Police Arrest Dr. Ward

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30153, 10 June 1963, Page 11

Police Arrest Dr. Ward

(N .Z.P .A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, June 9.

Police yesterday arrested a high society osteopath, Dr. Stephen Ward, and charged him with living on the earnings of prostitution.

This new development in the Profumo scandal came soon after noon yesterday when Scotland Yard detectives picked up the dapper 43-year-old doctor at North Watford, on the outskirts of London.

They drove him back to central London and charged him five hours later at Marylebone police station, near where Dr. Ward lives. The charge read: "For that he, being a man. did on diverse dates between January. 1961, and June, 1963, knowingly live wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution at 17 Wimpole Mews, contrary to Section 30 of the Sexual Offences Act, 1956.” Dr. Ward is being held in custody this week-end pending his Court appearance on Monday.

Dr. Ward has treated leading political figures and painted portraits of British Royalty and the Prime Minister.

The arrest came two days after the doctor emphatically denied in a nation-wide television programme that he was “running a call-girl racket” He told an interviewer: “There was no question of this at any time. This my friends know and indeed, I think the police know." Dr. Ward agreed during this interview that he had introduced the former War Minister, Mr John Profumo, to the 21-year-old red-headed model, Christine Keeler, at his London flat two years ago. They sometimes met at his flat, he said. Dr. Ward added that another of Miss Keeler’s friends was the Soviet military attache, Captain Eugene Ivanov. He said that when he became worried about possible security aspects of the .affair, be informed the British security service about it Captain Ivanov returned-to Russia a few months ago. Mr Profumo resigned from the Government on Wednesday after confessing that he lied to the House when he denied earlier this year that there was any impropriety in his relationship with Miss Keeler. At London's Old Bailey on

Friday, a Jamaican jazzsinger, Aloysius ("Lucky”) Gordon was gaoled for three years for assaulting the model. He claimed she had been his mistress.

Dr. Ward qualified as an osteopath in the United States. He has had among his patients, Sir Winston Churchill, the actress, Elizabeth Taylor, and the actor, Douglas Fairbanks, the American millionaire, Paul Getty, and Viscount Amery, the British High Commissioner in Canada. Known as a talented artist, Dr. Ward has painted portraits of the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Margaret and her husband. Lord Snowdon, of Princess Alexandra, and Mr Macmillan.