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Show TWO NECKTIE PARTIES. Murderers Hanged in New Orleans While Under, the Influence of a Dose of Belladona. The Missouri Pacific Turns Ont One Freight Train To-Day Three Strikers Arrested. Senator Vest Slakes a Correction as to What Garland Told Him. . Trying te Cheat the Haneman. New Orleans, Maroh 12. At 7:30 a. m. to-day, when the keepers went to call . Ford and Murphy, who were to be hanged to-day for the murder of Captain Murphy, committed com-mitted December 1, 1884, he could not rouse them. Physicians were hastily called, and pronounced thmen -under the influence of belladonna. Every effort was made to restore re-store them to consciousness. At . 10 o'clock Murphy had rallied a little, but Ford was still unconscious. The crime for which Ford and Murphy are to be hanged is without a parallel in history. The high position of the accused and those associated with them, the boldness bold-ness and audacity of the crime itself , and the social, political and financial influences brought to bear to retard and divert justice, made the trial a duel betweee the State and the defendants. The central figure in the tragedy was Judge Thomas I. Ford, late Recorder Re-corder of the City of New Orleans, and now serving twenty years in the penitentiary for the part he played in the murder. Ford, the condemned man, is a brother of the judge, and Murphy was an officer of Judge Ford's court. The trial showed that Judge Ford, his brother and five officers of his court were implicated in the murder. Baton Rouge, Maroh 12. The Governor this morning received a telegram from Sheriff Butler, of Orleans Parish, saying that Ford and Murphy attempted to suicide this morning by swallowing-poison. They are in a stupor and in a comatose condition. The doctors believe the attempt a failure, but cannot say how long it will take to restore them to consciousness. Should they not revive before the hour fixed, shall I exeoute the warrants notwithstanding." The- Governor replied: "Yes, go on with the executions. Carry out the warrants." New Obleanb, March 12. Ford and Murphy Mur-phy were hanged here to-day at 12:51. |