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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1894-11-30, Page 6gr t VISS.,e1,0 VOSt'.. •-'-"48 RVAAienEP RVRBY FRIDAY M,'QRNINCT an'time for the early Mafia) at "The Peet" Steam Pub118hiug house. TT/men= ST., BRvegazs, ONa: Menge ois Svnsanrr'r ou.-•ono deuar and a half a your in advauee. The date towhleh very subscription is paid is denoted by the ate on the address label, AnymirnING BATES,—.The following rates. win bo charged to those wile °dyerise by the year:— el'AuE I 1, Yn, o mo, s. mo One 0olumu - 20000 600,00 820.00 Balt " 00,00 20,00 02,00 Afglt)r ' ,2,001 8,00 600 /light cents per lino for first insertion, and throe cents per line for each subsequent in. 0000lou. A11 odvertieomonte measured ns Nonpareil -12 lines to the inch. Business Cards, eight lines and under, 26 per annum. Advertisements without eprolfle dlreo, done, will be inserted until forbid, and. charged aueordingly. Instructions to change or disoontinue an advertisem ant must bo left at the counting room of Tin POUT notlater than Tuesday of with week, This is imperative. 37 V. fl. KERR, Editor and Proprietor. Clara Ford Arraigned. Confesses Sheeting Frank Westwood. The mulatto woman, Clara Ford, ar- rested Tuesday night of last week on suspicion 00 being the slayer of Frank Westwood, was arraigned in the police court, Toronto, on Wednesday morning. Asked what she pleaded she said, to the astonishment of all around her, "guilty," but immediately °banged it, as if she had made a slip, to one of not guilty. The ease was remanded for a week at the request of the Crown Attorney. A suit of male attire and a 88 -calibre revolver, with two chambers discharged, have been found at the house of Clara Ford, the young mulatto woman arrested an suspicion of being connected with the murder of Frank Westwood, at Parkdale, on the night of Oct. 6th Inst. The one thing looking in the mage of conjectures and facts that have been pub. fished in connection with the Westwood shooting ease since the arrest of Clara Ford four days ago was the absence of any motive that would appear to be suf. iloient to actuate the passionate and vin- dictive mulatto woman to commit the desperate crime with which she is charg- ed, and of which there appears now no room to doubt she is guilty. The police, of course, had at least a partial knowledge of the motive, but have cautiously kept their counsel. In the same way the con• fession which no doubt has been made to them has been kept from the public, with a view no doubt to giving the prisoner an opportunity to avail herself of the forms of the law in regard to her defence. Concerning the motive, it became known to the Globe last Friday in the course of investigation, and while, unfortunately, it does not reflect credit on the reputation of the youth whose life was so ruthlessly cut abort, it offers at least a more reason- able explanation of the crime than any of the theories or conjectures yet put for- ward. It even explains the silence of the youth on his deathbed, for, if he recog. nized the assailant and are is no doubt ubt he did so, he knew he could not divulge her name or direct suspicion to her with- out having made known his own lapse from the reapeotibility and decency ao- credited to him by his family and friends. It is possible, too, he felt that he owed an atonement to the woman whom he had insulted, and determined that whether or not his fault was to be expiated by death he at least would not be the means of bringing her to justice. More probably hie silence arose from a mixture of the two feelings. While, therefore, the fault of young Westwood was a terrible one, for which be paid a terrible penalty, it is impossible not to yield some admiration to the heroin constancy • with which he persisted in the silence in which alone lay a chance of safety for the mulatto woman. He diad with his secret, but the polioe, more alert than they appeared to be, had already an inkling of the truth, though time and patience and skill were needed to find a foundation for the sus- picions that were afloat. THE LATEST DEVELOPIIENT2. While endeavoring to chronicle every reliable fact in connection with the case as it became known, The Globe has avoided giving carrenoy to the many sen. sational theories and contradictory stories with which the publio has been mystified. When, the day after Clara Ford's arrest, persistent rumors were around that she had confessed to the whole affair and bad told the detectives not only the circum- stances of the actual deed but the reasons which prompted her to its commitment, The Globe recorded the rumors and, in view of the very proper refusal of the de- tective department to confirm them, de. alined to assert positively that euoh a confcesionhad been made, leaving the publio to draw their own conclusions up- on the report of what had been officially announced. Such a course, while it made known everything that could be counted upon as unquestionably reliable, was ab. solutely fair to the accused, and could not prejudice her cause further than the facts of the,oase, as they will be submit- ted by the Crown, would warrant. Further investigation, however, has pieced the Globe in possession of inform- ation which today justifies the equivo- cal etatement that the accused girl hag admitted to the Crown officers that she is guilty of the crime with which she stands charged. This information has been secured outside of any statement made by the Crown offioials, who have from the beginning considered it their duty to maintainextreme reticence as to the evidence in their possession. After the detectives secured the first hint which eventually led to Clara Ford's arrest they spent several days in tedious ,and apparently frutclaeo search to estab- lieh, first, her identity,' and afterwards. her whereabouts, The first they aeoured