New-York tribune., 1922-06-22
Search Centers on Woman
Guest at Apartment Up
Town, Who May Possess
Secret of Blackmailers
Trio of Feminine
Callers Had Escort
Grand Jury Inquiry Goes
Over for Week; Defense
Moves for July Trial

Va. disclosures we're made yester-
.-x,hs conduct Of Walter S. Ward
:. r-mer in his olsndestine retreat
-. Po.nciana Apartments, 424 West
.~a Street These revelations are
...,,,rt. and Harry Scott, superin-
..;,-t O. the Pinkerton detectives.
.s,-s that among the women who
-, here % see Ward IS one who
..,.,., the answer 20 the question.
W. did the wealthy president Of
-. Nsv Rochelle Police Commission
t'i rwerty-str.cken Clarence Peters -
n. importance OF the discovery that
w. lived in the Poinoiana without
90 VIE dur.rC al Of July. August
- ssr.smber. 1921, is easily recog-
,.,ss rhen 70 is known that he. his
i,rysrs snd his brother. Ralph. have
n rsre or record as saying that this
,,stss Cd when he fell into the
,'.,sss q biackma!lers.
slsshed Lingerie Found
s,,- Mrs. Fred OLSON, the wife Of
., ts;lding superintendent, M Scott
r--ed that som metimes in cleaning up
g,-ss two-r0om apartment she vas
,,f'e3 by finding torn lingerie and
.-e-.s q Ward that appeared 10
nd been slsshed with a knife.
Ersn more puzzling, though are The
~,'.re statements OF employees OF
.,,psrtmert house that Wards won
. rs..oYs IN q single day sometimes
.,-nrsd q half dozen. Suspicious 81
,-gftle exarreration in these state
-rs the detectives working under
,..,, rale q careful check Of the esti.
-,.U. and last night were convinced
IA. a least ave women sometimes en-
s-,1 the apartment in one day.
o. three occasions q man, accom-
-rsd by three women ithe same trlo
,,,s ..rsel. entered the apartment and
rr. trtertained by Ward. Departing,
ass gsests gave house employes the
.-,,sssior that their host had been
-,sng valiant efforts 20 quench their
sr.s Usually the women arrived
t.r'y. according 20 the information
a.iired bv the Pinkertons, and as was
-r.slsd yesterday by The Tribune, the
- frequent callers were red
s,..9 woman and a brunette.
ogon probably will be taken 20
Tt Plains 70 talk to District At
'rsy Weeks some time to-day.
Sme of the Investigators are seek
y 70 learn whether Ward maintained
k.ielor quarters during two perioos
= tine when Mrs. Ward and the. chill
n, we're az Palm Beach: The inves-
.a.ors have the names OF severai pvi.
~ who may be able 20 reveal tne
tsnt.,y Of some Of Waro WOMB"
'f-sl6s
Visitors Never Uproarious
Ward apparently never permitted ms
.gests 20 grow noisy OF III a.y ~. ~
Iay make their presence coJectlona'Ust,s s,..
, was the mere fact that sulpOseuI'
amarried man was entertaining un.
haperored women in his apartment
hat caused Bing & Bing, the owners
nd renting agents Of the house, 70
eeard him as an undesirable tenant
Mrs. OLSON has added one other
ONT 10 her previous statements con-
erning Wards life in the small apart
nent A silken kimona usually hung
.chind the door Of the bathroom when
he entered the place. II n was not
.aaging UP 10 was lying somewhere
bout the apartment
The story told by Ralph, brother of
Walter Of a meeting with Peters on
he night o. May IL, as well as on the
fights of May Is and Is. when the re-
eeted marine recruit was killed. was
roved Inaccurate yesterday beyond
oubt. Ralph has said that on May Il,
Sunday night. his brother met Ross"
Jack and the man who later was
tent.fed as Clarence Peters. He said
re; he had been told that on this
session the alleged blackmailers, after
waning his brother that he had only
wUty-four hours IN which 20 deliver
. them $4,000. fred two shots at his
i-.emobie as he drove away from
aer rendezvous near Rye, which hap
trs 10 be the home OF Sheriff George
N,rsr.
.hthe time Of this supposed meeting
lFs'cy was travelling north from Paris
hi,i, and IL was not until l:21 p. m.
'lJhght time) on May Is that he
ss;hsd Philadelphia. Detectives have
rsesd the ticket issued TO Peters, with
as result that they have learned he
s'fysd in Washington from the South
ATE morning Of May 10. lie must
ilt taken the wrong train out OF
t,hhngton, because his ticket; now IN
r' files Of the Baltimore & Ohio lail-
lconilnueo on psso iouf)'