New-York tribune., 1922-05-26
Locked Up for Night

After sitting in the Sheriff's Office
for more than four hours, while his
counsel tried in vain to get writ
of habeas corpus, Ward was locked
up in the Jail at 10:45 p. NJ. John
w. Hill, warden Of the jail, had
locked up for the night and mad
vertently gave newspaper photog-
raphers several good shots at Ward,
who had to pound on the door for
admission.
There will be hearing at 1920
a. m. to day before Justice Edward L.
Young, in the Supreme Court in White
Plains, on q writ of habeas corpus. On
which Wards lawyers hope TO obtain
his release
Young Ward was rearrested on an
order issued by Justice Seeger. Of this
Supreme Court, on the application of
District Attorney Frederick Weeks.
Mr.. Weeks said in his application that
he was not now satisfied that Ward
was justified in killing Peters. pointed
out that Ward had attempted suicide
during the period that ne said tho
blackmail gang, of which he accused
Peters Of being a member. was after
him. and asked that he be held without
bail in connection with the coroner's
inquiry into Peters's death.
Politics Brought Into Case
The application was made by the
District Attorney after Westchester
County newspapers had begun to view
the Ward case in toe light of politics
and next falls election, and after the
Westchester Grand Jury, whose term
would have expired Yesterday, had
taken up the case on It's own initiative
and summoned the District Attorney
and the Sheriff before it to explain the
desire of the grand jurors that greater
vlgor be shown in lnqulrlng into the
death of Peters
The grand jury is to be continued for
the rest of this month and perhaps into
June. as a result of its insistence on a
prompt and vigorous inquiry.
After some discussion of the case
yesterday morning, the nineteen grand
jurors unanimously adopted a resolu-
tion setting forth their views and
signed the document. Their foreman,
A. B. Cordner, of New Rochelle. then
summoned District Attorney Weeks.
Jurors Demand Prosecutor Act
The grand jurors had to wait for an
hour for him 70 appear. When he ar
| rived the resolution was Rad to him.
1t is said to have demanded in effect
that Wards bail be cancelled and that
he be rearrested.
hot hor
Weeks is said to have demanded
One of the grand jurors replied, it Is
| said, that if Wards story was true that
he had fired in self-defense against
an armed gang of blackmailers who had
attacked him the young man need have
no hesitation in facing jury even on
charge of murder in the first degree,
Sheriff Werner then was summoned
to the grand jury room and the jurors
asked to see some of the evidence in
the case. The anonymous letter which
District Attorney Weeks received
| Wednesday and another which he re-.
ceived yesterday and believes to be
from another person, probably q
woman, were given to the grand jury
Soon after leaving the grand jury
room District Attorney Weeks went be,
| fore Justice Seeger with his applic:4
tion for the order of arrest. The orde =
was issued at once and by 2 O'Clock in
the afternoon Sheriff Werner set out
in his autom obile with it.
Young Wardhad not been at hil
home in New Rochelle since early
Wednesday evening. Wherever Sheriff
Werner may have gone to find him hs
did not go there. Even at 8 o'clock last
night, two hours after her husband had
entered the Sheriff's Office under al
rest, Mrs. Ward did not know of thai
development in the case
She is said to have received tele.
phone message from her husband abou,
noon that he would be home late in the
afternoon. Late in the afternoon ths
doors of the garage were flung open, az
they always are at about the time the
master of the house is expected. He
did not come home, however, and ne
word was received from him, it was
said at the house.
Not the slightest sign of anxiety
over the possible worry his absence
might have caused at home was visible
on the young mans face as he entered
the Sheriff's office. He was accom-
panied by Elwood Rabenold, his coun
sell
, They drove into White Plains in Il,
same coupe in which Ward and Peter