State Has Failed Make Out
Case In Ward Murder Trial
ProM'Ciitioii Has Its Theory of the (^rime l>ut Evidence in
Support of It Has Been So Sketchy Hardly Believed
Jurors Will Upturn Verdict of Guiltv
Hy HOHKIIT T. SMA1.I
(Cojyripht. 1921. By Thr Ad.aitcr)
White I"!;;ill'.. N. V., Sept. 2">.?It appc;;vt d to.' .? that tlv
niy.-t'.M-y ? \.nrd slaying cast ir <y rover ?.
?Tli" ;? ? i ?.km iu'4 its theo
ry of Uir crime, out us main tes-j
tiniony m the trial of the young
scion of tiie Ward baking mil-1
lions, has been so sketchy it is
doubtful if the jury of farmers
and small business men sittin;;
in judgment on the man who
confessed to the killing of Clar
ence Peters have been able to
follow it.
.The prosecution appears to have
sketched the crime rather than to
have proved it. It has been attack
ing Walter Ward's story that a gang
of blackmailers sought to hold him
up on a lonely road and that he shot
one of them in- self defense. The
theory of the state was that Ward
himself was in the ?blackmailing
plot and that the millionaire father
was to be the victim. . ?
Ward has said that the "gang"
mad$ him demand something like
$loQ.OOO from hia father. What J
was the secret behind that $100,000]
demand? This is what a crowded
court room has been waiting for, and
there was every reason today to be- j
lleve that the secret will not out. [
It is known that young Ward led a
"double life." His home was in
New Rochelle. lie has a flat in New ,
York. The state has been able to |
unearth many things about the
gilded past of the fast spending
young millionaire, but these facts,
sordid though they are. have tended
to throw little if any light upon the
killing of Peters.
Nor was Ward's double life, to all.
outward purposes, any different from'
that of many thousands/ of other
young men in New York. Certainly
there was nothing about it to war
rant a $ 100,000,'f>lack mail plot.
When the men preying upon pretty
Dorothy King, thought of placing
John Kearsley Mitchell, of Philadel
phia, on the black mailers' gridiron,
they had only $50,000 in mind. Yet I
the sweetheart of the pretty llroad-1
way butterfly had more millions back
of him than the Ward family has ev
er dreamed of.
Young Ward made no attempt to
conceal his movements in the night
life of New York. The police have
learned, however, that his compan
ions were not of the best. He did
not rate the company of the real
"heavy sugar Papas" of the metropo
lis. He spent money freely but he
did not patronize the places where a
$5 bill has the relative value of a
nickel. How Ward came into asso
ciation with such men as young
Peters and the other characters he
has described, but who have never
bt en found, is an element of the
mystery surrounding the case.
The undeniable roughness of
Ward's companions? away from home
is strongly contrasted every day of
the trial .by the delicate gentleness
and refinement of his wife! That
bhe has won the admiration of every
one who has followed the case goes
without saying. Even the prosecu
tion feels that her constant atten
dance in the court room at the side
of her erring husband has greatly
strengthened the position of the de
fense. She has been an appealing fi
gure?never more so than when she
was called unexpectedly to the stand
as a witness for the state. Faced
by the bristling array of opposing
counsel she appeared as a dove
among SI "Ibt of mastiffs. But she
held her ground nnd went through
the brief grilling with but a mo
ment's loss of composure. ?
The fight of the lawyers over ^frs.
Ward's testimony was more interest
ing than the testimony Itself. The
defense sought to have Mrs. Ward
as a fitness for the state, tell all
that her husband told her the night
of the killing, Just nfter he came
home. They sought to get the story;
of the defense before the Jury front
the mouth of the state's witness,
whom the state would hesitate to at
te-mp* to discredit. Rut the shrewd ,
move was not a success. The state
objected- to the hearsay testimony
and the court sustained the objec
tion.
The case has been a legal wran-!
gle from the very beginning. The
Ward lawyers have fought well.
The withesse* for the state have not
been able to light the keen wito.lness
end surprising maneuvers of the:
Ward attorneys and the Impression
left upon the Jurors unquestionably
has been unfavorable to most of the
state's testimony.
It has been realized from the ftrst
that, the state had a difficult task be
lore it and the unfolding of the case
has proved this to be true.
The Impression prevailed about
the court house today that while the
\\ :<I case has proved that a rich
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IN THE BAD BOYS
Allendale Farm Director Pro
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tionalUm That Trie# to
Make Ancels of *Km.
! Lake Villa. 111.. Sept. 26.?Thirty
J years' experience as director of the
Allendale Farm lias convinced Re
ward L. Bradley of the virtue of
{"badness* in boys.
t'pon the 260 acres of tax:.1 and
J water of the farm, "badness" is ac
counted a natural part of the devel
opment of Captain Bradley's 100
boys*.-- Years ago Mr. Bradley de
voted himself to a new ideal in boy
culture, and his faith, he says, in th?*
? inherent goodness of American youth
has yielded increasingly great re
turns.
j Foundation of the farm. *cc-.ml?
ing to Mr. Bradley, might he taken
as a protest against the Institutional
Ism which oftimes attempts to re
form boys into "un-natural little an
gels.The other extreme was at
first the policy at the farm and It
has changed but slightly. The boys
I here are of the normal kind. Mr.
