New-York tribune., 1922-05-30

that he would bring ROSS with him.
But Fallon never came back.
Victims Family May Sue.
Fallon's interest in the case was
plausibly accounted for yesterday by
a report circulated in White Plains
that the family Of young Peters were
planning to file suit against Walter
S. Ward for 100000 damages for Gloss
of services" although there is nothing
to support the idea that Peters ever
gave any member of his family dime.
Fallon's promise to produce "Charley
Ross" also was plausibly accounted
for. Assistant District Attorney Joseph
| Russo, assigned to the detective divi-
| sion Of District Attorney Banton's Of
flee, said last night that he had been
| asked by messenger from the office
Of District Attorney Weeks, of West
chester County, for information con-
cerning Nathan Rosenweig, also known
as "Nat Ross"
Russo said: "The District Attorney
and Sheriff Werner Of Westche ster
have sought information from me as to
whether Nathan Rosensweig, alias Nat
| Ross, is the same man that Mr.. Ward
spoke of in connection with the killing
Of Peters. This man was represented
by Attorney William j. Fallon when he
was in trouble on a blackmailing
charge before.
when l arrested Nathan Rosenswcig
he lived at 552 East 17sth Street
| That was December II. 1920. ar
rested Sam Dreyfuss, alias Joe Brown,
on the same night. Dreyfuss lived at
518 East 139th Street. Both had been
| indicted for extortion and attempted
extortion. ! got Rosensweg or Ross
after chase and after he had at
tempted to hide in candy store.
| took him to the Bronx County jail
and then went to Dreyfuss's home to
arrest him. l had fight to get him,
as not only he but members Of his
| family defed me. I took him to the
jail manacled him to Rosensweig and
brought them that way to the Criminal
Courts Building.
| Judge Otto A. Rosalsky was still n
| the building and he came into the de-
tective bureau and fixed bail at Sis, 900
we're put in the Tombs. There they
staid for months, and inally, getting
out on bail, annoyed the complainant
| so much that the surety company
which vas on their bond surrendered
| them.
Dreyfuss Sent to Farms
| "Dreyfuss was tried and convicted
by jury before Judge Thomas G. T..
Grain in General Sessions July 25,
| 1921, and was sentenced to the peni-
| tentisry. The maximum sentence that
could be given him was three years,
but the parole board has the power to
release him before that time. l learned
to-day that Dreyfuss has been trans
ferred to New Hampton Farms, up in
| Orange County, probably because he
| is in i'll hes ith.
"Roserswclg. 20 as I said was rep
resented by Falion, pleaded guilty be-
| fere Judge Joseph +. Mulqueen and re-
ccived suspended sentence. The
White Plains authorities have promised
to send me an accurate description oe
the Ross they want, but ! haven't got
it yet"
That failure to give Russo descrip-
| ton Of the man about whom they are
making inquiries is but another indica-
| tion of the half-hearted character of
the hunt that has been conducted by
the Westchess ser authorities for these
two men named by Ward. Russo's
statement is believed to fix the identity
| of the Gross" that Fallon repeatedly
has failed to produce.
The failure of Cross" to appear is
not difficult to understand. But that
cannot be said of the invisibility Of
George S. Ward head Of the baking
firm and father of Walter S. Ward.
George Ward returned to the United
States aboard the Majestic on the day
Peters's body was found He has not
been seen in Westchester County since
! his return by any of the Investigators
working on the case. He did not visit
his son while he was in jail and he has
not visited him at his home, unless he
| has done SO clande stinely.
Father Cabled Young Ward
A close friend of Walter Ward let it
be known the day he confessed the kill
| ing that the young man and his father
| had exchanged cables dealing with the
blackmail plot. The elder Ward is said
to have cabled in reply to a message
from his son that he would "spend a
hundred thousand for defense, but not
cent for blackmail." Also bearing
out this is the statement of Ellwood
Rabenold, chief Of counsel for young
Ward. On the day he issued the only
statement that has come from the
to see the blackmailers the night Of
the killing hoping in some way to sat
isfy them that they would have to
wait for their money until his father
returned.
The letters purporting to be from
the blackmailers and addressed to
young Ward, which we're shown to Dis
trict Attorney Weeks by Mr. Rabenold.
also contained this statement: "Meet
US or you'll never meet the Majestic !"
This is considered clear proof that
the president of the Ward Baking Com
pany at least figured in the converse
tions between his son and the black
mailers, but nevertheless George Ward
has remained and continues to remo;n
out Of sight.
If Walter Wards story of a black
mail plot is true, the present case is
not his first experience with black
mailers. From Pittsburgh. former
home OF the Ward family, came word
last night of a $4,000 blackmail
scheme in which Walter Ward waa the
game and young woman the bait
Pittsburgh newspapers yesterday car
ried details Of this affair. Ward il
said to have escaped from this situa-
tion by paying $1,000, after which a
damage suit instituted against him by
the young woman was nolle pressed
This was during the incumbencv of
former District Attorney r. n. Jack.
son, who was counsel for the Pitts
burgh Federal League ball club and
who has since been disbarred in Allie
gheny County. All Of these things "A.
Cured in 1915. The young woman