Arizona republican., 1907-10-18
FORD CONSPIRACY
 BEFORE U. $. COURT
The Jury Evidently Had Difficulty in Seeing From ti-, Santa Fe Point of View.

| The principal matter in United 4 States court yesterday was the case oi |, Lee ForG and Dolly Ford charging with conspiracy to violate the laws oi
 the United States or more particularly
 the Edmunds law. The woman was an
 inmate of a house of ill-fame and the
 man is cement contractor. It Was
 charged that they had agreed between
 themselves that she should pursue her
 calling and so add to the wealth which
 the husband was bling up. This action against them was rather new pro- cedure and it was understood that if it
 should be successful the government
 would proceed against other residents of the Redlight district with the object of breaking it up.
 It was not certain that the man and
 woman were husband and wife and consequently two indictments were
 found against each of them. one setting
 forth that they were married and the
 other. that they were not.
 The case of Ford was taken up first
 on the indictment in which it is alleg-
 ed that he is the husband of the wo- man. The sum of the evidence against
 him was that he was the husband of her, that her life was immoral and that
 he was cogniZant of it. One of the witnesses for the government rather
 relieved Ford of the charge against him. He was former Policeman Rieber who said that before the arrest of the woman she told him that she had gone into the house on heI own motion: that her husband was making a living Tor !, one for herself. She left the impress sion that the course she was taking did not have the full approval of her husband.
 In the course of the testimony for the government B. G. Pecka and J. Ii. Kinney managed to get before the court some interesting and instructive facts regarding the real estate business. Judge Baker for the defense objected as he could not see where all this was leading. Judge Kent admitted that he could not but he seemed to be inter ested in the movement Of real estate and the witnesses were permitted to tell of the deals which they were about to make with Ford who represented when he came here that he was going to beattify the town by building ce ment flats. He was armed with pie lures of similar flats which he said he had built in Albuquerque and other places. Ford had presented to the wit nesses that he would be a benefactor in more ways than one. The improve ments which he designed making would add to the value of all the property in the immediate vicinity.
 IT intended to show by this line of evil dence that the flaR which Ford was going to build were to be used for a purpose which would add nothing to the morals or financial value of sur rounding property.
 At the conclusion O: the case for the Judge Baker moved to | dismiss it on the ground that there | had been no showing with reference to ! the alleged conspiracy. Judge Baker was desirous of keeping the case out of the jury room for he probably reasoned 1 that however defective the case of the !, government had been the defendant | had been proven to be the sort of a 1, man whom the average jury would | convict on general principles. The | motion to direct a verdict of acquittal | was denied and the case proceeded. IL | was given to the jury at late hour | in the afternoon.
 Also at a late hour last night no | verdict had been reached.
 In the case of tiue government againt W. B. Lount the motion of the defense to instruct the jury to acquit on the f ground that the Peoples Ice and Fuel | company had been acquitted of par | with the defendant in the . with which he was charged. | was argued on the part of the govern ' nent. The motion was granted as the : court the day before had intimated in ! his remarks that it would be. This i. also resulted in the discon ! tinuance of any further proceedings !. against the ice and fuel company.
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