Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-11-28

,t,ons Of his appetite, but days 20, . .
Angthened into weeks ana an , 90
,rophecies of Noah's reappearance 4,
oiscarried. Inquiry was made OF
"a son who lived at Odessa but ne
,auld not remember when ne hao [
last seen his father. In this town
where inquiry. was made no one
remembered having seen him aiter
thanksgiving night, and as Wash o!
inpton Irving says of the sudden -
disappearance from Sleepy Hollow
az Ichabod Crane, from sheer fright --
al the first sight of the headiess n
night rider, he owed no one IN .
the neighborhood any money ana
as he lett no estate to divide, no
one seemed disposed to ascertain
the location of his Whereabouts
and his sudden disappearance
, whether dead or alive. II deao,
o it might now have been written o.
: his burial place, no man knoweth
y IL even unto this day, which IN
9 reality is appliable to his head.
: Bot, however, respecting his body,
fate had decreed otherwise. just
lone month later on the morning
after Christmas there was discover
\. ed by the lock lenders, the nude
p. Eheadless bedy Of a colored man
in floating at the mouth OF the LOCKS
N Of the Delaware and Chesapeake
ng Canal. Suspicion was at~once
aroused thab,a foul murder mao
Ids bean committed and early rlsers
INST we're soon upon the scene, Capt
fish W. E. Reybold, who was then
and MAYOR, DR.. Jacobs, 81 practicing
ute homeopathic physician and James
emit, Hessey Diiworth, editor and pro
the arietor of the Delawar Y City News
rest, a weekly paper published at tina
t to time, and many others. Whll
why steps we're being taken 70 notli
nine the state authorities, as to Id
on identity of the body, the skin I
which had become SO bleached thi
will considerable uncertainty involve
n the a determination of whether or n
rney- il was the body Of q colored OF
! has white .naau, many believing that
ether r1aa body ala white man, !
d not y'E p n. :s2pz Y
scide. Enal Announced it as his opini
"a 20 that it was the headless body
'si'ea Noah Benson, fact that was lat
'hish- proved to the satisfaction of II
nants jury who sat ON the case when h
o.i son OF Noah Benson appeared b
lac ~ fore them and testified that h
'nii'y father had long carried under h
gov skin OF his left hand lead bull
SIS once lodged there by the acciden
0on al discharge of a pistol, Tbs, boo
'inan which in the meantime ha Nee
WAR buried was exhumed and b, "a
'estio obs by an examination discovere
the hidden bullet and discovere
the hidden bullet and proved
MUCH the satisfaction of all, the ident
have LEGATION of the body. The arres
-ime and trial of three colored men an
f,lI1 one woman, the conviction of III
,own three men and their sentence
mis- life Imprisonment, neither {
sucb which served long in prison., tw
: ~ we're pardoned and--cne =eseape
than from the-oid Jail at New Castl,
liz But the trial was noted one. es
,than pert testimony introduced by bot
: ;ta sides, raised question betwee
: t i.s them of the superiority and relif
tn;aI biiity of their expert knowledp
wore together with lively clash b,
De- tween Exc Chancellor Nicholso
naa4 who was then state attorney. an
bic the late Peter L. Cooper, attorne
1;ato for the defence, the long list
,tinU witnesses from here and the elias
ne oil local opinion respecting til
the guilt or innocence of the accused
40 lead to a fractional dispute, flnall
l,st eliminating in heated newspape
~ controversy, which made this pa,
- tictilar case one of the excitin
oraa historical incidents in connection
Wind - = --SSi'ys past lie