The evening world. Newspaper, June 7, 1922, Page 6

NEW PISTOL GLUE IN WARD CASE MAY UPSET WHOLE’ INVESTIGATION (Continued from First Page.) ‘hill and his associates on the U. 8. § Florida in his training period in Bos- ton Harbor in 1919, fails to show that he had any fondness for firearms or ever possessed a revolver or handled any weapon except when required to do 80. But a second report from the Springfield factory discloses that a second series of revolvers of exactly the same type was made, bearing the same series of numbers; a re- volver of the type now in the hands of Sheriff Werner and numbered 21478 was shipped from Springfield to Hibbard, Spencer & Bartlett of Chicago May 12, 1919. The discovery was regarded as s0 important that an inquiry to trace the Chicago house has been started. It was considered likely that the wea- pon now held by Sheriff Werner may de sent to Springfield in order that ‘an expert at the factory may ascer- tain whether it has any peculiarity which would show to which series “t_ belonged, Maurice McCarthy, counsel for J. J Cunningham, the imprisoned witness of kaleidoscopic memory of the events in and about New Rochelle, Stamford and the Bronx on the night of May 16, made a new effort to-day to get his client out of White Plains Jail. Justice Seeger signed a habeas corpus writ for the production of the former race track tout and private detective at 3 o'clock this afternoon on the alle- gation that he is illegally committed. Cunningham was out for a moment Saturday on a similar writ freeing him from custody of the Coroner as Mllegal, but was at once rearrested and held in $5,000 bail, which could not obtain. Since then he has told a tale of receiving a death threat from Dan the Dude (a blackmailer dating far enough back to have his biography printed in Inspector Byrnes's book), and has sald he Was grateful for a chance to be safe in jail. His tear, it was noted, had Passed from him overnight. Mrs. Ward was calm and smiling when she went into the Giund Jury room, and never changed throughout the ordeal. She was reported to have given her answers in a clear, steady voice. She readily gave “foundation testimony,"’ such as her name, the date of her marriage and such thin, When Mr. Weeks got down to tl night of the st voting and asked her if she could recall what happened, she recorded her first refusal. The were other questions to which the District Attorney failed to get perti- nent answers, then the adjournment for the court's ruling. The Justice was told Mrs. Ward had refused to teli what time her husband came home the night of the shocting; re- fused to identify several pictures shown to her; refused to give the names of her sts at the card party in her home the night of the Gest | ing, or to say what her husband told her when he ie home that aight. Justice Morschauser ruled that Mra, Ward must tell what time her hus- band came home because It was in- formation that other persons might have—was not confidential—and also must tell the names of her guests. As to other questions, she must tell whatever she saw or heard that was ween or heard by others than herself and husband, The District Attorney then returned to the Grand Jury room and Mrs. Ward was recalled. She was a very evasive, though still smiling witness, She sald her husband returned home on the night of the shooting at 4.30 A M. It was learned this had been testified to earlier by Miss Lulu Bar- rows and Miss Amy Mild, two maids in the Ward home, when they ap- peared before the Grand Jury. It supported Ward's statement through nis lawyers that he shot Peters about 4 A.M. Mre. Ward said her husband tele- phoned to his home the evening of May 15 and sald he would not be there for dinner. When asked how many automobiles her husband had, she said one. She said tn regard to the guests at the party that evening that she could not recall thelr names. She was asked what condition her husband was in when returned home, and de- clared she did not remember, She said to a number of questions "T don't remember’’ or “I don't know.” There were seven other witnesses before the Grand Jury during the day. Their testimony was mainly of a per- functory nature. The testimony of the autopsy doctor that he thought the dead man was about twenty-five, when Peters was nineteen, iq believed responsible for a stery about White Plains that the body might not have been that of Peters. No one seemed to take this seriously, however. No decision has been reached as to Joseph J. Cunningham, who is held in the White Plains jall in $5,000 as a material witness. Cunningham's re- luctance to leave: jail is sald to have been increased by a message smug- gled into his cell Jast night with the warning ‘'Keep your mouth shut or we will bump you off.’ It was sald to bear the signature of ‘Dan the Dude,"’ described by tho authorities as leader of a New York band of blackmatlers, Discovery that the maids, as well as Mrs. Ward, told the Grand Jury they couldn't recall the name of the guests at the party in the Ward home the night of ‘the killing, aroused new tn- terest in the affair to-day. It was said the Grand Jury has unofficial in- formation that the party started at Ward's home and adjourned to an inn at Hunter's Island, five mils away. Ward, according to this rumor, left his guests and rode away for the meeting that ended in Peters's death. The Pinkertons have reported they have been unable to find any evidence that Ward ever knew Peters. They have been able to learn nothing of when Peters came here or what he @'d between the time he arrived from Paris Island, 8. C., and the time he was killed—only a few hours, accord- ing to report. There has been found no evidence whatever that Ward and Peters ever met, except the state- ment of Ward himself. patel ES WOMAN'S SCALP TORN BY BAIN CURLING MACHINE. ASHEVILLE, N. C., June 7.