Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1892 — TO BE TURNED LOOSE. [ARTICLE]

TO BE TURNED LOOSE.

Ferdinand Ward Will Soon Be a Free Man. Sentenced for Ten Year* He Hal Saved Nearly Four Tear* by His Good -4. Behavior.

Ferdinand Ward, the famous but unfortunate financier, is gding back te Broqklyik after a residence of six yean and six months at Sing Sing. On April 10 be will be liberated, the State haying no further claim upon him or his service. He has by all reports, been a tractable and exemplary prisoner, not doing anything amiss to be deprived of the commutation of three and a half years, which is allowed in such cases. Ward was sentenced Oct--1885, to ten years imprisonment. It is said that he is: still a rich man, and it is not probable that the other indictments returned In 1885 will be pressed against him. It will be remembered that he was the partner or General Grant’s son, and was an original “Napoleon of Finance.”