Patrick H. Ford

Patrick Ford was hanged in New Orleans on March 12, 1886, in a judicial execution, according to The Iola Register. The paper reported that Ford and a co-defendant had tried to take their own lives by swallowing belladonna, and that they were taken to the scaffold barely conscious. A brief item in The Frontier, published March 18, 1886, said he was executed at the city prison in New Orleans.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: the newspaper report of the New Orleans execution (reporters).

Sources (2)

• The Frontier, March 18, 1886, page 3 The Frontier, March 18, 1886
• The Iola Register, March 19, 1886, page 2 The Iola Register, March 19, 1886