The Washington times., 1909-12-18
Mother and Mother-in-Law
Of Mrs. Snead Remand
ed to Jail.
ARE TO BE HELD
FOR EXTRACTION
Prisoners Claim They Cannot Be
Fugitives From State They
Were Never In.

NEW YORK, Dec. 1s.-Mrs. Caroline
B. Martin and Mrs. Mary W. Snead.
mother and mother-in-law Of Mrs Ocey
~. NJ Snead. whose dead body was
found in East Orange, on November
so, were arr"rgned today before Magis-
trate Kernochan In the Tombs court
The papers for their extradition to New
Jersey on a murder charge had not yet
been completed and they were remanded
20 the TombS for forty-eight hours.
When the two old women were aided
into court by officers the room was
damned with curious spectators Coun-
sci for the women, Franklin Fort, IT.,
was not in court and the magistrate
asked them If they had a New York
lawyer. They said they had not
Mrs. Martin did ali Of the talking
She demanded to know by what right
she was held. Told that the charge
was being a fugitive from justice she
broke out: How can that be when
neither nor Mrs. Snead has been in
New Jersey in our lives"
Claim They Are Not Fugitives.
The magistrate explained the Grim
mai code procedure and the two wom-
en- asked him to let them see the sec
! ton under which they were operf ting
in the present case Magistrate Corn
I'll gave them the book and they sat
down OF a bench and read il. after
which they talked together a few min
utes. They approached the desk again
and insisted TO the magistrate that un-
der the code they were not fugitives
inasmuch as they we're never in East
Orange.
| Cornell, touched by the plight Of the
/ two elderly women, explained gently
/ that he had no recourse but to hold
| them.
I am told by the New Jersey au-
| thorities," he said, that your case will
be disposed Of by a grand jury in that
State next Tuesday. 1 would suggest
that you permit this case to be ad-
| tourned until next Wednesday"
I will do nothing OF the sort. -
I snapped out Mrs. Martin. L have
| some rights and they must be respect
| ed. I insist that you do lot adjourn
Women Are Overcome.
The court could do nothing else bit
grant her demand, the law Iuoviding for
only forty-eight hours adjournments in
such cases and the women were or
dered back to the Tombs. Court officers
assisted them but, as she reached the
!
signs" Mrs Martin seemed overcome.
She stopped stiu in her tracks and re-
fused TO go farther. When urged she
Igrasped at the door handle and screamed
so that she could be heard all through
the building.
Il won't go back. I cannot go 10
that awful Place. Let me go, let me
go
| AS gently as was possible the officers
disengaged her grasp. and assisted her
back into the prison. She was then so
hysterical that the prison doctor mad
to be called on to give her medicine
Mrs Martin was highly indignant over
the statement. attributed to Prosecutor
Mott, of Essex county, that Mrs Snead
was not her daughter, but child taken
from an orphan asylum
Calls Case Persecution
1T is simply another Of their cruel
unca.ned for lies" she weepingly assert
ed. There is no excuse for the lying
that has marked our persecution from
the Start But we will have our day IN
r3urt soon. and then we viii diSprove
all of these terrible charge and will
make some one pay dearly for them.
The New Jersey authorities declare
Ithey have a complete chain of evidence
against Miss Wardlaw, Mrs Martin
and Mrs. Snead.
Prosecutor Mott insists that he Sc
: cured from among Mrs Martins eff
fects taken from her when arrested
/ letters that show IT was at first planned
r TO XIII Mrs Snead in Flatbush. wher,
the women formerly lived, but that thi
was afterward changed, and Mrs. SneaC
was taken to East Orange, for the pur
Sc OF numbering her. The prosecutor
1. -,vever. refuses TO make public an
of the alleged evidence he says he has
but stated that il will be passed on b,
the grand jury now in session In New
ark.