The log cabin Democrat. [volume] (Conway, Ark.) 1908-current, 1910-07-18
WIDOW ON TRIAL
FOR MURDER
DELONEY CASE In COURT
WOMAN, SOON TO BE MOTHER,
CHARGED WITH PLOTTING
HUSBANDS DEATH.

in this instance a bird of i'll omen
whose proximity has had an import
ant part in fixing motive for a
dark crime, lowering over the court
room, Mrs. w. l.. Deloney was this
morning arraigned before the circuit
court in connection with the assassin
alton of her husband. Deloney was
shot through the window of his bed
room as he lay sleeping, on the night
of June 13. In the custody of the
officers is the confessed assassin of
Deloney. He is young Oscar Pullem,
the man whose supposed relations
with the wife of Deloney had scandal
lied the country people for months
before the crime was committed which
left Mrs. Deloney free to accept. the
advances of lover openly, and make
her next husband comparatively rich
with Deloney's lands and property.
A special venire of 10 talesmen
appeared this morning at 9 O'Clock,
having been summoned as possible
jurors to try Mrs. Deloney. Mrs. De-
loney is charged in one indictment
with murder in the first degree and in
the second with being an accessory in
the fact Pullem himself will be the
main witness of the state, as he broke
down and confessed, it is alleged, af-
ter he had given himself up, that Mrs.
Deloney planned the deed and he exc
cuted it.
The defendant, as she sat in court,
was today the chief object of interest
of the multitude who had gathered
to hear the sensational testimony
which the trial is expected to develop
Already the mother of two children
the obvious condition of the defendant
evidences the fact that she will soon
become the mother of third. Her del
icate condition has gained for her
considerate attentions at the hands of
the authorities who have not com
PEELED her to enter the Jail with the
other prisoners. She has been given
private apartments.
Whether it is the state of her
health, the kind treatment which has
sheltered her from contact with the
Jail and other harsh legal machinery
or her real innocence of the hideous
charges against her, Mrs. Deloney
sits in the court room with the de-
meanor of innocence, or at least of su-
preme Indifference. 1t is plain that
she does not realize the seriousness of
her plight. Her attorneys say, how
ever, that she has no reason to suffer
anxiety, as her name will be cleared
of all stain before the trial is ended.
The crime for which she faces trial
today was perpetrated on the night
of June 13. AS Deloney was sleeping
soudly after hard days work, his
assassin fired a shot whcih killed him
instantly, the gun having been dis
charged at close quarters through an
open window. The crime had been
planned with forethought and atten-
ton to precautionary details. The
assassin had hitched his horse at a
secluded spot a mile and half from
the Deloney homestead, that no hoof
prints might furnish a means of pur-
suit. Cayenne pepper was carefully
sprinkled over the ground and upon
the tracks of the victim to throw
bloodhounds off the scent. This ruse
worke dout as the assassin planned
and actually prevented the hounds
from picking up his trail. The prints
of the hoofs of the horse of the mur-
derer were discovered where it had
been hidden, but pepper had been lib
orally sprinkled all about the place
and again the dogs were baffied. The
hoof trail was lost on the public road.
Mrs. Deloney's story of the assas-
sination was at first believed by the
neighbors and authorities. She said
she had been asleep in an adjoining
room to that of her husband and had
been awakened by the report of a
gun. She said as she entered his
room a second report rang out and
there was flash of flame through the
window. She then spread the alarm
Deloney's death spread sensation
through the community. Immediate
steps were taken by his neighbors and
friends to capture the assassin. The
sheriff assigned four deputies to the
work of ferreting out the guilty per-
son. The citizens organized a posse
and searched far and wide over the