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nave me ouuaing cieareu immediately. Then they became more manageable and finally as still as possible, considering the great mass of people who had jam-med 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 sometimes 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 effectually squelched. ;To the reading of the indictment charging him with the assault Wish Sheppard answered “not guilty,*’ and said in answer to the question. as to how he would be tried that he chose the Court rather than a jury. Therefore the jurors were all dismissed. At the request of the State’s Attorney Miss Mildred Clark, the principal witness, and the other ladies who were to'give evidence, were heard in a jury room, in the presence of the Court, the counsel on both sides and the prisoner, the attorney for the accusedagreeing.In this room the child told again the details of the shocking abuse to which she was subjected on July 151b last. She is a very attractive girl, with pretty features and a refined manner. She been intercepted,she said, along the road through the woods, near Federalsburg, dragged into the pine timber about sixty fards, the brute there tearing her clothing off, subjecting her to an experiencenost horrifying, keeping her in thethicket nearly an hour. Then he fled. She identified the prisoner. He is a negro about twenty years old, of exceedingly repulsive features, with very thick, protruding lips, flat nose and retreating forehead, his big, bold, rolling eyes be-og conspicuous by the white in them,• « t rr Or ♦ 1 n /■ I* vi«f i l« ■ m r • lt;n n t a A A 1. I*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 the 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 been 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 men to 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 the law’ now,” said Wish.The State here rested, and the attorney for Sheppard offered a sworn statement by Wish’s mother, supporting an alibi for her son. Several young negro men gave testimony intended to support the alibi. It was shown by this evidence that he was in various parts of the town. Ben Collins, one of the witnesses for Sheppard, said there was a strange negro about town the nigbt before and gave description corresponding to Sheppard's appearance, but no other witness had seen the Sheppard douhle. Later R. W, Messenger and Fernandes Davis said/that this same strange negro story had been circulated by the same man at a similar case in the same community a few years ago.The defense then put Sheppard on the stand. He said he didn’t know his age. He thought he was iS years old, and had lived in Federalsburg all his life, and gave a list of many places in the town he had visited July 15 until theA 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 beeo a fear here that the negro would escape the gallows. While lynching has been freely disenssed the majority of the people have kept calm, saying they were willing {o let the law take its course.”Death of Mr. Wlfltam 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 bis 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 of Caroline county. In Southern Caroline the Hubbards lived many years. • Forty-four years ago be organized the fertilizer business of which he was president in Wyoming, DcL, under the firm name of Hubbard and Brother. After enjoying a successful career for 24 years the business was removed to Baltimore and established in a large plant at Canton with offices in Keyser Building. Mr. Huhbard was one of the pioneers in the fertilizer business of the country and was regarded as one of the best authorities*on the various phases of Ihe industry. Associated with him in business were his nephews, Wilbur W. Hubbard,' of Chestertown, Md., vice-president of the company; his son, William L. Hubbard, Jr., secretary, and his son-in-law, Walter P. Summers, treasurer. While oneof the most prosperous men of the city Mr. Huhbard cared little for society and devoted most of his time to his bus-
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Denton Journal
Denton, Maryland, US
Sat, Jul 31, 1915
Page 5
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