Deaths in Custody
Died in prison

S. Ford

died February 17, 1925 · Sing Sing prison

S. Ford, who was held in the death house at Sing Sing prison, left a will asking that money from his commissary deposit pay for a chicken dinner for the men held with him there, and the prison commissary chief said he would carry out the request. S. Ford hanged himself in the death house on February 17, 1925, and The Montgomery Advertiser reported the death as a suicide. The paper's account is the only source for these details.

Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide. The report says he hanged himself in the Sing Sing death house the night before it was published.

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