The Washington times., 1915-12-12
Price Calls Whole
Thing a "Frame-Up"

II believe this whole thing Is q Frame
upY The only way l can conceive Of
that some one told him they had the
goods on me, and they would let him
! off II he would confess tho story. Even
! at that, am at a loss to see why Etchi-
son should fall for such a foolish yarn.
1T looks to me as though they were
laying II on pretty thick. The death
OF my wife. instead OF making me q rich
man, has practically ruined me. The au-
thorities don't seem to take into con-
sideration that Mr.. Fridley, q wealthy
man, was to leave all hts property event.
ually to my wife.
III she had lived TIL Christmas OF
another 160 acres OF land as a Christmas
present. II ! was after money, II was
70 my advantage to have my wife out
live her father.
Il am wholly at loss 20 account for
Etchison's statement, IL he made II, and
suppose he did or the newspapers
would not print It.. Still ! can't belieYe
T. The story is groundless, and the
true story was told in the civil suit
J Assistant Prosecutor Armstrong has
| announced that the woman said to be
| the fourth wife of Price has beer
located in Wisconsin. Price denies thai
he has married again.
! The state Is relying largely upon tho
story of Etchison for its evidence in the
/ trial of Price, although detectives anc
deputy sheriffs were told to get all thC
tried.
While the police and deputies sale
they believed that Carrie Olson Price
who, according TO a dispatch received IL
Kansas City. Mo-, July H. this year
might be a valuable witness, they de.
clered that they had not been asked
70 search for her or to bring her (,
Minneapolis should she be found in an
II was ruinored that the woman
would DO brought to Minneapolis by {
detective and questioned about Price
and things that he might have said be
fore the death of Mary F'T1dley Price,
The statement of the clerk of tbs
courts in Kansas City that Price AND
Miss Olson were married there woulC
prevent the woman's testifying agains
Price. even IL che were willing, pro
vided Price should object.
A defendants wife cannot testify
against him in Minnesota II he objects
| to her testimony.
Price declared, however, that he anC
Miss Olson were never married.
The woman, according to the police
| was in Minneapolis as late as a few
weeks ago, but left again. Her ac
quaintances did not know where she
I went.
office OF w. NJ. Dye, a brother-in-laW o
Mary Fridley Price, where she was en-
ployed as a stenographer. At that TIM
she lived at 1lW Hawthorn avenue. She
left there. however. early in 1915. say
ing that she was to be married.
Persons living at that address saiC
that Miss Olson always spoke OF Pric,
as California man and that she tolC
them his wife had been killed in a rail
road accident in California.
! Although It was generally rumoret
that Price and Miss Olson we're mar
Iied on Christmas eve, 1914, the dis
patch from Kansas City APPARENT!
disproved this report.
Il was never married to her and yoI
need not try to connect her up with thi
case" said Price. DO what you wan
to me and say what you want to abou
me. but leave her out OF it,"
| G. i. Kelly. Prices attorney after
was FIRST Tumored that Price was mar
ried a month after Mrs. Prices death
declared that the marriage did not TAX
place In so short time, but he refuses
to tell when and where II did take place
When arraigned ON an indictmen