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DAILY NEWS THURSDAY APRtL 5, 1923. KILL ING TTED BY WARD ADMI FOREIGN NEWS Sherman Now Believes Prima Facie Murder Case Established Wales Wins Race. Franco-British Pact. Walska Scores West. German Deaths.

LONDON. Yesterday was a day in the life of the Prince of Wales he finally won a horserace, and stuck By A. (Special to DAILY NEWS) Albany, April 5. Walter S. Ward confessed to Coroner Edward F.

Fitzgerald of Westchester County on May 22 last the day he surrendered that he shot and killed Clarence Peters. Examination of Coroner Fitzgerald here today by Attorney General Carl Sherman in his investigation of the Ward-Peters mystery developed this new and vitally important fact. New Skeins in the State's Net Enmeshing Walter Ward. Albany. April 4.

Coroner Edward F. Fitzgerald of Westchester County, called as a witness for the first time since the mystery developed, swore that Walter Ward confessed to him that he shot Clarence Peters. Although former District Attorney Weeks must have this confession, too the Coroner testified he was near by Weeks never called him before the Grand Jury, and never told the Grand Jury he had heard it, This testimony, the first direct evidence from Ward that he shot Peters, has satisfied Attorney General Sherman that he had a prima facie case against Ward all that is necessary for an indictment. Ralph D. Ward, brother of Walter, under subpoena, admitted he knew all the details of the shooting and the blackmail plot, but refused to divulge them.

Mr. Sherman intimated he will take steps to force him and others to talk. If the sworn testimony of Ralph concerning his brother's statement to him is to be accepted as literal fact, the elaborate structure of a blackmail plot collapses. Ralph Ward revealed that his father, George returned to jurisdiction before the murder indictment was dismissed. Weeks declared hs never could find him to subpoena him.

toldof giving his brother some of his stock in the baking company, upon which and some of his own Walter secured a loan of $20,000, but would not specify the purpose. Deputy Sheriff Cherico and former State Trooper Green declared it their belief that Peters's body was carried to the place where it was found. on his mount. His Highness rode 'Little Favor ite" to victory in the ish Guards cup i ple-chasr Hawthorn- Hill. DON.

France, according to ail indications is -t temp ting to patch yn differ-e with i tain which a se because Although this was but the third day of his investigation, Attorney General Sherman succeeded in placing on the record evidence of an exceedingly valuable character testimony from Ward's own lips that it was his hand that snuffed out the life of Peters evidence which former District Attorney Frederick E. Weeks of Westchester declared he had founl impossible to obtairt. Weeks not only failed to call Coroner Fitzgerald as a witness before the Grand Jury, despite the fact that he was sitting next to Ward when Ward made the admission to the shooting and must have heard what was said, but he even discouraged the Coroner from holding an immediate inquest. Testifying before the Grand Jury himself, Weeks spoke of the talk the Coroner had had with Ward in his presence but did not tell the inquisitorial body what he had heard Prince of Wales GOULD HEIRS SUE TO BAR SINCLAIR CHILDREN'S SHARE E. Atty.

Gen. Carl Sherman Frederick Weeks ot the occuna- tion of the Ruhr. Louis Loach eur, former Minister of the Liberated Areas, and Stanley Baldwin, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, held a conference Tuesday and reached a quasi-agreement concerning a possible compromise of the Franco-British views on the Ruhr. i he accounting i I have the surname of their father. no adoption papers have ever been brought by heirs to the estate of Jay Gould against George J.

Gould, LORD CARNARVON DEAD FROM BITE OF POISON INSECT Cairo, April 5. The Earl of Carnarvon, famous archaeologist who disturbed the Ward confess. PARIS. One in this world who doesn't like the sunny clime of California. It's Prima Facie Case.

hied. Under the Domestic Relations law, however, children born out of wedlock become automatically legitimatized upon the marriage of the parents and no legal adoption is necessary or required. The Gould heirs in the suit are George J. Gould, Mrs. Finley J.

