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Show 'EHGENCE IN MS MYSTERY BEING SIFTED Facts on Slayer's Connection Connec-tion With Race Track Brought Out CAN'T GET FATHER Millionaire Baker Eludes Server of Grand Jury Subpoena WHITE PLAINS N T. June 14. To men who kne Walter 8. Ward luc-althy young baker, who iia-t con-I con-I fussed to killing Clarence Peters, when I V.-ird played the races, told their stories to District Attorney Weeks Just before the grand Jury met to i onsldt r the Ward case Tuesday The men were Alfred E. Blute. a racetrack follower, and Elwood Ileff-ner. Ileff-ner. In whose pocket was found a let-I let-I ter written by Ward on tho day Peters Pet-ers was killed Blute declared he had received no subpoena for the grand Jury but went to Mr Weeks to tell his story voluntarily. He asserted I hat Ward Impressed him as being a "fine fellow," and-did not appear to be a welehei " Blute a sister had asserted that Blute gave Ward a tip on a horse named Asmmc whieh paid birr money, buf Thai Ward never paid Blute and n man named Byrnes throiigh whom the het win placed, any Bhare of his winnings. "I met Ward once," Blute told reporters. re-porters. "I had a tip on Assume and gave It to Byrnes He laid $1,000 on It. We met Ward in his office and that Is the onlv time I ever saw Word " Sheriff Werner was the first wlt-ni wlt-ni M called before the jjrand iir when It resumed consideration ot" the Ward case. The sheriff was in the room an hour and fifty minute, going ovet the cass from the time Peters' body was found on the lonel Kenslco road to the present. Two of the most Important witnesses wit-nesses lor whom subpocnaea had been Issued did not appear They wero George S Ward, father of the slayer, and Mrs Anna Willard Curtis, his mother-in-law. Deputy sheriffs reported re-ported they had been unable to serve either of the witnesses sinre the subpoenaes were Issued last Frl-day. |