Norwich bulletin., 1909-12-09
Bathtub Mystery
 Unexplained
POLICE HAVE NOTHING BUT
 BRUTE FACTS IN THE CASE.
BURIAL OF 0cEY SREAD
Unabated Efforts to Discover Manner of Her Death-Order Issued for Ar rest of Her Mother, Mrs. Martin.

New York, Dec. s.-The body of Ocey Snead was buried today, but an uncompromising inquiry into the manner of her death gees on unabated at East Orange, N. J., where Virginia Wardlaw, her spinster aunt, is held prisoner pending an investigation by the grand jury.
 No Explanation Yet Found.
 Sentiment aside," said the chief of police today, "there remains the brute facts in this case, and nothing in explanation of them has been offered. We have girl found dead in twelve inches of water in bath tub, on the one hand. and on the other the woman who last saw her alive but failed to report her death until twenty-four hours after it must have been discov- cred. Aunt and niece lived in the same house; it is incredible that the bath room could have remained un- visited for that length of time or that in their closely related life one of the two could have been absent so long from the house without arousing the anxiety of the other.
 "These two basic facts alone are sufficient in themselves to warrant their presentation to the grand jury, even if there were no tangle of in surance to unravel, no diagnosis of malnutrition and hypnosis by a repu- table physician, no duplication of wills and no attempted purchase of chloro- form to kill cats.'"
 Order Issued for Arrest of Mrs. Mar
 tin.
 Mayor Caldwell of East Orange is- sued an order this afternoon that Mrs. Caroline Martin. mother of Mrs Ocey Snead, be arrested if found in New Jersey. "A technical charge of va grancy could be preferred against her." he said, land she could be held until this case has been thoroughly aired"
 Most Prosecuted Family in the World.
 Mrs. Martin. however, has shown no desire to visit New Jersey. She did not appear at the funeral of her daughter today and the only repres- tative of the family at the grave was Mrs. Mary Snead, mother of Fletcher Snead, the missing husband. Heavily yelled. and shaken by convulsive sobs, there seemed no doubt of her grief.
 We are the most persecuted fam fly in the world,'' she said, after the funeral. "Ocey was sweet, retiring girl. Her mother loved her dearly, but as a school teacher she was aecus- toned to exact authority. There is no other foundation for these stories of hynotic eompulsion.
 "As far as insurance is concerned, the agents got hold of us and began begging us to take out policies"
 Mrs. Snead would not say whether her son Fletcher is alive or dead. Franklin Fort, Jr, her sisters coun- sel. had advised silence, she said. MT. Fort admits, on his part, however, that the reticence and intense pride of the family have hampered him in matters concerning which he desires fuller knowledge. Both Mrs Mary Snead, he said, and her mother, Mrs. Martha Wardlaw, would be conveyed into seclusion tonight.
 Solution of Case Rests on Suicide Note
 Found.
 'The whole solution of the case" he continued. now centers in the sui eide note found beside the bath tub. Friends of the family have provided plenty of money for the expenses of the trial and we shall retain experts to prove the note genuine"