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came impatient and very noisy. Finally, when Judge Constable ordered the bigdoois of the court room opeoed and suggested to the door-keepers that only one or two be let in at a lime, there was a manifestation ol defiance, and the throng surged in with tumult, overrunning the bailiffs and boisterously occupying the benches. The Chief Judge then ad* dressed the people, admonishing them that unless order were restored he would have the building cleared immediately. Then they became more manageable and finally as still as possihle, considering the great mass of people who had jammed themselves into the room. There was a time, during the first of the hubbub, when there was real alarm in the room, for a trace of anger in the multitude was manifest, and a great crowd in ugly mood has its terrifying aspect, for even a littler outbreak on such occasion ■ometimes runs to excesses unthougbt of. On this occasion the Court and the sheriff and his men were very prompt and an incipient danger was promptly and efiec-uaJly squelched.To the reading of the indictment :harging him with the assault Wish Shephard answered “not guilty,*’ and said in inswer to the question. as to how he vould be tried that he chose the Court ather than a jury. Therefore the jurors vere all dismissed. At the request of the itate's Attorney Miss Mildred Clark, the irincipal witness, and the other ladies vho were to'give evidence, were heardevidence of Olin Huhbard, to whom the accused made the second confession of the assault upon the child, was given. He said this was done without any threat or promise on his part. On cross examination he said the negro first told him that the girl suggesled tbe deed and that witness told him he was lying and that he had better tell the truth, and that it was then that the prisoner related the story of his attack upon Miss Clark.Eugene Carmen, who aided in tracking Miss Clark’s assailant to a boat on the river; Wilmer Davis, a lad who saw the negro in a boat coming from the direction of tbe place to which the fleeing man had been traced, and Henry Messenger put some links in the chain of circumstantial evidence against Sheppard, as did also Neal Bradford, John C. Foster and W. C. Kleiber. Shortly after the crime bad taeen committed Neal Bradford had met Sheppard and asked him about the ringing of the alarm bell which had been sounded at the instance of the town fire chief to call out the men9to go after the assailant of Miss Clark.Wish would make no answer. Mr.•Klieber also met Sheppard,who told him that Miss Clark had been attacked by a strange negro. When Mr. Kleiber remarked that the negro would be hanged, Wish said “no, they don't hang people in Maryland any more. It is against tbe law now,” said Wish.The State here rested, and tbe attorney for Sheppard offered a sworn state-Among the deputies about the court house and jail were the following, who had been sworn in at the Clerk’s ofhee:John W. Clark, W. H. Lord, R. B. George, James H. Morgan, R. \V. Messenger, John H. Horsey. Jr., Clinton Cook, William F. Dawson, Joseph W. Noble, Earle Brown, Thomas L. Nichols, W. G. Hassett, W. J. Price, Jerome B. Jefferson, H. L Hignutt, W. D. Satterfield, John E. Webber.A Federalsburg dispatch Tuesday night said: “The news received here tonight that •Wish' Sheppard was to be banged for the attack on Mildred Clark was received with approval. Great crowds congregated on the‘streets to await the decision of the judges andcheered when the verdict was received.*Since Sheppard was taken into custody there has been a fear here that tbe negro would escape the gallows. While lynching has been freely disenssed the majority of the people have kept calm, saying they were willing let the law take its course.”Death of Mr. William L. Hubbard.Mr. William L. Hubbard, president of the Huhbard Fertilizer Company, one of the largest independent enterprises of its kind in this country, died Wednesday afternoon at his home in Baltimore after an illness of four months. Death was due to heart trouble and complications. He was 75 years old and a native ofr* 1 r _____... t_ p .t. -__ ^
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Denton Journal
Denton, Maryland, US
Sat, Jul 31, 1915
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