from Gee Clarke, who, ashas already been stated, knew her well, but be could. not tell them where to locate her. Next they learned of the existence . eomewhere in the city; of the child, Florence McNay', es she was called, and then the, bunt was regpmed. ' Whole• sections of, the city were eparohetdi", and in some inetaneeo house•to•bonee inquiry made, until on Tuesday afternoon they found her of lkfre, Pbyie'e, 232 Jame street, wj iete Jibe Ratti om 1gysd as n demotic', With. oat diooloping to the child their obPiet, the deteetiygs ascertained that Claro'wae working, at a tailor's obop en York Street, and then they °eked her if she knew Where ebe was 010 the night of Saturday, Oct. 6th, Florence replied that they were together at the Academy Of ikfuelO, This bhey hesitated to believe and closely croon•questloned her, until at length she broke down and admitted that she did not know where Olara was that night, but that she bad told her to say to any one who asked her that she was at the Apademy that evening. THE wiser. Everything was now ready for the arrest, and peteotivee Slemin and Por- ter, in whose charge the Case had beep throughout, visited Samuel Barnebt'a tailor store at 154 York street and found Clara working there. They told her who they were, and requested her to acaom• pony thein to police headquarters. She replied, "All right. I know what you want me for, but I can tell where. I was on that night," Before leaving with the officers she wanted to go up to her rooms for a minute, but this they would not consent to, and the result of the sub- sequent search of those rooms hi already known. At polioe headquarters Olara was questioned as to her movements on that fatal Saturday evening, and replied at once that she was at the Academy with Florence. This she stook to until told by Inspeotor Stark that Florence bad first said the same thing, but had afterwards admitted that she had been told to say so by Clara, and that they were not there at all. Then the wretoh- ed girl, seeing that mope was impos- sible, threw up the sponge and confessed to the whole affair, admitting that she it was who bad fired the fatalshot which mortally wounded Frank Westwood on his father's doorstep on the night of Saturday, Oot. 6th. THE 0OTIVE. The next and most natural question put by the inspector was why she did it, and her reply startled even the matter of. fact officers of the law, who are daily ac- oustomed to strange oonfessione. It was in .effect no less than a statement that young Westwood bad one evening in the early fall met her on the lake shore and attempted a oriminal assault upon her. Her masculine strength stood her in good stead and she threw him aside, but vowed she would make him pay dearly for his folly. She watched her oppor- tunity, and kept her word only to well. This is Clara Ford's own startling and hibberto.unsuepeoted statement of the motive which led to the deedof blood, and she has carried out her deed only too thoroughly. I6. HER 500100 TRUE? It should be borne in mind that the girls' story is entirely without corrobor- ation, and, of course, must remain ab- solutely without corroboration. There ie, however, little reason to doubt its truth. Its acceptance explaiue much that was before mysterious, though, of coarse, it does not provide sufficient motive for so awful a revenge. It is natural to suggest that Clara Ford could have sought redress by the ordinary process of the law, but to one who felt, as she is known to have done, that she had never had fair play in the battle of life, the outcome of an ap- peal to the courts, where only her word would have been against that of her as- sailant, might have appeared too proble. matieal. Oa the other band, to a woman of her violent and vindictive character, brooding oo er wrongsa and insults, fancied ed or real euoh an 000nrrance would quickly assume an aspect of momentous import, and she would easily satisfy herself that her contemplated revenge was justifiable. The whole terrible mystery, which now appears to be on the verge of being clear- ed up, is one of the saddest, and at the same• time most sensational, that ever figured in the police annals of Toronto. The shooting of a popular youth on the doorstep of his father's house, his linger• iog death, and absolute refusal to direct auspieion to any person, the complete dis- appearance of all trace of the assessin, the ill-natured gossip that arose in con. motion with the affair, the gradual dying down of interest on the apparent failure of the polioe to secure any clue, then the fresh sensation consequent on the arrest of the mulatto man -women; Olara Ford, and the discovery of the extraordinary career she had bad, and now finally her confession of guilt and statement of motive, all make the case one of the most extraordinary which the police have ever had to handle or the newepapere to re. cord. FIGS AND THISTLES. Faith always has a shining face. The bright side is not always the right side. Every man-made god has a heart of stone. Which are you having the devil's war or hie peace ? If you would feel right, believe right and do right. Love can be misundersto id, but never over estimated. Not to train up the boys properly is to help the barkeeper. It is well to hope for success bat much better to deserve it. In coveting another's possessions, we are apt to lose our own. When the devil goes out to deceive he puts on hie beet coat. The thing God has for ns to do is always pot within easy reach. Have nothing to do with the thing that bad men are in favor of, Olo man ie ,good who behaves lilmself simply because he has to. It does not take the last drink to make a drunkard,—but the first. Man bad to haveacommandment before God could give him a promiee. The thing most dangerous ie the one that does moat to make us selfish. The cords that lift us toward God some times pass through eoifm