He learned that Ward had spent the night in his home, while Collins and the detective assigned to guard him, occupied a room in a Broadway hotel.

Britz was interrupted in the further perusal of the reports by the doorman.
"Mr.Lester Ward is outside." "Tell him to wait--and see that he does wait!" directed the detective.
It was a quarter of eleven before Britz was ready to receive his visitor.

Ward found the detective with hat and coat on, prepared to leave the building.

He had just received a telephone message from one of his men at Delmore Park.
"I'm on my way to the coroner's office," said Britz.

"Come along!" Still dazed by the crowded incidents of the last twenty-four hours, Ward followed the detective to the Criminal Court House, on the ground floor of which the coroner's office is situated.