Show FORMED ER CONVICT GIVEN Gi FREEDOM Ford FOll HopField Acquitted 4 of Hop Field Riot Piot Killings 13 Years Ago MARYSVILLE Cal Jan 23 2 23 CD- CD By Th The Associated Rich Press Press Rich Richard ard Blackie Ford Is free rree today oi 1 and a case that has bas been a live IIvo Issue Isue In California crime annals for I 12 years rears Is closed His fate fato was determined yester yester- yesterday yesterday day when after afler deliberating for jj 77 hours a superior court Jury returned a or of o acquittal for forthe forline the line murder of ot Deputy Sheriff Eu- Eu Eugene Eu Eugene gene Itene Riordan during the hop bop field riots at Wheatland in 1913 Twelve years ago Ford was con con- convicted convicted for tor the he murder of o District Attorney E R T Manwell Mann of Yuba Tuba county count He He lie was sentenced to life imprisonment but bill was paroled recently re- re re recently only to be rearrested and brought to 10 trial on the second murder charge as a result of ot th the riots The reading rending o ot of the acquittal ver nr verdict dIet dict yesterday evoked e such II a of o cheering and hand clapping among the court court- courtroom courtroom room spectators that two persons were vere ordered arrested by SuperIor Judge Busick for contempt or of court Manwell and md Riordan were killed when hen they rushed to the Durst brothers ranch at Wheat Wheat- Wheatland Wheatland Wheat land land to quell the riots which fol- fol followed fol followed lowed an altercation between Ford and one ot or the Durst broth broth- ers ems |