Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-08
Relatives of Dead Woman Be-
lieved to Be in Hiding.
NONE ATTEND THE FUNERAL
Additional Mysteries Develop in
Case of Mrs. Snead.
POLICE THEORY Is MURDER
Woman in Arrest Charged With
Causing Death of Niece Found
in Bath Tub.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
NEW YORK, December S-rhe funeral
Of Mrs. Ocey w. NJ. Snead, postponed yes
terday by Prosecutor Mott of Essex
county and Chief of Police Bell of East
Orange, took place this morning at 8
O'Clock. There was no hitch in the pro-
ceedings, the Rev. John F. Kern of the
Orange Presbyterian Church performing a
simple ceremony in Kunz's morgue where
the body had lain sinse 1t was found in
a bath tub In the East Orange home of
the Wardlaw woman. BY railroad the
body was taken to Hoboken, and thence
to Mount Hope cemetery I'm West Chester
where the burial was slated to take place
Mrs. Martha Wardlaw, grandmother of
the young woman found dead in a ath
tub at her East Orange home. has joined
the list of those whose whereabouts were
this morning, a list on which
were the names of Caroline Martin, moth
er of the dead woman, and Fletcher w.
Snead, the latter's husband.
The aged grandmother was last even
ing taken away from the house at 466
West I'D street. where she had been stay
ing with Mrs. Mary w. Snead Two men,
one of whom resembled her counsel
Franklin w. Fort, conveyed her from
The house in a taXicab. She was accom-
panied by negro maid.
1t was thought possible that she would
appear at the burial in Westchester later
today Mrs. Mary Snead was left alone
in the house.
Police Have Papers.
The police have in their possession
Z ft,-ac b.,r,
belonging to the women of the Wardlaw
family. These have been turned over to
them by Mrs. Evelyn Cook of go Mar
tens avenue, Brooklyn. Mrs. Cook thinks
it was Mrs. Martin who left the things
in her dellcatessen store, at Rogers and
Canarsie avenues, consisting of legal pa
pers apparently concerned with litigation
over land in the south, about one hun
dred Photographic films and four pictures
of men. The East Orange police were
busy this morning going over these pa
pers in an effort to find further evidence
that may solve the strange mystery of
young Mrs Snead's death
Several other interesting bits of evil
dence are now in the hands Of the po-
lice. One of them is letter from a resi-
dent of Murfreesboro that tells of finding
an express package in the express office
of that town. left by one of the Wardlaw
women, the letter alleges, and containing
morphine. Another Is the story Of Louis
Jacobsen of 1879 7th avenue who told
the police that a woman whose appear
ance talles with the pictures of Mrs.
Mary Snead attempted to purcha Sc
chloroform about ten days ago in his
store.
William Doscher's Story
The story told by William Doscher of
2i9 West 49th street. who identified the
body of Ocey w. NJ. Snead last evening
in Orange, is also of interest from the
police viewpoint
'"Ten years ago. said Doscher, Mrs
Martin came to us and rented rooms.
The daughter. at that time thirteen or
fourteen years old. was unusually attrac-
tive. We became greatly attached to her.
Mrs. Martin was frequently cruel to the
child, who would come running to my
wife and fling her arms around her neck
and sob.
My wife tried many times to learn
what troubled the child. but she would
never tell her and we did not discuss
the nature of the fear she had Of her
parent
After they had stayed there several
months without paying us a cent of
rent we were forced to begin proceed
inss to evict them and after a time we
succeeded. / did not know that there
were other members of the family liv-
ing, but after they had gone a woman
who looked something like Mrs. Martin,
and said she was her sister, came to the
house to claim the effects left there by
the mother and daughter"
Of Apparent Good Standing.
II observed while they were with us
that Mrs. Martin seemed to have good
standing with prominent people or at
least people who appeared to be Of some
consequence. She had many callers from
among folks of what you would call the
upper classes.
"Phe stories I have read in the papers
about the queer ways of the family
agree perfectly with our experience of
the mother and child at our house.
They were untidy and their rooms were
always in the utmost disorder"
The identity of the woman who went
to kunZ's morgue yesterday in company
with detectives of Chief Bells staff is
still puzzle. If 1T was her visit that
caused the postponement of the funeral
she must be an important figure in the
case, for both Prosecutor Mott and
Chief Bell agreed that they were sure
enough of Ocey Sneads identity with
out the evidence given by this mysteri-
Gus woman.
Mysteries Upon Mysteries.
The question of whether or not chloro-
form had been used in making away with
the young southern woman in an East
Orange house more than week ago was
brought to the fore through a story told
by a Harlem druggist He asserts that a
woman resembling one of the relatives of
Mrs. Snead sought to buy a bottle of
from him a day or two before
the body of Mrs. Snead was found in the
East Orange house. He refused to sell
the drug without a prescription.
1t has been the theory of Chief of Po-
lice Bell of East Orange that Mrs Snead
was first chloroformed and then drowned.
Not a friend or relative attended the
funeral
Miss Virginia Wardlaw. aunt of the
victim, is still locked up in the Essex
county jail, charged with the murder of
her niece.
After the Black Handlers.
PITTSBURG, December S-The authori-
ties of Leechburg, Pa, and the United
States government are conducting a rigid