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PEs " THE “If If HAPPENS IN NEW YORK IT’S IN THE EVENING WORLD™ =~ WARD'S SON KILLS BLACKMAILE To-Night . Weather—F AIR. ALL STREET yEKING “vol, LXII. RO, 22, 055—DAILY. . MORSE CLOSING |WORLD TABLES. orere De [a Circulation Books Open to All,” | (Ne PR bilshing Company, 1082. w York Work) by Press NEW MOL, MONDAY, MAY 22, 1922. To- Morrow's Weather—PROBABLY FAIR. | “Circulation Books Open t Office, MISED DAUGHERTY $100,000 FOR MORSE PROMISED $100, TO DAUGHERTY Ir rilS FROM PRISON 000 PARDON WAS OBTAINED This in Addition to $6,000 and $25, 000 Agreed On—Soapsuds or Drug to Simulate Illness of Prisoner— Yurried Visit to Taft Before Release WASHINGTON, May 22.— attorney from the \ complete account of how Attorney General Daugherty and Thomas B. Felder are alleged to have obtained a pardon for Charles W. Morse Atlanta Penitentiary in 1912, was given in two letters pub- Atlanta and Washington lished exclusively here today in the Washington Daily News. Faceimiles of of the spondence were printed One of the letters appearing in the News was written by ‘'T. B, Felder’ to Leon O. Bailey, Hanover National Bank Building, New York City, under date of Oct. 12, 1917, nearly five years after Morse was freed. Accord- ing to the letter a “Mr. Grafton John- jon”’ had turned over to Bailey “‘for part or collection or adjustment’ $25,000 of common and preferred stock in the Morse Securities Company, upon which Felder had obtained a loan from Johnson The outstanding statements in the ‘letter above Felder's signature are: PROMISED TO MAKE BOTH MEN RICH. 1, That Morse after accepting the alleged contract calling for a $25,000 fee and a $6,000 retainer (the retainer was paid), promised to make Daugh- erty and Felder ‘rich’ by them $100,000 2. That statements of ductors were obtained that poor health 4, That the pardon order was finally obtained one day when Attorney General Wickersham and ‘Mr. Ben- nett, the editor-in-chief of the Wash- ington Post," called at the White House and after ‘‘a protracted con- versation between the President (Taft) and Mr. John Rt the telephone."’ 4. That Daugherty later, when the case a constd- erable unfavorable publicity, called on Attorney General Wickersham and urged against his return to prison. 5. That Daugherty became very angry with Morse when the latter, after returning from a trip to Burope, siving Morse was in McLean over and Felder, sought to pay the alleged fee in se- curities of his company, inst of cash, and that he refused to accept the securities. 6. That Morso’s release was ''se cured by and through the efforts of Hon. H, M. Daugherty and myself and by no other individual, corpora- tion, or group of individuals, living or dead, on the earth or beneath it standing on their heads or on their heels, sitting up or lying down." The other letter, under date of Oct 18, 1917, was signed by F. L. Seely and confirms statements Felder makes. Seeley, who was a former editor of the Atlanta Georgian, ac- cording to the Felder letter, induced Felder to act as counsel in the Morse case. After telling how Seely interested Felder in the him in the Morse case, letter, says: $131,000 IN ALL FOR FREEDOM. “This decision Daugherty communicated and myself to was by H, M, MEDAL WINNERS NEW YORK FIREMEN EVENING WORLD'S Night Pictorial To-Night “THE GREEN PAPER” corre- @ ULSTER M. P. SHOT DOWN BY SNIPERS; CABINET CALLED Twaddell, First Parliament Member to Be Attacked, Riddled by Bullets. BELIAST, May (Associated Press).—W. J. Twadde!l, a member of the Northern Parliament, was shot here this morning and died in the hos- pital. He was proceeding to business when he was struck by several shots. A woman was also wounded by the fusillade. Mr, Twaddell, passing through Gar- field Street, was nearing his place of business on North Street when two men approached and fired seven shots at him from a range of two yards, all the byllets taking effect. The victim collapsed and the assassins decamped before the spectators realized what had happened, Mr. Twaddell ts the first Member of Parliament to be attacked in the history of Belfast's disord The killing of Twaddell caused the issuance of a manifesto by Sir. James Craig, the Premier, announcing