The New York herald., 1922-06-04
Wounded Man Caught in
Philadelphia May Be
Mixed in Case.
HIS STORIES FAIL TO JIBE
Has Ward Baking Company
Memorandum and Was in
Navy Service.

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Everybody else having failed to
reach the core of TIE Ward-Peters
blackmail and shooting mystery, the
Grand Jury of Westchester county
will try its hand, beginning at 10
o'clock tomorrow morning.
Mrs. Walter s. Ward, wife of the
young chief purchasing agent OF the
Ward Baking Company, wEo has
proved himself a master of the art of
mystification by silence, will probably
be the first witness. She and about
dozen others were subp9naed yester-
day.
Among the others are Lulu Barrows
and Amy Mild, maids in the home OF
the Wards at SO Decatur road. New
Rochelle, and two neighbors OF the
Wards. Mrs. Waldo I. Shuman and
Mrs. Alfred ]. Hook George S. Ward,
president of the baking company and
father of Walter S. Ward, has not
been subp9naed, but it is expected
that he will be. Whether James j.
Cunningham, who is in Jail as mate
rial witness after tie telling of three
almost equally feverish stories OF the
shooting of Clarence Peters, Will be
taken before the Grand Jury, has not
yet been decided.
VIII Swear Cunningham Lies
Mrs. Ward is sure TO testify that
Cunningham is a liar. II was reiateu
yesterday that when the police met her
just before they began their SEARCH oil
| the Ward home on Wednesday for evil
dencc Of the truth or falsity OF Cum
ninrharn's narrative about the shooting
of Peters and Joe or Bill jackson In the
library Of that shome on the night OF
Nav 15 Mrs Ward raised her right
hand. as does a witness taking oath,
and exclaimed:
by the God I'm Heaven Peters was
not In this house on the night OF NAV
IS and has never been in this house.
Mrs. Shuman is requested to 20 before
the Grand Jury because sha was the
neiChbor wno few weeks before Peters
was killed. was called into the Ward
house to help Mrs. Ward when the lat
ter's husband had swallowed iodine.
Ward and DR.. Schell. New Rochelle
physician who was summoned, say that
the poison had been taken by mistake
for a headache medicine. Mrs. Shuman
will undoubtedly be asked 70 state the
exact circumstances as she saw them.
She. Mrs. Hook and other near neigh
bors will also be asked II they heard
any shots or other unwonted sound in or
near the home of the Wards on the
night of May Is. They have already
told the New Rochelle police that they
heard nothing.
Old Partner of Ward Lawyer.
1t is regarded as a coincidence in
White Plains. the Westchester county
seat where the Grand Jury sits, that
.he County Judge. who under the regu-
lar schedule OF assignments will impanei
the Jury and receive any report II may
make. is William +. Bleakley. He was
until appointed to the county bench
by Gov. Miller law partner of John F..
Brennan of Yonkers.
Brennan Is an attorney for Walter S.
Ward having been retained a day or
two after the killing of Petcre. He went
when Ward surrendered himself.
Brennan was one of the lawyers who
Tut forth the brief statement sketchily
telling of the gang that hal been black
mailing Ward and how Ward. meeting
tem By appointment on the morning Of
May 16, had shot Peters after Peters
shot at him. and had ther exchanged
shots with Charley Ross aud his crony.
Jack until Charley and Jack faded away
In their Stutz car.
Aside from the announcement that the
Grand Jury would take up the Ward
case at last the freshest news yesterday
was that of the arrest in Philadelphia
of a young ex-private detective and ex-
sailor, John Cienzo. He gave the police
a whale OF fight before submitting.
wounds Cause Suspicion.
Then they found that he had an in
fected bullet wound I'm the chest and
another in the right arm. He said he
had been shot In n row at Greensburg.
Pa. where he had worked as a special
detective for the Republic Coal and
Iron Company He is held In hospital
by the Philadelphia police on tho chance
that he may know something about the
Ward case.
They recalled that In the triply re-
vised story of the witness Cunningham,
Ell or Joe Jackson was shot twice by
Walter Ward. one bullet creasing his
forehead and the other entering his
right shoulder. They recalled also that
in Wards own story, as given to Sheriff
Werner by the lawyers. Ward. who is a
good shot. thought that a bullet he fired
In the direction of the red Stutz hit one
Of the two men therein. presumably
Charley Ross.
The young man detained in Philadel-
pha gave his address as mills Hotel.
New York" The name John Cienzo does
not appear on the register OF either Of
the Mills Hotels. In Greensburg there
Is no Republic Coal and Iron Company
and the police there say there has been
no pistol fighting In the town recently.
Cienzo is idescribed as neatly dressed
in a dark. Ain-striped suit OF good ma
teral and ts hardly looking like an
itInerant stAike- which, in the
Coutluricd ON Pare Fifteco