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Show MILLIONAIRE SLAYER SPENDS NIGHT IN ' JAIL . POLICE DOUBT WARD'S STORY OF SHOOTING I New Evidence Prompts Rearrest Re-arrest of Wealthy Young Man WIFE IS SURPRISED 1 Slain Man in Neighborhood Days Before His Death Sleuths Find ! WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. May 26 fBy the associated Press t Supreme ' ourt Justice Young this afternoon dismissed the writ of habeas corpus taken oul for Walter S. Ward mll- : llonalre baker and central figure In ; the shooting of Clarence Peters, ex-njvy ex-njvy mnn- Immediately ajfter Justice Young handed down his decision. Allan R. !i tmpbell, counsel for Ward, served I notice of an appeal. Meanwhile. Word, who was rear-; i rested last night- was taken back to Jail. 1 1 Ward, who has bn out on $1 0 000 ba4l following his confess. on of kill-j j.nir Clarence Peters former navy man. war rearrested after District At-, 1 tornc Weeks appeared before Su- I preme Court Justice Seegar with an, 'affidavit declaring that new evidence ' had cast doubts OB Ward's confession. confes-sion. The ball bond of $10,000 was. mentioned and Mr weeks petition Stated this ball now appears to be I Insufficient" The affidavit concluded, by asking that Ward again be held j ithout bail. WIPE l B SURPRISED Mr? Ward, who hart been expecting) her husband home for dinner last night, did not know of his arrest un- Tli iniormeii o rci'oii-is one .-.,u that she would come here today from her home In New Rochelle to do .what she could for Ward I Michael Sullivan of Silem. Mass.. Ian attorney representing the family of 1'ctrrn, was also expected hero today and It was reported he scouted the blackmail story as "impossible." The efforts of Ward's attorneys to .secure the habu corpus writ was 'expected to make public the new evident evi-dent e on which the authorities based I their latest action. District Attorney Weeks said he was prepared to puh .the case entirely lino the open NEW EVIDENT I Tho discovery that Peters about a . month ago had climbed down from a Wan! Baking company truck In a ' nearby tow n and asked a tailor to ( lean a coat became known when tho 'tailor (iime here and identified the marks he had placed In Peters' coat, the One h wore when killed This Identification strengthened the stories I of Peters' presence In the neighborhood neighbor-hood several days before the time set I for the fight and his subsequent death. I Ward, despite the apparent reverses re-verses he had received, was still sl- , lent. Efforts to have him reveal the blackmail plot or Its foundation were futile. The legal battle between Dls- Itrlct Attorney Weeks and Ward's law- ' vers today wn expected to reveal answers an-swers to many of the questions in-VOlVed in-VOlVed in i he case which stood about Where it did lasi Monday when Ward surrendered voth his story of $ 30.000 i blackmail and a plot to get $75. 000 I more. |