The New York herald., 1922-06-20
COURT HEARS WARD
. FAMILY ON FATHER
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fore the proceedings began or before q
subpoena was issued for George Ward'i
appearance before the Grand Jur,
which indicted his son.
Ralph Ward Also said that he hat
talked with his father on the telephone
since the elder Ward left New York
George Ward knew that he was wanted
in White Plains, the son said, but was
keeping to his schedule. Justice Nor.
schauser is obviously determined thai
George Ward shall go to White Plains
and submit to questioning. 1t is be.
lieved that he must do so if his sor
is to be tried before autumn.
Points To Delay In Justice.
What Attorney Allan C1mppell thinks
about the delay in trying the Ward case
may be indicated by the fact yesterday
that he pointed to an inscription above
the main entrance of the county court
house and said it told It's own story.
This inscription. in deeply carved, gold
painted letters, reads:
"To none will be sell, to none will we
delay, to none will we deny right or
Justice"
Last week Justice Morschauser said
that d negro who had been In jail for
some time must be tried before Ward.
The negro is Everard Clankes, who is
charged with the murder of Charles Har-
ris, of the same race, last February.
This case is on Justice Morschauser' s
calendar for next Monday. with District
Attorney Weeks As prosecutor. The
trial is likely to be very short. Yester-
day District Attorney Weeks was asked
how many other persons, arrested before
Ward were in jail awaiting trial. "A
lot Of them," he said: fifteen or six
teen" He was told that the Ward at
torneys thought their client. in view OF
all the circumstances, should have his
case decided before next fan.
The only answer to that" the Dis
trict Attorney said. els that when the
case is ready for trial it will go to trial
and not minute before"
Weeks denied that John z. Mack OF
Poughkeepsie had been retained as a
special prosecutor to bring Ward to
trial The story was bunk" he said.
A dispatch received last night by TIE
NEW York HERALD from It's Poughkeep-
sic correspondent says:
John L. Mack Is sick in bed, but Mrs.
Mack has just told me that he has been
retained as special prosecutor in the
Ward case
The District Attorneys aenial is ac-
cepted in White Plains as one Of the
diplomatic variety. 1t Is expected that
Mack will come down from Poughkeep-
sic toward the emu of this week. that
the papers in the case will be turned
over to him and that he will start right
In.
The next hearing in Justice Mors-
chausers investigation will be held early
next week. Six subpoenas were issued
last night. One of them is for woman
whom the Grand Jury wanted to hear
a fortnight ago but who left the hotel
where she had been living and has not
yet been found.
Missing Chauffeur Found.
Deputy Sheriffs, after two weeks of
conscientious sleuthing. found yesterday
In The Bronx a taxicab driver, John
Fleming. who, on the night Of May 15---
the night Clarence Peters was shot--was
engaged by two well known bootleg
gers to drive them to Yorktown. But
his lights went out and at Mt. Kisco they
changed to another carr On their return
they met Fleming again In Mt. Kisco
and he took them back to New York.
The deputies had theory that these
two strangers might be the missing wit
nesses Charley Ross and Jack, but II
now appears that they're. just boot
leggers. - tsy
Private detectives who havs been trac-
ing the movements Of Clarence Peters
are convinced that he had no opportu-
nifty to meet Ward in April, when Peters
passed through New York. On April
rs. after borrowing a dollar. he left his
home city, Haverhill. Mass. for Boston.
There he was accepted as tentative re-
cruit for the Marines and received trans
portation to Port Royal, S. c. He went
to Providence on the afternoon of the
26th. reached New York on the night
boat at A. NJ, on April q. and left
New York three hours later. at 10 10
A. NJ. by the Pennsyivania Railroad.
On~May IL. Peters was discharged from
the Marines. His detailed movements
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