The New York herald., 1922-05-27
WARD FIGHTS AGAIN
TODAY FOR LIBERTY
ANDTLKELY YTOWN
Westchester Prosecutor to
Ask for Heavier Bail i'm
Staying Mystery.
MURDER PROOF WEAK
Prisoner Passes Second
Night iii Custody After
His Writ Fails.
BROKEN GLASS AT HOME
Red Backed Five of Spades
Found on Lawn Is New
Clew for Inquiry.
BROKEN GLASS AT HOME

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his freedom to-day after spending
two nights in the White Plains tall
An application for his release On
bail will be made to Justice 5esasi
of the Supreme Court in Newburgh
at 10 o'clock this morning.
1t is unlikely that District Attor.
ney Weeks of Westchester county
will oppose it. He probably will con-
tent himself with asking that the
bond be made considerably higher
than the one OF $4,000 which Ward
gave on Monday. when he sur
rendered and said he had killed in
self-defense Clarence Peters, one of
three men who had been blackmail-
ing him.
Justice Seeger can, If he chooses,
hold Ward in jail without bail to
await the Coroner's inquest, but in
the absence of such request from
the prosecuting officer Judge rarely
does so.
The reason why District Attorney
Weeks will not make such request,
unless something new turns up this
morning, is that he has no evidence
warranting him in treating Wafd
like man charged with murder He
has no evidence disprovfng any part
of Wards story, which is that he
went by appointment to meet the
blackmailers and shot Peters after
Peters shot at him on the State road
near the Kensico Reservoir.
Habeas Corpus Writ Fails.
Wards lawyers got writ OF
habeas corpus yesterday morning
and tried to liberate their client
But after hearing in Suprems
Court at White Plains Justice Frank
L. Young dismissed the writ
The hearing called Ward into
court with his three attorneys. Spec
tators nudged forward in the no,
that at last the story of blackpi =
underlying the story of the kj ng
of Peters was to be told. But nct B
/ syllable of II was permitted to caps
nor was any attempt made ~ The
District Attorney TO get it In 81 ~
record. The argument was all ln the
law and the status of Ward a e
! fendant.
STAYED I'm Custody
Dismissal of the writ left Wa tIst
where he had been since TT rsaa
afternoon. when his $4,000 bo HSa
Cancelled and he was rearresteo on an
order from Justice Seeger giviig tirr
into the custody OF George J. velner.
I Sheriff OF westchester county. That
/ is, he remained in custody without
BAIL but with the privilege OF making
new application for release on bail,
which privilege he will exercise sto-
/ day.
! Custody of the Sheriff means, In
this case. that Ward is spending
1 good part of his time in The Sheriff's
Office i'm the county court house at
/ White Plains. He spent ali OF yester-
day there except the hou. or so wien
he was in court, saw his lawyers there
and had his meals brought in.
Ward was still in the sheriYs offics
late last evening. A representative Of
the law firm of Rabenold & Scribner,
81 Broadway. dropped in to hand him
note, the reading of which seemed
/ to raise the prisoners spirits.
Playing Card Is New CIew.
An exhibit, the Importance OF ehieh
/ cannot be ascertained until o-dav.
was dug up by investigators New
/ Rochelle. IL consists of one plaving
card--a five of spades-and txensv.
eight pieces OF glass which al sar 10
have been part of the windshi lo oc
motor car They were found o a ses4
row strip of lawn about ten q fnm
the rear entrance OF Wards ll as
| SO Decatur road.
The possible significance Of f,h rt
Is that a pack from which Jreisi
cards were missing was ir cre ~
Clarence Peters's pockets vtrr his
body was found on the morning st
May 16. The state police htndod ine
defective pack to Sheriff w,rnes aud
he still has IT,
The card retrieved on tho Ward
lawn has what is known as calico
back" red in color. 1t apparently had
been rain soaked and then dried in the
sun. Lieut.. Roberts OF Troop X, State
police, said at the barracks at Gedney
Farm that the predominant color" OF
the pack he turned over To the Sheriff
was red which is commout color
for playing cards-but which yards