Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-02
More Mysterious
 AngIesin WardCase
Investigators Are at Work
 Throughout the Country
 Seeking Motive For and the Place of the Killing Arrest of Material Witness.

White Plains. N. Y.,-Investigation of the shooting of Clarence Peters, ex- navy man by Walter S. Ward, wealthy baker, was being pressed from coast to coast today-the sixteenth day after the body was found near the Kensico reser- volr.
 But instead of clarifying the case, ex- tension of the quest for facts thus far has tended only to introduce more mys- terious angles.
 Two questions have been constantly recurring.
 What was the threat which caused Ward to keep woodland tryst at night with band of blackmailers, who he claims forced him to fire in self-defense? :?
 Was Peters actually slain near the reservoir, as Ward contends, and if not, where?
 Since Ward surrendered with his terse explanation, investigators both public and private, have held and discarded numerous theories and tonight were still seeking an answer to the two main questions in White Plains, New Rochelle, New York. Boston, Haverhill. Philadel- phia, Paris Island, Savannah, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles.
 The only new clue to bob up today in White Plains, the headquarters of Westchester county authorities, or New Rochelle, where the Ward home is locat- ed. was a report which reached Distric' Attorney Weeks that an employe in the bread plant of the Ward Baking com pany had seen the mysterious couple Charley Ro5s'' and Jack" who were alleged by Ward to have been with Pc ters when the shooting occurred.
 This employe, who said that the baker often had received the pair in his pri- vate office, told of once having taker | a telephone message for "the fellow who says he is police commissioner of New Rochelle" to the effect that i've want the money he owes us on that debt anc | we want it quick"
 1 In New York, Ward was confronted with man known as Nat Ross," whc received a suspended sentence last sum mer after having pleaded guilty to at 1 tempting extortion in another case. mi. man, who voluntarily appeared in thu district attorneys office for examination was not the Charley Ross" he knew 1 the baker affirmed. Nat Ross" who's real name is Nathan Rosensweig, wa! | the man whom William J. Fallon, at l torney for the Peters family in Haver hill, had been seeking in the belief tha 1 he might turn out to be "Charley.' 1 In Los Angeles was located Miss Mar tha Kendall, modiste who charged tha the baker once had broken into he apartment and attempted to kndnap her and that a suit which she had brough alleging criminal conspiracy had beel settled out of court. Pittsburgh des patches quoted men closely associated with the Federal Baseball League. fiv years ago. when Ward and his fathe were interested in the organization. a remembering that there was Miss Ken dan at that time employed as a wait ress in a restaurant near the hote where the Federal League players stop ped.
 q can throw light on the mystery all right was the cryptic remark Mis Kendall dropped.
 While these lanes of investigation wer being taken up in connection with tn blackmail question Guy A. Phillips. c Reading, a war veteran who is studyin at a Philadelphia wireless school intro duced a new theory regarding the seen
 of the shooting. He suggested that, ir
 stead of being slain. near the Kenisc reservoir, as Ward states, or in the War
 home, as one newspaper reported, Peter
 might have been killed near Philade
 phia and his body transferred to Wes
 chester county.
 Phillips advanced this theory in COT
 nection with his positive assertion ths
 he had seen Peters in Philadelphia g late as 8 o'clock a. n on May s. Whit Plains authorities, who stated that tf
 body had been discovered at 7.45 a. T
 that day indicated they took little stoc
 in Phillips story, as he either must haN
 been mistaken in his man or got h
 dates mixed.
 White Plains, which Is constantly b
 ing stirred with unconhrn1ed rumors. ;h
 afternoon toop ups its ears when
 story gained currency to the effect thi !, the Ku Klux Klan had threatened Wal if the case was not cleared up with five days.
 Bunk" said MT. Weeks, officially di posing of the rumor.
 The district attorney indicated that, he should decide to go before the graI r jury with the case, 1t would not be b F forme next Monday.
 No further developments were repor 1 ed from Savannah, where Peters VI l reported to have purchased his pist, 9 or from Paris Island, wherh Peter movements after being refused enlist : at the marine station shortly before 2 was shot were being traced.
 HELD AS MATERIAL WITNESS