Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-08-13
MISS WARDLAWS
BODY TAKEN TO
{. ORANGE MORGUE
Official Autopsy Confirms State-
ment That Woman Died of
Starvation.

Mckenzie at the autopsy performed
yesterday afternoon. The EVENING
STAR yesterday forecasted that the
autopsy would show almost identically
the same conditions as were found in
the ease of Ocey w. NJ. Snead, found
dead last November in East Orange.
Miss Wardlaw's body is now at
Knapps morgue, in East Orange,
where it was removed from Holes
morgue last night, Immediately follow
ing the completion of the autopsy. At
Knapp's today 1t was stated that as
far as known no arrangements had
been made for the body to be taken to
Mount Hope Cemetery. I'VE under
stand 1t will be placed in a receiving
vault for some time," said Mr.. Knapp
over the telephone
Who, made arrangements with you
for the care of the body?" was asked.
Told TO Bring Body Here.
Franklin w Fort. is the only man
know in connection with the burial"
said Mr.. Knapp. "All he told me was to
bring the body here and take care of
it until further orders
Mr.. Fort was not at his office today.
Neither was former Judge Beasley,
Miss Wardlaw's personal counsel.
Chandler W. Riker, counsel for Mrs.
Caroline B. Martin, also was unavail-
able.
Details of the funeral were, 1t Is sup
posed, left with the Rev. Albert Ward
law and Mrs. Spindle, of Christians
burg, Va, brother and sister of the
dead woman, who spent two hours at
the county jail late yesterday afternoon
in consultation with Mrs. Martin ana
Mrs. Snead.
Mrs. Martin and the Rev. Wardlaw
talked together for fully an hour. At
times it seemed as though they were
disputing some welghty question. At
other times the talk was that of
brother and sister.
On leaving the Jail Rev. Mr.. Ward.
law refused to talk to newspaper men
and hurried away with his sister, Mrs.
Spindel. Mrs. Spindle took but little
part in the conference at the Jail.
Judge Archer A. Phlegar, of Bristol,
Va, who represents Mrs. John A. Ward
law, the 83-year-old mother of the
women accused of numbering Ocey W.
NJ. Snead, is expected to reach New
ark some time today when the final
arrangements for the burial of Miss
Wardlaw will be made.
1t is generally believed that follow
ing the death of Miss Wardlaw a rec
onciliation has been effected between
the elder and younger branches of the
! family. For years there has been n
schism between Miss Wardlaw, Mrs.
Martin, Mrs. Snead and the Rev. John
A Wardlaw and Mrs. Spindle, who is
the youngest daughter of the Rev. John
A. Wardlaw.
Just what the cause of the differences
between the younger and elder
branches of the family was has never
been made public, but 1t is generally
supposed to have been brought about
by disputes over property in Virginia.
Trouble Over schools.
The school at Christianburg Va,
established by the Wardlaws many
years ago, is said to have been the
original basis on which the family
split Following that split, Mrs. Mar
tin, together with Miss Wardlaw, went
to Tennessee, where at Murfreesboro
they established school for girls
with Miss Wardlaw in actual charge,
Mrs Martin in the meantime teaching
school in New York city, but acting
in a supervisory manner over the
Tennessee school.
This school failed several years ago,
and from that time on the three sisters
of mystery, Wardlaw, Martin and
Snead, lived practically as recluses in
New York city and Brooklyn.
During that time they held no COM
munication whatever with the aged
mother or the brother and sister in the
South, other than on matters of busi-
ness connected with the family prop
erty in Virginia and Tennessee.
Shortly after the death of Ocey W
M. Snead a nephew of the three Ward
law sisters was burned to death in his
home near Roanoke Va. The man was
reported to have been heavily insured
and there was some talk of the insur-
ance company contesting payment.
1t developed that the death was
purely an accidental one, and the
policy was paid, but not until a net OF
mystery had been thrown around the
| death. At the time of the inquest into
this death it was found impossible to
determine the exact relationship be-
tween a number of the interested
parties.
Louis Hood, who will assist Pros
ecutor Wilbur "A. Mott in the prosecu-
tion of the case against the two sur
viving sisters, said today that while
he had not heard anything from Mr..
Mott, who is still i'll at his home in Nam
tucket Mass, the case would surely
be brought to trial on September 21.
1.-THE death of Miss Wardlaw and the
result of the autopsy does not alter in
the least the case we have against the
other two sisters said Mr.. Hood.
But in other circles it is the genera
belief that the death of Miss WardlaN
will result in a further postponement
of the trial and eventually in the dis
charge without trial of Mrs. Martin an6
| Mrs. Snead.