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Show AGED ill CHARGED WITH KILLING NIECE Many Peculiar Features Attach to Case at. East Orange, N. J.; Probable Motive. . NEW YORK, Dec. J. Virginia Wardlaw, a gray-haired spinster, was arraigned at Fast Orange, N. J., today, charged -with the murder of her young niece, Mrs. Ocoy W. N. Sncad, whose body was found in n bathtub in a deserted house in Fast Oraugo Monday. Mon-day. Death, according to the coroner, was due to drowning in less than a foot of water. Ju view of many features of the case the young woman's detention in descried houses while having a .$20,000 insurance policv ou her life, 1 lie fact that she owned property in Brooklyn worth $IG,000, and her apparent helplessness help-lessness for months Miss Wardlaw was held without bail. Two other women, wo-men, said to have been associated with the victim, are under surveillance. Tho police theory is that Mrs. Sncad had been in a helpless condition for months, unable to direct, her own affairs, af-fairs, and was at the mercy of whoever who-ever acted as her guardians. A will has been discovered, Eaid to have been signed by the victim, which gives $500 to nn infant son, and be-fpumlhes be-fpumlhes the rest of the estate to Mrs. Snead's grandmother, Martha Eliza Wardlaw. The pon was born last August, but was taken from its mother and presumably pre-sumably placed in an institution. |