Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-05-24
WARD TAKEN IN.

way, Wednesday afternoon, Wnen theIe
came light tap at the office door.
For some reason or other MT w ara
turned pale and moved uneasily in his
chair. The ran was repeated, and Mr..
Ward frightened about the arms OF MS
chair.
''Come in,'' he faltered.
The door opened and two stout, good
natured looking men entered the room.
eve are Deputy Sheriffs,' said the tall
er of the two, McGonigle, land nave
come"
eyes, 1 know" gasped Mr.. Ward, ito
arrest me. / know; take me along. IL
20 quietly. Don't make a disturbance"
The financier's voice faltered, and he
broke down completely and sobbed like
little child. 1t was just half-past four,
and the prisoner was hurried away TO
court. He was taken before Judge D0nO-
hoe and held in 100000 bail. The
''body" of Ferdinand Ward was then
delivered into the hands of Sher-
if Davidson, who sent Mr.. Ward, IN
the care of Deputy Sheriff Brown,
to the Metropolitan. Hotel, where Mr.. Ward
was shown an inviting bed and told that
he might retire as soon as he wished, that
Deputy Sheriff Brown would keep watch
during the night and see that no stray
mosquitoes troubled the fallen King. 1t
was after O'Clock when Mr.. Ward I'M
dressed himself and crept between the
disappointing sheets to sleep troubled
sleep.
s'Say, Fred, - said Deputy Sheriff Brown
as Mr.. Ward was creeping IN Ded, "Why
didn't you give bailY
'Bail! bailY' repeated Mr.. Ward, me-
chanically, "bail? what, 100000, $780,
600, why that's fortune, my dear boy-a
whole fortune. Why, my dear boy, even
if could give bail wouldn't, don't you
know"
''And why notY7 asked Brown. "Do
you want to live at the Sherif's eX-
pense?''
''No, but even if did give bail l would
only be arrested a second time and put IN
Jail"
The sheets Topped down, and Mr.. Ward
was nowhere to be seen. Soon mutfled
voice was heard:
HSay, Brown, will you keep good watch
and see nobody disturbs my sleepW
sob, yes" answered Brown as he fond
ly carressed the warrant.
Mr.. Ferdinand Ward was arrested on
the complaint of J. Nelson Tappan, the
City Chamberlain of the city Of New
York, who charged Ward with fraud.
The arrest and swearing to the COM
plant were carried on very quietly, and
but few of Wards personal friends knew
of his predicament.
Deputy Sheriff Brown, who has Gen.
Grants truly good partner in charge, was
seen last night by Journal reporter at
the hotel.
"HOw is your charger"
''Well, he's sleeping very quietly just
at present. said the Deputy with one
eve on Wards toes that stuck out from
beneath the sheets and one eye on the re-
porter.
"Did he give you any trouble?"
"Well, hardly" and the Deputy Sheriff
smiled as he glanced down at his own
broad proportions, and turning so that the
reporter should get the benefit of the blind
ing glare of the cart wheel diamond that
covered his shirt front. ''When / tapped
at the door l did so as gently as l could so
/ wouldn't brighten him, cause l know
he's an awful sensitive man. But by
thunder, when he caught sight of me, his
teeth fairly ratified. The room was so
quiet when l got inside you could hear
Wards heart thump like a blacksmith's
hammer. Jimmy how he shook, but he
was very quiet, and walked along very
quiet. We got to court, and when he
heard the amount of the bail he looked
faint-like. He had his every day clothes
on and didn't have the amount with him,
and of course l had to look after him"
The Sheriff looked cOmplacently at his
cOrk-sOled shoes and listened to Mr..
Wards heavy breathing.
''Did he have anything to sayW
''Well. yes; when we dropped him he
chucked up his hands in despair like and
said the iig's up only not in them words.
But when l got him here and braced him
up with ice water he got better-got over
his despair like and told me lots of stuff.
There's got to be lots of fellers go in with
me- he said, only in different words, but
meaning the same thing, and from what
he let drop guess you'll see lots of the
big bug bankers on the march to Ludlow
street between two deputies with their
coat-tails stuffed full of bonds. Listen to
him talking about borrowing ten cents for
his dinner. AT an early hour this morn
ing Ward was gently slumberlng.
WARDS BOOKS LAID BARE TO PUBLIC
GAZE AT LAST.
Mortgages have been recorded in Wash
ington against two houses owned by Gen.
Grant in favor of Mr.. William H. Wander
bilt, as security for $l50,000 that the Cen
eral obtained from Mr. Vanderbilt.
James d. Fish and Ferdinand Ward
appeared before the Oyer and Terminer
grand jury in response to a summons.
They were closeted with the jury some
time.
The Spicer case against Grant & Ward
was postponed till Friday. The exami-
nation of Wards accounts will proceed
to-day before Referee Cole.
The pages showing the general account
with participants exhibit the sums to be
paid from the 1st of April to the LIST of
August. The last payment was made on
the It'll instant. Each entry begins with
the date on which the money is due, then
comes the initials of the depOsitOr, then
the date on which the money was paid in ;
after that are memoranda referring to the
number of the contract and the amount
of profit is entered as m. or 20 m. as the
case might be, aud it is supposed that
''m." stands for thousand. The last
item in the line is the amount received
and therefore returnable as the principal.
These pages indicate that Mr.. j. Nelson
| Tappan drew out in April and the early
part of May $3.50, 900 principal and $135,000
profits, and that there is still due him the
tidy sum of $535, 900 principal and $36, 900
profits. A key is necessary to the deci-
phering of the remainder of the profits, as
marginal notes refer to matters known
only by Mr.. Ward, the gentleman in
charge of the key.
Ex-Mayor William Il. Grace appears
but twice on the books, and he is regis
tered as having been paid $4,000 for the
use of $780, 900 during the month of March,
and So, 900 for $50, 900 for the same transac-
ton in April. Principal and profits are
both marked ''paid."
Col. Fred. d. Grant had hard luck. He
is credited with four deposits, amounting
to $240, 900, on which $4S, 900 profits were
figured up. OF these sums he rescued but
$4,000 principal and $4,000 interest. The
firm went under few days before he
might have withdrawn $144,000.
Capt. Spicer was just getting interested
when the drop came. On $163, 900 he had
received $44, 800, besides his original in
vestment. But still on the books to his
credit stands the sums OF $2S7,50O and
$64, 800 principal and profits.
The Smith family sutfered-One of them
heavily. Mr.. j. r. Smith, according to
the best translation of the account, put
in $4,000 on March 10 and pulled out
500, 900 on April 10. EmbOldened, he de-
posted $50, 900 of this amount for another
chance at the lottery month later. He
got off very cheaply, his real loss amount
ing to $4,000. Mr.. w. w .ISmithwas not so
fortunate. He was paid $4,000 profits on
So, 900, but $13S, 900 of his money has gone
from his sight, with paper profits OF $685.
600.
w. S. Warner was the heaviest dealer
in contracts" with MIR. W ard. Toward
the last of the business his name disap-
peared plumply, thus saving himself
many hundreds of thousands. According
to the accounts he was paid $647, 250 in
terest on 1896, 900 capital, in several in
stances the profits being larger than the
capital. Still to his credit on the books
are 1855, 900 principal and $211, 900 interest
money.
At the bottom of the April page is the
disconnected entry: "April ii. II. w.
g. Henry Work gives me 80 m. for six
teen days-$1, $780, 900. April Nv. S. W,
30 IN. to April T."
1t appears that Mr.. W. S. Warner also
had private account with Mr.. Ward,
and this was kept apart. One entry is: