The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-04-30
WARDS LAST DAWN PRISON.
THE NAPOLEON OF EIyANCE WILL BE
SCI FREE 7C-DIH

THE NAPOLEON OF EISANCE WILL RE
SET FREE 7C-DAH.
To Start Life Anew with Almost Exactly
the same Amount OF Money with Shich
Tie Came Here Twelve Henrs AGO
Ferdinand Ward. the wrccker OF many for
tunes, who ruined Gen. Grant and helped Fish
in his work OF running the Marine Bank. the
NAPOLEON Of Finance" will be free to-day. His
cell door will rattle in front Of him for the last
timo Mt q o'clock this morning. lie will take
his place in limo with his follow conyicts md
will shuttle tho lockstep with them to the
river and then back to the big dining room.
Corn boef hash. the dish that he has break
tasted on daily for six years and Ave months,
will be rlaced before him. lie will dabble in
that, perhaps eat n little Of 1t. and perhaps
drink swallow of tho strong black coffee
Then he will go to the clothes room. where
the suit of clothes he wore tho day no entered
prison. and new suit made In the prison Of
cheap coarse material will DO placed before
him. He may take his choice. He WILL OF
course. don his own suit Then no will 10
searched for tho last time. and finally he will
60 to the property room. and the things that
he had with him when he came into the insti-
tuition will be returned to him. The principal
article is O pocketbook containing 5000 in cash.
lie will draw in addition to this SO 80. which
tho Prison Board hns decided he has earned
BY his ak and a half years of labor in prison
ana with this ho will 60 out into tho world to
begin life. 1t is coincidence that when Ward
came to New York twelve years ago to make
his fortune he possessed exactly S2lO. He may
count tho Inst twelve years of his life wasted.
Tho experience he gained in business Is cuun-
terbnlanced by tho Disgrace he has suffered.
mcnts. He starts life anew with Just no0ut
tho same OPPORTUNITIES and tho same chance
years aso save only this Tint lis Chance q"
finding another man to bnck him with his
name md cre'lit'as Grant lacked him. are
Wards last dry in jail was tho longest that
hS eyer snen He said hs a nr to
ashes, from O'clock III the morning until 5
days OF manual LABOR hc had ever spent in his
life. He had lived l!fc Of ease and luxury for
sort Of Inra wSrk NIT tb for
ence fthis forty-cGht hours thnt he thought
he would die. Then hS was sent to thn stow,
s%ovsns ashss Finally he ESs Tin n
there pE1Pns " tH%n nr Years H. 0s da
yesterday what. he has been doing daily Tor
three years ; he wa ,Srd nernans: buster than
time hung heavy. and when he was locked up
last night it was, probably not to sleep. lie did
his coming release. He, was up at daylight |
yesterday morning. and he had to sit in his |
should be "rened and no should have some
thing to help him pass away tho dragging |
. At G o'clock. when the huge lever that I'M
locks the cells in his tior was thrown back. he |
was the first man to step out with his cell
his fellow convicts 7" take their places in the
limo for the morning ockstsp at break fast |
made him thirty pounds heavier during his |
iimpris9nmens seemed to pail Oh him in tho |
face r, OF his fast,apptonchln release
two weeks. The last was his sister. ii" has
brother. too. but he has not called to See him
steps out Of prison this morning Where hc |
will go ard what lie. will do he has decided on.
but he thinks it hest 70 keep his plans to him |
self. He has declined to - interviewed. and |
oxcer his ss,s s nce tns 18Th
Then he was seen byn sun rerortcr.
II" was asked if it was true that he had n
OF the firm OF Grant Il Ward. Ito said it was
moi, true. Re was asked wrnt his plans we're
fears that the United States authorities will
enheavor to have him punished on some OF
s 1t nsy NIT aS as S ito
said it has been a source y worry to him., He
may GO today to Conhocticnt to Sc his little
Gou Sw ,h nsF New Y%rk % t s6n es y FIX
month. Ward is n som ewhat different -lnokin,
man to-day from what he. was On the day he
entered state prison. His eyes ara sunkcn
and they have lost scmo Of their brightness
\ good deal Of his n"rvons manner is gone"
His checks that were pale arc now sallow
was his face has Something Of n pnrhed look.
He was '!:i when he went to Jail. II" is -, now
He will leave prison with the good wishes of
all tho employees thcre. In his six years he
has not had II mark against him and he has
MAYER even been roprimnnled. He has kept
Ills own counsel and has made no friends
among the prisoners. Eastwood. his assist
ant. can come nearest clnimin. his friendship