Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1918-05-11
ONE DEFENDANT
YET To Be TRIED
IN HERON CASES
Four Convictions. One Plea OF
Guilty, One Acquittal
the Results So Far.
MARY DENNIS NOT GUILTY

Mary Dennis. one Of the seven Negroes
indicted by the Grand Jury early TINS
week on the charge of violating the State
drug act in unlawfullv selling heron,
narcotic drug, was acquitted Yesterday
afternoon nv n Jury before Judge lleisel IN
Room No. of General Sessions Tier de-
fence. conducted by James Salisbury,
took tho form of an alibI.
The ease was the sixth to I've disposed
nf and the fifth to he tried, one defendant
having entered plea OF guilty nus was
Edna Kane The other four trod were
found guilty They were Grace roster
ODDS Wren. James Young and joshua
Iaster. Edna Kane, Yesterday morning
vas sentenced to eight months in tho
workhousc. while Grace Foster and James
Noung were given the law limlt-S2OO
fine and a year IN jail.
Ono Of the defendants remains TO DC
tried Frank West-a h,s case doubt
loss. will come up on Tuesday when
4 General Sessions rocOnvenCs. Al least
such was the outlook yesterday afternoon
whom court adjourned FOR the week Grace
Fost, r and Edna kano viii not be tried
aCain. the second indictments IN their case
having been nolle pressed. But according
to the State prosecuting officers there y
Likelihood that tho others who have under
gone trial will face stall another jury, there
being another indictment against Mary
Dennis. ono against Joshua laster, con
yictod Yesterday morning; four against
James Young and Two against ODDS Wren
Against West there were SIN Motions
have been made for new trials for Wren
and Laster
When Mary Dennis went on trial NJ
Yesterday afternoon session 1t was found
that Paul Edwards tho State chlet wit
moss against the other defendants, was
again to give the leading testimony.
Edwards said that on March IL ne went
IL Narv's home on klund street and
bought n deck ar package. of heron
from her for - cents and used It bctore
he left the house She told him, he SAID,
where he could find a hvpodcrmIc needle
hidden IN the rooms. and he scared ~,
cooked" his heron and injected II INTO
himself There were two or three others,
present among them man naned
DeShelds, when the witness bought the
drug. although h. administered IT alone
he said
State Chemist Watson next testified as
to the chemical nature ot heron as com
pound of morphine lie was followed hy
Sergeant King. who narrated the finding
Of 4 hvpodcrrnlc needle and dope quill
IN the rooms Cross cxaInlna ton revealed
that James Dung convicted "Wednesday,
c,ec1pled the rooms As welt as the de-
PENDANT Detective Falrchiid gave cor
roborative testimony Thus closed the
States case.
James Salisbury. counsel for the de-
PENDANT. called as his first witness the
prisoner herself She declared she WASH
in Wilmington on March -, the date Of
the alleged sale, but was IN Philadelphia
She went there that morning and stayed
there five DAYS She SAID there hadn {
been such thing AS hvpoderimo needle
in the rooms where she hvedr and de
clared Il woudn know one II saw It
Cross-examined bv Deputy Attorney
General Green tho witness gave the hour
of her departure from this city and her
return besides telling of the stops made
by the train. She reiterated that she had
spent FIVE DAYS in Philadelphia returning
on March Is. Two coiored girls and the
woman she said she visited IN Phlladel-
phia. her mother-ln-law, gave evidence IN
support Of the defendants alIbl.
MIR Saulshurv's summing up TO the
nlry was very brief, rs he told them II
would be He said II would be just three
words. Where Us DeShields2 DeSmelds
being the name Of the man mentioned by
Edwards as having been present when he
bought heron from the defendant
MIR Green. IN reply, SAID he was barred
from telling the jury where DeShlelds is,
although he could do so The case, he said,
was simply one of the veraclty of the
prisoner and her witnesses against the
State who. he went on 10 point out were
known 10 the jury.
These gentlemen, when they rctlrcd to
consider their verdict, spent just g
minutes on the Job, returning to announce
they found MARY not guilty.