The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-17
THREE WOMEN NOW ARE HELD Mrs. Mary Snead is Cap
 tured. MRS. (. B. MARTIN IN JAIL East Orange Bath Tub Mystery is
 Deepening. Mother of Bath Tus Victim h h the Tomb~. Aunt is in Jersey JaiI,
 Ana PoIlee Detai. Her
 Mether-in-


 ters who held the life of Ocey snead in their hands have one by one come within the reach of the law, until to- night separate cells hold them all, charged by the authorities of East Orange. N. J., with murder.
 Of tho girls immediate relations. only her bed-ridden grand mother. Mrs. Martha wardiaw. Iss years old and Fletcher snead, the cousin she mar ried are stiii at large. A rumor that Fletcher snead. the husband. had been found In hiding al St. Catherines. On- tario. was denied tonight by the St Catherines police.
 Events have moved swiftly within the last twenty-four hours. Shortly after the arraignrnent today of Mrs. Caroline W. Martin, ocey Sneads mothen who was arrested last night in an up-town hotel, there followed the third arrest In the case, that Of Mrs Mary snead. Mrs. Martins sister. and the aunt and mother-in-law of ocey snead. She was taken from her lodging in New York charged with be- ing fugitive from justice from New Jersey. where q warrant similar to that Issued against her sister was sworn out today charging murder
 Mrs. Martin ArniGned.
 Mrs. Martin was arraigned this morning in the Tombs police court and committed to the Tombs prison, bend ing tho arrival Of extradition papers from New Jersey. During her exauli- nation. she spoke as briefly as pos- sibie and gave no indication as to whether or not she would light extra dition Mrs. Martin Is sixty-four years old and feeble of body. though reso- lnte and alert Of mind. She showed today the same marked aversion to lifting the heavy black veil, which characterised her sister. Wrkinia wardiaw, in the iatters 4xamina q ation at East Orange some days ago.
 Mrs. Mary Snead, who when taken to police headquarters today. was more erect in her bearing than Mrs. Martin but equally reticent. Mrs. Martins pitiful inftrmitfes saved her the fndlK- nity of being measured and photoe graphed but Mrs. Snead escaped none of the humilAting details of police rouffne.s She wili he arraigned tomor- row in the police court to determine whether she can justly De held for extraditlon.
 Three notes found yesterday among Mrs. Martins effects. all similar in handwriting and wording to the sui eide note pinned to ocey Sneads clothes beside the bath tub In which s1ie was drowned, were deemed sufii- eient evidence against Mrs Martin.
 Tine point made against Mrs Snead Is that she was party with Mrs. wardlaw to the renting of the unfur- nished house in East Orange in which ocey Snead was found dead.
 Fletcher snead Found.
 St. catherines, Ont, Dec. 16.--A man who says he Is Fietcher W. snead, the husband of Mrs. Ocey Snead, Is work ing in the kitchen of hotel here. He has been known under the name of John Lucas. He said tonight that his wife was the daughter of Caroline B.. Martin He left New York in March and came directly to this city. where he obtained werk. Snead declared that he never was in East orange in hls life. and knows nothing about the house of mystery where his wife's body was found. He refused to say why he left her or why he had not returned when ne heard of her death.
 "Would you be willing to go back to East Orange?" he was asked
 NO, I will not he declared emphati- cally.
 what do you think of the suicide noteg" Snead was asked.
 tnlnk nothing ol tt---A Cdnt tutnk of it.
 "Do you believe your wife committed suicide. or do you favor the murder theory?"
 "It was not murder"
 "Why did you leave New YcrkT' z The question was repeated three times before he answered.
 "For strictly private reasons"
 He refused to answer when asked if he had any connection with the life in- surance on Mrs. Snead's life.