The Washington times., 1922-05-29


! Ross was prepared to accuse him,
paid $50 for silence.
He soon discovered his terrible
mistake. Ross and agents Of
Ross" returned again and again
to claim money from their victim,
finally extracting a total Of $4,000
or more from him.
| They were preparing to demand
much larger sum when the banker
appealed to the above-described at
| torney, who was not his family law.
yer but club acquaintance.
To the Bitter End.
Forcing a promise from the banker
that he would go through with a
legal prosecution to the bitter cnd,
the friendly lawyer brought Ross"
and his aCcomplice, Sam Dreyvns,
| into the court of general sessions,
where the latter was given an indC-
| terminate sentence in Sing Sing and
| the former a suspended sentence.
BY the terms of that suspended
| sentence, Rosenzweig-or Ross"
is at the mercy of the court which
| imposed il, can be called back to face
his Judge or can, indeed, be resen-
tenced, this time TO actual cohfine'
| ment.
There is thus no danger that
Rosenzweig can conveniently escape
the law at this time, II the law
makes any vigorous attempt to cap
ture him.
| The attorney was very guarded
in his reference to the Ward case,
but affirmed that there was not the
slightest doubt in his mind that the
I"RosS' in the bankers case Is the
man OF that name who led the Ward
blaCkmailers.
Ross was an experienced black
mailer" said the attorney. My
first impression of him was that he
was an ignorant coward, but ! soon
unlearned that estimate.
I'VE tried to intimidate Ross
often but always met with calm and
insulting defiance. When once
flatly threatened Ross with Jail, he
answered coolly: Go ahead and try
it. Your rich guy won't dare go on
record in this case before court
Ross had excellent knowledge
OF the law. and all the information
we were able to pick up about him
indicated that he had blaCkmailed
hundreds OF men before he black.
mailed my Client-and before he
blackmailed Ward. | am convinced
that he was a member or head Of an
enormous blaCkmail ring"
Peters Had $1,000.
Authorities have received informa
tion from a source they refuse to
make public that Clarence Peters
had 81, 900 in two $500 bills when he
was shot and killed by Walter s.
Ward.
When the body was found only
$1.32 in cash was on the body, but
authorities have information that
some one removed the two $500 bills.
While detectives were working on q
clue to find out the person who
rifled Peters body, Sheriff Werner
was delving into the Charlie Ross
angle.
When William ]. Fallon. repre-.
senting the Peters family, called on
District Attorney Weeks, the former
promised to return with Charlie
Ross" who is now out on a sus
pended sentence after conviction for
blackmail year ago. This is be
lieved to be the same Ross named
by Ward as participating in the pis
tol duel when Peters was slain.
Coroner Fitzgerald would not say
definitely when he would hold an
inquest into Peters death, tut ne
made it very plain that ii wo I'D not
be before he had completed his in
vestigation and gathered the evi
dence to determine why Peters was
killed by the young millionaire. ,
Officials Hampered.
The coroner, and in fact all the
county officials. are being hamper
ed in their investigation, II is under
stood, because the boar,l CT super
visors is trying to economic. The
coroner has no investigation force
and the district attorney has orly
one detective.
It was learned today that Ward
did not turn over his own or Peters
revolver until a demand for them
was made upon him by the sheriff
last Thursday, three days after
Peters was killed.
Wards present location il unCer
tain. After he was released in $40.
900 bail yesterday he returned to his
New Rochelle home. but he could not
be reached last night. There we're
indications that Ward would "disap.
pear" until such a time as the coro.
ner holds an inquest Or other legal
action is taken demanding his ap.