Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-22


Prosecutor Mott is carefully guard
ing the nature of this recently dis
covered evidence. It is because Of this
proof that he IS so confident Of con
viction and. II is also because Of this
large amount of documentary materials
that he looks upon the suicide notes.
as only secondary evidence. In all there
have been discovered tllirty-six of
these so-calIed suicide notes and il
is understood that William ]. KlnsleE,
the handwriting expert. IS prepared %
report that they were all written -
the same hand. The prosecutor p
practically ignoring the suicide notes
Mrs Martin, the mother, because Of
her lifetime donnineering influence over
all the members of her family tried ~
continue the exertion of that influences
after her appearance on November
". the day of the discovery Of tho body
in the bathtub. Mrs. Martin, while IA
concealnaent in divers New York hotels
wrote a nulaber OF letters 10 her sis
ter, Mrs. Snead and 10 her sister MISS
Wardlaw, who was a prisoner IN the
Essex County Jail The letters 70 MISS
Wardiaw were sent through another
medium than direct to the Jail. II -
understood that these letters We're IN
structions to the two sisters directing
them as to time and circumstances eeF-
ering her movements Immediately prior
and subsequent to the discovery OF the
body. Mrs Martin herself has admitted
having written letters TO her sisters
during her concealment The prose
cutor. by reason OF the possession q
these letters. believes that he VIII be
enabled 10 prove that ell three women
are guilty. The exact wording OF these
letters the prosecutor is carefully with
holding. and but very little OF i he
came known TO the grand jurors ihe
prosecutor refuses to discuss this phase
OF the case. but admits that it VIII ne
his strong feature
Praise Detective O'Neill.
Detective Harry OMEN is entitlel
to the credit for this Important diseef-
orv. Persistently he had watched Mrs.
Sneads mali delivered at the Twenty
second street house, put did not tanIses
with it, Scarcely a day through me
two weeks period Mrs. Martin was N
hiding passed but what a letter WIS
delivered By the postman to Mrs
snead. The envelope Of which was
printed ike the samples Of the en-
Van Dyke and Samuel Untermeyer, re-
production of which was exclusively
made in the EVENING STAR at the
time of Mrs Martins arrest. Mrs.
Snead. it will be remembered. was nos
arrested until after her sister, Mrs
Martin, had been incarcerated lad
the detectives wanted TO arrest Mrs
Snead they could have done SO in the
first Instance. O'Nein waited until the
delivery at the Snead home Of the last
,etter that Mrs Martin had written. Il
was while the New York detectives
were taking Mrs. Snead to the Tomos
that O'Neil1 secured possession OF THIS
valuable documentary evidence.
Indications now point to the prose-
cutor's line being that of charging that
Mrs Martin was the real principal IN
the plot.
The next step OF the New Jersey ai-
thorfties win be an application 10 Gov
ernor Fort at Trenton FOR requsiion
papers to have the two prisoners in
New York city taken to New Jersey
for trial. The New Jersey executives
request OF Governor Hughes in this
connection, it IS expected. viii reach
Albany By the latter part Of this week.
Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Mary Snead VIII
meanwhile be held