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Show Negro Turning White. (New York World.), Sheriff Preston of Suffoig comity. L. I., aoDcared 'before County Judsre alter jSyro and requested that SilaS Ward, a nesrro convict, be released from the county coun-ty jail.' When th judge asked tne reason for making so extraordinary a request Sheriff Preston replied; "The man is turning white. K s un- 1 cannv. ' Qne passes his cell expecting to ee. the face of a colored man. On one side.it is all right, of a good healthy black, but when Ward turns around the other , side of his face is Been to bo turning whiie. It annoys everybody in the jail. The judge told Sheriff Preston to pre- j rare an order for Ward's removal. District Dis-trict Attorney Livingston Smith assented. |