The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-03-31
STABBED wIrn A PEN.KNIFE.
A Remarkable Discovery Made After
Deatii-MuTder Suspected.

a hcnNFkhule DlsCoteFy hhte AhSA
DeatiI-Murder Suspected.
PHILADELPHIA, March SO.-Tbe denizens
ofan outlying section Of the Twenty-eighth
ward were thrown into high state OF ex.
citement this morning by the discovery oi
three ghastly wounds upon the person Of a
woman who was being laid out for burial
and who 1t was supposed had died from
pneumonia. A week ago Mrs. Alice Sny'
der, the mother Of FIVE children,
was rather suddenly taken i'll and
confined to bed at her home, No. 2,24l
Clarence street. A physician was called and
treated her for Pneumonia. She grew
worse rapidly, and yesterday shielded. Just
before she died the physician, DR.. Lane, was
hastily somm oned. He found the dying
woman speechless, but she kept pulling at
the clothes about her stomach as II she de.
sired to attract the doctors attention to this
part OF her body. The doctor paid no
attention to her actions, however, but ad.
ministered remedies. He remained at the
house until she died. The persons who
went to prepare the body for burial dis
covered that the bodice OF her nightdress
was covered with blood. On removing the
garment they found large porous plaster
covering the pit Of the stomach when the
plaster was taken off three gaping knife
wounds were exposed.
DR.. Lsne was summoned to make an ex-
animation Of the body. He said that the
wounds were fresh, and that one OF them
had penetrated the liver. The dying
woman's actions were then recalled to the
Doctors memory, and he informed Police.
Lieutenant Damon how peculiarly she had
acted. The Doctor said that when he visit.
ed Mrs. Snyder yesterday she was attired
in new nightdress The husband oil the
woman was arrested, and when he was
searched at the station house there was
found in one of his pockets q large pocket.
knife. On opening 1t the blade was found
to be covered with thick coating OF dried
blood. The police believe that the woman
was murdered by her husband, and think
that the plaster was used to cover the
wounds. The fact OF her having a new
night.dress is regarded as significant, and
1t Is thought that the garment which the
woman wore when she received the wounds
was taken off and the new one substituted.
Snyder is 90 years old. His wife was AZ.
They have Ave children, the Oldest girl
of14.
Since bis arrest be has spoken to no one
in regard 10 the death OF his wife. The
daughter, Mary, has made a statement that
Is considered very damaging to her father.
She says that the night before her mother
died she saw him sharpening his knife.
After the mother died he missed the knife,
and, after search, found 1t at the foot Of
the lounge on which the dead woman lay.
The woman who prepared the body for the
grave says the husband tried very hard to
persuade her not to remove the plaster
which concealed the wounds. A search
ia being made for the nightgown which
Mrs. Snyder wore when The wounds were
inflicted. No trace Of it has yet been found.
snyders friends claim that Mrs. Snyder,
knowing that she must die, stabbed herself
to shorten her misery, and that Snyder has
good defense, but Is reserving 1t 80 that
bis wife may not be denied Christian
burial by the church.