Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-07-19
FOR THE MURDER OF HER HUSBAND Mrs. Deloney on Trial For Assa ssination of Her
 Husband.
SHOT TERO' WINDOW
Young Pullen Said to Have Confessed to Firing ShOt-killing Was
 We'll Planned.
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Ashdown, July 1S.-With the stork in this instance a bird of ill 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 assas- sination of her husband. Deloneey was shot through the window of his bed room as he lay sleeping on the night of June 18th. In the custody sassin of Deloney. He is young Os- car Pullen, the man whose supposed relations with the wife of Deloney had scandalized the country people for months before the crime was committed which left Mrs. Deloney free to accept the advances of a lover openly, and make her next husband comparatively rich with De- loney's lands and property.
 A special venire of 110 talesmen appeared this morning at 9 o'clock having been summoned as possible jurors to try Mrs. Deloney. Mrs. De- loney is charged on one indictment with murder in the first degree and in a second with being an accessory in the fact. Pullen himself will be the main witness of the state as he broke down and confessed, it is d. leged, after he had given himself ID that Mrs. Delohey planned the deed and he executed it.
 The defendant as she sat in court, was today the chief object of inter- est of the multitude who had gathered to hear the sensational testimony that the trial is expected to develop. Al ready the mother of two children the obvious condition of the defendant evidences the fact that she will soon become the mother of a third. Her delicate condition has gained for her considerable attentions at the hands of tht authorities who have not com nelled 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 iail and other harsh legal machinery or her real innocence of the hldeous charges against her, Mrs. Deloney sits~ in the court room with the de- meanor of innocence, or at least or supreme indifference. It is plain that she does not realize the seriousness of her plight. Her attorneys say, however, 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 IS. AS Deloney was sleeping soundlv after a hard days work hls assassin fired a shot which killed hlm instantly, the gun having been dis charged at close quarters through an open window. The crime had been manned with forethought and atten- tion to precautionary details. The as- sassin had hitched his horse at se- cluded spot a mile and a half from the Deloney homestead, that no hoo1- heats might either alarm the victim or furnish a means of pursuit. Cay enne pepper was carefully sprlnkled over the ground and upon the tracks of the victim to throw bloodhounds off the scent. This ruse worked out as the assassin planned and actual ly prevented the hounds from picking up his trail. The prints of the hoofs of the horse of the murderer were discovered where it had been hidden but pepper had been liberally sprink- led all about the place and agaln the dogs were baffled. 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 gnn She said as she entered his room g second report rang out and there was a flash of flame through the win dow She then spread the alarm.
 Deloney's death spread sensation through the community. Immediately steps were taken by his nelghpors and friends to capture the assassin The sheriff assigned four deputies te the work of ferreting out the guilty person. The citizens organized