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Show BLACKMAIL IS CHARGE SHOWN . AT WARD TRIAL WHITE PLAINS. N. T., Sept. II. A complaint that there waa a hlack niall plot directed agalnat Oeorge 8. Ward, father of Walter B. Ward, wbo la on trial charged with the murder of Clarence Peters, todsy wa Introduced aa evidence by Deputy Attorney General O'Neill. The complaint waa signed by Jsmss J. Cunnlnghsm. the man who once told Sheriff Werner thst hs knsw all the delalle ef tha blackmail story. According to the complaint, threat of moral dlsgrsVs wsrs made against ths elder Ward by the blackmail gang. - Tha complaint aald further that -Walter B. Ward, aa prearranged, did transmit, ths threata to George S. Ward,- but that tha alder Ward did not act on them. Mr. O'Neill Introduced the Cunningham eomplalnt after Sheriff Sher-iff Werner had teetlfled that tha Wards msda no complaint ot black-mall black-mall to blm. .. |