The evening world. Newspaper, June 21, 1922, Page 14

14 REVELS IN WARD'S BACHELOR FLAT ‘ba: NOW CALLED GLUE 10 BLACKMAIL (Continued from First Page.) tion that the newspapers of New York had deliberately created an at- ‘Mosphere in the Grand Jury room Bostic to their client. As to Mr, ner, the affidavit of Allan R Gampbell of Ward's counsel, attached to the application, said: “Upon information and belief the foreman of the Grand Jury, one @mckland B. Cordner, who fs its most Getive member, had a bias against the defendant growing out of the fact that sald Cordner had been a eandidate for the office of Police Commissioner of New Rochelle and had failed of appointment because of the appointment of the defendant Walter S. Ward, in consequence of which said foreman has displayed from the outset hostility against the defendant, even to the extent of in- sisting upon witnesses answering questions in the Grand Jury room after the court and the Grand Jury had both declared that the refusal Of said witnesses to answer was legally justified, and thereby an at- Mosphere against the defendant was @reated through extraneous force stimulated by resentment against the defendant's wife and brother for wtanding on their legal rights.” As to the newspapers, the affidavit ebarged: “Throughout the sitting of the Grand Jury, New York City news- Papers, circulated in the homes of the Grand Jurors, conducted a front-page Gampaign to obtain for their news @lumns an elaboration of the defend- ant's contention respecting blackmail ahd have used the fact of the de- fendant's misfortune in being involved th these proceedings as a means of pressure on him to declare more fully the nature of his defense at the peril @f being indicted for failure to do s0."* Further Mr. Campbell declared that at no time had the defense failed t) give to the District Attorney or Sher- iff Werner any information for which these officials had asked. NO CASE MADE OUT, SAY ATTORNEYS. ~Mr. Campbell said he was assured that the Grand Jury had heard no evidence from an eyewitness of the shooting of Clarence Peters; that its only information as to his death was contained in a self-serving statement filed by counsel for the defendant and the statement by District Attorney Weeks that Ward had admitted shoot - ing Peters with a thirty-eight-calibre pistol. In fifteen years, he said, no man charged with murder in the first de- gree in Westchester County had asked to sec the Grand Jury minutes without getting them. The purpose of an examination of the minutes, he continued, was to form a motion for the dismissal of the indictment. Meantime, the Grand Jury heard Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Hook, Mr. and Mrs. Shuman, E. H. Stolz and other neighbors of the Wards and Dr. Schell, Ward's physician, as to the swallowing of a quantity of iodine about two weeks before Peters was Killed. The Grand Jury adjourned without action for one week. Mrs. Curtis, mother-in-law of Walter Ward, did not appear. Subpoena Servers could not find her. Nothing in the new tnformarion, the District Attorney pointed ou: to day, throws any light on what has come to be regarded as the most tm portant missing link in many which Break the chain of evidence—when ahd where Ward first met Peters and how Peters came to be at the «pot where he was killed, +All the resources of the authorities are being strained to find and ques- tion Ward's women visitors. Tele- Phone records may lead to the homes of some of them. The way may be opened for a superseding indictment @gainst Ward incorporating more de- tails of the real blackmailing story: Investigators were told there was much a procession of women to ‘\''s apartment “there was almost 4 Lew face every day.’ Two of the Most frequent visitors were a red- haired woman and a black-haired ‘woman. Persons about the apartment house, which is opposite Columbi. University campus, noticed these two because they came most frequently. FLAT PLENTIFULLY SUPPLIED WITH LIQUOR, Ward and the red-haired woman quarrelled before the summer was over, He was paying $100 a month rent and $20 to Mis Olsvon, who under- took to keep rhe place clean. He ap- parently had a regular bootlegger who kept the place supplied with liquor. ‘The woman cleaner told detectives on one occasion she went in unexpectedly and found Ward and the red-haired woman, the latter in a kimona, Later she surprised the brunette the same way. All kinds of liquor bottles were in the apartment, she said, and the man who apparently left them was a shabby individual who usually carried a suitcase and by Ward's instruc- tions was admitted to the apartment whenever he came, Ward instructed telephone operators on the first floor, whenever he had a visitor, to tell any one else who called that he was “‘not in." His automo- bile was left in front of the building at all hours of the day and night. Ward made many telephone calls from the apartment, some of which have been traced. Others are being traced now, The red-haired woman, If Ward was out, described herself as “Schuyler,” the exchange through which she could be reached by tele- phone, Mr. Olebon said his wife undertook the keeping of Ward's flat in order after Ward had discharged a Negro woman whom he charged with steal- ing jewelry he left scattered about the apartment. The Olesons had rec- ommended the Negro maid and vouched for her honesty and de- clined to be responsible for anybody else. Mr. Oleson said that in the course of this controversy Ward handed him a gold badge of the Police Commission of New Rochelle, of which Ward was Chairman, and told him to go to the home of the Ne- gress in Harlem and bring her to the apartment. Mr. Oleson declined the mission, According to Bing and Bing, real estate agents, the reports of the Ole- sons as to the uses to which Ward was putting the flat (which was sub- let from a woman with a highly re- sponsible position in the United States Steel Corporation who was away for the summer), caused them to look up all his references in the hope of finding that he had made misrepresentations which would en- able them to eject him without a scandal in the house. TWELVE WOMEN IN ONE NIGHT, SAYS BOY. In spite of the disorder within the flat and promiscuous visits of women, there was little to indicate to others in the house than the superintend- ent and employees, that the place was a “‘bachelor’’ place of diversion. Mr. Olsson said that one of the elevator boys told him twelve differ- ent women had gone to the Ward apartment between dusk and day- light of one night. Ward invariably brought the visitors to the house in his own coupe, which he left in front of the building, and took them away in it, He never called a taxicab to take any of his callers home. The referenver given by Ward were the Kelly-Springfield Tire Company the H. W. Jvutns-Manville Company and the Thompson Machinery Com- pany. The! Johns-Manville peopic sald they knew nothing about Ward favorable or .nfavorable, bat knew bat his fative:'’s corporation was re- sponsible, The other firms reported favorably. In renting the apartment Ward had posed as unmarried, and in filling out the agent's application for th: apartment, after “Family?” he had written, Canada for the summer.’ He gave his correct name. Ward has said one of the black- mail.band he knew as ‘‘Charlie Ross.’ The authorities have information that @ man known as “Ross” had called on Ward at times, once at his Bronx office. 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