New-York tribune., 1902-05-10
FORDS TO LIE SIDE BY SIDE
ONE SERVICE, ONE GRAVE, FOR MUIR
DERER AND BROTHER.
YOUNG WIDOW EXPECTED TO RECOVER
DIVORCED MOTHER CLAIMS SON
PAUL DIED BREATHING
FORGIVENESS

FORGIVENESS
There will be one private funeral service at II
a. m. to-day for Paul Leicester Ford the novel
lst' and Malcolm Webster Ford, the brother who
killed him and killed himself on Thursday. 1t
Will be held in the house No 81 East Seventy
seVenth-st. where the double crime was COM
mitted. The Rev. DR.. E NJ Stres rector Of ST.
Ihomass Church, will conduct the service and
Bishop Burgess. Of Long Island will be pres
ent. If possible. Immediately after the service
the bodies of the two brothers will be taken to
Irvington- n-the Hudson and buried side by
side in the Irvington Cemetery
Ihe announcement of the funeral arrange
ments was made yesterday by WOrthington c.
Ford, brother of the two dead men. who arrived
from Boston in the morning. He had a confer
ence early in the day at the home in Seventy
seventh-st. with the widow Of Paul Leicester
Ford her father. sister of the Fords and Ros-
well Skeel, a brOther-in-law. He said later
that the funeral would be entirely private at
tended only by relatives. When asked If the
family would issue any further statement as to
the trouble between Paul Leicester Ford and
Malcolm Webster Ford, he replied
Sufficient has been said already"
The rubrics of the Protestant Episcopal
Church do not permit its clergy TO conduct the
full funeral service in the case of a person who
commits suicide. DR.. StIres said last evening
Ihdl lHe service could be conducted for Paul
Leicester Ford. and in some part II could be ex-
tended 10 Malcolm w. Ford. There probably
Will be conference between Bishop Burgess
and Dr. Stires on the subject this morning. but
there will be only one service
The widow of Paul Leicester Ford was said
not to be in immediate danger yesterday. She
is soon to become a mother, and the shock she
endured on Thursday aroused grave fears for
her safety. E. H. Kidder and other members
of the family remained in the house with his
daughter all night, and Drs Baruch and Monroe
were constantly within call Although Mrs.
Ford rad slight relapse yesterday morning, it
was said that she had passed through the
worst dangers from shock, and was doing as
well as could be expected.
A friend of the family said yesterday that
Mrs. Ford had asked her husband not 10 meet
Malcolm if he called at the house again. be-
cause she had been troubled by a scene between
the brothers about a week ago. She was un-
aware of the presence OF Malcolm In the house
on Thursday until both the brothers were dead.
At their meeting in the house a week ago il
was said. Malcolm made emphatic demand
for financial assistance. and asked for a reason
why 1t could not he given. Paul Leicester Ford
then said that he had entered into an arrange
ment for building n summer home in the
try, and he would be short of money II he gave
any to his brother. Malcolm taunted him with
caring more for a summer home than for
brother In trouble. il was said and left the
house in a rage. 1t is believed that Malcolm
went TO the house Thursday with the de-
liberate purpose Of killing his brother and him
self
II was asserted yesterday that Malcolm w.
Ford recently made application for life in
surance and his application was rejected because
the examining physician for the insurance com
pany thought he detected n tendency toward
suicidal mania The morbid condition Of Fords
mind impressed the physician. II was said while
the physical condition OF the man seemed to be
perfect
Dr. Baruch. who was with Paul Leicester Ford
for several minutes previous to his death on
Thursday. said yesterday that the novelist died
breathing forgiveness for hts brother. He urged
that his brother be forgiven as he forgave him."
the physician said. II cannot repeat his exact
words. and would not quote him all, since I
cannot quote him correctly. but there was no
doubt about the warmth and earnestness of his
forgiveness"
Worthington c. Ford went at noon yesterday
10 the apartment at No. 207 West Fifty st,
where his brother Malcolm and little son had
been living recently. He found there Malcom's
divorced wife, who had gone TO the fat TO claim
her reading of her former husban nd's
death.
Mrs. Ford Janet Wilhelmina Graves
daughter Of the late Robert Graves of Brook
lyn. a manufacturer Of wall paper. She was
married in 1892 at her fathers summer home
in Irvington to Malcolm. Later the Fords went TO
live at Babylon. Long Island in a large and we'll
furnished house which they called My Fancy"
after one of Walt Whitmans poems. Their only
child, Malcolm w Ford. jr.. was born seven
years ago. Domestic trouble the nature Of which
was not disclosed. caused Mrs. Ford to leave
her husband and sue for divorce. which was
granted to her in 1898 by Judge Wimot NJ
Smith. Ford did not resist the suit but he re-
tained the custody of his Mrs Ford had
gone to the fiat in Fifty-sixth-st. several times
recently TO her son in the absence of the
boys father.
Now that his father is dead" she said yes
terday. my boy is mine. more than any one
else's. L shall take him. and care for him, for
he belongs to his mother"
When asked about the tragedy In Seventy
seventh-st, she said: "Mr. Ford must have been
insane 1t does seem that he was treated un-
justly by his family"
Worthngton c. Ford had a talk with Mrs
Ford. and took possession of his brothers effects
in the fiat Mrs. Ford said after he went away
that there had been arrangement for the
future support OF the boy. II shall take care of
him." she said. There is no arrangement with
the family. There never was any arrangement
between Malcolm Ford and his family. although
1 have wondered why there was none That is
the way in families sometimes"
Mrs. Ford said she might attend the funeral
the house in Seventy y-seventh-st. to-day.
The Rev. Robert Rogers the secretary of the
standing committee OF the diocese of Long ISL
and. who is an authority on church law and pro-
oedure, when seen at his home, No. 260 Putnam
ave. Brooklyn. by Tribune reporter yesterday
afternoon, said:
TT is true that the laws OF the church forbid
the use of the regular funeral service In cases
where person ia sane and deliberately commits
suicide. However. II we place charitable in
depreciation on this sad affair and hold that
Mr. Ford not I'm his right mind when he COM