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

Il believe this whole thing is a frame
p, upT Ihe only way | can conceive Of
that some one told him they had the
goods on me, and they would let him
off If 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 a rich
man. has practically ruined me. The au-
thorites don't seem to take into con.
sideration that MIR. Fridlcy, q wealthy
man. was to leave all his property event
III she had lived till Christmas Of
next year. her father vas to give her
another 160 acres of land as a Christmas
present. IL / was after money. it was
TO my advantage to have my wife out
live her father.
II am wholly at a loss 10 account for
Etchison's statement, IL he made it, and
] suppose he did or the newspapers
II. The story is groundless. and the
true story was told in the civil suit"
Assistant Prosecutor Armstrong has
announced that the woman said to be
| the fourth wife Of Price has been
located in Wisconsin. Price denies that
he has married again.
! The State Is relying largely upon tho
story of Etchison for its evidence in tho
trial of Price although detectives and
deputy sheriffs were told to get all the
evidence possible before the case is
tried.
While the police and deputies said
they believed that Carrie Olson Price.
who. according to dispatch received in
Minneapolis. was married to Price in
Kansas City. Mo; July Il, this year,
might might be BE-, a yalnabls witness. they dc;
70 search for her or to bring her tu
MINNEAPOLIS should she be found in an
other Sthte.
II was ruinored that the woman
| brought m hx. n
detective and questioned about Price,
and things that he might have said be-
fore the death of Mary. Fridley Price.
The statement of the clerk of the
Miss Olson were married there would
prevent the woman's testifying against
Price. even II 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 and
Miss Olson were never married.
The woman. according to the police
was in Minneapolis as late as a fcw
weeks ago. but left again. Her ac-
auaintances did not know where she
, went
J Price is said to have met her in the
office OF w. NJ. Dye. a brother-in-law o.
Mary Fridley Price. where she was en-
pIoyed as a stenographer At that time
she lived at 1lG Hawthorn avenue. She
left there, however. carly In 1915, say.
Ing that she was to be married.
Persons living at that address saic
that Miss Olson always spoke Of Price
as a California man and that she tolc
them his wife had been killed in a rail
road accident in California.
Although II was generally rumoreC
that Price and Miss Olson we're mar
rted on Christmas eve. 1914. the dis
patch from Kansas City apparentl!
disproved this report.
Il was never married to her and yol
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,"
c. T. Kelly. Prices attorney after i
was first rumored that Price was mar
ried a month after Mrs. Prices death
declared that the marriage did not TAX
, place in so short a time. but he refused
to tell when and where 1t did take place
When arraigned on an indictmen