New-York tribune., 1922-05-29
Says W oman
Offered Bribe
To Kill w ard
Continued from pago onel

duce" Charley Ross within few
hours" Mr.. Fallon did not produce
him yesterday, but Mr.. Weeks said he
had every confidence in Mr.. FalIon, who
tor two years was an assistant under
him in the Westchestcr District Attor-
ney's office.
The Val O'Farre1l Detective Agency
also made promise yesterday, through
Harry Conners, one of the officials. Mr..
Conners said:
I've will have at our Office tomorrow
afternoon man known RS Jack the
Speeder. He is great spender. 3
gambler and bit Of a blackmailer
Until about ten days ago when he dis
appeared he hung about Times Square
hotel. This man, we have reason to
| believe, knows something about the
Ward case"
Fallon, Of Manhattan, and Sullivan
and Roman of Salem. Mass, are lead
ing criminal lawyers in their respective
communities. They do not ordinarily
work for small sums. Yet they are at
tempting in this instance to create the
impression that they represent the
Peters family. The Peters family, BY
pooling their efforts for year, prob
ably could not earn enough money to
/ pay any one or the lawyers for two
weeks. Sullivan and Roman registered
at the Waldorf Astoria when they ar
rived III New York Friday, but yester-
day If was said they had checked OUT
and they are now believed to have re-
! turned to Massachusetts.
District Attorney Weeks would not
discuss Il report that these lawyers
actually had been retained by Ward
or by persons friendly to him, but he
did say yesterday that he had heard
that Val OFarrell was working for
Ward.
Mr., Weeks said ne was receiving ali
increasingly large number of anony-
nous letters, the writers Of which as
sure him they know the low down, in
side facts in the mystery. Thus far
none OF the letters has contained any
thing OF value, according to Mr.. Weeks.
One of the letters said that two bills.
each of 5000, had been taken from
Peters's pocket along with all identi
tying marks before his body was found.
The District Attorney was asked il
ne had made any attempt or would
make any attempt to check up. through
an examination of Wards bank &C. =.
counts, his story that he had paid
the supposed blackmailers nearly
$4,000 Mr.. Weeks said he did not
have the power to subpoena Wards
bank accounts in order to make such
an inquiry.
Mr.. Weeks from several sources has
learned that there was q card party
ut the Ward home on May IS. Before
the next sunrise Peters had been
killed. New Rochelle acquaintanccs
of the Wards have said that Mrs. Ward.
as hostess at that party was assisted
BY her mother, Mrs. Curtis, of Brook
lyn. Ward, according to these reports,
was not seen by any of the guests.
HIS wife, 1t was said, explained his
absence by saying he had had to go out
on business
Mr. Weeks is anxious to get in touch
with man who described himself
as James c. Clark, who knew Peters
as a sailor aboard the G. W. Morse,
q. training ship tied up in the New
York Navy Yard during the World
War. Clark told Investigators who
found him in New York City that he
mad met Peters ir Manhattan park
about four months ago. The two were
without funds. A closed car drove up,
tie said, and a young man alighted.
Heres rich friend Of mine from
/ New Rochelle" Clark declares Peters
said to him.
The stranger, according to Clark,
TOOK the two to restaurant and pur-
chased them a meal, after which he
later, Clark said Peters returned.
"He handed me ST." said Clark.
saying his friend had sent it to me
and wanted to see me. But / did not
go to see him."
SHOWN newspaper picture of Wal
ter s. Ward, Clark declared this was
the man Peters had introduced to him