The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-05-16
BORN FOR THE oALLows.
Strange STORY OF Murderer Ford, Who
Was Executed at Ottawa. M.


Charles Ford las been hanged AT OF
tawa. ILL.,. for the murder of Travelling
salesman Moore OF Omaha.
He preserved his remarkab BILE show OF
nerve TO thu lust and was apparently
the coolest man IA ilie little rarity that
marched 20 the scaiiold
Tuesday morning. june %. 1850, tie
body OF lavid Moore OF Omaha MAS
discovered in Allen park. near the
banks OF the Illinois river. The muir
dered man AL been beaten 20 death
with car-coupling pin. tao less than
seven CHASTITY wounds being found upon
his head and face, each OF Mhicn had
crushed the skull. For several feet
around his body the grass was dScCl-
ored with blood stains. and evidences
OF terrific struggle shown In tho
torn-up sod and ground. i'he Instru-
ment OF death, winch lay but a few
feet away from the body. and a wo-
mans pocket book was the only clew
10 the crime.
Two hours after the discovery u
woman was arrested on suspicion. and
inside OF fifteen minutes the story of
the crime was laid bare. Ref re sun
down OF the same day four people We're
ia jail. They were Kate Ford. her hus-
bind. Charles Ford; Will am O'Brien
and Minnie. Winteriing.
Fords trial BEGAN IN November and
lasted twenty-five days. After an
hours deliberttion the jury found him
guilty aud prescr bed lac death en-
atty.
David Moore Of Omaha vast travel
ing lumber salesman IA the employ OF
the T. Is. Scott Lumber company OF
Merrill, Wis He bad been decoye1 TO
Allen park by Kate Ford. and there.
within five hundred feet OF an electric
light and less than that distance OF the
Boat Club ball. where a dance was IN
progress at the hour the crime was
committed, and within one hundred
feet OF cottage where were seated
around he doorstep family OF five
he was ba ttered 10 death.
The trial developed the crime 10 have
been conspiracy concocted by Ford
for the purpose Of robbery or black
mail He had employed his wife.
whom he had married from the pave
meut "a few weeks previous. for the do
COY and O'Brien as his accomplish.
The day before the murder Ford and
his wife quarreled. ana, m the fear that
she would not keep the date with
Moore, Ford engaged simple minded
woman of the town named Minnie Win
terling TO entraD Moore But Mrs.
Ford fepented, consequently the four
were present. Minnie Winterling has
not been tried. Neither Ford nor
| O'Brien confessed the crime, and the
dead mans watch and iewelry, which
were taken from his body have never
| been found
40 Brien was given life Imprisonment.
Ford's father was hanged at Sing
1 < L.. -. - l..tp
time ut the same prison for train
wrecxing. His sister keeps notorious
house in Toronto. and his stepmother
was driven from West Twenty eighth
street. New York, where she kept a
| thieves paradise IN 81 . EOS. She WAS
also chased out OF Chicago, and her
second husband, also named Ford, Is IN
the Indiana State peuitentiary. Charles
| Ford had also served term ia the
! Joliet peniteutiary aud two terms M
| the New York reform school. lie was
born in the slums OF New York. and
had teen tramp since his boyhool
days
A dramatic incident occurred in the
Jail office the evening before the ex-
ecution. Ford's wife of "A fortnight,
| Kate Weeneck, alias Ford. was at the
condemned mans request brought into
! his presence. She had but "a lew
moments previous pleaded guilty IN
court 10 completely in Moore's murder
and been sen e ced 90 Imprisonment
for term of fourteen years. For
twenty minutes the pair wept and
talked together and were then separatsd
forever, The wife being taken ini
mediately 10 her long term in the penl.
Tertiary at Joliet and Ford being re-
turned for the last time 10 his cell.
Absolutely no motion or sign OF brak
down had lefore been displayed 10y
Ford, though for weeks he had beer
without hope since the governor re-
fused cl,mency and his attorney,
abandoned him, publicly announcing .
| elief la lis guilt.