Talk:Ocey Snead

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Mary Wardlaw Snead, the murderer, is deemed to be her aunt, mother-in-law, and her grandmother - which is it? --Hooperbloob 18:14, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Clarification:

"was drugged and drowned in East Orange, New Jersey by her own grandmother.."

"Mary L. Wardlaw (1849-?) who had married Fletcher Tillman Snead (1829-1891), was Ocey's aunt, and mother-in-law. "

--Hooperbloob 20:03, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

I fixed the one line and made grandmother into aunt. I also changed the opening line to: "killed by her family". I really have to do more to tell about the trial, and who drugged her. I just wrote what I did, so that I could keep the people straight while I reading about the trial in the New York Times archive. The names are confusing because first cousins married. Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 06:01, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Genealogy of Ocey Martin

• John B. Wardlaw I (1817-?) who married Martha Eliza X (1828-1910)
  • Caroline B. Wardlaw (1847-1913) b. September 24, 1854, who married X Martin.
    • Ocey Wardlaw Martin (c1880-1909) who married her first cousin Fletcher Wardlaw Snead (1875-1955)
      • Mary Alberta Snead (1908)
      • David Pollock Snead (1909-1910)
  • Mary E.L. Wardlaw (1849-?) who married Fletcher Tillman Snead (1829-1891)
    • Fletcher Wardlaw Snead (1875-1955) who married her first cousin Ocey Wardlaw Martin (c1880-1909)
      • Mary Alberta Snead (1908)
      • David Pollock Snead (1909-1910)
  • Virginia G. Wardlaw (1852-1910)
  • John B. Wardlaw II (1854-?), reverend
  • Albert G. Wardlaw (1856-?), reverend
  • Bessie Warldaw (c1861-?) who married a Spindle

This article is very muddled and lacking in a coherent presentation of facts regarding the event (her murder) that supposedly makes this woman notable enough for a Wikipedia article. It also contains repititious information regarding family members and their birthdate. I have attempted to edit and clarify. 165.189.169.190 (talk) 19:06, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Dubious tag for book review

The article cited is a book review and does not contain the information it is supposedly verifying.—D'Ranged 1 VT^alk 13:23, 3 August 2014 (UTC)

Bibliography

These can be migrated back as they are used as references:

• The New York Times
  • (December 1, 1909). "Girl In Bathtub Slain, Police Say—East Orange Authorities Find Her Life Had Been Insured and Money Borrowed On Policy. East Orange Authorities Find Her Life Had Been Insured and Money Borrowed on Policy. They Hold Her Companion. Miss Wardwell's [sic] Explanation of How Girl's Body Came to Be Found in Practically Empty House Unsatisfactory." "The charge of murder was preferred by the police of East Orange, N. J., just before midnight last night against Virginia Wardlaw, the elderly spinster who reported on Monday evening the alleged suicide of a young woman who, she said, was Mrs. Ocey W. M. Snead, her niece, in a bathtub of the practically empty house in that town which the two had occupied for the last ten days." p. 1.
  • (December 2, 1909). "Bathtub Mystery No Murder, She Says—Dead Woman's Mother-in-Law Reveals the Snead Family History to Clear Sister. Victim Drowned Herself. Husband Missing, Health Gone, and She Despairing — Was a Colonel's Daughter — Two Wills Found." "In an effort to shield her sister, Miss Virginia Wardlaw, the elderly spinster held in the Essex County (N. J.) jail, charged with the murder of her niece, Mrs. Ocey W. M. Snead, whose nude body was found in the East Orange house occupied by the couple on Monday afternoon, Mrs. Snead, mother-in-law of the dead girl, consented last night to tell The Times everything she knew about the case. She contends that it is not a case of murder, but suicide." p. 2.
  • (December 12, 1909). "Miss Wardlaw Held On Murder Charge—She Is Committed to Jail After the Coroner's Hearing in the Bathtub Case. New Evidence Disclosed. Head of the Dead Woman Found Directly Under the Faucets, One Witness Testifies." "After hearing testimony for three hours yesterday against Miss Virginia Wardlaw, the elderly spinster and ex-college President, charged with the murder of her niece, Mrs. Ocey W. M. Snead, the victim in the bathtub tragedy, Recorder Nott of East Orange committed the woman to prison to await action by the Grand Jury empaneled for next Tuesday." p. 16.
  • (December 12, 1909). "Relatives Will Aid Her.—Many Families of Note in the South Are Akin to the Prisoner." "Columbia, S.C., Dec. 11—Miss Virginia Wardlaw, who is held in Essex County, N. J., in connection with the death of Mrs. Ocey Snead, is well known here, and is related to many of the old families which shaped the business, political, and social life of the Commonwealth in ante-bellum days." p. 16.
  • (January 21, 1910). "Ocey Snead Was Drugged. Morphine in the Stomach of Woman Found Dead in a Bathtub. The theory that Ocey W. M. Snead was helpless from the effects of a drug when she was put in the bathtub in which her dead body was found in East Orange, N. J., on Nov 29, is said to have been strengthened by the analysis of her stomach made by Dr. William H. Hicks of Newark." p. 1.]
  • (June 18, 1910). "Snead Murder Case Up.—Defendants Question Right of Prosecution to Certain Evidence." "United States Circuit Court Judge Cross, sitting in Newark, N. J., yesterday, heard argument in one phase of the murder of Ocey Snead, which occurred in November 1909. The case came up on the return of a rule to show causes why certain evidence in the possession of the Essex County prosecutor should not be used against the three Wardlaw sisters, who are in the Essex County Jail charged with the crime." p. 18.
  • (September 21, 1910). "Alienists Declare Mrs. Martin Insane. An Official Inquiry Now Asked by Lawyers for Mother Accused of Murdering Ocey Snead...." "A sensational turn was taken yesterday in the murder case of Ocey W. M. Snead, who was found dead in a bathtub in a house at East Orange, N. J., last November, when a petition declaring insane Mrs. Caroline B. Martin, mother of the victim, who is jointly charged with the murder with Mrs. Mary Snead, was filed with Chief Justice Gummere in the Essex County Court House, in Newark, N. J. The petition was signed by Mrs. Martin's brother, the Rev. Albert G. Wardlaw, and her sister, Mrs. Bessie Spindle. Attached to the petition were two separate certificates signed by Dr. Walter S. Washington of Newark and Dr. Henry A. Cotton of Trenton, N. J., who is the head of the New Jersey State Insane Asylum, declaring Mrs. Martin insane." p. 6.
  • (November 8, 1910). "Mrs. Martin's Cries Halt Lunacy Trial. Mother of Ocey Snead Denounces a Witness and Criticises [sic] the Court...." "At the hearing as to her mental condition before Judge Jay Ten Eyck in Newark, Mrs. Caroline B. Martin, who with her sister, Mrs. Mary Snead, is charged with the murder of her daughter, Mrs. Ocey Snead, in East Orange last November, created a scene yesterday. The court declared a recess of five minutes after Mrs. Martin arose and denounced the witness who was on the stand, the court, and prosecution." p. 7.
  • Note: There are nearly 80 articles in the archives of The New York Times regarding "Ocey Snead".