Evening journal., 1895-04-30
ON TRIAL FOR his LIFE
ORDEAL OF PRICE, THE ACCUSED
MURDERER OF sALLlE DEAN.

Great Excitement in Denton. But No
Fear OF yioIenCe-The Town Filled
with Curious PeopIe-The story OF
the Brutal Murder Of the Pretty
Young Girl.
DENTON. Md April 30 Marshall E
Price, accused OF the murder Of sallie
Dean, went on trial here for his life to.
day. He had been confined In the
Baltimore all since bis arrest. and was
( brought here last night In charge of
Marshal Frey, and Detectives seibold
and Gault.
The trial is held In the Town Hall,
which has capacity of about $50. and
raillngs have been put up to separate the
spectators from the bar There will be
/ no jury, the prisoners counsel having
/ decided to try the case before the court
/ Not Ia thirty years has such a case come
/ before this court, and all the rooms at
the hotels have been engaged There is
/ no fear that violence will be attempted.
On the morning Of March 20 sallIe |
Dean, the IA year old daughter OF Jacob |
| Dean, prosperous faraer living ore |
mile from Harmony, started for school, /
/ where she was nursing an ambition that |
some day. by means of diligent study and |
close application, she might become q
school teacher.
Her attractive face snd geLial disposi !
tion and modest bearing had won flr her |
rather unusual admiration, and she was
often pointed out ss Que Of the giels Of
the community In whom there y ah ploni
ise OF life Of usefulness II was while
going 10 school swinging her lunch bas.
lyat md efn ufprr m ~ har fnunffta
that she was knocked senseless with a
stone and dragged into ths thick skirt OF
woods, where her throat Was almost
cut from ear to ear.
Marshall K Price, the young black
smith, who nov awaits trial. would lave
been arrested upon the charge Of muir
dering the girl before the detectives
Investigated the case had II not been
that people who were observant tried to
make themselves believe that the guilty
man could not be Price He was the son
OF man whom every one respected and
admired on account of his many good
qualities. He had the unbroken con-
idencs Of his neighbers Marshall was
his son and had had the training OF
4 devoted mother and the constant help
and sympathy Of kind and considerRte
father.
l Ou tn6 OIL NulNu bDt
4 was committed Price went TO the creek
n where the murder occurred with his axe
"a to cut some small trees from which to
8 make hames, H had bArga'ned with a
}. boy nameo Wright TO 90 TO his house at
{ an early day to cut some FIRE wood II
Il happened that young Wright went TO
y perform this work the morning of the
murder, and when Price returned from
he branch, about 10 o'clock, the boy was
.. at the wood pile chopping wood. He saw
IS Price coming from the corner or skirt Of
sr woods where the body was found, and
q upon reaching the shops he secured a
1t bucket OF water and took il to the rear OF
: the shops
Price stoutly maintained that It was
the day before the murder that be was az
the bank, Young Wright will testify
IS also that Price went Immediately 60 hil
or house and returned with a different suit
re- OF clothes and that he did not wear th,
i suit he had on that morning any m re
a. As has been stated before, 1t was Pric,
ie who took the body from the place It WA
r found to Mr.. Deans house On the wal
ID home he said to Mrs. Dean, the mothsl
D, Of the murdered girl, that that day has
been to him the saddest of his life thR
he had felt all the time that something
IN awful had happened and that he haS
O, been unable to content himself at any
az thing he undertook. AT various meet
lg iugs OF the jury Of inquest he would be
~ come exceedingly restless and woul
nt leave the room At the funeral of Salli
~ Dean he viewed the remains and CAV
er way publicly TO his emotion. Besides, b
had at several times expressed to person
'rt living In Harmony his infstuation 70
IRE pretty Ssllie Dean. She was often th
Re. burden Of his talk
'cK These facts were made known {
ce, Detectives Gsult and Seibold when the
q began the Investigation Of what see ne
lbs to the people generally q mysteriOu
on murder Prices dreaming powers al
already we'll known Among oths
mes things ne found for the detectives ii
OF knife which had been used In cutting Il
met girls throat This knife was four
ms, buried at the base OF a small tree on
tne four feet away from the place where Il
was head of the girl lay and was evident
.eIe buried there before the murderer arose
leave behind the work Of his awf
. ID crime. Il was after be reached Bait
more that Price told where the sto
was buried which had been used
making the FIRST attack
1t was exactly where Price said It "
v.ax concealed, which was only three fl
an. from where the books and bucket ~
found buried
The elder Price claims that his son
sco- several years has given evidence Of
,tion weak mind. he says that there is
Vest plausible excuse Why q sane man shol
T. act in the way his son has. and must
was explained only by speils OF iussn
ears which pxsbabiy sfilotsd him,