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Show BLACKMAIL SHOOTING VNDEP. SCRUTINY DOUBTS CAST ON STORY OF RICH SLAYER Only One Shell Found Where Battle Was Said to Have Occurred EXONERATION DENIED j Search Still on for Other Alleged Members of Blackmail Gang I WHITE PLAINS. N. T., May 21. Coroner Fitzgerald has postponed the Inquest Into the killing of Clarence ! Peters by Walter S- Ward, millionaire baking company official, as one of a ! blackmailing trio. Ward characterised character-ised Peters as a blackmailer in his confession of : hoo'.ing the former snllor near KcniSO reeervo r e week ago. i The inqu.st has been put off untl' I j tho corone:-s Investigators can clear1 up several poln'.s In iho Ward confession confes-sion with wnicn Mr Fltxgorild, in' the light of late developments, is far, from satisfied. CONTRADICrTIf)N APPF.VRS A contradiction which officials ln-I ln-I sist must be cleared up is the fn!-ure fn!-ure to find but one small empty I shell rar tho body although Ward I declares that n'no shots wcro fired! between the time he shot Peters and exchanged shots with the other two J men, "Ross" and "Jack " who fled. I The authorities ar said to be do-I do-I ing everything In their power to lo-r lo-r iin lh inUsin? Rniu'; and ' Jai k but ho tar as can be learned no do-BCrlptlon do-BCrlptlon of the men or general alarm has been sent out. CAN'T SEE (JOUPJ& When reporters arikiJ W ard to be i allowed to see the coupe he aid he ; used on the deih drive and had a ) ulass shattered by the bullet from i Peters gun he refused The request, followed 'he discovery that no cro I who found the body saw any tflaas In the road. 6uch as would Inevitably follow tho fight described by Ward. The entire story of the blackmail plot and all must be told before there can be any question of exonerating Mr. Wiixd, said District Attorney . c-;;a, discussing the discrepancies In I IK. E.n. Ilia nr A t mr nx- t Thus far we havo only his unsup- ; il word ius to what biomcht about ihls killing." STILL SI.IJilNr. MK.V "We will faoc whatever charges the authorities may be disposed to I make. ' nald E. M. Rabenold. chief of counsel for young Ward. According to the authorities hero. I tho whole matter hinges prima rlly of the finding of the mon. "Ross" in I ' "Jack,'' and It became known today that Ward's father hud Joined In the search for the men through private Investigators In an effort to clear up i he mystery growing around his son's ; Story of the killing. |