Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-11-18
LEM" PRICE WEPT
CnntlnIrrll from paRc

the public prison Of this county, the place
from which you came, to bc there shiciy'
and securely kept in custody Until Friday,
the third day Of December, in the year
of our Lord, 1920, aud on that day be-
tween the hours Of ten O'Clock ~ the
morning and three o'clock IN tho after
noon, you be taken to some convenient
place of private execution within me pre-
| cncts Of aaid prison enclosure ana thht
you be then and there hanged by the neck
until you be dead, and may God have
mercy on your soul You nTe now COM
mitted 10 the custody Of the Board oi
/ Trustees of the New Castle county WORK
| house until this sentence ls carried INTO
| execution
! At the conclusion Of the fentencer
! tears atarted 10 come to Prices eyes and
| It was after Warden Plummer told him
not 10 cry that the forced smile passed
/ over his face aa he was quickly taken from
! the court room to tho office OF the at
torpev-Qeneral, where he was kept for
short time. following which nc was re-
moved to the worlthousc ~ Warden
| Plummer's machine, in the custody OF
| Warden Plummer and Guard Black, TO
whom he waa handcuiied and several
police officers, in plain clothes
The tensencas Of the packed crowd ~
the courtroom broke NJ soon Ra Price hhd
! been led from the court room and II was
only after sharp call from the court cfi'r
that stiffness was restored. The curious
who has come to the court room to hear
sentence missed on the Negro, quickly ielt
and only thoae who had business renamed
Judge + Bavnrd lIcisel occupied sent
on the bench with the other members oi
the state judiciary
Attorney-G General-ecctS s II. Townsend,
Jr, WINS an interested spectator IN the
court room. while Robert II Richards, one
Of the counsel for Price at hls tr1al last
December, also was an interested specta-
'or' When taken to the oihccAf the attorney
general after being sentenced, Price re-
gained his composure.
REsrIrEp UNTIL DATE or EXECUTION
According 10 the attorney general, /,
Price has been granted repTleve untli
December Z. or the date of execution ~ the
resentcnce. by Governor john 6 Town
send Prices stay Of execution had been
extended - today by Governor Town
send. at tho expiration Of the last stay two
weeks ago The latter would have expired
tomorrow.
II is q coincidence that the date on
which Price " to he hanged is one year
anu one tlAA II0iH liit tlttit. III NAAtNt 80
first sentenced to be hanged
There was little difference in the appear
ance of the Negro TODAY, as compared
with tho last time he was sentenced lie
seemed more dovncast aud resigned 70 his
fate today At his trial on the second AMI
third of December II last year Price SAID
nothing during the entire trial lie saf
with his head tilted - ono slso through
! out the trial and it was only az great
intervals that he held ~ his head aa some
significant point was hcing drought ont u
the testimony
Today lie held his head erect when first
lcd into tie prisoner dock and ho eFinced
more interest III what was gong on II
asking for mercy. his first fcw words Were
sald 4. . low tore The entire court room
/, eot.lJ hear hlfn when he said hc dld lot
XIII The man Intentionally. aid ms volcf
dropped agaln Ills ni swer t. hle
.IuStIce rcuucvill when he asked him j
he had auythlng more 70 sal could hardly
be heard
The handouts were quickly placed q
{ HIM aS he was taken from the courtroom
Wh.l Price first stood up 70 rcceiv'
se.te a. hc had the cuff an his night hane
These were removed however before
sentence Was PRONOUNCED.
Following the tesetterclng Of Price
{ tire co.,rt md, i clear Why tie date @
Z execute. lid not leen set sooner, .
{ accoult Il tie law, relating to tfis point
RAcK TO THE HoRKHoUsE.
immediately after sentence had beeI
IMPOSED Price was taken back 10 th
I workhousc is tie warden and Guar
9 Black They arrived RI the workhols
! et ll.45. ard immediately upon goha
: to hls cell resumed reading the Bible
S In which ne appears TO have become niue
y Interested lately
q Price had little to say on the way bach
4 according to Warden Plummer, thoug
he told the latter. Is he was entering tn
cell that he felt more At ease, that n
was glad il was all over Three gusrd
watch bis cell the death cell all tn
n Rev. II y. Arnctt, pastor OF Ri
Bethel a N + Church, Sixth and Va
nut streets viii visit the workhous
-e tomorrow morning to administer con
I munlou to the condemned Negro.
81 ErfeSt Thomas, colored, under SCI
teuce of death for aA assault upon whit
n women near Smyrna, appears to be :
p ease IL his cell at the workhouse- Tie hs
y been rcsplted uaul November 70,
: order to fully investigate the report thi
= he Is mentally deficient