New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-09-09
Alleged : Dope
King Pin Held
W ard Suspect
government Agents Assert
Charles Rogers, Taken in
I.ongacre Raids, Is the
Mysterious Charlie Ross
Sheriff Warner Denies Ii
Arrests for Big Narcotic
Conspiracy Total Is and
More Are Coming To-day


Tag. and arrested in the spectacular
..,5 ~ the Longacre Hotel, 1877 West
roy+v.seventh Street, is believed by
government agents to be none otser
ssan the mysterious Charlie Ross
wnnted in connection with the Waiter
s. Ward blackrnail case.
Their theory is supported by mail
and memorandum books found on one
of Ave additional suspects arrested
Yesterday. Two Of the newly arrested
snznects are young women taken at
= IN a handsomely furnished up
town apartment. The arrests now huinT
bey thirteen, WITH more TO come
Half a dozen police mysteIlss' m
Guiding the blackmai. pios narfassa py
Wsrd son of the millionaire mead Of
az Ward Baking Company and con-
sas.s5 siaver of Clarence Peters, whose
Authenticated body was found face
downward near Kensico Dam some
months ago, are expected to be solved
a. the result Of the raid.
District Attorney Weeks Of West
chester County, concerned with the
prosecution Of Walter Ward, now out
On $4,000 bail, last night turned over
information given him by detective
agencies and government men to
Sheriff George Werner. Werner said
Sheriff Denies Rogers Is Man
Il have picture of this man Rogers
On my desk. I investigated him some
tine ago. He is not Charlie Ross and
h has no connection whatever with
De- Ward CASE"
Despite this statement postoffice in
fyectors said last night that they have
sridsnce gathered since Sheriff Werner
Investigated Rogers which tends to
move Rogers is Ross and is the man
ysnted in the Ward case. Federal
sssnts and Pinkerton detectives con-
ar In this belief.
Two detectives from the Pinkerton
agsncy who have been working on the
Ward hlackmail and killing mystery
ID the interests of the Ward family
yisited the United States District At
tognsy's office and talked to Assistant
United States District Attorneys Pola-
Eoti and Menin.
from letters and other memoranda
|. was learned that "Charlie Ross" has
wife, large blond woman, who still
ssss the name Ross and Is known In
Chicago and other cities where sha
conducted apartments. This woman
vas traced recently TO the Washing
tea Heights district, and sales Of mar
coties made at the Longacre Hotel, 10
Is charged, were traced later to the
neighborhood where the woman was
suspected Of having a haven. Mar
eotie agents said yesterday that the
Lcngacre drug trade was supplied
from an enormous "plant" somewhere
in the upper part Of Manhattan.
Sales All In Ounce Lots
Sales at the Longacre and from ven
aorsin the vicinity were all in ounce
lssi, which would indicate that large
sasant Of drugs must have been kept
B @ssshsre to supply this trade.
q Pslaer F. Tubbs, assistant to Mr..
Hara st the baking company offices,
Yesterday said that Ward was out and
@gk not be communicated with. Mr.,
Tubs said that neither he nor Mr..
Ward had been notified Officially" that
suspect had been arrested who was
supposed to be the mysterious Charlie
Ross
i Narcotic agents said yesterday that
4 'hey had traced the movements over q
period OF years of man named
4 segers, alias Ross, and that he had for
4 some years been friendly with q man
snown as Collins, and also as Tourbil-
lon, who they said had been arrested
ga blackmaa suspect in many big ex-
& TRITON cases.
collins in some mysterious manner,
TWAS said. had grown rich and now
4 owned an $4,000 steam yacht, while
! rogers, or Ross, had drawn away from
eoilins In recent years and had gone
On his own. He had never been signally
successful. the agents said, but had al
ways been hoping and working for q
big coup
Raids Still Continuing
The search of the 200 rooms in the
ssa.ssory hotel building, which was in
complete possession of fifty govern
.asns raiders for three hours, and the
a Smeses which followed, furnished evil
s sJaee on which the agents are basirg
osasI arrests and raids which were still
| 'TTsn,aulng at a late hour last light.
o.; .ne eignt suspects arrested in the
lassu. ai raid were arraigned yesterday
ss ,oae united States Commissioner
,ssu .aei "a: hitchcock and held in bonds
sassaa from $1,000 to $500. The
I sarss so lar arranged are Irving
lass lau., assistant manager of the
Tssv;. Aoranam Rosen, clerk; Eddie
Cams, elerK' Irving Lang and Frank
Ss,s gss' negro beiiboys; Thomas An
,sta asA' hotel tailor; Charles Burns, an
1 MN . snd Charles Rogers, lodger.
4 q dsn as.ofs and actresses were allowed
4 II srs alter their names were taken
4 yba n, Arrests of some of those
D s.stss Sere allowed to go may be ex-
& gs,iss so-oay on evidence gained by in
i ggatcrs last night.
a men Federal Agent William MeIlen
ss s,a the telephone switch
yot ~ the MOTEL during the search
q tsss telephone call from "John
Ia III, VINO called room at the hotel.
n II 4. pretended to connect "Rossn
sgulsing his voice answered the
ID Ross, who later proved to
In 49, .a roth, with many aliases. and
IN pvlce record, Mellon says, shows
81 g. ~ hve years for assault In
n Mssg ana three and half wears
On ROBBERY in the same institu-
pss,a m,snted to deliver narcotics and
lung TO Mellon, said:
a. sgme to Si7 East Fourteentb S4reat
ms VIII get the stuff
ID 0e right down there" Mellen
M sgsnts were then sent Is the ad-
Is STAR an arrested Roth, in whose pos
e sss ana in whose lodgings at an
not given, it was later said.
vana the letters, memorandum
q essss;s'A pther evidence on which the
IA agents base their belief that
sspect Rogers is the aCharlis
gslssa hted in the Ward case.
4 ~ sa answered another switch