The New York herald., 1922-06-03
WARD TO Be FACED
BY CUNNINGHAM IN
MURDER STORY TEST
Search in Stamford Fails to
COrrOborate Tale of
New Witness.
RED HERRING THEORY
Detective O'Farrell Thinks
Yarn Is Told to Divert
Inquiry.
ONE ROGERS is FOUND
Not Identified as the One
Sought, and wounded Man
Stays Missing.
ONE ROGERS is FOUND

thus far to support any Of the vary
ing stories Of the imprisoned witness.
James J. Cunningham, as to the shoot
ing Of Clarence Peters and Bill, or ice,
jackson by Walter s. Ward.
Werner and two assistants, aided by
the police of Stamford, spent several
hours in the Connecticut city looking
for the wounded Jackson, who, if Cum
ningham is tc be believed, was taken
to hospital or a physicians home in
Stamford early in. the morning OF
May 16, and for Charles Rogers, the
chauffeur who drove the car.
search of Hospitals.
Search Of hospitals and inquiry OF
physicians not only Of Stamford but
Of other towns disclosed no patient
who could be Jackson. A Charles
Rogers was found, and he formerly
owned Hudson Super-six, the kind OF
car in which Cunningham says he and
the Rogers OF his story hustled the
unconscious Jackson across the State
line after the shooting. which. Cum
ningham intimated, took place in the
Ward home in New Rochelle.
Private detectives who talked to Cum
ningham in White Plains jail yesterday
were unable to get any new admissions.
II was their opinion after the talk that
he is faker desperately in need OF
money. He admitted he was down and
out. The detectives say he refused 10
answer many of their questions. but
admitted that everything in the affida-
Wits he made was hearsay evidence
and that before he signed them he had
the words 'hearsay evidence" written
on them. rl.5
Detectives are now loking for wom-
an Cunningham was known to travel
with. He was in her company fire.
qlently at Saratoga last summer. Sne
Is small end very dark and is said ~
he the wife of a Hoboken man who Is
now serving term in the Federal
prison at Atlanta. Ca. for bank
swindle.
Tn, Stamford Rogers protested tina.
although he did know man OF the
name of Cunningham In New York II
was not the Jim Cunningham now in
the White Plains Jail and that he he'd
never carried any Bill or Joe Jackson
anywhere, sound or injured. AS the
Stamford Rogers did not match In any
way excspt age the description given by
Cunningham. the Sheriff. after due
meditation. came to the conclusion that
they had not got hold Of the man they
wanted. Questioning of Louis Nathalie.
a Stamford taxi man who has Hudson
Super-six. was equally unproductive.
The sheriff sums Up.
Last night Sheriff Werner. at his
home in Rye. gave this summary of his
labors:
"Cunningham, the man who was
turned over to us in the McAlpin Hotel
in New York last night and whom W.
placed in the Westchester county jail
as a material witness. gave us the in
formation that Jackson. supposed to be
the missing Charley Ross Of the War.l
story. was in Stamford, probably in a
sanitarium or q physicians house. This
morning we-Deputy Sheriff Fred Rus
coe. Raymond Hill, finger print expert,
and myself-went to Stamford and in
tsrviewed the taxicab drivers and phy-
sicians. ] saw young man of the
name OF Charles Rogers. lie did not
tally with the description given US by
Cunningham. lie said he knew a man
named Cunningham In New York but
in the jail at White Plains. feel prac-
tically sure that he Is not the Rogers
we were searching for"
The Stamford chief OF police, John b
Brennan, and several detectives helped
the scouting party from White Plains
Virtually every man In the city who
drives public automobile vas interro-
gated. In their scrutiny OF physicians
offices they were guided by tip from
Cunningham that the office into which
Jackson was carried had a notary pub.
lies sign near the door. The only ply.
sician In Stamford who in any way fits
this description Is DIR. Daniel A. Hanrn.
han. a brother Of John T Hanrahan
former town treasurer. He said that he
had never treated such a patient and
knew nothing about him. Last nigh,
John T. Hanrahan complai-ed that he
and his family had been harassed by a
reporter for the New York American
which newspaper found James j. Gun.
ningham and turned him over to the
Westchester authorities on Thursday
night.
Didn't Take Amdavit.
THE representative Of the American ?
John T. Hanrahan said, insisted that
Cunningham had said In a sworn state.
ment that the man shot by Walter s
Ward nt the same time Peters was sho;
had been brought to my house here and
had been treated by my brother Hs
said that ], as a notary public. took the
affidavit Of the so-called Joe Jackson
who was supposed to be In a dying con.
dition. ! told him that took no such
affidavit and knew nothing q any such
happening
Certainly no such man was brought
to my house. and certainly my brother
Or. Hanrahan. never treated such a
man. The story is an invention. but
strangely enough. Cunningham appar.
emily told the man from the America,
Just how to get TO my house. He wal
here for several hours last night and
again to-day. II he or any one else