Norwich bulletin., 1922-06-03
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN
 WARD SHOOTING MYSTERY

White Plains, N Y. June 2-West- chester county's shooting mystery was still hanging l1re tonight, seventeen days after the body Of Clarence Peters of HaxerhiH. Mass, was discovered lying on country road pear the Kens-co reser- voir
 The latest development-t1e arrest as a material witness of James J. Cunning ham, race track habitue. with version of the shooting that differed from that told by Waiter S. Ward when the wealthy baker surrendered with the statement that he had fired in self-defense-today led into fresh territory. Connecticut.
 Investigators from White Plains went to Stamford this morning to search for a Joe Jackson" alleged by Cunningham to have been shot at the same time as Peters and carried to a private hospital in the Connecticut city for treatment Despite despatches late this afternoon as serting that the quest had been unslc- cessful. District Attocpey Weeks tonight expressed the opinion that there was "a good chance of getting something definite soon"
 Mir. Weeks asserted that Cunningham, lodged in jail, stin stuck to his story. all though both the district attorney and the prisoners attorney, Maurice J. McCar-
 
 newspapers "appeared a bit twisted" " They declined. however, to make public the version they had obtained from Cunningham himself.
 The newspaper account to which refeg- ence was made quoted Cunningham as stating that the wounded man had told him several days before the shooting of the blackmail plot to which Ward himself has made cryptic reference. White Ward has declined to reveal the nature of the biackmail threat. or against whom it was directed. the newspaper story asserts that it involved someone other than Ward as a victim-and that | the. shooting occuTed in Wards home. | after an effort had been made to con vince a representative of that person. by means of a dictograph from Wards libra ry 10 his cellar, that Ward himself was | working. with the blackmaiiers. The shooting, according to the news paper version of Cunningham's story, took place when, unable to hear over the dictograph, the representative insisted | upon going to the< library. Then, Gun ningham- was quoted as saying, Ward | shot the men he believed were double crossing him.
 1 When Mr. Weeks was asked whether a i dictograph had been found in the Ward home, he said it had not.
 Do you believe dictograph had been | installed there?" he was asked. "I don't know" he said
 ] Meanwhile Cunningham's lawyer. ar irving today from New York with the prisoners wife. intimated that he would seek writ of habeas corpus in Brooklyn tomorrow if his client was not released by that time. Both Mccarthy and Mrs Cunningham said they wished to assist the authorities as much as possible bu; that Cunningham should not be locked up.
 | When asked by newspapermen why | Cunningham, merely a witness, should be held in jail, while Ward, who had con. fessed to the actual shooting, should bt out on bail. Mir. Weeks replied:
 ''I can't answer that. don't fix ball
 Nor could. Mir. Weeks indicate whether Ward would be taken to the county jai here to confront Cunningham. as hac been reported in the afternoon.
 Asked whether he would present tn, case to the grand jury when 1t meet, next Monday. NIT. Weeks answered tha that would deDend on what happened fl the next two days. The district attorne,
 complained that he has been able to ge no information from two, maids at thu
 Ward home in New Rochelle He ex plained that he could not make then
 talk unless they appeared before tn,
 grand jury.