Evening Star Newspaper, February 18, 1925, Page 11

CONDENNED EN HERSOF SLAYER Man Who Hanged Self to Avoid Execution Leaves Cell Mates His Money. ., N. Y. February 18— he letters left by Willlam 8. , who hanged himself in the death house at Sing Sing prisen to forestall electrocution as an incen- diary and murderer of six persons, s found today Ford’s will. essed to the cisief of the prison ry, it disposed, in a single of the earthly possessions af the real estate man who for spite burned a house and caused the death of his father-in-law and five other Dersons. “Kindly give to the condemned men a chicken dinner with potatoes, fruit, Irish tea, sugar and milk, to the amount of eight dollars (38), which 1 kave on deposit at the com- missary,” read the will Jt really was a note, but it as- sumed the importance of a document in view of Ford's fate, and the head of the prison commissary said he would comply with its provisions. There are 13 doomed men In the death ¥ Ford hanged himself from the top bar of his cell in three or four min- utes while his keeper was removing Lis supper utensils. WIFE SLOWLY DYING. Malady That Defies Doctors Claim- ing Wife of Ford. By the Associated Press. 3 YORK, February 18.—Un- that her husbund, Willlam S. Ford of Brooklyn, hanged himself in 8ing Sing prison while awaiting elec- trocution for murder and arson, his wife, Edna, is reported to be dying of a wasting malady that defied dlag- nosis. Penniless and without ear rela- tives—her father was a victim of Ford's incendiarism—she is at & home which friends have provided. She had not been told of her hus- band’s death; nor have her friends b letters fovnd beneath after he was found his cell by a bedshect, was one addressed to his wife. But she has not learned of that, either, McKELLAR SAYS BRITISH NAVY HAS EDGE ON U. S. Senator Scores Action in Yielding to London Protest Against Gun Elevation. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, February 18—The ac- tlon of the Government in ylelding to the British protest against the ele- vation of naval guns has left the Tnited States “vastly faferfor” to England's, Senator Kenneth Mc- Kellar of Tennessee said in an ad- dress here last night. The limitation of arms agreement, he said, did not make the United States and British navies equal, as was generally supposed. Britain not . has more tonnage, he asserted, but r capital ships are faster than those of the United States can shoot two miles far- ther. proposed elevation of naval suns ould - have given the United States ships the same firing range a8 those of England, sald the Senator. He opposed the cancellation of any international debts, but belleved Wrance should be given the same liberal terms af England. Senator McKellar spoke at a “good will” dinner to Joseph Johnson, Man- hattan commissioner of public Works. i 8 Railway Workers Slain. ociated Press. , Manchuria, February 18.— Bandits ked a railway men's barracks near Bushedoo, 160 miles killing and wounding A relief train has to the scene., De- : oty rus el AAARAAARK) RO RED DEPUTY IS SLAIN IN BULGARIAN CAPITAL Police Official Also Killed as Gov- ernment Strife With Com- munists Warms Up. Ey the Assoclated Proes. SOFIA, February 18.—The strife be- tween the Bulgarian government and the Communists is growing in in- tensity. Todor Strashinimoff, a Communist Deputy, was shot and killed yester- day in’front of the principal hotel. His assassins, firing on their pursuers, wounded an officer. . At Phillippopolis the secretary of the police department was killed and the chief of police wounded in an ambush set by the Communists. Communist emigres numbering 20 came over the Serbian border mear Vidin and raided a village. They were, however, repulsed and one was killed. A bloc of parties had indorsed the government's campaign to main- tain order. —_— PADEREWSKI TO SPEAK. Noted Pole to Address Detroit As- semblage on “Naturalization.” DETROIT, February 18.—Ignace Paderewskl, Pollsh pianist and fore mer premier, will be among the speak- ere of a congress of American citizens of Polish descent held here April 1 to 23. Naturalization will be the leading discussion topfc. Among the other speakers will be Andrew Cizltak, Archbishop of Po- land, and Ambassador Wroblewski, Poland’s representative at Washing- ton. SIX HURT IN STRIKE RIOT. 30,000 Japanese Quit Work in 18 Cotton Mills. By the Associated Press. SHANGHAIL February 18.—The Japanese cotton mill strike has mpread to 13 mills, involving 30,000 operatives. The strikers attacked the mills on Monday, damaged the ma- chinery and injured six people. The trouble is sald to be partly due to Chinese bolshevik astivities. 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