Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1913 — FORD PLEADED GUILTY; GETS 2 TO 14 YEARS [ARTICLE]

FORD PLEADED GUILTY; GETS 2 TO 14 YEARS

Said He Had Felt Like a Hunted Animal and Was Glad That He <+ Had Been Caught. Lewis Ford, who with “Simp” Heath, an accomplice, assaulted and* robbed Homer Babb, at' the time a bachelor farmer living near Remington, several months ago, was arrested at Winamac last Friday on authority telephoned to Winamac officers by Sheriff Hoover. He was brought here Saturday morning and shortly after dinner when arraigned before Judge Hanley pleaded guilty and was sentenced to the state reformatory at Jeffersonville for a term of 2 to 14 years; the same sentence given, Heath, who was captured and confessed several months ago. Ford indicated that he would sooner be in the prison than to be outside arid to know that no matter where he went he was being hunted. He said that day and night he thought constantly of his deed and expected to find himself confronted with an officer. He expressed no remorse at his crime, saying that he supposed if they had not been able to rob Babb by knocking him unconscious they would have killed him in order to carry out their design of robbery. Sheriff Hoover and Deputy Grant went to Jeffersonville Sunday with Ford, which is about the quickest capture, conviction and incarceration recalled in Jasper county. Ford had been working on the section at Winamac and Sheriff Hoover received a tip last week that he was there and lost no time having him placed under arrest.