a special meeting of the Cabinet and the legal authorities, The Premier declared “just retrubution” was called for. 22 The Premler in his manifesto sald: “My detestation of this horrible crime fills me with such indignation that 1 have summoned a special meeting of the Cabinet and all the authorities dealing with law and or- der. Such an event as this murder demands just retribution." ~ The manifesto says Mr. Twaddell was murdered for his loyalty to the empire and his devotion to the cause of Ulster and the welfare of the coun- try, His colleagues, it was declared, will carry on and face the future, no matter what the future might hold for them, “Justice and retribution the higher authorities,"” the manifesto adds. ‘Let the people rally around the established government, which will seo that proper measures are taken without plunging our province or our capital into a welter of crime and bloodshed.’ ‘The most disquieting feature of yes- terday's disorders in Belfast was the shifting of the centre of trouble to Ballymacarrett, the East End section, where there is a large artisan popula- tion and a small, compact Sinn Fein community, living in an area called the Short Strand. Two men were kill-d in the violent rioting there, and Thomas Mc: who was wounded Saturday rest with ne (Continued on Fourth Page.) AMERICAN WOMEN AMONG $8 DEAD IN OCEAN CRASH Two Missionaries Among Cas- ualties in Disaster Off French Coz PERSONS 242 SAVED. Only Ten Passengers Perish but 88 of Crew Are Un- accounted For. (Associated Press),—Mrs Sibley and Miss V. M. Boyer, American missionaries on their way to India, were said to- day by R. V. Bevan, the only other American passenger, to have been drowned in the wreck of the British steamship Egypt, which was sunk off the Island of Ushant Saturday night by a collision with the French steamer Seine. Nearly one hundred other per- sons lost their lives in the disaster. Ninety-elght persons are missing and 242 were saved of those who were on board the Egypt, according to the latest official figures. Mrs. Sibley and Miss Boyer were missionaries on their way to India. According to the Egypt's purser, the ship floated only about twenty minutes after her plates were crushed in by the Siene. The Egypt, he de- clares, was not moving at the time of the accident, lying to on account of the dense fog and sounding her siren continuously. Suddenly there came the warning shriek of the siren on the Seine, and the latter loomed up out of the fog and darkness and struck the Egypt amidships. With the crash there came a terriblo confusion on the stricken yessel, Four or five boats were all that could be lowered, be- cause of the list of the vessel, and many persons jumped ‘overboard, fearing to be drawn down with the Egypt. There was no one on board when the vessel took her final plunge, he believed. The purser estimated that fifteen passengers, thirty white officers and fifty Lascars of the crew were miss- ing. Of thirty-eight passengers in all, it fs said that but ten are missing... The doctor and chief engineer of the Egypt are missing. The Egypt, outward bound from Tilbury to Bombay, was running down the French coast off the Ushant Rocks, near Brest, when the collision occurred, The heavy fog made the powerful searchlight from the Armen Lighthouse invisible, but the liner was sounding her siren and sending out wireless calls at regular intervals. The fact that the French vessel cut nearly through the 8,000-ton Egypt seems to show that the Seine was steaming at a high rate of speed. The passengers on the liner were (Continued on Fourth Page.) > BROOKLYN MAN ADMITS HIS AUTO KILLED COP John Spooner, a contractor, No. Parkside Avenue, Brooklyn, gave himself up to the police of New- ark to-day and admitted that he drove living at the machine wheih ran down Motoreycle Policeman Cedric J. Peterson in Newark Wednesday night. F on didd at the City Hospital yesterday from the in- Juries. Spooner told the police that after driving Peterson and Motorcycle Police- man Dudle to the hospital he started to drive his car from the driveway in order to make way for an ambulance. Dudle was still in the hospital and Spooner decided to keep on driving — SUBMARINE RAMMED NEAR LOS ANGELES LOS ANGELES, May 22.