New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-06-11
millionaire Bak er and
BROTHER of Self-Confess-
ed SLAYER To Be Quizzed
About BIackmail Plot
Nother-in-Law Is
Also SubpGnaed
An Unidentified Witness,
Rounded Up by Pinker-
ION Men, To Be Heard

r.. important witnesses Will De e~-
- tuesday by the Westehester
s..,tv % sr.nd jury in The search for an
80 80, 70 ii. question, "why did Wal
80 ward. son Of a millionaire and
-, '. Of the New Rochelle Police
S.-ri,sion. kill Clarence Peters,
~ ~ upeouth, rejected marine re-
uui.T -,
cu,,.ions to George Ward the father
~ waiter; Ralph, brother; Mrs. N.
wal,Td Curtis, Of i5i Arlington Ave-
,,s Rrooklyn, the mother Of Mrs.
Re-, Curtis Ward, and an as yet un-
,s,nt,hed witness who has been rounded
I'd By the Piaksrtons.
ss,,is Werner said last night that
~. ~ his deputies had served a sub
,gps on Ralph Ward ordering him to
-, n, Tuesday before the grand
~ y The Sheriff declined TO say
rb.re AID when the subpoena had been
served. ..e -.
Ms George Ward. said over the tele-
rhon, last night from the Ward home
A. spuyien Dryvil that her husband had
rot arrived home from a motoring trip.
she also said that she did not know
vhen he would get home. Previously q
woman there who had answered the
t.lsphone said that Mr.. Ward was ex-
ps.ed to reach home to-day.
Believed to Know Of Plot
The father and brother Of Walter
are believed 10 know the basis for any
bl,ekmail plot that may have had Wal
tsr for victim. On the word Of Wal
Ter Wards attorneys he exchanged
wireless messages with his father con-
esrnirg The demands Of the alleged or
perhaps supposititious blackmailers.
Mrs. Curtis was a house guest Of
her daughter and son-in-law the night
Peters vas killed. II there was any
urusuaI happening in the house that
Right y u assumed she knows about
y A subpoena was served on her yes
isfdsy a. ksr home in Brooklyn.
Tie tt1rseter of the testimony that
nay h expected from the witness dug
Up b. the Pinkertons was not revealed
By any Of the officials in White Plains
yesterday. District Attorney Weeks
isf Asea close-mouthed since the grand
Jlrox took him 20 task last week for
vkgs they characterized as "leaks TO
TIE Newspapers" Sheriff Werner has
Svwin decidedly hostile toward pri-
viie Investigators attempting 70 get
q the truth, Of the affair. 1t was said
Yesterday that this hostility did not
Iiep short Of the Pinkertons.
officials Not Cooperating
There is tangible evidence Of a lack
cooperation between the Sheriff and
Is deputies and the Pinkertons, who
'e reporting to District Attorney
eeks. On Thursday the Sheriff sent
'ur deputies TO Syracuse to capture {
harley Rogers, and perhaps a Jack
iese men were supposed to be the in.
viduals named by James J. Cunning
an in his now almost thoroughly dis
redited version OF the killing Of Pc
rs. An order was signed by Justic,
iorsch auser. on that day which wouls
ave permitted the Sheriff TO take Gun
lingham TO Syracuse to identify th'
men.
The Pnkertons, who have an agency
n Syracuse and therefore could have
'sken any such characters into custody
= momentb notice, were not in.
'efmed Of the tip that these supposed
Witnesses were in Syracuse, which hap.
'ens 70 be the former home Of Gun.
lngham. Yesterday it was learned
Iat the Rogers who was sought by
ne deputies al the Hotel Onondaga
here Is a travelling salesman who
TOPS there regularly and could by no
'ueteh OF the imagination have any
part IN the Ward mystery.
Cunningham Freed on Bail
Cunningham was believed yesterday
% have ceased TO be a factor in the
Investigation when his release as a
material witness on $500 bail was ar
ranged. The glib-torgued and highly
liiaaseeurate tipster who sought to claim
Ihe New York Americans" 81 900 re-
saSd, was brought into the Sherif's Of
nee IN the afternoon and there met his
lewyer and the representative Of a
surety company.
Newspaper men swarmed about the
corridor.
!, Get your things from the Jail and
zen meet ne here" said Maurice Nc
.tr'ay attorney and cousin Of Cum
bingham.
cunningham, dashing across West
'ass,ers s,is Bridge Of Sighs, said:
III be right back But his state
neht was as inaccurate as his story Of
ns u Killing Of Peters in the library Of
- ward home. He simply walked
iceniinuec on next paas)
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