Show wAIs IS A CROOK CROO 1 Worked a h ld Brick Scheme at att v ft t Seattle Since SIRce the story t st ry of M T Wards mar marriage marI to MI Mary Ann Fox of the I Eagle Eagie block nd d the notoriety accorded him by the Denver suicide several per persons perSons sons tn in n Salt S lt Lake have identified hiff aa as a q crook croot 4 old ok standing Fred L y cig cl If elerk of the ithe J h Kenyan n recognized recognize when the stock con convention convention convention was as i as oue oe of several se par por parties parties ties connected with a gold sold brick scheme in Seattle in 1894 when Mr J 9 was clerk in the Great eat Northern in that city When seer seen yesterday Mis Mi Fax or Mrs M T Ward Vard appeared very vory ex ox and on recognizing th the reporter Vho vio called on her sine She e beat a hasty re retreat treat treal to her room slamming tho bad bO door r behind her and refusing U talk It was only oMy through the Intervention pf Of f a friend that Mrs Barnett who rung the Rainier lodging house hou e did pot not aua au al ala l ln Ward a n victim to the blandishments of ot o Mrs Alts Barnetts friend was FranX Lyon Mr Lyon Lyo said aid last night that ha ho sus suspected su Ward Yard from the first H a has wa been rooming at the Rainier for t r some sone sometime time and je is s an old friend of Mrs Bar lr Barnett r rnett nett It was WIlS natural that thit she Should houW 3 mr mar marriage tell him m that Ward had hod proposed ringe to her It was then that LY D In the began taking Inking a a close Interest of the alleged railroad tractor Wards One Oe day he went through trunk trun and the layout he found there convinced him that the stranger strang r was wu off color for his effects consisted chiefly of railroad maps and specimens of ore oreto oreto to weight them down Lyons that Ward was wa only after Mrs par fJar ar cir dC circumstances lt verified by later money was wa Mrs Barnett had agre tl to take 1200 for her rooming house houseW W rd was anxious for tor her to sell and andt told t her er that he would give her ber the dif differ fer ce between her ber figure and nd the thEl amount anybody offered her Lyon friend to and yon got gat a come up I offer Mi Mrs Barnett Ward agreed to furnish the balance bal nce but wanted un until until til next day to make good This go with Lyon and th was called off olIo Next day Ward went ent over overto overto to the tle Eagle block and there wooed Mias 10 Fox Fo NUh Ith results that have al ai already ready r dY been published pu bUshed tf Nothing more was earned E esterday of the tha women who came to Salt Lake with Ward Vard One he introduced as his wife and the other as 83 Mrs Emma D DWelton Welton Vel ton Later when he began mak making making ing lug lov love e to Mrs Barnett be he told her hor h r ithe woman he was living with Vitti not his wife but a stenographer e women went away awa from Salt S lt Lake Jan 24 A letter from the Mrs Ward to 2 a Denver man va was 5 found among Wards Yards belongings before he departed tr from m the Rainier It I spoke poke 4 of or her sus suspicion suspicion us that Ward was making away vv with ith of her money which she was wax intending to Ii u Uc c to start a hotel in Pasadena Cal |