Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1909-12-12
LITTLE LIGHT THROWN
ON MYSTERY AT HEARING
Witness Testify That 6ody Of Dead
Girl Lay In Bath Tub From One to
Three Days. and That Different
Pens Were used In Writing sui.
eide Note.
tBy Associated press).

NEW YORK, Dec. If.-Emotioniess
Wardlaw, aunt of Mrs. Ocey W. NJ.
Snead. victim of the East Orange bath
tub tragedy. was sent back to jail to-
day after d hearing In the recorders
court In East Orange, to await the.
action OF the grand jury on the charge
, that she had murdered her niece.
Recorder Mott held Miss Wardlaw
fer trial after witnesses had testi-
fed that Ocey Snead's dead body had
lain from enc to three days In the
vacant East Orange house. where
Miss Wafdlaw was her companion. be-
fore the authorities were notified OF
her death, and handwriting expert
had sworn that different pen from
that which wrote the suicide note OF
Ocey Snead had been used to write
the signature to the pathetic little
document. Otherwise the bearing in
/ the singular case was productive or
little positive testimony that bore
tupon the manner of the death OF
the young Southern woman or would
tend to fix the responsibility for IL.
Resents Scrutiny of Crowd.
Miss Wardlaw. heavily yelled sat
In court beside her counsel. franklin
". Fort, son of Governor Fort, OF
New Jersey.
She seemed to resent the scrutiny
of the crowd which packed the court
room and shielded her face at times
with a newspaper. although her
features were undistinguishable
through the thick VEIL
The first witness Sergeant Can
nIff, the East Orange Policeman. told
OF the discovery on November 30 of
Ocey Snead's body In the bath tub of
the East Orange house ina few inches
of water.
County Physician Simmons told of
his visit to the Warsllaw house and
described the appearance of the dead
girl. He said her body was greatly
emaciated.
DR.. simmons said as the BODY lay
in the tub the girls head was under
water. He told of finding note
pinned to the dead girls skirt IN
: which she said she was going To
take her life. The witness hal not
performed an autopsy on the body.
he said
Drowning Caused Death.
County Physician Mckenzie, whe
performed the autopsy. when aszei IL
/ he could state the exact cause OF
death, made an explanation of the
condition of the inner organs end
said that the lungs were cong .sted
and that death was possibly due L
drowning. He gave it as his opinion
that the girl was alive wher she en-
tered or was placed in the latin lab
DIR. Mckenzie said that Judging
from the condition OF the body the
girl had been dead from eighteen
hours 10 three CT four days The
witness said he found all the organs
in a healthy condition. with the ex-
ceDtioa cf she stomach. which he IS
stili examining.
Writing Expert Puzzled
william J. KiBsley, a handwriting
expert. said that from his examination
OF ssle suicide note found near ocey
snead's body and inspection OF her
writing he was unable to state de-
fniteIy row whether OF not she hal
written u. The pen used IN writing
the signature was net the same AZ
Rad been used in writing the body of
the note. he said
After arguments CT counsel. Record
or Mott held Miss Wardlaw 90 await
~. ocfion of the grand larry