The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-07-28
Ex-Preacher Ford to Be Tried by
the Judicial Conference.
ARMED WITH STRONG LETTERS.
Judge Orange Jacobs Makes Written
Innocent of the Crime Charged
Against Him by the state in
the Jessie aarfOrd Case-NayOr
Humes Also says the same Thing.


ney. J. W. Miller. OF Whatcom. left yes
terday afternoon for Spokane. where he
goes to appear before the judicial confer
ence % which he now appeals to have the
charges made against him BY the Puget
sound conference dismissed.
The judicial conference is a special body.
sitting only for the purpose OF hearing such
causes. The one before which Mr.. Ford
will appear consists or twenty-one MEN,
beers. seven each from the Oregon, the Co
luulbia river and the Montana annual con-
fsrences. II Will be presided over by Bisa-
op W. r. Mallalleu. who comes all the
way from Boston for that express purpose.
The outcome OF Mr.. Fords application
vii be watched with profound interest.
The proceedings OF tie judicial conference
VII be behind closed doors. and the gen
eral public viii have TO content itself with
learning the final result.
There is 10 doubt tina, Mr. Ford is pre-
pared TO fight the case with the same yigor
and determination that have marked his
course through one oi the longest and mos:
bitterly contested causes ee!ebse ever APP
pearing in both the civil and ecclesiastical
courts or tie Northwest.
Documents which he has in his posses
sion indicate that Mr.. Ford is going TO
base his appeal 10 the ecclesiastical court
largely on the outcome Of the case against
MN in the superior court of this county.
where the charges were dismissed the pre-
siding Judge aud the prosecuting attorney
BOTH being satisfied that conviction under
the evidence WAS Impossible. Among the
papers with which Mr.. Ford Is armed are
the following statements from Judge ia
coos, before whom the case Was tried, and
from John T.. Humpar.es ana Mayor
Humes, who were OF counsel:
Jacobs Satisfied OF Eord's Innocence
TO Whom 1t May Concern. Greeting:
This is 10 certify thar l. .. Jacobs.
OF kins county. state OF Washington am
one OF the superior court judges OF sail
county 1Dd state. and that by virtue Of
assignment u the judges of said county
ana STATE. am the criminal Judge and ure-
slice over the criminal department in the
court OF said county and state by virtue
81 81 Ssfn aSs.snn"nI, tried the case OF
the seduction Of Miss Jessie Morford The
verdict Ia such case being that Of .g,l{l-y
a eharge1.' but such verdict. in my judg-
testimony ard 10 the new eyfd.uc- snow
81 on motion for A new trial Thar
considered II 10 be my dutv 10 81. If ,-j,fs
1h9 10 grant the motion made for a new
tfia. Tbs '.' The case. after hang
~ x foE Il considerable tire On motion az
-" prosecuting attorney. was finally DIS
M scd- am fully satisfied from the A.
tai. that Mir Ford the q Fandant ma
u't have committed tht ALLEGED oNa,,sa
and She prosecuting attorvev'~ dismissal
o. TIE case. removed all doubts from my
mind II / had any on that poiut an,
WEI SATISFIED that the Defendant never
committed the o'frnse alleged against him
% JACOBS Judge."
Hum"s aud Humphrie>' Letters.
TO ". r Ford. The Information
"E3,0st Fon p the superior court, fer the
crime ~ seduction. has been ,is,n ssej
TIE prosecution MSS convinced thai .he
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