Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-24
Letters Brought to Prosecutor
by Brooklyn Woman Be-
lieved to Reveal Plot.
MOTHER=TN-LAW AND
MRS, MARTIN ARRAIGNED
Both Held for Thirty Days to
Await Arrival Of Extradi-
tion Papers.

Mrs. Caroline b. Martin and her Sis
ter Mrs. Mary Snead, who are held in
connection with the, mysterious death
of Mrs. ocey snead in the bathtub of
house at SO North Fourteenth street.
East Orange, were arraigned in the
Tombs Police Court today and recon-
mitted to the Tombs for thirty days.
Detective Hargin, as the representa-
tive of the office of the prosecutor of
Essex county, was in court with Ger
tined copy of the Indictment found
against the two women By the Essex
county grand jury. Both women 1t
developed in court today, will fight ex-
tradition and they win be represented
by Colonel Robert j. Hare, who was
! in court today.
When the two women were led into
the court room today by Lieutenants
Stapleton and Hurton, OF the Manhat-
tan central office. 1t was seen that
they were attired exactly as they had
been in each previous appearance in
public, with the exception that the
sisters had exchanged hats and wells.
Upon advice of counsel the two wom-
en- refused to answer the nominal ques
tions put to them by the court.
who is representing Mrs. Snead?'
asked the magistrate of Colonel Haire,
who replied that he did not know.
why, you do said Mrs. Snead to
Hare.
Before the appearance of Mrs. Snead
and Mrs. Martin in the courtroom
young man, who was generally regarded
as a relative of the accused sisters
conferred at length with Colonel Haire.
When Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Snead
came into the room both embraced him
and seemed delighted to see him. The
stranger positively refused TO reveal his
| identity, and Colonel Hare said he was
friend of the family.
The indictment found against the
sisters charged them with being ac-
cessory 10 the mlrder of Ocey Snead,
of being Implicated IN the murder, and
/ of being in the State of New Jersey
prior to or about the time of the muir
| der. Mrs. Martin was equipped with
pencil and paper and was busily TAX
| ing notes of the proceedings.
Colonel Haire. it was announced, will
bring habeas corpus proceedings at
once in an endeavor to secure for his
clients their liberty.
A report that the two women from
Henry street Brooklyn, who visited
Prosecutor Mott a few days ago and
left with him packet had furnished
evidence showing that a suicide pact
existed between all the members OF
the Snead- -Wardlaw family, and that
the voluntary death of ocey Snead was
the first fulfillment of such contract,
Is being Investigated.
The alleged pact is said to be re-
vealed by letters signed by ocey Snead,
her husband, Fletcher; Mrs. Martin.
her mother, and her two aunts, Mrs.
Mary Snead and Miss Virginia Ward
law. Accompanying them were several
blank forms of power of attorney, all
signed by Ocey Snead. The documents
have been turned over to the New
Jersey authorities.
Another query was today injected
in the mass of question marks into
which this case has resolved itself.
Was her own constant use of the
hypodermic needle the cause Of Ocey
Snead's death?
Colonel Haire brought this question
to the fore today as he was preparing
to appear in court.
Colonel Haire declares that he has
evidence to show that the young
woman was what is known in the popu-
lar vernacular as dope fiend.'
by that / mean said the. attorney.
that she used drugs, chiefly morphine,
for nearly two years before she died.
have learned this from talking with
her mother about the case.
Colonel Haire said that this would be
Mrs. Martins defense against the
charge of numbering her daughter.
Prosecutor Mott, when questioned to-
day about the evidences of the suicide
pact alleged to have been found by the
Brooklyn women who visited him.,
would not deny he knew something of
the new evidence. although he refused
to admit he did. He declared the in
dictment was fledy and that in the
future he would conduct the case and
that he did not intend to give out any
Of the evidence