The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-18
OWEN RELATES
THE DETAILS
OF F0RD'S MURDER
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five years in the state penitentiary had
failed TO do The man who had re-
belled against prison rules from the
! day he entered the penitentiary to the
| day he was released was able to smile
| into the face of the man whom. of ali
others in theaworid, ne hated most.
At one side of the court reom Nas
/ group of figures, clad in gblack. In
1 this group was Mrs. c. S. Ford, widow
of the murdered policeman; Mrs. Ed
win Butterfield and Miss Lulu Bell
Ford, his daughters. Mrs. Ford was
there only in the morning. When the
husbands bloOd-stained garments were
! brought into the court she grew faint
and sick with horror. She aid not have
1 the strength to return for the after
noon session of court. But her two
daughters were there until theA hour
/ of adjournment.
County Attorney Willard Hanson
and District Attorney Loofbourow
represented the state. Bailey & Wick
| cry appeared for the defense.
Opening Statement.
Mr.. Loofbourow made the opening
statement for the prosecution. in which
he said that the state intended to prove
| that Joe Sullivan, Joe Garcia, the
/ pCICH cllnpeTs ana JOHn owen l6II the
room of Tip" Belcher in the old Kim
ball residence in North Main street
short time before the shooting of the
policeman, and that an attempt was
made to rob the house of w. S. Nc
! Cornick, the banker, at North Main
and Center streets. Then the three
men walked to the Albany saloon, at
! Fifth West and Second South streets,
Sullivan and Garcia held up the
place. leaving Owen on the outside.
They secured SIS in the robbery. Leav-
ing the saloon after the crime, they en-
countered Policeman Ford and one of
the highwaymen shot the policeman,
causing death a few hours later. Mr..
LoOfbOurOw said that the state would
not try to prove which of the two men
fired the fatal bullet, but would expect
to secure conviction under the law
which holds each member of a con-
spiTacy to commit a crime responsible
for the acts of the others As Sullivan
was one of the fleeing Albany saloon
hold-up men, he said, he was guilty of
murder
Contention of Defense.s
Mr.. Vickery, for the defense. said
that he would prove that Sullivan had
no hand in the hOld-up. and was not
present when Policeman Ford was
mined to leave Salt Lake on the night
of Dec. 10. For this reason. he refused
TO drink with Garcia, saying that he
would need a clear head in beating his
way on the railroad. The three men,
! he said, walked westward in North
Temple street until they reached the
Oregon Short Line tracks. There Sulli-
van left his companions, tramping
northward as far as Woods Cross. The
other two men turned southwark and
made their way to the Albany saloon.
At Woods Cross, he said, Sullivan
caught a freight train TO Ogden and
then made his way ito San Francisco,
going afterward TO Portland, Ore.
where he was captured.
| Deputy County Surveyor John DSH.
! McAlliSter presented maps of the cor
ner of Fifth West and Second South
streets. and of the Albany saloon, to
be used during the trial.
Police Sergeant John A. Roberts told
of having found Policeman Ford in the
National saloon after the shooting. He
was still standing, but was rapidly
growing faint.
Policeman Coughs Story.
: Policeman w. H. Clough, who was
touring the Greek quarter at the time
of the shooting, testified that he was
: emerging from the National saloon
when he heard one of the highwaymen
order Ford to throw up his hands. The
: shot followed. He pursued the bandits
for some distance and then returned to
care for his wounded comrade.
Policeman Nicholas Gulbranson
brought in the garments worn by Ford
at the time of the shooting. 1t was al
the sight of the bIood-stained clothing
, that Mrs Ford became faint and was
helped to a window for air.
DR.. w. r. Calderwood, the county
physician. testified concerning the au-
tOpsy. which showed that Ford had
been killed by the highwayman's bull
let.
Chief of Police Pitt produced the bull
let which had killed Ford 1t hao
D passed through the policeman's body
and had fallen from his garments as
he was being undressed at st. Marks
hospital Edwin Butterfieid testified
that he had turned it over to the pc.
lice.
Story of the Hold-up.
; Walter Costello, a miner who lives al
{ the Albany hotel, again told the story
] of the Albany hotel bar hold-up. Hi.
story was substantially the same that
= he told al the preliminary examination
4 He was sitting in the saloon when The
t bandits entered. Both were masked
. with handkerchiefs tied over theil
g faces. Only the eyes could be seen
He said that the handkerchiefs seemed
to him to be dirty white ones. One OF
the robbers stood guard over the foul
e men in the saloon while the other went
behind the bar. Costello described how
the robber behind the bar had threat
ened to kill the bartender. Andrew j
Buckley, when he refused 10 open the
in Essp hoy in
for cashing railroad pay checks wa:
kept
Lawyer Vickery, in the ross-examina
ton, endeavored to obtain from the wit
ness some statement indicating that one
of the robbers was unable to use his righ
hand. This was for the purpose Of show
ing that Owen from whose right HAND
three fingers are missing. was one of tn,
hOld-up men. Costello said that the high
wayman behind the bar searched Bar
tender Buckley with his left hand bu