Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-08-12

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with an ounce of heroin, a cello.
plane cigarette package wrapper
filled with milk sugar and 25C
empty capsules loose in the bag
They found something else
something that prompted Mrs
Ward to make a quick grab. i
was a RED leatherette key cast
with two door keys and two
smaller keys in it.
The woman insisted they wer(
the keys to her house. But they
had been on the lookout for thai
particular key case. Their ace
intormer had told them she al.
ways carried it with her wher
she went TO her slash.
Arrest Ward, Find Pistol
And now the time had come
to pick up the limping man. The
detectives figured they woulc
find nothing in the house, thai
Ward had been tipped, but they
decided to go ahead.
He opened to their knock
Then he started yelling Will
rage. He became almost inco.
herent as they stated their bust.
ness. They found a fully-loadeC
Semi-automatlc pistol in The
drawer of an end table. They
saw bullet holes in the walls anc
window panes.
They found a set of keys that
looked exactly like the set they
had taken from his wife. Al
they had expected they found nc
narcotics-Just a cigaret wrapped
with traces of white powder on
the back porch.
1t was obvious Ward had beer
tipped of. Had he had time TO
tip of whoever was keeping the
cache on M street? 1t was 7:3C
pm, too late to start the bal
rolling for a search warrant. II
they waited, they were sure, the
slash would disappear and an
unknown quantity of heron
would be back III circulation.
See Name OH Mai Box
They decided not 10 wait. They
had no idea at that time which
apartment Mrs. Ward had en-
tered in the M street building
but they saw a name. on a mail
box-Mrs. Mamie Ward, 2 r.
1t was good enough to take a
chance on.
The lobby door was locked
Detective Panetta pulled out the
red leatherette key case and
started trying the door keys
The locked turned.
They knocked on pr.
A neatly dressed, middle-aged
colored woman opened it.
Are you the mother of Mel
vim Ward?"
She nodded and they told her
who they were.
Has jeanette been here?"
eyes. she was here earlier this
evening""
She showed no alarm, no de-
sire to be anything but helpful,
No. she said, her son ano
daughter-in-law didn't live there
but they did keep something il
the bedroom. No, indeed. she
wouldn't mind showing them.
Vanity Case Yields Surprise
She took the detectives to q
bedroom in the middle of the
apartment and opened the closet
door. on top of some other lug
gage was a red imitation leather
vanity case.
That's Jeanette's case. "she
said.
Mind if we open it?"
Help yourself"
Detective Holcomb tried one
of the suitcase keys from Jeanet-
te's key case. 1t opened the case
He raised the lid, and stared
Its loaded" he shouted to
his partner.
Detective Panetta looked anc
saw a stack of powder-fllled
glassine bags, three bags full OF
prepared capsules, some small
brown paper bags filled with
marihuana.
Mrs. Ward shook her head
wonderingly and said
Il didn't know what was in
that case jeanette comes BY
nearly every day and goes in
here. She just stays a few min
utes, never has much to say
TO me"
Thousands of Capsules
"Are there any other bags?"
asked Detective Panetta, think
ing Of the second suitcase key.
She opened metal locker and
pointd to a suitcase on the shelf
The other key fitted this one. The
suitcase had two pound cans of
milk sugar and two boxes con-
tanning thousands Of empty
At $3.50 pm. they were back at
Observation-Disclosures take spread
out on the table. They started
counting. There were about %
ounces of heroin. lis capsules in
one Of the bags. 263 in another
and 479 in third.
They figured out what the
limping man could have received
in cash had he sold his whole
supply Of heron. cut with milk