Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-01-18
RUMOR SAYS FORD,
ARMY CAPTAIN, HAD
THIRD WIFE HERE

New developments Saturday in the
case against Carl Ford, former army
captain, confined in the Fulton coun-
ty Tower on charge of bigamy,
while two women claim him as their
husbands, were:
1. A rumor that he had a third
wife with whom he is said to have
lived while at Camp Gordon. >"'
2. Indications of further prosecu-
States government under the Mann
white slave law.
5. An exclusive statement from
Mrs. Catherine Lawther Mangham
Ford, the Englishwoman who says
she still loves Carl and wants him
to come back to her."
4. A statement from Ford in his
cell in the Tower. in which he re-
iterates his declaration that he did
not marry the Englishwoman, and
ridicules her story Of their life in
Atlanta, which he says Is utterly
false.
The rumor that Ford had still an
other wife with whom he lived at
Camp Gordon last summer, was de-
veloped by the police late Saturday
afternoon. Detectives Jones and
Whatley were put to work on the
case, but at a late hour Saturday
night had not been able to get any
definite information that wife num-
Der three actually existed.
The agents of the department of
justice were preparing Saturday
n11f ant ,cf
Ford. charging him with white slav-
cry, which may mean that he will
have to face a federal jury.
Ford was arrested Friday after
noon at his apartments, 293 West
Peachtree street, where he had been
December he married Miss Carrie
Sutton, of Tampa, Fla, according to
his own statement and that Of Mrs.
Carrie Sutton Ford, while the au-
thorities charge that at the time of
his marriage in Tampa he already had
rine Lawther Mangham Ford, of Lon
don, England. Both ladies are in At
lanta.
European Charges
1t is claimed that Ford. while
in the Quartermaster's corps
and attached to the hospital supply
brigaded with the Brit
Mrs. Catherine Lawther Mangham,
who was at that time a member of
q women's service unit stationed at
Rouen and detailed for duty as
automobile chauffeurs. It is further
charged that at the close of the war
don, later bringing her and her
daughter by previous marriage. to
the United States.
Stationed first in Washington, D
c., and later at Camp Gordon, Cap
tain Ford is said to have brought
R fsD5adas road ae This foO was e. early
last year, according to the au-
thorities investigating the case. In
June of last year he met Miss Carrie
Sutton, of Tampa, Fla, who was do
ing Red Cross work here at the time.
cording to Ford's own statement.
They settled down in an apartment
at 293 West Peachtree and after
Ford's discharge from the army and
the severance of his official connec-
ton with Camp Gordon, they We're
G., when on Friday afternoon Detec-
tives Jones and Holley appeared at
the apartment with a warrant charg-
ing Ford with bigamy and placed him
under arrest.
EnguEn Wne'S SGOTy
In an exclusive statement given
to a Journal reporter Saturday aft
ernoon, Mrs Catherine Lawther
Mangham Ford recited her own story
of her life with Ford. from the time
she married him in August, 1919, in
London, England, UP to Friday aft
ernoon, when he was arrested on the
bigamy charge.
Mrs. Ford declared in the outset
that she did not instigate proceed
ings against Ford, but that she still
loved him, and after he had suffered
whatever punishment might be i'm
posed upon him. she wanted him to
come back to her and they would
scratch out the past and begin
anew"
Mrs. Ford is an Englishwoman.
Her gentle breeding manifests itself
as she talks. She would not dis
close the name of her parents, nor.
would she discuss her life in England
except the time she knew Ford. She
said she married Ford because she
loved him, that she loved him even
now, and that she hoped all this
"muddle" would straighten itself out
as soon as possible SO that they
might live together again and enjoy
happiness.
Mrs. Ford has decided English &C
cent. She Is rather small, with
wavy, dark hair. 1t is bobbed, which,
she explained, was made necessary
by her war work. She has large
gray eyes, a fair complexion and