Evening journal., 1896-10-03
SENTENCED To DEATH.
Wright Will Expiate His
Crime on New Years Day.
NO LIOENsE FfR IRON HILL.


THREE APPLICATIONS ARE WITH
DRAWN AND ONE TURNED
DowN.-IRoN HILL LICENSE.
LAW vIoLAToRs FINED.-SU-
PERIoR COURT WORK CLEARED
UP.
Edward wright, colored. who bru-
tally murdered Ida Crummell on the
streets Of this city. must pay the full
penalty for his crime. Yesterday al
ternoon the jury brought in a verdict
of guilty of murder in the first degree.
Chief Justice Lore charged The jury
at 8 o'clock saying in part:
1T is conceded by the counsel for the
prisoner under the proof in the case,
that he is either entitled to an aequittal
altogether, or is guilty in manner and
form as he stands indicted. You are
to determine, therefore, whether your
verdict should be murder in the first
degree, or not guilty. You are happily
relieved of all question as to the grade
of the crime. Malice is the test OF
murder. It is the dictation OF a wicked,
depraved and malignant heart and of
a disposition to do evil. The prisoner
sets up the defence of INSANITY, and
claims acquittal on that ground. Even
If he was insane before or after the
killing, it will not avail unless ne was
insane at the precise time of the COM
mission of the crime. II you believe he
was insane at that time taking into
consideration the tests I have given
you-your verdict should be not guilty;
but if you do not so believe, then your
verdict should be guilty in manner and
form as he stands Indicted inasmuCh
as the previous threats made by him.
the deliberate selection and use Of re-
volver, which is a deadly weapon, firing
it twice standing over his PROSTATE
victim after she had fallen his dec
laration after he heard of her death
that he hoped she was dead, as he in
tended to kill her and that he had
made up his mind to kill her on the
Saturday night before che murder. and
other acts and expressions which you
may recall, are conclusive of express
malice, almost diabolic in its intensity,
which the law presumes arose from
wicked heart.
1T is incumbent upon the state to
prove every material element of the
crime Of murder. The sanity of the
prisoner is one of those elements. II
you therefore have any reasonable
doubt from all the evidence and proofs
in the case, on this or any other ma
terial point, the prisoner is entitled to
the benefit of that doubt. But, gentle
men, that doubt should be of such a
nature as to prevent you, as conscien-
tious men, from rendering a verdict of
guilty"
The jury was only out about twenty
minutes when it returned with a YER
dict of guilty. Wright heard it with
unmoved countenance.
Mr.. Harrington had she jury polled
and then moved for a new trial. The
court fixed to-day as the time for fling
the reasons.
FIVE YEARS FOR STATS.
After Wright had been taken back TO
his cell the court turned it's attention
to Richard Stats, convicted of killing
William Guy. The court expressed the
opinion that he should be given the
full penalty provided by law, and inn
posed a fine of $4,000 and imprison-
ment for five years.
IRON HILL MEN FINED.
Walter H. Hayes, attorney for Will
liam H. Brockenborough, Julius From
hogan and Charles X. Mulhleck, in
dicted for running the notorious speak
!. easy at Iron HILL and who, through
their attorney, pleaded guilty, asked
= the court to fine the men notwithstand-
ing their absence from the jurisdic-
ton.
/, The court hesitated, but finally fined
each of the men 500 in one case, pleas
- frrf hn
= Attorney general in the other cases
Chief Justice Lore stated that the
courts action in sentencing these per-
. sons when they were not in court mus
not be taken as a precedent
The fine did not please Mr.. Hayes
r., He stated that when the men pleaded
. guilty it was the custom to make the
l. fine $50. The court then changed the
fine and ordered forfeiture of the bal
> bond to be removed when the fineI
" were paid. Deputy Clerk of the Peac'
a Janvier stated that the fines had beeI
a. paid several days ago.
le WRIGHT NEVER FLINCHED.
le This morning, shortly after O'Clock
Wright was brought before the court
Mr.. Harrington withdrew his motiOl
for new trial, and Chief Justice Lor
u proceeded to sentence the impassiv
prisoner, who never moved a muscle
excepting when the court asked him
he had anything to say why sentenc
n of death should not be pronounced
e Then he merely moved his lips an
+ shook his head.
% Chief Justice Lore told him that hi
er crime was one of the most cold-blooc
,. ed murders in the criminal annals {
" the county, and that God was the onl
d one to whom he could look for mere.
for he could expect no clemency froi
the governor, because - had had
fair and impartial trial and been abl
ng defended. He then sentenced the nj
n gro to be hanged on january, 189
w between the hours Of 10 and 2 o'clocl
b. Wright leaned over, spit in the cusp
r., dor and sat down. Shortly afterward
Sc, Sheriff Gillis and Deputy Sheri
nd Tucker led him out, and later in tn
d. day was taken over to New Castle jai
This means that the next sheriff {
the county no matter whether he l