The daily gazette., 1883-03-29
ANOTHER MYSTERY.
Three Stabs in q WOman's Breast Covered

| AhEcc DG8DB IN u w oman = Breast covered
by q Porous Plaster.
Shortly after daybreak OH Tuesday MORN
Ing Mrs. Fannie Snyder died in the kitchen
OF her house, 2241 Clarence street, Philadel-
| phia, and few hours later her husband was
arrested, charged with causing her death.
Last Thursday 1t was said that Mrs.
Snyder was sick, and few days later neigh
bors who visited the house found her worse.
| SO that when she died no great surprise was
expressed, and friends offered their services
at once to prepare the body for the coffin.
Mrs. Warner, who lives two or three doors
away, undertook to do the first work, and,
In removing the garment in which the
woman had died, noticed stains of blood
extending from great spot on the breast to
| either side Of the body.
A closer look showed two cuts on the
stomach, which had evidently been made by
knife, and higher up on the breast the
clotted blood at the end Of u porous plaster
showed that another wound was under 1t,
This wound when examined proved to be
the most serious of all, and the cut, which
was just under the plaster's edge, looked
deep enough to have reached vital point.
Mr.. Snyder was In the room above walking
up and down in the deepest grief, and when
Mrs. Warner shrieked at the sight of the
blood he came down the narrow stairway
time to tell him what was the mat
ter. "She did 1t herself" said he, at the
same time showing her a bloody knife, and
then he went on to explain that he had
found 1t at the foot of the lounge on which
the body was lying. DR.. Dudley w. Lane,
who had been with her when she died, was
sent for again again and told of the discoy-
cry, but he refused to make close exami-
nation, saying the case was one for the Cor
oner. That official was accordingly notified
and the police summoned to take Mr.
Snyder IN custody. He still insisted that
his wife had cut herself and when locked
up in the Twenty second District Police
Station seemed utterly broken down.
DIR. Lane said that he was called to attend
the woman last Thursday and found her
suffering with catarrhal pneumonia. She
grew steadily worse, and early ON Tuesday
morning her husband came after him. saw
ing that she was very low He went with
him to the house, and stayed with her till
she died. He did not look carefully at the
body, for the cause OF death seemed plain
enough, and when he afterwards saw the
wound he still retained his opinion that the
pneumonia killed her.
Snyder's eldest daughter, girl of about
IA years of age, said that she and her
father sat up with her mother on Monday
night, relieving each other at intervals of
about two hours. About 3 O'Clock her
father took breakfast, cutting some bread |
with pocket knife which he left on the |
table, and a short time afterwards he lifted |
her mother to chair near it, while he |
changed her clothing and the blankets ON |
the lounge. Afterward he placed her on the |
lounge again and, as she was delirious and |
rapidly growing worse, he went for the doc |
tor. The girl says she remained awake until |
the doctor came and that her mother did |
not infict the cuts during that time, but |
Mr.. Snyder says he found the bloody knife |
at the foot of the lounge when he returned.
He thinks that she got 1t from the table
when he raised her up and cut herself with
it while he was gone.
Mrs. Warner, the woman who washed the
body, says that there was bloody mark on
the forehead as though made by finger,
but that the dead woman's hand showed no |
traces of blood. There were drops of blood |
also, she said, on the window sill of the |
room where Snyder was walking when her |
cries brought him down.
Snyder and his wife quaIrelled often, |
when he was under the influence |
of liquor, and it is said that he put her and |
the children out of the house on several |
occasions. Some months ago he had regular |
employment at Bergner q Engel's brewery,
but lately he has been working very irregu- |
larly. Mrs. Snyder worked when she got |
the opportunity, and helped to support the |
family. There are five children, the Youngest |
about six months old.