The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-17
MORE ARRESTS IN
SNEAD CASE MADE
Two Sisters of Woman Who is
Charged With Numbering
Daughter Held.
MUCH SPECULATION AS
TO STRANGE NOTES FOUND
If Written by Young Victim,
Why in Possession of
Accused.

NEW YORK. Dec. l6.-The three sis.
ters who held the life of Occy Snead
in their hands have one by one come
within the reach of the law, until to-
night separate cells hold them all,
charged by The authorities of East Or
augc, \. j.. with the murder of their
niece and daughter,
Or the girls immediate relatives,
only her bedrjdden grandmother, Mrs.
Wardlaw. So years old, and Fletcher
Snead, the cousin she married, are
slill at large.
A rumor that Fletcher Snead, tho
missing husband. had been found in
hiding at st. GATHERINGS. Ont, was de-
nicd tonight by the st. GATHERINGS po'
llcc
Events Move Swiftly.
Events have moved swiftly in the
last twentyfour hours. Soon after the
arraignment today of Mrs. Caroline w.
Martin. Occy Snead 8 mother. who was
arrested last night, there followed the
third arrest IN the Case-that of Mrs;
Mary Snead. Mrs. Martin S sister. and
at once the aunt and mother-in-law OF
Ocey Snead. Sho was taken from her
lodgings in New York, charged with
being fugitive from New Jersey,
where q warrant similar to that issued
against her sister was sworn out
Mrs. Martin WAS arralgned inns morn
mittcd TO the Tombs prison, pending
thc arrival of eXtraditjon papers from
New Jersey. In her examination she
gave no hint as TO whether She would
fight eXtraditior.
Mrs Martin is Ga years old and fee
BILE, though rcsolute and alert OF mind.
She showed today the same aversion to
lifting the heavy black vcil that com.
pletoly concealed her features as char.
acterizcd her sister Virginia Wardlaw.
in tbe lattcr's examination al East
Orange several days ago.
Humiliating Position.
Mrs. Mary Snead. when taken TO
police headquarters today, was, equally
rcticent. Mrs Martin S rltIful lnfrm-
ity saved her the ndignity Of being
measured and photographed but Mrs.
Sncad escaped none Of the humiliating
details Of police routine. She viii be
examined tomorrow IN the Tomhs po
lice court TO determine whether sho can
Justify be held for cxtradition.
The three notes found yesterday
among Mrs. Martin S effects. all sim.
liar in handwriting and wording TO the
suicide note found pinned In Occv
Sneod s clothing beside the bathtub IN
which she was drowned. were deemed
sufficient evidence against Mrs Mar.
tin.
The point maGc against Mrs. snead
! is that she was n party with Miss
Wardlaw to the renting OF the uufur.
nishcd house in East Orange in which
Ocey Snead was found dead.
ST CATHERINE, Ont, Dec, l6.-A
man believed 10 he Fletcher w. Suead,
husband Of Ocey Sncad. was found here
! tonight He is known here As John
Lucas. and is engaged as a dishwasher
at hotel. Lucas refused 10 make n
statement, but does not deny that he
WAS the man. \ clerk of the hotel said
that he found in Lucas s room several
towels bearing the name OF Sncad In
the corner
When asked poiuthlapk, '1Arc YOU
Fletcher ", Sue8d?'' the man turned
pale. lie did not answer until the
| question WAS repeated, Then he said.
81 prefer not 10 answer.