sir, in the even.
ing, when they were about to move the
| body in hi wagon" "What was the
relation between yuu and Price Z" 1--WE
| had only a slight acquaintance and
| seldom spoke 10 him." CoTkran was
not crOss.eNamined by the defence. The
State here rested. The counsel for the
| defence held a consultation after the
State closed, and when they returned ID
/ the court room announced that they
! would produce no testimony. Willard
| i. Taylor, COuu el for Price, asked that
the confession which Price signed be
ruled out, on the grounds that, us the
grand jury Of Caroline county had
thrown ont that part duplicating Cork.
ran as unworthy of belief, the part i'm.
| piicating Price could not be accepted as
| truthful.
Mr.. Brown, for the State, argued
against Mr.. Taylor's point, clting
authorities to show that it is proper to
dispruye any part 1t confession and
allow the other TO stand. Mr.. Taylor
then raised the poipt on an exception
he had noted. II was in relation to Il
statement made by Prices wife and
quoted by Detective Seibud, and which
Mr., Taylor contendcd should not 10 al
mitted as evidence. The Court ruled
that the statement o. Mrs. Price was
made in Prices presence, and was
agreed to by him, and was evidence.
THE CONFESSION STANDS.
Mr.. Taylor asked fer time to secure
authultties about the point of dividing
the written confession. The Court
would not agree to Wait until Mr.
Taylor sent To Baltimore for the books
and Overrulel the motirn to strike out
the confession on the gtounds that the
grand Jury refused to Dllieve that part
Of tho confession in reg;.'d to Corkran,
Judge Wickes then adjourned thu
Court until the afternoon, tut instructed
the sheriff to allow only CROUCH person:
in tile court room as could find seats
The Judges returned to the Court at 3, 30
O'Clock, and the prisoner unter,un escort
oI 20 deputies, was brought in in few
minutes.
PRICE rs THE GUILTY PERSON"
Judge Wickes Immediately arose and
said: "Ali the testimony in this case i:
now in and it Is our duty to announce
the conclusion We have reached. There
is no doubt that Sallie Dean was muir.
dered on March Goth, and the only
question is, Who committed the decd
The testimony Is conclusive, in oul
opinion, that Marshall L. Price is the
guilty person.
Then, turning to Clerl; Fields, Judg,
Wickas said: MIR, Clerk, our verde
is that Marshall E. Price is guilty o
murder in the first degrees record the
verdict"
Price did not appear to be the leas
affected when the Judge was speaking
lIe was Immediately taken back to jail
followed by a crowd Of 400 to so
people. The deputy shcrills had to us
their lists and clubs to keep bac!. TIL
crowd, and men ho0ted and yelled a
Price. Someone in the crowd shouteI