Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-09-20
WARD CASE IN
CRUCIAL STAGE
Great Array of Legal Talent
in Fight to Save Millionaire
Bakers Son
TWO EXPERT WITNESSES
Or. ShuItz and William Jones
to be Heard Today-0ne is
Pistol Expert
TWO EXPERT WITNESSES

WHITE PLAINS, n. Y, Sept. 20
In an effort to clear up charges
made by the defense in the trial of
Walter S. Ward yesterday that the
prosecution had coached witnesses,
Justice Wagner today ordered the
recall to the witness stand OF Harry
]. Greene and Ralph Collins, state
troopers, who testified to circum-
stances of the discovery of the body
CT Clarence Peters, for whose MUIR
Ger the millionaire bakers son is on
trial.
Charges of coaching followed Col
Ems admission that he had con-
versed with Greene during a lunch
con interval in Greene's testimony.
Raymond A. Hill. a Westchester
county deputy sheriff and chief of
the county bureau of information,
today told on the witness stand how
lie had forwarded Peters finger
prints to the Navy Department and
thereby had been able to identify
him.
The reply, he said, showed that
the slain man was Peters whose next
CT kin was L. Peters of Haverhill,
Mass, and who had been dismissed
from the navy for bad conduct in
October, 1919.
The next witness was Harry Mil
Ter, a conductor on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, who was in
charge of train No. SIS running be-
tween Washington and New York on
May Is, 1929. He identified ticket
for passage between Washington
and Philadelphia, issued May IA at
Port Royal, S. c., by the Charleston
and Western Carolina railway, and
said he had collected this ticket
which had been issued to Peters.
William /. Switzerland. ticket
agent for the Charleston and West
ern Carolina railway at Port Royal,
S. c., testified to issuing transpor-
tation to Peters to go to Phlladei-
phia.
Lynn S. Mayo, a sergeant of ma
rines. stationed at Paris Island,
said Peters did not leave the island
while he was there between April 2S
and May Il, 1922. He said peters
was put to work painting.
With legal battle for the life OF
Walter S. Ward, wealthy bakers
son. accused of the murder OF
clarence Peters, warmed up to a
feverish pitch, new forces will be
arrayed in the defense of the accused
TODAY. Already the attorney generals
forces have been increased to a
maximum.
DIR. Otto Schultz, noted pathologist
and William Jones. former pistol ex-
merit of the New York police depart
ment. took their places beside de-
fense lawyers yesterday. 1t is ex-
pected that DIR. Schultz mission is
In check on the testimony of DR..
Henry j. Vier, who performed the
autopsy on Peters body.
Jones, it is said, will be called upon
to prove that the gun claimed by !
the state to have been given Ward |
by the chief of police of New Rocn-
ellie. N. Y, was one belonging to the
murdered man. Ward made this /
claim in his original blackmail story. |
The summary election of tall, !
dark stranger from the packed court !
room created a mystery yesterday /
which was heightened today by the /
of a score of detectives, !
official and private. among the hun /
dreds of men, women and girls who
c;amored for admission as the trial |
was resumed.
Many of the would be spectators,
particularly the feminine ones, en-
tered the crush at the courtroom
doors in the hope of a glimpse at
he defendant and his wife, Beryi
Curtis Ward, who has sat beside her
husband throughout the trial, daily
in some new intriguing COM
oination of black.
Others were drawn to the scene
oy the prospect that yesterdays IN
bitter STEP p-by-step attack
mon fhe prosecutors and states wit
lesses would be resumed by the de-
ense. The knowledge. also gained
rom yesterdays developments, that
he defense was shadowing every
witness for the state, even to the
,oint of reporting their converse
ions during the recess and lunch
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