The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-14
THE ARREST or DIR. FORD.
An Interesting Account of the Man
ncr of His Capture.

Tallahassee. Fla. Nov. l2-The case
Of Dr. Ashton T. Ford. arrested here seF-
eral days ago. charged with having muir
dered his uncle W- j. Ford. il Worth
county. Georgia some tine III October. IS
the subject % considerable comment for
and against the prisoner. and some have
gone so FAR as % crir.cise The officers Ap-
parently. the Georgia officers have been
rather slow 20 acL The facts IN The case
are about as t1llous-
About -W0 weeks ago DIP. Ford came 10
Florida Eth a crowd u Ge0rs-ans and
went down TO s. Marks osteasidly
on a fishing and hunting frolic. = short
time later sheriff John A Pearce Of tll-
authorities % ~ ortn tlat ora was want
Cd there for murder MI Pear-e soon To-
Gated 1lE az 81 Marks went down r-6re
last THURSDAY. arrested him. brought MIN
him. charging MIN with being z fugitive
from justice from the state o1 Georgia
and placed him in jail
The Worth authorities we're Immediately
notified that the prisoner was lela here
bat zap % Tuesday, no requisitiol papers
CT oincers had arrived ana the prisoner
was taken hy his attorney. stephen e.
Miller. before Judge John ". Malone.
circuit judge az Crawfordville. on habeas
curing his release Judge Malone.
after hearing The facts in the
case, remanded The prisoner pack
county on the ground that he could not
De properly brought before him on na-
hess corpus proceedings until after 2
commitment trial before the officer issu-
ing the warrant. he was then brought
back TO This city and giving a hearing
before County Judge " W McGrln,
A. the trial Attorney Miller. on behalf
Of The prisoner. moved that he be dis
charged on the ground that ne was kid
mapped by Shesiff Fearce In the county OF
=
before a warrant was sworn out for him.
tuat the warrant was illegal ana cOlse-
quentiy the whole proceedings irregular,
and on the further grounds that there
was no evidence 10 snow that The prs o
Der was guilty OF any oftense- Two af1-
lavits were procured by the Sheriff and
objected 10 by the defense followed by
a rather lively tilt between the sheriff
and attorney as TO their relevancy 20 the
lIial- Iney set IoIta tRat me prisoner
was wanted in Worth for said murder,
and were later on admitted By consent OF
the defense rather than have the case
postponed until witnesses could be sum
moned. The Judge overruled the motion
10 dismiss the case on the grounds men
tened and the trial proceeded.
Ford was the only witness examined,
and he testified in his own behalf that
when he left Georgia. to his knowledge.
there was no proceedings against MIN.
The Judge thought the affidavits estab-
iisbcd ne fact thar there were. however.
and committed him 10 jail. 20 await
hearing from the Georgia authorities.
81 men captured bf SneflA edItc, ora
was armed with a pistol fully twenty
four inches long carrying a 4S-caliber
ball. and presenting a most formidable
appearance. From what has been learned
Of him since his arrest. it is thought. too.
that he would have used 1t in a most de-
termined manner had he not been trapped
in a most ingenious manner by the Off
Ger. The sheriff went down 20 ST. Marks
and soon learned that his man was very
fond of bird hunting. Accordingly
party was made up. including the doctor.
him Ghe DOCTOR he made good use Of il,
nfsarr1ing and irnnimn him.