Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-21
BILLS REVIVE
MEMORY Of
'BATHTUB' CASE
Two of These Reminders, Ag-
gregating So, los, Presented
to Freeholders Today.
COUNTY'S EXPENSE In
MURDER CASE is $4,000
Lederle Laboratories Charge
Sl,965 for Examining Slain
OCey Snead's Organs.

The murder OF Ocey W. NJ. Snead IN
East Orange on November 29, 1909. and
the subsequent events that ended on
February 5, when her mother Mrs.
to a charge of involuntary manslaugt-
ter, has been forgotten by almost every
, one except the officials of the Boaed
of Freeholders office, where the bills
incurred BY the county during the trial
are now coming in fast and furious.
Two were received today. One was
from the Lederle laboratories of New
York city, and was for 81, ,965 for expert
examinatica of the organs of the body
of Ocey Snea1 to determine if poison
had been the cause of her death. The
other bill received today was from
DR.. j. Henry Clark for expert services
during the examination into the sanity
of Mrs. Coroline B. Martin last Novem-
Der. This amounted to $1,000.
All told the expense to Essex county
excluding the actual time spent on it
by Prosecutor Mott and officials of
his Office, will amount to about $4,000,
probably rather over than under that
sum, according to the estimates made
at the Court House today from the
figures already in evidence.
Special Counsel Got S5,2O5.35.
OF this $4,000 total S5,2O535 has been
paid to LouiG Hold, special counsel
engaged by Prosecutor Mott to help
l.; Nv. ;ta
three bills to the county in Connection
with the case. One calls tor S955.35,
and is in connection with the effort
made to have Mrs. Mary w. Snead set
free through a. writ of habeas corpus
filed liz the United States Court at
Trenton a year ago. For his work
during the insanity proceedings against
Mrs. Martin last November Mr.. Hood
received $1,750, while his fee for serv-
ices from the time he was retained by
Prosecutor Mott a year ago last anu
airy amounts tC s2,50O.
Other large items in connection with
the trial are the bills of DR.. G. C.
Beling for services during the insanity
hearing, $1,000, and one of the same
amount rendered by DR.. William H.
Hicks.
In addition, DR.. Hicks has been paid
81, 500 for services rendered in partici-
patton in the diagnosis of the organs of
Ocey w. NJ Snead at the Lederle lab
ratories, of New York city, whose bill
of 1855 for this anne work was re-
ceived in the county auditors office to-
day. This makes total of $3,465 for
expert services in connection with the
poisoning end of the ase, which in the
end was disposed of by accepting the
plea of Mrs. Martin, mother of the
girl. that the poison had been given
without intent to kill.
I Stenographer's Bill Is S6O91O.
Other items of interest in the bills
turned in SO far are for stenographer
services, the bill TO-. this item alone in
the insanity hearing of Mrs Martin
last November amounting to s609.10
NAnother bill that Is going to add
quite a sum to the total is that of w.
]. Kinsley, of Nutley, the handwriting
expert, who was retained n the case
by Prosecutor Mott and had entire
charge of the case, as far as the genu-
ineness of the alleged suicide" notes
found pinned to the clothes of Ocey
Snead, when her dead body was found
in the bathtub of the East Orange
house, were concerned.
A little over year ago Prosecutor
Mott and County Detective Al Hargan
made an extended thrip through vir-
ginia, Tennessee and Kentucky in
search of evidence in connection with
the case. An expense bill of $1,000 for
this trip has been paid by the county,
but so far no itemized bill has been
turned in to cover it.
In addition to the bills stated above
there are probably 1000 other items
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