Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-25 | Page 3 | "Blackie" Ford Acquittal Ends Famous Case

f BLACKIE 11 FORD ACQUITTAL ENDS FAMOUS CASE MARYSVILLE Cal Jan 2 25 AP Richard mackle Ford 1 Is free today and a case that ha has been a a. live Issue Isue in crime annals for tor twelve years ears 1 Is closed His Ills fate tate W was s determined yesterday yesterday yester- yester day when sifter after deliberating for fo seventy seven hours a superior court jury return returned d a verdict of ot ac acquittal ac- ac for the murder of Deputy Shrift Sheriff Eugene Riordan during the hop field riots at Wheatland In 1913 1918 Twelve years eRrs ago Ford wa was convicted convicted con con- for tOl the murder of District Attorney E B T T. Manwell of or Yuba county He lIe was sentenced to life imprisonment but was paroled re recentlY recently recently re- re only to be I 1 and brought to trial on the second mur murder murder mur- mur der charge as a result of tf the riots The reading of the acquittal verdict verdict ver ver- dict diet yesterday esterday evoked such a demonstration demonstration dem dem- of ot e and hand haM clapping onions the courtroom spectators that spectators that two persons were or ordered or dered arrested b by Superior Judge Judg Busick for contempt of ot court Manwell Manwell Man Ian well and Riordan were killed kl when they rushed to the Durst brothers brothers' ranch at Wheatland to quell th the riots which followed an altercation between Ford and one of ot the Durst Durs brothers