The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-30
MAN IF MYSTERY"
 IN WARD CASE IS SEEN IN NEW YORK
"CharIie Ross' Comes Into View Only to Be Lost Again. New Car Theory Is
 Found
By Associated Press

New York, May 29.-" Charlie Ross," supposed "brains" of the blackmail ring which Walter s. Ward, wealthy baker, claims led to the fatal tryst two weeks ago, which ended with his shooting of Clarence Peters, former sailor, whisked mo- mentarily into sight today, and as suddenly and mysteriously disap- peared.
 With the authorities of westches- ter county and New York professedly seeking him, the mysterious man" in the sensational case is known to have joined William J. Fallon, attor- ney for Peters family, this afternoon. They met soon after Ross had sent an emissary to Fallon's office. in the heart of the business district. The emissary was followed out by Fallon, who Is presumed to have met Ross outside the building and the three were swallowed up in the crowds of Forty-second street and Broadway.
 An hour later Fallon telephoned newspaper men who had been waiting in his office all afternoon that he and q private detective. Harry Corners would go to Boston tonight. He re- fused to state whether Ross" would accompany them. nor would be dis cuss the object of the journey
 Messenger Sent
 On the heels of this development it was learned that District Attorney Weeks had sent messenger from II .,1~s { l.r tt,n district attorney asking if a man named Nathan Rosenweig, alias Nat Ross, pleaded guilty in local court in July of last year to a charge of extortion growing out of an alleged blackmailing plot. Rosenweig escaped with suspended sentence His at torney at that time, was Fallon, the man now serving as counsel for Pet CTS parents.
 Rosenweig could not be found at his home in the Bronx.
 New Thread of Evidence
 At White Plains, Sheriff Werener and District Attorney Weeks an nornced tonight they were trying to run down still another thread of pos sible evidence which they hope would lead to the heart of the mystery that has surrounded the case since Wards surrender more than A week after Peters was killed.
 Close on the heels of a tip" that investigation of Wards story that he had driven Peters to the scene of the shooting in his coupe would prove another car had been used. the Vest chester authorities learned the name of an automobile dealer, who, they were told, would shed more light on tie staying if he could be induced to talk The hint that Ward might have shifted cars came from a source which the authorities refused to dis close.
 May Find Blood Stains
 It also was suggested that discov- cry of a second car might reveal blood stains, which would disprove Wards statement that Peters had stepped from the coupe with a pistol leveled at Ward and that he was standing at the roadside when the wealthy banker shot him.
 District Attorney Weeks and Sher- If Werner have been frankly skepti- cal of Wards statement that Peters vas shot at the lonely spot near Ken sico reservoir where the body was found. They suspect the killing oc- cured elsewhere and that the body was taken there and thrown from the car.
 The new car theory was second In interest only to the interest shown In the promise of Fallon, to produce Ross"
 The sheriff today received com munication from Sheriff E. R. Davis of Duchess county informing him Of the arrest at Poughkeepsie of Frank Doran. Sheriff Davis said the man had steadfastly refused to talk about himself, that he obviously was des- perate, as he had forced taxicab driver to rush him through three counties at the point of pistol He suggested the man might In some way be connected with the Peters case and Sheriff Wernes announced this clew would be run down as nave scores of others.