Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-11-30
SAY BATH VICTIM
WAS MRS. SNEAO
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that there was something queer about
the whole business
The authorities cannot reconcile the
result OF DIR. 1reeter's diagnosis with
the statement of the WardlRw woman
that the young woman had been seri-
ously II cyet since they arrived at the
East Orange house. The autopsy, OF
course. will reveal it II death was due
to any cause other than from drowning
Ia the bathtub. Prosecutor Mott at
noon today ordered the immediate hold
Ing Of IN autopsy.
The police made a further search OF
the house. this morning, and found a
photograph OF an infant boy. On the
bottom of the picture was written in a
woman's handwriting: Locks of David
Snead's first heir, The handwriting
on the photo will b. compared with that
in the letter purporting to have been
written by the young woman. The let
ter stated that the writer had lost all
her friends and had committed suicide.
II the handwritings are not the came 1T
viii have an important bearing on the
case. ..
The Wardlaw woman has insisted
that she was ian old maid" She a
tAdt okld tLlQ - nlGCC DCAcA0 tcAAAtN
to East Orange lived at the corner OF
East Forty-eighth street and Dill Lane
avenue. Brooklyn. At noon today the
police learned that the woman was a
married woman and that she and her
husband formerly lived at the Hotel
Brevoort, corner of Fifth n and
Eighth street. The Brevoort Is not a
cheap hotel.
The police expect to locate the
woman's husband this afternoon, and
II so he will be brought to East Orange,
He may be of much assistance i'll clear
ing up the mystery. The police say
that they can place no credence what
ev.- the Wardlaw woman's state
ments. She repeatedly alters them. To
e STAR reporter today she declared
that the police were not treating her as
she should be.
"They are trying to make me tell
something / don't know" she declared.
The police say that it would have
beer almost impossible for the young
woman [ o have been dead twenty-four
hours before the Wardiaw woman dis
covered the body. In reporting the
case the Wardlaw woman phoned To
the police station, asking thai the cor
oner be sent to the house.
Nearby n~eighbors say that at 10
o'clock yesterday morning they saw the
Wardlaw woman leaving the house
carrying a large bundle tied with heavy
cord. She walked along Fourteenth
street and up Eaton place. Then she
met a little boy in the street and Of
fered him ten cent? to carry the bun
die to the car barn in Main street. The
boy refused and she continued with the
bundle up Eaton place to Fifteenth
street and to the car barn. where she
boarded a trolley.
She was absent from the house dur
ing the greater part Of the day n
returned IN the afternoon empty-hand-
ed. According to the physicians who
examined the body The young woman
must have been dead when the Ward
law woman left with the bundle in the
morning. 1t is regarded as very i'm
portant what the bundle contained and
where she went with 1t.
Interrogated on the subject today
the Wardlaw woman would simply say.
"Wrell, what of it?' There was a fire
built In the kitchen range nearly o
week ago, but since that time there
has been none. There was not even 9
gas heater in the house during the
period. and some Of the days as well
as nights have been extremely cold.