New-York tribune., 1922-05-23
Had Paid Sang $50, 600,
Shot Leader Dead " hen
Ordered 10 Hand Over
SIS ,OO0 More at Once
Officials Back Him
In Hiding "Details
Cause Behind Plot l. ,o5
Shown: Pull. $4,000
Cash Bail Fron Pocket

Walter s Ward. son of t5e nt-
lionaire head Of the Ward BaEq
Company. accompanied bg lawyers.
surrendered himself to tie Wes.-
chester County authorities at Whit,
Plains yesterday as the s.ayeg o3
Clarence Peters. whose bullel-oier.ed
body was found a week age yiug
face downward in the Cbapraqaa
Road, near the Kensico dam
Ward, who is president Of the
Board OF Police Commissioners cf
New Rochelle, where he lives with
his wife and two young children.
sand he shot in salf-defense to escape
from three blaclmailers. lie said
he had paid them $4,000, and they
had demanded $4,000 more
Gives $4,000 Bail from Pocket
After Ward had told hs story -
Sheriff George ] Werner and District
Attorney Frederick Weeks be was
taken before Supreme Court Justice
Albert II. F. Seegcr and bal was
fixed at $4,000 on a technical char.-.
'Tho 81 ''+l's.-,.'s',.,f IN 11e dagsc
into his trousers pocEet na,,re4 fo~.-
wallet aud took f,.,o ,a, 81 ol.l
yelIow-backed bills and was reiase...
from custody
The body of Peters. which was --
several day the unidentified relfr -
! what the authorities sad ,ae-- b.-
/ heved was bootleggers' fight. through
/ the confession of Ward has 6ecer..
! the corpus delicti in a biaekn.s i.-s
mystery. The COMPROMISING infer,r-l-
/ ton that Ward took such desperate
measures to keep secret has nor been
revealed. and some OF the Ncstehes.
county ohiciais We're frank enough
Yesterday TO say that taey did no
e>lleSo s3.L 70 aIIo" u 10 pe revealed
Not n,,I,.. .3;5 VI tn,
bo e,,,,4:a5d :,5 ~ %. ., al h.ii ier7.
Tho doad 49,, +,,.S ''F r. st %
Goa a,5 ;f a,.. ..
-, t,'4 ~ - plii-e mace
,I;5ta L." '''rS 81" oIis are
Wos.as,o,. W1sq,,.,l,'i,po,. "+ ',. '',gre
" Yer auli, ofi1]e', ard or rs
them. sheriff Verne nrorcsle., 10
terday not to have descript or Of tra
mon One man. he said. va known --
4 Charles Ross and the other merely as
Jack.
Ward Scans Broadvav c,b,ro,s
In and ont Of D,oa,,,,.a,. -,
roetafIrarte ,.a 4e' W., a c'1o.'e'7 ~
/ cbo,.;r w.. '.'', 49,, ~" l..'i1l'l
I Wb;ta pla;,,~ "a '''q ~ "s3s
D.'..: " ',iCe idiI5' ana oect tect'Nes t'afin'
Wns4 I "..a 'osel,R ND 81 me
oftos s't''oi'
so ~, ~, 't - 'lg ~ ll'i'le d searen
.ne lMo i'Iis5I"s members OF 'ao
pidI ,idi1iilE patlo.
"nEIllg VISITED every pace mentioned
pF ara as pe'hg Il Iofnef naunt oi
Ohe Two Wi'Aout success tae searching
! party drove IN automobiles TO tho
lower East Side, Whcro restaurants. =.
coffee houses and former saioore were
searched without a trace Of the t9e
men being found.
Detectives Dennison and F1tzgerald
at the West Fortv-sevoDtb Street Sta
ton. last NIGHT received . tolerl,..,,,
! cali from eberifr Nc,nor 49, ...;i @
wanted to make a search of ,o,.,s.,,
places In Broadway" in tba homo -
finding the two men described - ht,,
by Ward.
u,,
fouhoed Tor fhree Months
FOR more than three months Walter
Ward has been bounded By these
blackmallers,' said Ellwood Nj. Rabe.
mold yesterday Mr. Rabenold Is the
senior member Of the law firm OF
haoemoid q Scribner, attorneys for
the Ward Baking Company. Ward
! killed this man Pete early Tuesday
morning, about or o'clock, he con-
tinued. Then he drove to his homo
in New Rochelle. His father, George
S. Ward, returned from a tour Of tho
world on the steamship Majestic that
day, and Tuesday night Walter told
him what had happened. We were
"o1iled VI. In,me0ia'eiy' ana the next day
ate counsel John = Rror,e, -
Yonkers. On Tbnrsdav We i,,,,,.or,
vent to see tho ofic;als of WcstcI.ss+l,
the sheriff, the district a+tornnv -
other officials. The conntV ;na|,n ~.
of the conference. We t0rned over
every scraD of information IN o,,
possession. We produced a narkc+ ~
letters from the blackI0allers to
: Ward