Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-10
Declares Evidence to Be Sub
mitted Against Miss Wardlaw
Viii Bear Out Charge.
TO ASK NO FURTHER
DELAY OF HEARING
Physicians Assert Victim Was
Drngged or Hypnotized in
Brooklyn House.

Purely circumstantial evidence VIII
be offered at the preliminary hearing
tomorrow morning at 10 O'Clock In the
East Orange Common Council chamber
in the case Of Miss Virginia oceanie
Nardlaw, who is charged With Shaving
her niece. Mrs. Ocey wardIaw Martin
snead, in the bathroom Of the unfur-
nislled house. SO North Fourteenth
street. East Orange, on November n
Prosecutor Wilbur A. Mott TO-DAY teId
a Newark EVENING STAR reporter
that he would ask for no further con
tlnuanee OF the hearing: that he would
not side-track the hearing by obtaining
an Indictment and that he confidently
believed that ns would be able 70
adduee testimony strong enough 4a
warrant Recorder vrancis A. Mott in
committing the accused without bail
Detectives o'Neiii and Riker tocs~
brought a newly discovered suit case
belonging to the Wardlaws 10 The sta
ton house They discovered it In a
rooining house in upper Fifth avenue.
Where Mrs Martha Eliza wardlsw
hVed also for five weeks. she having
left there on November last. leaving
a $40 board bill behind her. Tie ;ansS-
iady, whose name the police are shield
ihs' says thar the elderly War,I;srv
women iectured in a Harlem church
Ine grip contained number Of re-
nsio0s tracts. bat nothing 10 throw
any light on the mystery.
To Compare Hanauritsnx.
roseeitor Mott, for the frst tfs,sx
sit'ee the bathtub r1sy-stery iy,vesti "a. t,t.,,
was besua permitted Himself e b in
tervierved b. the Reporters The TsvF-
MING STAR represents live iuterrasa,-
ed the prosecutor and cleared up r,a.,v
little seeming discrepancies tn the case
The more important were with refe~-
enes TO the alleged reports of william.
). hinsiey, the handwriting expert. and
DR.. William II. Hicks. tie chemical an
alysist Relative to the KinsIev re,,or,
the prosecutor said:
Until now l have been n,.ahis -
hand over to Dir Kinsley the so-ea,,a.,
standards in the case. True. / have
been in possession of the alleged suicide
note pur5orting to have been signed hv
the victim, Mrs. ocey snead. bur unti,
nov have been unable to f5nd ~.
handwritines of Miss sWardlaw. ,,a
aunt Mrs. Caroline &. Martin. thc
mother and Mrs. Mary Snead the
mother-in-law. and that of the .iet;n
herself SO much depends upon the faet
whether the alleged suicide note is
fcsgery or not that I am moving in thar
direction cautiously. cannot hope for
report from Mr.. Kinsley until the lar
ter part Of next week.
r. Wiilia... -. Hicks. the chemical
expert who is looking for any trace a
poison in the victims organ. entered
the prosecutors office during the inter-
view Immediately the two officials ad-
journed to an adjoining room and re-
turning the prosecutor announced tnat
Or. Hicks would not be in a pos,tian
to submit his report fer at least tlttrty
days. II, however. any evidence Of
POISON develops before completing his
work, preliminary report will be m1do
by the doctor
without these two important reports
especially that of the handwriting es-
pert, which will tend to establish the
fact whether Mrs. Snead wrote the al
legged suicide note, do you expect 10
have the accused committed?s asked
the STAR reporter.
Most assuredly. II didn't feel con-
hdent would not go ahead with the
hearing" replied the prosecutor
The prosecutor has been criticised b,.
detectives working on the case for his
failure to give the newspapers a pic
ture OF Miss Martin for publication.
arguing that publicity would assist
them in locating the much-sought-f 10.
mother. The prosecutor said:
Unfortunately, have no photograph
of Mrs. Martin. would give ii to the
newspapers If l had. l would do most
anything to disclose the. present where
abouts of that woman"
ocey Martin Sneads last known let
ter written to her husband. Fletcher
Snead. fac-simile Of which showing
her handwriting is printed in another
column, is given below. This letter was
never mailed. as snead had Disappeared
and his wife could not learn his ad-
dress
Mrs. Spead's Last Letter
My Darling Husband:
If you had received a letter
every time that | have thought Of