—The navy submarine H7 was rammed by the steam schooner Virginia Olson and towed into Los Angeles. harbo < t o-day occurred outside Los Angeles harbor, U. $. DIPLOMAT ENDS REVOLT BY THREAT OF FORGE Nicaraguan Insurrectos Give Up After Minister Ramer Arranges Conference. HAD CAPTURED FORT. Rebels, Told Not to Fire Upon Capital City, Agree to Surrender, MANAGUA, Nicaragua, May 21 (Associated Press).—A revolutionary movement began here to-day against President Diego Manuel Chamorro, A band of rebels seized Fortress Loma, commanding this city. Upon representations from the American Minister, John E. Ramer, the revolutionists agreed to turn ever the fort to the commander of the American marines at 10 o'clock to- night, ernment. When news of the capture of the fortress was received, the American Minister sent a letter to the com- mander of the reyolting. troops, as- serting that if the fort fired upon Campo De Marte, where American marines are stationed, or upon the city, the fire would be returned by marines, He also proposed that Gen, Cruz send three representatives to the American legation to meet three rep- resentatives of the Government There was firing between Govern- ment troops and those holding the fortress during the afternoon, several soldiers being wounded. At the conference tater it agreed that Gen. Cruz would sur- render the fortress, It was also agreed that ctvillans implicated in the revolution would be pardoned and military participants imprisoned for thirty days. Everything was quiet late to-night Rear Admiral Cole, U. 8. N.. and 400 marines are expectéd to reach Cor- into to-morrow. pe HENRY FORD CALLED TREASURY RAIDER Muscle Shoals Project Would Cost U.S. $1,485,- 900,000, Says Expert. was WASHINGTO, May 22. — The offer of Henry Ford for the lease of the Muscle Shoals, Ala., nitrate and power project was characterized ar “the most extraordinary attempt to raid the Treasury that has ever come to my attention’ by Col. Hugh Cooper of Stamford, Conn., interna tional expert on water power by de- velopment, testifying before the Sen- ate Agriculture Committee to-day Cooper declared that the Ford of fer would cost the Government $1, 485,900,000 over and above what Ford contemplates paying into the Treas- ury toward completion and interest payments on the project WASHINGTON, May 22 (Associ ated Press).—An offer of $2,500,000 for the Gorgas power plant, the Gov- ernment's interest in the railroad and the transmission line from Gorgas to Muscle Shoals, Ala., has been made to Secretary Weeks by the Alabama Power Company. > 200,000,000 MARKS FOR FORMER KAISER Government Will for Land Seized Since Armistice. LONDON, May 22. Wilhelm of Hohenzollern is to be compensated in full by the esent German Government for landed prop- erty taken over since the revolution and Wilhelm’s exile in Holland, German Pay cording to a despatch to the West- minister Gazette this afte n The former Kalser will rece 00. 000,000 marks. In gold marks this is equal to $50,000,000 and in paper marks approximately $100,000 to be given back to the Gov-/ SON OF MILLIONAIRE BAKER KILLED | ARMED MAN WHO DEMANDED $75,000 ered aw Second-Cln to All.”’ | Matter N.Y. ww Yor! HIS PARDON Walter S. Ward, Who Confesses Killing Blackmailer, and Wife| (Photo by Campbelia § ALL EMPLOYEES INP. 0. HERE WILL BE FINGER-PRINTED 15,000 to Be Photographed Also to Learn it Criminal Record. An orde r requirir printing and photogrs one of the Post Office tan and whether an record, 15, Department the ay 000 « master Edward M. M General John H was as follows “In accordance wit mendation, and following u Institated, y already to fingerp! ployees determined “On (Continued on Sixt! rint connected system of your city thone having crin and account of Bartlet phot cording to approved met to the Any Has nh Manh discov an Act at minal st ng vids, all em- Is may Page.) ted the postal end that dio.) ANDERSON WINS OPENING GOLF MATC IN PLAY ABROAD PRESTWICK etland, May 22 (United I ) John ( Anderson member of the van Club and a former Massachusetts champion, was the first Am nt ve the opening rouni of the amateur Kolf champ ’ He defeated Walt Ww and, five and fou The tournanen ed this morn- ing over { most famous courses, in Iiritain with 252 entries, i1 