The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1902-05-09
Tragic Deaths of Paul Lei
ceSter and MalColmFo
QUARREL ENDS WITH GRAVE
Family CT the Author to Take Care OF
Son Of Disinhe-ited FIatEicide-Botb
VIII Be Buried Saturday-Mrs, Ford
Improving.

NEW YORK. May 9-Tbe bodies of Nal
colin ". and Paul Leicester Ford, both
well known to the worId-one as athlete,
the other as auth5r-are lying side by side
in room in the mansion, 81 East Sew
enty-seventh Street, where the tragedy &C
Cured The brothers viii be buried TO-
gether Saturday. The fve-year-old sen Of
the fratricide. Malcolm Ford. IT,. will be
cared for by the Ford family.
This course was decided upon at a fam
lily council last night. The sorrowing fam
lily issued a statement in which they de-
clared it their belief that Malcolm y.
Ford killed his brother during a period
Of temporary insanity. and then took his
own life.
Malcolm Was Depressed.
The statement is also made that Msl-
coins affairs recently had been oppress-
ing him, and that he had repeatedly asked
ahd received material assistance from his
brother.
p There is no doubt that financial matters
led to the tragedy. The trouble traces
back to the viii made by their father,
Gordon L. Ford. In it he disinherited NAL
colin, dividing his estate. aggregating sew
eral millions Of dollars, among his six
other children. MalcoIm's foRdness for
athletics was generally supposed to he the
cause Malcolm sued fer one-seventh Of
the estate and lost He has since sup
ported himself and his son by writing en-
sporting topics for the newspapers Re
Gently he has been employed as the editor
Of monthly magazine devoted to the in
teTest Of the automobile
Lived With His Son.
Malcolm Ford lived, with his son. in an
apartment at 207 West Fifty-seventh
Street. He had a good reputation there
He vas quiet in his habits, and generally
spent his evenings with his little boy. He
kissed his boy good-by at the elevator at
s:SV o cioek yesterday morning, and went
directly to his brothers fine home The
murder and suicide occurred in q little
over half an hour after his departure from
home
The revolver with which he committed
the murder and suicide had been IL his
possession for many years He was an
expert shot with the revolver This was
attested by the fact that he fred only one
shot at mis- brother Paul. striking him in
the LETT breast, uesr the heart The bull
let that ended his own life entered his
body in the same place
4datcoiIln w Ford was thirty-nine
years old, staiwart and fine looking, the
very antithesis OF his brother Paul, who
was fraii. short of stature and a bunch
back Malcolm for years was one CT the
foremost athletes Of the country II IS
said that Paul much admired the physical
prowess of his brother, and gave to some
OF the characters in his novels some Of
the traits OF his brother. whom he loved
Paul Worker.
~ Cripple, as he was, Paul was an amaz-
ing worker He wrote in his thirty-seven
busy years nearly leo novels il all. These
were mostly historical. and some were
only pamphlets, but they represented a
tremendous amount Of research and physi-
cal labor for the little hunehback.
His best known books are Janice
Meredith, The Hon. Peter Stirling
and The Story OF an Untold Love"
Mrs Paul Leicester Ford was III in bed
IN the house when the tragedy occurred
She is very near to motherhood. The
shock Of her husbands death placed her
IN q critical condition for hours yester-
day. but this morning the doctors report
her as better and heroically bearing up
under the blow which deprived her Of her
distinguished husband.