handles. Every doll,(ar that goes in to a Christian's pocket ought to have God'e name on it. If we do not rejoice in the Lord, the world will not believe that we know him. If you are not helping anybody, you are making it very bard for God to help you. God never gives its any more to do at one time than he knows weoan accomplish.. The man who drinks when he wants to, will some day have to drink when he don't want to. It is hard to convince the man who will ideal ,cbioket a that there ie any Knee in theology. The wordly prosperity of a wioked man is a chariot in which ha rides; to ruin all the'faeter. It le muco better to sniffer than to EYsry' thne Ws look et the dust under our het, au1ht t remember where Clod f0and us. Clod's cheep can live for awhile on hueke, but they will not take do any fat While doing it. The Anile hes promises on almost every page far the mail, why is willing Op gay good-bye to sin. The people most in danger of going to hell, are these who espeotto etart for heaven tomorrow, We have no right to expeot Clod to help us neat week, unless we are willing for him to help us now. Let sinners be,00nviaoed that there Is such a thing as Qbrietian love and they will be convinced of Bib. No man has a call from God to go to the heathen who has never lifted a hand fpr Christ in his awn house. FALL OF PORT ARTHUR, • The 701)0 Capture the Chinese Stronghold.: London Nov. 23: A deapatoh from Shanghai says that the Japanese captured Port Arthur on Wednesday evening. The .fighting began on Tuesday. The Chinese made an unusually strong de- fence, and the fight was severe and in- cessant for Dearly 86 hours. Both sides are reported to have loot heavily. ' AN IMPORTANT STRONGHOLD. Port Arthur is et the extremity of the Peninsula between the Gulf of Corea and the Gulf of Tuia Tong, and is al- most directly south of Chee Foo. It is the moat important naval arsenal in Northern China, and shortly after the opening of the war had more than 40 Krupp gays and a fete mortars. Ca the water side it was proteoted by submarine mines, and wore recently numerous torpedoes were laid from the torpedo station and the Chinese fleet, The last trustworthy reports as to the garrison was :that 20,000 Chinese troops, well armed and well drilled, and fully pro- visioned, occupied the defences. The majority of the 6,000 personswho lived in the town in times of peace moved away several weeks agn, Three English off,oere have said within the last month that the fall of Port Arthur would probably end the war. THE FIGHTING TERRIBLE. Ohee Foo, Nov. 28.—Port .Arthur has - fallen. The backbone of the Chinese reeietanee has given way, and the mount- ain passes that lie between' the great naval station and Pekin now shelter the scattered remnants of the Emperor's forces. Word has just reached here that Port Arthur fell after a battle that lasted eighteen hours. The reports of the fighting are very meagre, but it is believed that both sides suffered heavily. China's lose, it is said, esoeede that 'of Japan, for undisciplined as the Emperor's soldiers were, they fought with the des- peration of tigers. The attack on Port Arthur by Japan's second army, under Gen. Oyama, was so carefully planned that,rwhen fire was opened the Japanese troops assailed the city at every point. The fighting was terrible, and was only ended when the Chinese, unable to struggle any longer, withdrew in retreat to the mountain peens near by, leaving the city to the mercy of their foes. The fall of Port Arthur OLEARO THE WAY TO PE1IN FJ10 JAPAN. Whether or not that city will suffer a like fate meet depend upon whet motion China will take within a very few days. Already China has asked for pease on the terms of paying two hundred and fifty million Mete or 0175,000,000, for it. With Pekin in peril no one can estimate what figure Japan will place upon peace. The plans for the Japanese for an ad. vane upon Pekin have succeeded com- pletely. At Moukden an advance through the interior•wae so hazardous as to be almost impossible. The second army was sent to silence Port ArIbnr, and it has done so. With the great naval etaton in Japanese hands, with JAPAN'S VICTORIOUS -FLEET guarding the place on the waterside, Cbioa's fleet is powerless. Japan on the other hand, has a clear" road by land around the Leaotan Gulf, thence along the westerly shores of the Pe Chi Li Gulf to Ohi-Tien Teen. With the Japanese army in pursuit, the Chinese must make their last stand in the mountains that are in the path to Tien Tein. These passes may be held fora long time if the Chinese army can be rallied sufficiently to make a stand. It is not believed that China will continue the war any longer. Port Arthur is regarded by all European military and naval critics as the keystone of China's defence, and without it she will be at Japan's mercy. ORDERED TO PEKIN. A onrrespondent at Mankin gays Vice- roy Toheng Tehi Yung, of Hong -Ho Pro- vince, hasagain been ordered to proceed to Pekin. He will be succeeded by the Viceroy of the Shensi Province Chang Hsu. DEOAP1TATED DEAD. A despatch from dile Foo says that the Japanese bead found at Talien 'Wan had all been beheaded, Among the dead was one European, who, because of his decapitation could not be identified. That wenderfnl baby boy. The proud young mother has soma to pay a visit to her fiiend, accompanied by the infant heir and his nurse. "I don't want to appear in any way partial,"said she, but really for a child of sixteen months I consider Algernon a marvel of intelligence. He under- stands every word that is said and joins in the oonvereation with a sagacity that almost alarms me et times. Speak to the lady, Algernon." "Boo boo;" said Algernon. "Liston to that 1" oried the delighted mother. "He means, 'How do you do ?' Ian' it wonderful 2" "Now Algernon, ask the lady to play for us. 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