The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-04-11
WILL GO TO THE GALLONS.
All tho Wealth of the Schneiders Could Not
Stay q Verdict Of Guilty.

All the Wealth of the Schneiders Could Not
Stay q Verdict Of Guilty.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal
WASHINGTON, April 10.-Not since the
night when a jury pronounced Guiteau
guilty of the murder of President Garfield
has Washington been wrought up to pitch
of excItement like that here last night
over the announcement that Howard
Schneider had been found guilty of the
murder of his wife and brother-in-law and
must go to the Gallows. Tho trial
which eliminated last night has
been one of the most sensational
in the history of the Washing
binary murderer. but one taken from the
top stratum of the polite society of Wash
ington. The Schneider fam. is one of tho
Oldest and best at the national capital. and
the Schneider row OF brown-stone resi-.
dences in the fashionable northwest Sec
ton is the home of leading diploihates.
Supreme Court judges and members OF Con-
gress Schneider lived In one of these,
where he figured as one OF the most intense
young leaders of the fashionable COM
munity. which centers at Dupont circle.
He had always been q social bully. dc.
lighting in talk of duels and in assaults
upon younger and weaker men. de had
twisted the arm of newsboy from the
socket, and had shot young colored boy
whom he found sitting in his carriage.
But the wealth and position of his family
always saved HIM from punishment.
Schneiders brutality was such that he
was at last closed out of the Schneider
homestead, where the entire family lived.
He visited the house on the night OF Jan.
90 last. His wife and her young brother
were the first to meet him. and be imme-
Aiaf lu hot
He appeared to glory oyer what he had
done. saying that it was in self-defense.
The trial began over month ago. and has
been followed with intense interest by the
son, 1T is saId. has followed every line Of
the printed testimony. The Schneider
family are said TO have paid $4,000 to the
Hon. jeremiah Wilson. formerly Of In
diana. for making the defense.
AS the crisis of the trial was reached last
night politics, which IS the usual theme In
Washington. was laid aside and the out
come of this tragedy in high life was
awaited with eager interest. The City
Hall. where Guiteau was tried and con-
victed. was surrounded with crowd OF
thousands. The authorities of the city
feared that If a possible verdict of acquit-
tai was rendered the mob would string M
the accused. But at o'clock the jury pro-
nounced the verdict of guilty of murder in
the first degree. At once the spectators in
the courtroom burst into hurrahs. and this
was quickly taken up by the thousands
outside in cheer after cheer that the social
murderer was to be hanged.
While these thousands were cheering
the prisoner had fallen in dead faint. for
the verdict broke his bravado for the first
time. Every where last night men were
congratuiating each other over the result.
1t has been almost impossible during re-
cent years TO secure q conviction for MUIR
der in Washington. and the result last
night, Secured In the face of o lavish ex-
penditure of money and OF the influence of
an old family. is as surprising as 1t is satis-
factory. IL will be the first time in the
criminal annals of Washington that n man
has gone from the leading official and So
cial parlors to the gallows. Many cOlOred
men have been hanged in Washington. but
this is the first white man convicted OF