The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-12-16
MRS. MARTIN
! COLLAPSED N
P0l!slE JAIL
i.f = -.
She Is Under Arresa eex
With the Murder Of HSfkx,.
Daughter

NOTES FOUND N HER ROOM
FORM STR0nG LINK IN CHAIN.
We're Identical in Handwriting With
Those Found Pinned on the Bundle
Of Clothes in the Bathroom IN
Which .Ocey Snead Was Found Dead
New York, Dec. 16.-Mrs. Caroline
&. Martin, the mother Of Ocey Snead,
the East Orange bathtub victim, talk
ed OF tEe suicide and collapsed as she
was being led to cell in Mercer
street police station early today.
'The ending is DEATH" was Mrs.
Martins reported comment on the
answer of the detective to her ques-
lions as what the legal proceedings
would be in her case. Sne was ar
vested in New York shortly after mid
afght this morning. formally charged
with murder. The warrant was is
sued yesterday by Recorder Mott of
East Orange and was placed in the
hands of central office detectives last
night.
Il would welcome DEATH" the detec-
lives report her as saying IL am old,
and can't help anyone and l am Of
40 use. l want to go to heaven
The warrant sets forth that the
prisoner did wilully, feloniously, Of
her own malice and forethought
murder Ocey w. M. Snead," her
daughter.
The arrest was made at the Hotel
Bayard, where Mrs. Martin arrived
Tuesday and from which it was first
thought that she had escaped But
after. a day of mystery, announce
ment came from police headquarters
early today of her arrest. +.
The prisoner gave her age as sixty
four years, said that she was widow
and had home. Her condition was
pitiably weak and she was shown
every courtesy possible. She was
taken to headquarters in a taxicab
and was soon In conference with. her
lawyer. Franklin Fort. Jr., son Of the
governor of New Jersey. who also Is
counsel for Miss Virginia WaFdlAw.
the victims aunt, now being held in
New Jersey for the grand jury in con-
uection with the case.
When Mrs Martin was confronted
collapsed and it was some time be-
fore she gained sufficient strength to
start on her journey to headquarters.
1t was first proposed to takes her on
the subway, but her weak condition
made this impossible.
Urged by the officers. she made sew
eral attempts to start, but would then
sink gasping into chair. A taxicab
was finally called and with Mrs. Mar
tin murmuring family, Il think can
stand 1t now," she was taken away,
assisted on each side by detective.
The warrant for Mrs. Martins arrest
was issued by the New Jersey au-
thorities who had learned yesterday
Of the presence of mysterious wom-
an at the Hotel Bayard.
She appeared in New York yester-
day with characteristic eccentricity
for a brief moment, disappeared
again, after defying the police of two
states, and left behind her the most
valuable bit of evidence in the case
yet discovered.
In the bathroom Of her vacated
rcoE, in an uptown hotel were found
three undated notes written on soiled
note paper in round, girlish hand,
identical with the handwriting of the
note in the. East Orange bathroom
pinned to the little heap Of clothes
near the body Of Ocey Snead. The
notes very slightly in phraseolcgy,
but are all substantially as follows:
"1ast year my little daughter died.
Other near and dear kindred. too,
heaven. long to. go there too.
, have been very weak and i'll long
time. Death will he blessed relief
to my suferings. When you read
this I will have committed suicide.
My sorrow and pain in this world are
greater than can endure.
(Signed)
"Ocey NJ Snead.''
This wording is substantially the
same as that of the East Orange note
on which hangs the whole case of
! New Jersey against Virginia Ward
law, Mrs. Martins sister. and the last
person known to have seen Ocey
snead alive.
Experts have doubted the genuine
ness a0I tnlB note. IL proved 10TH.
cry, the theory Of suicide held by the
defense would. fail. The evidence
discovered today that someone Ind
made repeated trial drafts Of the note
will be used by the prosecution to
further combat the question of lis
authorship.
Action BY the New Jersey authorl-
ties is awaited. Whether Mrs. Martin
would consent to accompany the off,
GERS to East Orange or whether ex-.
tradition proceedings, would have to
he resorted to had not been indicated
prior to her arraignment in the tomb
police court, where it1was expected
she would he taken during the day.
More Evidence.
Further discoveries in the room
vacated bv Mrs. Martin were made by
the police tcdey. II was stated that
the discoveries ine tpded nsyei than
one hundred "s',ic!ie ]stters'' Dtr-i
rorteG to! have. hfrn written by Ocey
snead, many Of them addressed to
.drsrH sfs1s