I Bradley says, made from "snaps,
?nails'and puppy dog tails." They
are encouraged to be themselves.?*
There are few warnings or
j"don'ts" at Allendale. But there is
inn unwritten law which no one vio
lates. The boys may lie. steal, throw
stones "normally." and pay for it
, only as they might In the best of
j homes, but whoever dares smoke a
(cigarette treads dangerous ground,
and perhaps numbers his days at Al
| lendale.
"Nothing so limits the future of a
boy as the cigarette." Captain Brad
| ley believes. "That is the only thing
we will not tolerate.
"Some boys require special atten
tion." the director admitted. "Some
tljiies we fail to handle them. Then
we hand them over to the boys them
selves and they always bring them
around. In all our years we have
had to expel only two boys. We say
to the bovs: 'Here he Is. if you ran
put up with him. If you want to give
. him a chance if you will take the
(responsibility for his conduct, we'll
keep him.
"They take him and soon the ob
J. rt ionahle qualities disappear. They
lake pride in being their brother's
. keeper."
A list of the nationalities of the
boys on the farm Includes nearly all
the names in the league of nations.
Among the hundreds who have gone
j out from the school, are many, the
director says, who are drawing
salaries of $6,000 and $7,000 a year.
"And they are fine family men," he !
adds.
BRITISH LAWMAKERS
HAVE SNUBBED FLEAS
London, Sept. 26. ? Performing
fleas on the Knglish stage?In fact
nil fleas whose lives are consecrated
to the drama?must go through their
acts without the possibility of pro
tection In the case of maltreatment.
This slight to the flea* Is contained
In an anti-flea clause of the govern
Inient's new Performing Animals Rill
which has passed the committee stage
in the House of Commons.
I When the question was debated,
it was decided that reptiles and fish
should he included hut fleas must
fight their battles alone. An amend
ment was carried to this effect.
The real reason for the discrimina
tion was that the difficulty of using
.the flea as evidence.
I
man can ho brought to trial for kill
ing a poor man. it is quite some
thing else to convlrt such a man or
even to break-partially through the
defensive works that a costly array
of counsel throws about him.
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Kllzat>cth flty, X. C.
Community Tire
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I*.-?til System t"iu?ii?uit?liy Tire
lory M?ik* New stop in
Tire Industry
Word has boon received that Tile
Paul Rubber Co..* of Salisbury. ori
ginators of The raul System Com
munity Tire Factories, may select
ill is city as one of the several points
in which they will establish local'
plants in this state.
?The Paul Sy?teni Community Tir"
Factory marks a new step in the Tire
Indutry. .\ cre.it tin- engineer 411
\Kr?ii>. work-tig w ith the co
?... r.. J:??u of Vli. I'a a! Rubber Co..
has perfected .1 -mall plant for build
in 1; tir?% which turns out a product
said to ho equal in every respect to
the product of the largest factories.
lh?se small Community Factories
will lie established in every ftate.
Kach factory becoming a unit of the
nation wide system and each pl:tnt
!!<"lived to make the famous Clover
I.enf Cord Tires which The Paul Rub
her Co. will continue to advertise na
tionally.
The Paul Rubber Co.. will supply
all materials to these plants at low
prices, instill! all machinery, furnish
rrained men. and in fact co-operate
in every possible way to insure the
largest success. And yet each plant
will be completely owned nnd operat
ed by local people.
"These Paul Community Tire Fac
tories require a total investment of
only $7,500 to $15,000," says the
management "and the local maker'
has a market right at his door that
will greatly exceed his capacity. The
advantages to the car owner in buy
ing locally made tires are quickly ap%:
predated. One can see his tires
made, get fresh new stock with the
full life of the rubber In every tire,
have adjustments made fairly and
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finest tires at lower prices.
-
"At the same time the Investment
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tire-uNiker. His small plant will
turn out 20 to 40 tires a day. and on .
the eomparatively small Investment
required, surprisingly large profits i
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A. J. Armstrong of Rallegh 1
Is In the city on business.
ll.\Hlll\(tKR IIKIKFS
llarbimtiT. Sept. 26?Rev. II. M.
It Jone*. pastor of South Street
!lapti*t Church of Portsmouth". Va .
i* n?>w holding a revival at I'ovolh
i'nint Baptist Church.
The Sunday Seknol Uouiiion ut
Point Harbor wan quite a
de?pit?> tho hard rain*. especially
Mantis Harbor's -pl? ndid sir.irnj:
Mi?? Irtno Mt'lson of Puck in
\i*itinK Miss Hilda Ow?ns of this
pltUH'.
N. It Sawyer U lighting his hou?e
with tin* l)o!?'o Liuht Syst?*at.
Uev. Jim Loo f.lled h:s appoint*
.?.?in Sunday afieirrvn it
Point Christian chii&rh.
Mr. at*..* Vr*. V. T. Ay.!! !?. i h "
i:?.? i a-.: nr. .1 h. r ??r ii t
; " th ("try were the \v?-?k . ii I must*.
??: Mr. and Mr>, X. H. . Saw\Tr o?
Mrs. t'ariif Itatim of Aydlctt ha> ?
lw'ti v i - it iti k friends at this place
-ii.I a;t? 1.illuk 1 ho revival.
Mrs. Sarah Doxev of Ayillott has
?!'?'?>II th.- of lior cousin. I). S.
Forbos for tho past week.
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