Shepard, Frank J. Gould, Anna, the Duchesse de Talleyrand; How-ward Gould and Edwin Gould. (Other picture on page 1 COSMETICS CAUSE CANCER? NO NEVER! There is no need for feminine year slumber of Of this testimony of Coroner Fitzgerald alone, it is known that none other than Ganna Walska. Ganna declared that she wouldn't be a native daughter of the West for all the tea in China. BERLIN.

Thirty five Germans have been killed and 5,500 deported since the French occupied the Ruhr. Tut-ankh-Amen the hnancier, reported in a critical condition in France, were further complicated by a motion filed in the Supreme Court yesterday to adjudge that the three children of Mrs. Guini-v Sinclair Gould have no claim to any part of the fortune Gould left. The papers the Attorney General is satisfied that he has a prima facie case of hrst degree murder against Ward There can be no doubt of his justification in asking Gov. Smith ffimi by breaking into the Pharaoh's, tomb in the Valley of the Kings, died early this morning.

Death was due to blood poisoning from the bite of an incArt witb thp Oberpresjdent Gronofsky of West-i phalia told Mgr. Testa, a papal I delegate investigating Ruhr con-j riitions. i LONDON. The electric chair to order the impaneling of an ex traordinary Grand Jury for the re i i indictment of Ward. There can be no doubt that sufficient evidence has now been obtained to force Mrs.

George J. Gould say the peculiar Ward to trial and let a jury decide later develop-' construction of the Gould will bars Lord Carnarvon whether he shot Peters in ment of pneu America to worry about giving up its lip sticks, its rouge boxes and its powder puffs in fear of contracting cancer by the use of beautifying preparations. This was settled yesterday when scores of New York physicians and special-ist3 branded as "rubbish" the contention of Sir George Lenthal Cheatle of King's College Hospital, London, that cosmetics are conducive to cancer. may pass as an instrument of execution and become a source of solace to the corpulent. Such a chair is on view at a British hospital exhibition, guaranteed to melt off weight at the rate of six pounds an hour.

LONDON. Forty-six thousand union miners have struck in Rhonda Valley, Wales, to compel monia. His wife. Lady Carnarvon, her But this wasn't the only development of importance during the the former Miss Sinclair's children, George, Jane and Guimvere, from sharing part of the estate, diminished by $25,000,000 by George J. Gould's mismanagement, as alleged by the opposing heirs.

Although Miss Sinclair's children self a trained nurse, fought in vain to save the life of her husband. day's proceedings. From Ralph D. Ward, brother of Skilled physicians failed in their; alter and himself second vice-president of the Ward Baking Com efforts to prolong his life by means of artificial respiration. i 5,000 non-union to join them.

pany, Mr. Sherman obtained information concerning the alleged Bitten By Insect. Carnarvon was stricken shortly i blackmail plot which Weeks, as District Attorney, failed to secure FONTAINES TO SIFT JURY INDICTMENTS That Evan Burrows Fontaine and her mother were illegally indicted for perjury is the newest after he entered the tomb of Tut-: when he questioned Ralph before ankh-Amen. During the excava- the Grand Jury. AHA! HIS LORDSHIP'S RIVAL MEETS FAIR JESSICA AT DOCK Smiling his defiance of Lord Northesk, an unidentified young man whisked Jessica Brown, former Winter Garden dancer, away from the Olympic's pier yesterday, tions in the tomb a mysterious insect bit the Egyptologist and blood poisoning developed.

Sherman Digs at Truth. TORNADO LEAVES 7 DEAD IN ITS WAKE Alexandria, I April 4. A tornado which swept through here today killed seven persons and injured a score in Pineville, across Red River. Property damage was heavy. Dispatches from Wendell, N.

report a dozen persons were injured and 100 houses wrecked by a tornado which cut a swath ores mile wide and ten miles long. For days he lingered between life and death, and finally the poison was fought off. Just as he was Weeks for some reason or other about to leave the sickroom Car- in the ramifications of the dancing star's $1,000,000 suit against Cornelius Yan-derbilt Whitney. Their attorney yesterday served District did not ask the questions that Mr. Sherman and his assistant, Wilbur with ttip it- declaring: it is anu not me nouie ioiu.

