The New York herald., 1922-05-25


which they believe exists and which viii
support the story told by Ward. Unit
Yesterday the investigation had been lef
TO the county officers, who are the Sherin
and his deputies. and to the State police
who are ready to cooperate with th'
Sheriff. but have not been called int
great activity.
Sheriff Werner returned to his hons
tn Rye last night after being in New
York all day. He said he had been DO
ing a good deal of investigation. bu
could not report what he had done every
minute. He was asked II any descrip
tion of the fugitives. Charless Ross and
Jack had been distributed, or any gen
eral alarm sent out He said:
II gave a description on Monday might
to the police of the West Forty-seventh
street station. who were helping Mr.
Ward and myself to run down tip thai
Jack could be found at certain places
/ had no picture and IL "a very hard ia
pick up a man or = verbar uess.ssS>.n.'
"Peters's Gun Accounted For"
The SheriE was then asked about the
whereabouts OF the two pistols-Ward's 5
and Peters's. He said:
"They are both accounted for and to-
morrow l Will tell the public what hap
pened TO these guns.
II am satisfied that both guns are
accounted for and the cartridges arc
accounted for and will be presented al
the proper time before the Coroner"
But the Sheriff has only one shell OF
the nine or ten. which. according to Ward
as quoted by the Sheriff. were fired in the
duel. last night Lieut.. Eugene Roberts
OF the State police said that this was
probably the shell which was found
about ten feet from the body of Peters
and which he gave TO the Sheriff. with
photographs of the scene made by the
State troopers. Lieut. Roberts added
Reports that the State troopers are
working independently In this mystery
are erroneous. We have the greates'
respect for the efficiency of Sheriff Wer-
ner, who is handling admirably this ex.
tremely difficult case. l am practically
convinced by my survey of the section.
that there was no gun battle.
Sheriff Werner added that he noticed
in a newspaper a statement that part Of
the clothes of Peters were missing. He
said this was incorrect; he had all the
clothes and they would be used as evil
Hence. He said the shirt had bullet
-,hole in the front and in the back, the
vest and coat holes in the back only
He thought these two garments must
shot was fred that killed Peters. He
(: promised to give tomorrow, IL the news
7 papers wanted II, a description oi
X Charley Ross and Jack such as he go
!, from Walter Ward.
4 The Sheriff produced Peters's coat
Z vest and shirt, showing a hole III the
\ lront and back of the shirt and In ths
back of the coat and vest. The hole
\ in the coat is small, and might not o'
(. noticed in rapid examination. Farm
!, ers' men who saw the body as 1t lay
K beside the road on May Is said latel
\ that there was no hole in the coat, o.
I vest. which they thought indicated tina
somebody had put these garments OF
|, the body after the shooting But tn
4 Sheriff Is certain that his exhibit dis
I. proves this.
4 The Sheriff would not say whether
4 he had talked with Ward and the Ware
I lawyers or whether he had visited New
l York Police Headquarters. Ward hat
I gone to headquarters on Tuesday ant
| spent fifteen minutes looking over thu
\ Rogues' Gallery. This was done afte
4 the attorney who accompanied Ware
| requested of Inspector John ID. Coughlir
7 that no questions be asked Ward, "a.
l this is westchester case. you know.
Ward studied the pictures and records
OF several confidence men and black
uaailers, including wire tappers. He die
mot say whether he found familiar
faces.
Police Dispute Sheriff.
The detectives of the West Forty
seventh street station. who accompanied
Sheriff Werner and Ward on theil
search for the blackmailer Jack" OF
Monday night disagree with the Sheriff
about the descriptions of Jack ant
Charley Ross. They say they got M
descriptions. At New York Police Head
quarters it was said again that thu
westchester officials had made no re
quest that a general alarm be sent ou
for the capture of Charley and Jack ant
had given no descriptions of the men tC
the police here. In White Plains Dis
trict Attorney Weeks said he was con
fident the Sheriff had the descriptions
and had made them public. He was
asked:
''Have you ever before known oi
an important homicide case in which the
descriptions of missing witnesses. fugi
tfves, were not sent outT
IT think So" Weeks answered, "bu
in this case l thought the Sheriff hat
given them out. / shall ask him to dc
So"
The District Attorney received a letter
which he said might throw some ligh
on the information regarding Ware
which the blackmailers professed to have
1t is anonymous, but because of it's lucid.
ity and coed handwriting the District At
torney took It more seriously than ht
does ordinary products of anonymity
He would not tell what 1t said.
The envelope. postmarked Times
square station, New York. at 10 A. NJ
yesterday and White Plains noon. wat
marked in a corner "Private-Rush.
The small neat handwriting was appar.
emily that of a man. The envelope con-
tsined two postal cards covered with
WRITING on both sides. and when the
sender ran out of cards he used a. piece
of brownish wrapping paper
What do you think of it?" the Dis.
trict Attorney was asked.
II do not know what TO think of II, :
he said. TT suggests something that
had not thought OF before"
Never Talked with Ward.
The District Attorney sat on desk
and faced long series of questions from
reporters One Of the things they
rno~,ot 80 +k,ot he v,oruoralIx had pavar