Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-09

About ) o'clock last evening there was
call for police on the corner of Seventh and
Wacouta streets. Officer Casey, although moi
ON watch, answered the call, and Learned that 9
wife had shot her husband aud the presence OF
the authorities was needed Officer Casey g!
once repaired to the scene of the tragedy, close.
iy followed by GLOBE reporter, who speedily
Obtained all facts, which are as follows:
In May last, man, by the name of Almor
Ford, with his wife and three children, re-
noved to this city from the vicinity Of Dun
das, In RIrelacornsy. and rented the upper
Toems OF No. q Linden street. Mr. Ford is 9
carpenter by trade. and be soon Obtained work,
and everything went we'll with them until last
Monday. when Mrs. Ford developed signs of
being out of her mind. She seemed TO be pos
sessed with the idea that sornes one intended
to murder her. Her husband quoted her
fears, however, and went to his work as usual,
being emoioyed upon the GotSian block
on Lafayette avenue, until yesterday morning
when his wife showed suoh evident signs of
insanity that he remained at home to look af-
ter the children. Shortly before s O'Clock in
the evening, the babe, an infant ten months
old, became Iestive, and Mr. Fork took it in
his arms and walked the floor for some time in
the vain effort to stop its cries. The cries of
the child seemed to irritste the wife and moth
er, and just as MIR. Ford was about to leave the
room with the child in his arms, she suddenly
seized revolver which was in the room and
tired, the ball missing the
child but entering the right
breast OF the husband and idst escaping the
heart. The nelghbors heard the shot, and as
anove stated the news was at once sent to the
police. When the GLOBE reporter reached the
house he found Officer Casey at the door and q
large crowd of excited people on the outside.
Passing upstairs the GLOBE man saw a most
pitiful sight. The room was carpetless and
the furniture of the cheapest kind. Upon the
bed lay the wounded man, propped
up by chairs and pillows, and beside him
lay two little children of two and three years of
age fast asleep, while in the center of the room
was the manaioal wife and mother, shrieking
and screaming, in the charge of Officer Nugent
with his one arm. A more sad and pitiful
sight could not be imagined. The dying hus.
band, the insane wife, shrieking and moaning,
and the innocent children sleeping beside their
dying father, presented a scene seldom wit
messed even by a reporter.
AT every sound the poor woman would cry
cut that some one was going to murder her.
and she would spring up with almost super
human strength and endeavor to break away
from the officer. In her Widest paroxysms her
husband wonld say, Jenny. be quiet" and
the sound OF his faint voice would have its
effect for moment or two when the sound of
voice from the crowd outside would startle
Der again, and the cries would ring out, curd.
ling the bloodof those block away.
II was difficult to obtain any definite informa-
tion In regard to the affair. The man was in
full possession of his Senses and from his dis
tointed statements the above account of the
affair was obtained. Some time elapsed be-
fore a doctor could be obtained, but finally DR..
Jones arrived, end he at once gave orders to
have the man removed to st. Joseph's hos.
pital.
In the meantime Chief Weber had been no.
titled OF the sad affair and he ordered hack and
in person went out to the residence. Arriving
there he had the husband taken to st. Joseph's
hospital, the insane wife taken to the county
jail, and the poor little children to the Magds-
len Home.
GLOBE reporter visited the hospital at a
late hour last evening and found the wounded
man resting easy. free from pain, but splitting
1lood. DR.. Jones gives it as his opinion that
the man could not live. The ball passed very
near the heart and internal hemorrhage is going
forward. At midnight when a GLOBE
reporter called at the county Jail the wife was
sleeping quietly, unconscious of the fact that
her husband was dying by her hand.
From all the aLoBE could learn from the
immediate neighbors, they had lived happily
together. Both of them ara represented as
persons of education and some refinement It
ls o Ead case in all it's features.