W. Chambers, did. Nor was the who will marry Miss Brown, and jfti Westchester prosecutor as persist Fifth Earl of Carnarvon. ent or pressing in his queries. Mr.

The explorer was fifty-eight." He Sherman today plainly showed was the nun r.ari oi Carnarvon. more curiosity in seeking to get at the truth than Weeks. His full name was George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert. Ralph. Ward admitted he knew Carnarvon was one of the that within a week.

The dancer, who secured a divorce decree from Cyril Reinhard, a ladio engineer, at Chicago last October, seemed decidedly nervous and gave the general impression that Lord Northesk had been a bit premature in his announcement on the other side. "Yes, David expects to come over in a month." she said. "He is all the details concerning the Attorney x-o i te Plains, with notification that the minutes of the Grand Jury in the Fontaine case will be demanded for ex-a i a.t ion to wealthiest landowners in England, having a holding of 36,000 acres, which brought him enormous pro shooting of Peters by his brother and also of the blackmail plot. His father, George S. Ward, president of the baking company, had told him, he said.

But he refused repeatedly to tell what he knew to ceeds from agricultural products. Evan Burrows Fontaine It was from these funds that he carried on his work in Egypt. twenty-two, just my age, and he's tall ami nice and regular, that's The explorer succedeed to the the Attorney General. From Ralph Ward the Attorney move for dismissal. To make this possible, the "not guilty" plea entered has been withdrawn, as the law specifies this for such an title of Earl of Carnarvon in 1890 at the death of his father, a distinguished British diplomat.

General learned that George S. ara, nis latner, is now at White BAKING PLANT TOLD TO CLEAN HOUSE The New York Cake Baking Sulphur Springs, enjoying a vacation and that the elder Ward has been in the State many times since he fled'jurisdiction two weeks after his son surrendered. George S. Ward was in New York City at the baking company plant in the Bronx and at the Ward home at 227th Street and Independence Avenue during much of the time his son was under Company, 333 Third Avenue, has until today to remedy unsanitary conditions. The alternative will I 3B GIRL FIGHTS OFF TAXI ABDUCTORS Miss Micheline Catzil wenty-two, handsome but stalv, seized by two men in front of her house at 53 Webster Avenue, Long Island City, put up such a vigorous fight that her captors were glad to let her out of the taxicab.

why I like him." Just before the boat docked a radio was received by Miss Brown which read "Miss you. David." (Pictures on page 1 DEADLOCK GRIPS FOSTER JURORS St. Joseph, April 4. Deadlocked apparently beyond hope of an agreement, the jury deliberating the fate of William Z. Foster, radical labor leader charged with violation of the Michigan syndicalism law, was locked up for the night at 11 o'clock.

Reports persisted that the jury stood nine to three for conviction, and that Mrs. Minerva Olson, the lone woman juror, was leading the fight for Foster's freedom. EUAN is be enforced closing. Charles En-gelberg, secretary of the baking company, was fined $50 by Magis i trate Simms Yorkviile Court yesterday on complaint of a health inspector. O'SSOLEOiJjAaLETS Elder Ward Gone Again, WAGE BOOST Lowell, April 4.

A wage GAS NOT SPINACH Coal gas poisoning and not canned spinach caused the recent serious illness of Mrs. Mary Powers and members of her family of 53 Montague Street, Yonkers, health officials have decided. tW vrvw Despite Weeks's official and repeated assertions that he had endeavored to serve the father Continued oh pit ye col. 1.) increase ot iz per effec tive April 30, was announced by five large cotton mills here today. SOLD EVERYWHERE.