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WAS EfFEIKEfor! ROBERT FORD, ALIAS XOAH AR-lce ide | OLD, SEAR TICTIM OF SECK-nd ,' TIE PARTY.oleFIRED SHOT THAT KILLED CRISPState That Companion In Crime Is “Sure a Bad Signer'—Was Slate to Donnelly.( onnty Attorney Alien P. Asher n111 chame Robert Ford, alias Noah IrnoM, and Mike Donnelly, nigroo, Tilth first decree morder of M. A. Crisp of Hope just as as the necessary papers can be 'ra'.m, It was stated by the prosecuting attorney this morning.Fu'd Is said to bare made a confession to the tact that li was he who fired the shot that ended Crisp's life. The confession was brought about by third degree action taken when Ford was out in the hills for the purpose of showing where he hud concealed his revolver and where the shack was located that he and Donnell had resided tn for some time pas;Ford was strung up just long enough to bring about the desired results after which he was cut down” and taken back to the sheriffs office.Donnelly is sure a had nigggj.' he remarked the day before he was taken to Coeur d'Alene I was practically his slave as he made me do anything that he wanted to.Ford made his confession after beRobert Ford, t o.iessed Murdereri Ka(l * een -uken *o the Saan'er ran h. • three mi • s r.«-f.. Kootenai, on the Selle road wne-e V was given thethird deg’-r- • bout v men who j took h '• * eriff placed a1 noose sbe i* »-is rlt;*-k and suspended j him from a ; o e .or a few seconds. I It had the desired effect.' Inst T ur«lt;i-y accordlne to Ford, j when he ini Donnelly were fired up-' on i ('has Tlgeeioeck on lightning I creek, they sprang into the Beard-| more logcine fin e In which the wa ter r ins a oiit ” dies an honr, and | floated four miles down the mountain lt;raw:ing out when they thought •he-e was n • danger of farther pursuitH. T Hols, special agent for the Great Northern, today said that he and not Conductor L. A Bruckhanser. Spokane, captured Ford He alleges that he had been riding on freight trains In the district several days seeking the bandits, and that at Priest River he heard that a suspicions negro was on Brnckhanser's train. He says that when the train reached Priest River he boarded it, arrested Ford and turned him over to Deputy Sheriff N. E. Pollock at Newport. Wash.Ford Implicated Mike Donnelly, alleged participant in the slaying of Crisp, and another negro, whose name he said he did not know, tn the Plains(Continued on page 4'
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Sandpoint Pend Oreille Review
Sandpoint, Idaho, US
Thu, Aug 02, 1923
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