The sun., 1909-12-06
SNEAD WAIYEDTHEINSURANC
ASSIGNED INTEREST IN ALL
HIS WIFE'S POLICIES.
Wvotr Out Assignment to Her Grand
mother on . Paper Nag. without
Date or Naming where He D,d tt
The UnkInd Treatment OF Mrs. snead.

Kether the bits that go to make up the
case against Miss Virginia wardaw, who
10 locked up in the Essex county Jail on
the charge Of having murdered her niece,
Mrs Ocey w. NJ. Snead week ago to-day
in East Orange for the sake of her in
surance, they are not ready to say. but
they say they have no doubt that she will
be indicted and tried.
One Of the pieces OF evidence which
they were willing to give up yesterday
was the assignment by Fletcher Snead,
the husband OF the dead woman. Of his
interest in the insurance policies on the
life Of Ocey Snead. The transfer wac
made in favor of his grandmother. Mrs.
NJ f. Wardlaw. who is more than 40 years
old and an invalid.
The assignment was scrawled in pencil
on a Hattened out paper bag. II was one
Of the papers in the parcel which was
found in. Collins's drug store on Third
avenue the middle OF last week Fletcher
Snead is the man in whose interest some
of his Princeton classmates are going to
put up money to fight the case against
Miss Wardlaw.
This is part of the text OF the assign.
ment:
Because OF large debts OF my wife, Mrs.
Ocey Wardlaw Martin Snead. to her grand
mother. Mrs. Martha Elizabeth wardlaw
for years OF support. education training
and sums of money loaned by Mrs Ward
law to Mrs. o. W. NJ. Snead and to myself
hereby state and rea rm that give my
full, free. hearty consent and approval to
the transfer and assignment OF all rights
and titles, interest and equities OF the said
Mrs. o. W. NJ. Snead. in and to each and
every policy OF life insurance which has
been issued in and to my wife, Mrs. Ocey
Wardlaw Martin Snead. and / expressly
waive all claim that might have in
and am supposed to have in any said policy,
now or at any time hereafter.
This assignment presupposes the trans
fer on the part OF the dead woman her.
self OF the same policies TO her eighty
year-old grandmother. 1t was undated
and the place OF making the assignment
was not given.
There are understood to have been
other documents OF pertinence to the
case which the police wouldn't allow
to be printed Looking over them yes
terday were several officials from the
New York Life Insurance Company.
among them W. NJ. L.. Cummings. the
chief detective. and Norman r. Haskell,
the head OF the policy claims department.
Recorder Mott said that he was SURE
that the insurance was the motive for
the crime.
4 haven't any doubt he said. that
We will hold Virginia Wardlaw next
saturday"
Prosecutor Wilbur Mott Of Essex
county explained that the Grand Jury
In Essex county goes out the last ofithis
week and that q new one will sit on
December II. Il have been in consulta-
tion with the police to-day he said.
Il have engaged the services Of hand
writing experts, bat l don't want
10 say what they tell me. I can say this
much though. that there is lot OF evil
dence that the Sncad family III treated the
girl shamefuliy.'
Just how badly young Mrs Snead was
treated was suggested last night by Miss
Elizabeth Mogg. a trained nurse who
attended Mrs. Snead last August. sixteen
Gays after her baby was born.
i went to the Brooklyn house where
the family was living them said she.
AT 10 o'clock OF the morning Of August
IL Mrs. Snead was weak and thin. |
raw that she needed some special food
though and orderd some milk and seItzer.
told Miss Virginia Wardlaw about it
IN get it,. she told me. when I'm
good and ready After while--I think
il was about three-quarters Of an hour
saw Miss Wardlaw getting ready to go
out. She told me that I might come too
and get the milk and seltzer. When we
got ont in the street she asked me IL
didn't think that the district was lone
some. ! told her that I'd lived in il a
good while and that didn think So
Oh. she said. so you've lived here a
good while. l think YOU had better go
back to the house. Somebody might
recognize you
When Miss Wardlaw came back she
didn't have tho milk and seltzer. Mrs.
Snead didn't have it all day. and so far
rs know she didn't have it at all. l left
at midnight. They told me that they
didn't want me any longer.
They tagged me around all day. They
seemed TO be afraid that I would find
something out. They didn't let me stay
alone with Mrs. Snead. Somebody was there
all the time. Once in a while Mrs. Snead
looked at me as though she wanted to
Fay something and didn't dare. She
would just squeeze my hand now and then.
That was ALL"
Miss Mogg went out to East Orange
yesterday and looked at the body Of the
woman. She said she was sure that IL was
Of Mrs. Snead.
The funeral Of Mrs. Snead will be held
IN Fast Orange tomorrow morning at IL
oclock. The burial will be in Mount
Hope Cemetery. Prosecutor Mott gave
permission to the police ana the keeper
of the morgue to have the body buried.
DR.. f.. d. Lyon. a member OF the class
~ 7s at Princeton. is one OF the class
mates Of j. B. Wardlaw who have come
forward TO heiD the family. He went
yesterday to the house. 900 West Twenty
second street. where Mrs. Martin and
Mrs. Wardlaw have been staying and
arranged with the landlady for the main
tenance OF the two women. He said
.ast night that John Wardlaw was one
of the high stand men Of his class at
Princeton and that everybody thought