James Ross Daley
Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 1 October 1946, page 1
Ambrose Leopold, a disabled war veteran, 823 Fourth avenue, Dayton, told of having been with James Daley, 35, 178 Eden avenue, Bellevue, a war veteran, as an eye witness to the fatal beating of James Daley. On the night of his death, they purchased two bottles of beer; sat on the porch at 320 Third avvenue where Daley was found later severely beaten and that they both fell asleep.
Leopold was awakened by a noise and saw two men and a woman beating Daley. He told them to stop and they threatened to "give you some too". The trio left and Leopold went home. Chief Moran believes the revenge as the motive for the beating. Daley could have been beaten for a fight he had previously been in. There is nothing to support a robbery motive.
The victim is reported to have been with a brother, Thomas Daley, also of the Eden avenue address, until about 11 pm. Patrolmen Al Ruebusch and Barney Kemmerling ordered the brother to go home after they had received a complaint he had created a disturbance at the home of his estranged wife at Third avenue and Boone street.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 2 October 1946, page 1
John Moran, Dayton police chief, said Wednesday he expects a break soon which will lead to the arrest of persons involved in the brutal slaying of a Bellevue war veteran on Third avenue, Dayton, Sunday. Two Dayton men were added to the list of persons questioned in the slaying of James Daley. Herbert Ford told Chief Moran he had been in a fight Saturday night with a trio of men which included James Daley, his brother, Thomas Daley and Charles Van Hoose, who lives in a river camp near Tacoma Park.
He said he met the other three men on Third avenue and they asked him to give them a quarter toward the purchase of beer. Although he agreed to chip in, the men, suddenly attacked him. He said both James and Van Hoose struck at him but he was not able to determine which one fell him. He suffered fractures of several ribs. Ford swore to a warrant charging assault and battery against Van Hoose.
Leopold, a disabled war veteran, who suffered eye injuries in the Italian campaign, said he did not recognize any of the trio which beat Daley.
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 5 October 1946, page 1
The first death here (Dayton) by violence this week occurred Sunday when James Daley, 35 year old war veteran, of Bellevue, was brutally beaten in Dayton. For that crime Herbert Ford, 46, of Dayton has been charged with murder, while his son, James H Ford, is being held as an accomplice.
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Kentucky Post, Friday, 8 November 1946, page 1
The home of Herbert Ford, 45, named as the alleged slayer of James Daley, was being searched Friday for a claw hammer which is believed to have been used in the brutal beating of the victim.
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 9 November 1946, page 1
Two hammers found in the home of Herbert Ford, who is named as the alleged slayer of James Daley, were to be checked Saturday by Frank Ball, Newport city chemist for possible bloodstains. The hammers were found after police searched the home. Ford and his son, James, 25, are held on murcher charges and are to be tried Nov 20. The son named his father as the actual slayer.
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Kentucky Post, Monday, 27 January 1947, page 1
[Clarence] Ford is the son of Herbert Ford, 45, who was given a 15 years prison term for the murder of James Daley, Bellevue war veteran.