BLACKMAILER KILLED
MILLIONAIRE’S CONFESSION. A sensation was created in New York by the confession of Mr Walter S? Ward, the millionaire son of the president of the vast Ward Banking Company, that he killed a man named Clarence Peters’, whoso body was found on a lonely road at White Plains recently. The police had abandoned the case as an insoluble mystery when Ward surrendered, stating that the shooting was tho culmination of a blackmailing plot. He alleged that Peters and two others forced him to pay £6,000 under threat of disclosing some secret regarding him.' A “ final ” payment of £15,000 was demanded, and he was threatened with death if he refused.
Mr Ward met the trio at a lonely spot, and refused to pay more. The blackmailers attacked him with revolvers. Mr Wal’d returned the fire, killing Peters and 'causing the others to . flee. Mr Wardl was charged with homicide and released on bail.
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Evening Star, Issue 18030, 26 July 1922, Page 8
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154BLACKMAILER KILLED Evening Star, Issue 18030, 26 July 1922, Page 8
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