Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-09
SAY MOTHER OF
!. BATH VICTIM IS
HIDING IN SOUTH
Reports from Christiansburg,
Va, Indicate That Relatives
Are Shielding Mrs. Martin.
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WAS SEEN TO ARRIVE
THERE AFTER TRAGEDY
| All Efforts of Police Are Now
Centred in Hunt for Miss
ing Woman.

Interest in the East Orange bathtub
mystery again centers on the police
hunt for Mrs. Caroline Bessie Wardlaw
Martin, mother of Mrs. Ocey W. NJ.
Snead, the victim. The young woman's
body was laid in the ground at Mt
Hope Cemetery between the graves of
the victims baby, Mary Alberta Snead,
and that of her father, the late Colonel
Robert Maxwell Martin. Withal, Mrs.
Martin, the mother Of the victim. grand
mother of the child and widow of
Colonel Martin, more interested than
anyone else in the world, failed to come
from her concealment She feared ar
rest, lis the only explanation offered by
the detectives.
Reports from Christiansburx,
Virginia, today seem to indicate
that the missing woman Is hiding
there In the home of a reIative.
Many persons declare Mrs. Martin
arrived there the day affer the
tragedy and has not left the town.
Mayor Cardwell, Of East Orange, will
consult city and county officials tonight
with view of offering a $1,000 reward
for the apprehension of the Martin
WON 4, but Prosecutor Wilbur A. Mott,
who is so anxious to find the woman,
will not state whether she is wanted
as the real principal, an accomplice or
witness. The prosecution is satisfied
that the mother. who added to the
mystery the sinister climax of her alb
sence at the funeral could clear up
this, the greatest of recent-day mys-
teries. Detectives O'Neill anH Riker.
Of East Orange, are confining their
efforts now trying to locate the Martin
woman, who, their investigation reveals,
was the dominating factor in the queer
lives of the Snead and Wardlaw fam
lies.
Prisoners HearInr on Saturday.
Miss Virginia oceania wardlaw the
victims aunt. who IL held without hail
in the ESSEX county, Jail on a charge
| of murder, is scheduled for a hearing
before Recorder Mott In the Fast Or
ange Police Court on Saturday morn
ing, but 1t is doubtful whether the
hearing will take place. Belief pre-
walls that. before the hour set for the
hearing the prosecutor will present the
facts and circumstances in his possess
sion to the grand jury and that that
body Will return one and possibly two
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tba MARTIN woman n the case Scarcely
had the authnrities decided to hold the
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bave since headI;ned tbe Martin woman
and she has been enabled thereby to go
| farther and farther into obscurity
Franklin w. Fort, son of Governor
Fort, has stereotyped reply to any
and all INQUIRIES for the Martin woman
It is. .I will not say that I do not
know where Mrs. Martin is.'
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