MAGGIE FORD
March 23, 1901
Arizona Republican Newspaper

Word has been received here, says the Prescott Journal-Miner 
that Maggie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Ford, was
cruelly murdered at Washington D.C. last week by 
her husband.  She was married some time since to a 
man several years her senior in age.  After their 
marriage the husband proved to be a hard drinker 
and abused his wife until she was no longer able to 
endure it and she separated from him and the couple 
have been living apart for some time.  As a result 
of their marriage, they had a child, which is now 
about eight months old, and it was while the wife 
and mother was preparing it for bed that the drunken 
husband and father sneaked into the house and coming 
up behind her cut her throat with a razor before she 
had any warning of his presence, death resulting in 
a few minutes.  After committing the bloody deed, 
the man walked about four blocks and then committed 
suicide by cutting his own throat.

The murdered woman was born and raised in Prescott and 
was an estimable woman.  A brother and sister still 
reside here.  Their parents moved to Washington a 
few years ago and this daughter afterward went there 
to reside with them.  She was married a couple of years ago.