New-York tribune., 1922-05-29
Beautiful Caller Tempted
Him With $500, Broad.
way Bus Boy Declares
After New Rochelle Trip
New Guard Put ON
Millionaire's Home
Peters's Slayer Goes Driv-
ing With Wife; Ross Is
Not Produced by Lawyer

The killing Of Clarence Peters, former
navy enlisted man. by Walter S. Ward
son Of the millionaire head of the
Ward Baking Company, became more
OF fanciful, melodramatic mystery
than ever yesterday when the police of
New York began to hunt for a woman
beautiful, of course) who offered q
bus boy in a lunchroom on Broadway
5000 to kill Ward. AS proof that such
a woman exists the police of New Ro-
chelle have the word Of CHRISTOPHER
Ryan, OF 155 West 10th Street Chris
is the bus boy. He is twenty, half
Irish and half Porto Rican, and for
six months he has been on the pay roll
Of the New Hanover Restaurant, on
Broadway, between Seventy first and
Seventy second streets.
CARRIED All in Black, He Says
At precisely 1910 o'clock Saturday
night, according to the records of the
West Sixty-eighth Street police station,
Ryan rushed into the presence OF Act
ing Detective Sergeant Clarence Daley
and began to unfold his story. He said
that at half past five in the afternoon
e woman-Chrs rolled his eyes
heavenward as he spoke of her beauty
entered the restaurant, got piece
of French pastry and cup of coffee,
sat down, crossed her knees and en-
gagged him in conversation. She was
dressed in a black silk frock, and in
the opinion of Chris was dressed In
black from head to feet.
NINETY five per cent of the poor are
oppressed by the other five per cent OF
mankind, who are rich" began this
customer, according to Chris. Then
she told him that he could make q LOT
of money by accompanying her. She
mentioned $500 and Chris said ne
would go with her. He told the de.
tectives they descended the subway
kiosk at Seventy y-second Street, rode
to the end of the line, boarded troll
ley and rode some more until they
reached q suburb that Chris said he
learned was New Rochelle He was
not positive, however, because the
neighborhood was strange to him.
There the woman made her proposition
in definite terms. She told him she
would give him $500 if he would 90 te
the Ward home and kill Ward. She
also told him, Ryan told the detec-
tive, that Ward had not killed Peters
Guard Put on Wards Home
Ryan said he was thoroughly afratd
of his beautiful companion and eXcus ed
himself for moment. He left her
fiat and returned to New York, return.
ing first to his job and then going ia
the West Sixty-eighth Street station
Detective Daley got i'll touch with the
police of New Rochelle and the author
tiles at White Plains. A guard was
stationed at the Ward home and New
Rochelle policeman came to New York
and got Ryan to give more detailed
story. The police of New Rochelle
are keeping a careful watch for the
woman in black.
But even this news failed yesterday to
disturb the calm of Walter Ward, the
one person who can explain every
puzzling feature of the death Of Peters
Ward passed yesterday morning on q
side porch Of his home at New lie
digesting the articles dealing with him
that appeared on the first pages of the
Sunday newspapers, and for Ward they
were comic papers, causing him to
chuckle again and again as his squint-
Ing blue eyes encountered varying
theories offered in explanation of his
strange actions and stranger silence.
Goes Motoring With Wife
Late yesterday afternoon Ward and
his wife, who says she could explain
everything if the lawyers would let
her, drove away from New Rochelle in
the same Peerless coupe in which Ward
claims to have been when he killed
Peters. They were going, apparently
for Sunday afternoon fresh air jaunt,
and if they were at all disturbed by
their present situation neither betrayed
it by word or look.
District Attorney Weeks, at White
Plains, however, was unable to take a
Sunday afternoon motor ride. He
waited at his home all day for the
promised appearance Of William j. Fal-
lon, Mania ttan criminal lawyer, who
volunteered Saturday night to pro
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