The Wilmington daily Republican., 1895-04-05
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Detectives Gcua aud scissia with I'm
tIpro--,ynu,rd 10 t.ync,, PrIcs.

DttNuttffh ooat ehb stthnfu WIN u W.
tIpro--wantrd TO lynch Pricc.
Detectives Gaut and Seibold OF Baltl.
more arrived in this city this morning at
$40 O'Clock. over the Delaware Il. Il with
Marshal II. Prica, whom they arrested at
Dover Bridge. Nd, on the Charge Of kill.
ing Sallie Dean. the Ia year old school
R,rl, and the trio registered at BIouth's
Hotel. AT 7.30 O'Clock Republican re.
porter met the detectives and talked oon.
cernng the supposed murderer, who sat
by his side hand uiled.
The detectives with the supposed mur.
derar left the city on the sol o'clock
train over the p, w. 81 b. Railroad for
Baltimore. Price was bandculled to DO.
tectivo Goult. The murder occurred be-
tween 8 aud o o'clock on the morning of
March 2G. AS was her custom. Sallie
Dean left her fathers hot 80 (Which ls less
than mile from tho village Of Harmony
on that morning at $ o'clook. and soon
reached the house OF Solomon Corkran,
located 800 yards from the scene of the
murder. and called fur little son OF Mr..
Cockrau's, who vas IN the huhl. of accom-.
panlng her 10 school, The boy not being
re0dy Sallle went Oh and this was the last
seen OF ner living
In l'fieeu minutes the Corkran boy went
over the same route rs sho did but baw
nothing unusual. Her absence from
school that day aroused no seaIch or in
Quiry on the part of the school the teach.
or supposing eho had been detained by
her parents. as was sometimes the case.
Tho mother OF the young girl happened
In tha village at the close of the school
aud II was thon that size d discOveredSllllo's
absence, In less than an hour the body
OF the dead girl was founJ with her head
terribly bruised and her throat cut from
ear to ear The boly wac covered with
dead cedar bush. and her lunch basket
and books were concealed under some
rubbish not far away
Since the day of the coroner's jurys
first meeting the opinion has been current
ara ong the best element OF paop.e around
Harmony that white man well known
to the girl was involved, but were quite
timid about making any definite state
ments.
Marshall f. Price ia young white man
twenty.three years of age ana a son oil w.
Joseph Price, we'll known and proml.
nent wheelwrlght and blacksmith. Mar.
shall Is his oldest son ana has been mar
ried about year and has made his home
In Hartuouy, assisting his flther at his
shops. lie was member of tine Jury of
inquest and IL wes wnile performing this
duty that his actions aroused suspicion.
Ho also assisted in removing the corpse
from ths place OF the murder TO Jacob
Deans home lie WAS especially ohllgin
to tho grlef-strcken parents and went on
several errauds for them,
Thursday last Price began to have
dreams, in which the details OF the mur.
der were clearly depicted. and these he
would relate. Suspicion was SO high
among tho people That on Sunday It was
decided to arrest him anI officers from
Cdroltho aud TALBOT countiOs assembled
at Harmony Sunday morning with this
object IN Wow He had gone to noyer
Bridge, about eight miles away. with his
vile to make visit for tho day to his
wifs's father. The oilicera and detectives
followed him there aud found him with
his people.
The detectives on Monday took Price
In o their CoBlidsncs and nsked HIN to As.
s5t them In fcrIcting out the lme. lie
showed much willingness and he was led
To DeiieVe tia suspicion rested heavily Oh
another man near The village. On tuesday
OF this week they mad Price TO accompany
them to the scene OF the murder and
saiu IL was quite important to md the
knifo which tho murderer had usad. Price
remarkeJ
Three thousand people have searched
these grounds but 1t remains for me to
hnd the knife" He went near whuro the
head OF the murdered girl lay when found,
ana. scratching under pine leaves and
dirt, unearthed a large knife. to which
blood stlll clunR. He also found bow
made Of ribbon which the girl wore. These
were all voluntary acts on the part Of the
prisoner.
Last evcElng the detectives, having sat.
lsiled themselves that their suspicious
tice's office at Denton where Price voiun.
teered statements about what he knew.
and afterward the detectives gave a full
account oftheir Investigation. which con-
cluded In charge against Price. lhe
young man for the first time discovered
the trap into which he had fallen. and
was so overcome that he tainted.
Ho was then locked up Ills young
wlro less than twenty years OF age was
waiting at the hotel for the return OF her
husband. When informed that he had
been lodged in jail euspeuted OF the
crime. she was much affected and de.
manted to see him.
She kissed him goodnight md broke
down under the excitement. Before TAX.
Ing her departure the prisoner said; Mary,
am charged with the murder OF Salie
Dean. and tho evidences is very much
aghlnat me. know they will hang me,
but ! am an Innocent man" The wife dc.
olared that Marshall is innocent and his
Imprisonment Ia an outrage