nly a scattering of Americans, w © all competing In dependently All of the | Brit amateurs are com peling ding Willie Hunter, Jast yvar's champion, and Cyril J. WH, Tolley, forme ampion. HKOHEAG : — WORLD TRAVEL Hy ‘ 1 4-04 hone Beekniaa dp jPenned In on Road by Gang in Auto sight miles north of White Plains. _PRICE ‘THREE CENTS | | { \ j | alter S. Ward in Confession Says j He Was Victim of Blackmail for Six Weeks Before Shooting on a Westchester Road. He Pulls His Revolver and Leaps at Peters — Narrowly Escaped’ When Bullet Broke Glass in Coupe. Walter S. Ward, thirty-one, son of George S. Ward, present !.ad of the Ward Baking Company, living at No. 63 Decatur Road, New Rochelle, surrendered to Sheriff George Werner at White Plains to-day, and confessed that he shot and killed Clarence Peters, the ex-navy man found dead last Tuesday’ near the Kensico Reservoir, between Chap- paqua and Armonk. The spot where the body was found is about “The Body of the slain man remained unidentified for several It was then claimed by an uncle of the youth 19 Grove Street, Haverhill, \ Jays. at No. sent Peters lived S., Where the body has ‘been Ward, in his confession said, according to Sheriff Werner, that he was the victim of a $75,000 blackmail plot in which, he alleged, Peters and two other men were engaged. [He said he was lured to a place on the Port Chester Road and was met there by Peters, who ordered him to drive to the reservoir : WARD THREATENED WITH A REVOLVER Reaching the place near the reservoir, Ward said, he was threatened with a revolver by Peters and two other men who came up in an automobile. The shooting followed. or nine shots fired, one of which killed Peters, Ward was formally charged with homicide on making the ale leged confession. He was released in $10,000 bond, which he gave himself. The blackmail plot, Ward was said to have erplaiied. dealt with himself and his family Sheriff Werner declined to tell in any detail*the basis of the blackmail “This is a case of blackmail,” said the Sheriff. The man who was shof was known as ‘Pete. Identification has re- vealed that he was Clarence Peters, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge Peters, No. 19 Grove Street, Haverhill, Mass. The man who did the shooting is Walter S. Ward, son of Ward, the baker.” The Sheriff said that Ward declared a gang had been trying to olackmail him, and had got sums money from him, “Ward declares he was the victim of blackmail for six weeks before the shooting,” said the Sheriff BLACKMAILERS DEMAND $75,000 “The gang last Tuesday morning made an appointment with their victims, according to the latter's story. This meeting was the final effort to blaickmail Ward,” said the Sheriff, in retelling the story told him by Ward, “They demanded $75,000 of him.” Ward told Sheriff Werner that he went in his coupe to meet I in a road between White Plains and Port Chester. Ward went to the meeting nursing the hope that he would be able to talk himself out of the difficult situation and persuade the alleged blackmailers to withdraw their demand for $75,000. Ward met three men, according to his story to the Sheriff. One was Peters, the other was known as Charlie Ross and the third man was called “Jack.” “Ward did not succed in his hope,” said the Sheriff. “Instead, he / told me, Peters got into his (Ward's) car and shoved a gun against Ward's ribs and told him to drive according to directions to be given by Peters. The route led to the King Street road, on the northern side of the Kensico Reservoir, to the spot where Peters’s body later was found.” PETERS ORDERED WARD TO STOP CAR. Peters ordered Ward to stop the car, and was obeyed, the Sheriff Another car, containing Charlie Ross and “Jack,” came up from behind and was placed across the road in front of Ward's course, Peters backed out, according to the Sheriff, and, keeping his gun pointed at Ward, ordered Ward out. As he came through the doot of the machine Ward, who is left-handed, thrust his hand into his rear left pocket and pulled out a revolver, at the same time making i leap at Peters. He seized Peters’s right hand, which, he said, held gun. 4 Peters fired, Ward said, according to the Sheriff, ‘Whe bullet There were eight various of said the