The New York herald., 1922-05-29
SAYS GIRL OFFERED
$500 FOR A MURDER
IN WARD RESIDENCE
Boy in Restaurant Tells of
Mysterious Proposal
OF Stranger.
GO TO WESTCHESTER
Lad Informs Police Instead
OF Keeping Appointment
for Sizing.
',cHAsLEf Ross ISN'T SEEN
,cHARIsEfRoss Ar, ISN'T SEEN
Bryant Park Loafers Detail
Wards Visits There and
Gifts Of Money.

new element of mystery was in
jected into the Walter S. Ward -Clar-
ence Peters shooting yesterday when
street told the police of the West
Sixty-eighth street, station that a
young woman about 81 years old had
offered him $500 to kill Somebody"
presumably some one in tie Ward
home in New Rochelle. The exact
words of the young woman to Ryan,
as related by him to Detective Sergeant
Clarence DAILY of the West Sixty
eighth street station and to two de-
tectives of the New Rochelle police
station, We're these:
Il suppose you have read about the
man that Mr.. Ward killed. Well, Mr..
Ward is innocent. He did not kill
that man. I'll give you $500, but you'll
have to XIII somebody for me. I can
get you easy access into Mr.. Wards
house and I can get you out easily
Ryan told the police that the young
woman made this cffer after he had
ridden with her on the subway to the
242d street station and then fifteen
minutes on trolley car. He described
the place where they got off the car and
il appears to have been locality similar
to the surroundings of the Ward home.
Shortly before daybreak yesterday the
New Rochelle detectives took Ryan to
New Rochelle to see IL he could find the
place. but they would not make public
the result of the trip.
Lad Works In Restaurant.
Ryan is a walters assistant. known
as bus boy" 20 years old. and is en-
ployed at the Hanover Lunch room in
Broadway near Seventy-second street.
He lives at home with his father. who is
AN Irishman. and his mother. who is a
native OF Porto Rico. The Hanover
| lunch is serve yourself place, but when
women enter the restaurant It is the GUS
tom of the bus boys to get their checks
for them and offer TO carry to them
whatever food they want So when the
young woman entered the restaurant
about . O'Clock Saturday afternoon RYAN
hurried to her and asked her what she
wanted. She gave her order. and when
Ryan brought 1t she said to him.
How would you like to make some
money!"
sure 1 would" said Ryan.
What time do you get off?"
Eight o'clock" Ryan said.
The young woman told the bus boy
TO meet her in front of the restaurant at
s o'clock. and then she went out with
out saying anything more.
But when Ryan left the restaurant at
s o'clock the young woman was waiting
for him in front of the place. She spoke
TO him. but said nothing OF what she
proposed to do until they had gone
about a block. Then she said
do you still want to make some
money!"
you bet do" said Ryan.
1T will take nerve" the young woman
said.
rive got nerve" said Ryan
The woman told him to accompany
her They boarded a northbound SUBJ
way train Ryan said they rode to the
end Of the line at 242d street and got
off. and then got on a trolley car and
left It in a section that he said seemed
TO him 10 be country.
$500 for Murder offered.
Then. according to Ryan's story. she
made the remark already quoted. in
which she offered him $500 TO kill some
body. and told him she could get him
into the Ward house. Ryan told the
police that he became frightened when
she told him he would have to kill some
one to earn the $500. and tried to get
out OF 1t.
He had some argument, Ryan said,
but finally the woman agreed to let him
go home and get his other clothes. on
condition that he meet her again at the
end OF the street car line at 10 o'clock
Saturday sght This Ryan seid he
would do. but he did not. When he got
back to New York he went to the res
taurant and told the other employees
there what had happened and the ad-
venture he had had with the young
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