Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-04

stances. There Is nothing that would
please Chief Bell more than to see the
two women on Jersey soil. At noon
TODAY It was declared that the police
were on the trail of Mrs. Martin. They
claim to have discovered that she had
gone to ~Breokhaven, Long Island, two
stations beyond Patchogue. The de-
t~ectiyes claim to have learned that Mrs.
Martin had visited friends in Brook
haven. but had eluded the officers tive
hours before they arrived.
Mrs. Martin was once a teacher in
School No. II, on West Forty-seventh
street near Ninth avenue. At the time
of her retirement on pension. as told
in the EVENING STAR yesterday. she
went to B~rookhaven. which had be-
come a little settlement for retired
teachers. She still has friends there.
say Mother Is In New York
TIE detectives claim to have dis
covered that Mrs. Martin returned TO
Long Island City. and that she is now
hiding in New York city. They 1eel
confident Of focating her within the
next twenty-four hours. The police
have satisfied themselves that the last
sees of Mrs. Martin in her lodging
house. in West Twenty-second street
was on Wednesday last. The police
say that quite recently Mrs. Martin
sought TO have her mother. now more
thar 81 years cid, received into some
hone in Manhattan or on BlaekWells
Island. for INDECENT old women. She
wrote MIN letters just before she went
n away asking as many homes TO take
her mother in.
Mrs. Wardlaw. however, is still
at 4s6 West Twenty-second street,
and for a time yesterday she was
) thought TO be in q critical condl-
ton. She is extremely feeble and near
~ blind from a cataract.
New York teachers and administra-
tive officers of the public schools there
remember Mrs. Martin. Ex-City SUPER
~intendent of Schools John Jasper said
that she had given him a lot of trouble
when she was d teacher, and another
high executive officer remembered that
a stubborn fight was made to prevent
her promotion to be principal Of school
No. IL
GRANDMOTHER Feared Prisoner.
Additional evidence of q long-stand-
ing plot to do away with Ocey Snead
I for the $4,000 insurance she carried on
her life has been discovered since the
uordy statement concerning the limo
cence Of Miss Wardlaw was issued by
her counsel, Franklin ". Fort. Wit
nesses have come forward eager to
contribute what they know concerning
the relations of the old women and
their alleged victim to the police Of
Brooklyn. Manhattan and East Orange.
These latest revelations would seem
to indicate that Mrs. Martha Virginia
Wardlaw. 20 whom young Mrs. Snead
insisted on leaving her fortune, was
as helpless q victim in the tolls of her
insurance-mad trio of daughters as was
her granddaughter, that she protested
against the treatment Mrs. Snead was
receiving and was only restrained from
making public her suspicious by fear
OF her daughters, Mrs. Martin and Miss
Nardiaw.
Mrs. A. Wlckland, who has a board
ing house at ST. Flatbush avenue, and
with whom the aged Mrs. Martha
Warfllaw lived for two months, voiun-
teered information which makes the
case against Miss Wardlaw much
stronger ever than before. Mrs. Wick
land said Miss Wardlaw came to the
hou3e and obtained accommodations
I0E mel lklOltlSl. ~ f,eilG = v IN
law was deathly AFRAID of her daughter
and trembled violently every time she
came to the house. IN other ways n
showed the fear in which she lived Of
the younger woman. At times she
seemed on the point Of making a con-
ndant Of Mrs. Wickland, but was al
ways restrained by the thought that
her daughter might find it out.
NfyI,0r, AT-5 AAar5los ~ had 6apn in the
house a month Mrs. Wickiand de-
nandcd her money. Miss Wardlaw
brought insurance policies on the life
OF Mrs. snead to the house and insisted
that the landlady examine them. She
told Mrs. Wlckland that the policies
were on the life of an invalid who
was sure to die soon and that she would
be paid in full.
"one day. said Mrs. Wardlaw, IT
asked the old woman why she feared
her daughter. and she replied. I would
like to tell You. | could tell a LOT,
but | am afraid Of her. she has taken
all my money, and ] had a heap of it.
I cart take care of myself, and she
Just sticks me around anywhere until
she carries out her schemes That
night. when Miss Wardlaw came, about
10 o'clock, ! heard a loud noise in the
room, and stood outside the door to
listen.
Overheard Money Plot.
.sThe cid woman WAS crying and
taking ON nj N great rate. ITS
terrible, lis terrible. What are
Yen planning 10 dor she said. 81
knuw nil nbout you, and 1 don't
want n cent of money if you pro-
pose Ia get It that Way. I would
rather die now
..Then ! heard the daughter an-
swer roughly, well, 3ou just never
mind. Jf you get any of 1T mt all,
you will take II the way 1 get IL,
and Il won't be very long now I'M
I'll get IT.
Then the other N demonstrated
again several times, and the words on
the other side frequently became just ii
tumble Of sounds. l then heard some
thing referring to one whom ] imme-
diately thought was the girl Miss Ward
law was nursing, and that she wouldn't
live long
THE next day the old woman wanted
To borrow a pen and ink to write q lot
Ter. I want to let my son know said
she. II he only knew he would get me
out Of this terrible thing l asked her
yhat she meant, and she begged me not