—Mrs. J. G, Beaman of Marion fs in a local hos- pital in a critical condition to-day as the regult of having her hair and part of her scalp torn from her head by an electrical hair curling device in a Marion beauty shop. THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, MISS RENEE HUOT IS BRIDE TO-DAY OF EDWARD GRIFFITHS Miss RENEE HUOT Ceremony Is at Church of St. Vincent de Paul, With Reception at Sherry’s. The wedding of Miss Renee Huot, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis H. Huot of No. 250 West 88th Street, to Edward Addison Griffiths of this ety, will be held this afternoon in the Church of St. Vincent de Paul, on West 23d Street. A reception will follow at Sherry’s. The maid of honor will be Miss Adele Silz of New York and the bridesmaids the Misses Messie Ahner, Frances Monneuse, Grace Ahner and Cecille Bustanoby. Little Juliette Prevot will be flower girl, The brother of the bridegroom, Thomas Griffiths, will be best man and the ushers Raymond Sitz, Francis I, Ver- E. McCabe, Willlam Harding Miss Huot attended the Sacred Heart Convent at Manhattanville. Mr. Griffiths is a graduate of the Univer- sity of Virginia, aaa BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 7.—By unanimous vote the, City Commission of Birmingham has refused to adopt fan ordinance proposed by the Birming- ham Bar Association and backed by numerous civic and commercial bodies prohibiting masked parades. F. J. Mashburn of Atlanta professed repre- of the Ku Klux Klan, made rgument againat the proposal. The commission later passed an or- dinance proposed by the Bar Assocla- tion making unlawful the abduction and whipping of private citizens and providing penalties, —- MRS. BEULAH WOOD DENED $15,000 YEARLY ALIMONY. Mrs, Beulah Fields Wood, authoress and poet, to-day was denied her appli- cation for $15,000 yearly alimony from her wealthy publisher husband, ©. Wood, who lives at Garden © 1, by Supreme Court Justice Wasser- vogel. The court held that it was not satisfied there is a reasonsble proba- bility of success evidenced in Mrs. Wood's pleadings in her suit for separa- tion, Sizes . . Prices . Sizes «. « Prices . Exceptional Values in Imported Rush Rugs for porches and sun rooms, will be specially featured to-morrow (Thursday) This assortment of Summer floor coverings includes rugs in both the oblong and oval shapes, in various colors, at prices that are astonishingly low. - 2x2 feet - 75c « 7x10 feet - $12.00 (Fifth Floor) Madison Abenue- Fifth Avenue, Pew Dork Thirty-fourth Street 5x7 feet $7.50 9x12 feet 23.50 6x8 feet 9, () 10x15 feet 32.50 Chirty-titth Street ig a ee GEN. PORTER'S ESTATE|134 WIVES ARRIVE IS PUT AT $2,716,510 ABOARD TRANSPORT Liberty and Victory Bonds $1,295,000—Home Only Real Estate. Gen, Horace Porter, who served under Grant in the Civil War, left a Bross estate of $2,716,510, according to an appraisal fled yesterday by the Deputy State Comptroller, Total deductions of $97,463 include debts of $18,408, Gen. Porter's hold- ings of stocks and bonds aggregat $2,394,839. His Liperty and Victory bond holdings, which were larger than those of mien with several time his total wealth, amounted tc $1,295,000, The schedules reveal that durine his lifetime Gen, Porter bought stock in many mining and industrial enterprises which failed to material ize, Among his worthless stock hold ines were 3,000 shares of the Terrible Mining Co. 100 shares of Hudaor River Copper*Company, 8,000 shares of Purblo Realty and Development Company and 600 shares of tne San Diego Land and Town Company. The only real estate owned by Gen Porter consisted of his home at No 277 Madison Avenue, which was valued at $281,000. The household furnishings were appraised at $31,275. A flag which flew over Gen, Grant's headquarters in Virginia during the Civil War and which Gen, Porter willed to the Grant Monument Asso- ciation along with a cash bequest of $10,000 is set down by the appraisers as having no market value. Gen. Porter's only daughter, Mrs. Elsio Mende of Berne, Switzerland, receives his residuary estate, valued at $1,894,5 and each of her four chil- dren ———<——_—__— ITALY's KING NEAR DEATH LONDON, June 7.—King Victor manuel of Italy had a narrow escape from death yesterddy while drinivng motor car from Anzlo toward Palermo, ways a patch to the Central News from Rome. The King’s car had just cleared the tracks at a crossing when a train rushed past, Somme. Docks With Half ILfundred Casuals From Germany. On the United States Army trans- port Somme, which left Antwerp May 27 and docked early to-day at Pier No. 2 Army Base, South Brooklyn, there arrived: Three hundred and seventy-six troops Highty-four wives and families of soldiers. Fifty officers’ wives, Sixty-four bodies of soldiers. Two million dollars in silver. ‘The troops consisted of returning “casuals and one or two skeleton units formerly of the’Army of Occu- pation. 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