The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-12
SNEIDER HELD FOR MURDER
WIFE SL.fYER HELD WITHOUT
 BAIL FOR SUPERIOR COURT.

WxFE SLAYER HELD WITHOUT
 BAIL FOR SUPERIOR COURT
 Testimony of Medical Examiner Bart
 lett, Coroner MIX and Policeman Kelly
 Woman Was Shot Through the
 Heart-Prisoner Listens Unmoved.
 Charles Sneider, the tugboat engin-
 ger, who was arrested at his home, 916
 State street, last Friday afternoon for x the murder of his wife, whose dead
 body was found by the authorities at ' the same time, in the flat, was bound over to the October term of the super
 for court yesterday morning by Judge
 Bishop in the city court. Probable cause
 was found. The prisoner was taken to
 the county jail with the other police court prisoners at 11:30 o'clock.
 Sneider was brought from the lock up downstairs by Policeman Kelly
 who arrested him in the bathroom at his home at the time of the murder, and Detective Ward.
 All the policemen who figured in the case, including Policeman Kelly, the hero of the incident, were present. So were the two sisters-in-law of the &C., cused-Mrs. Holmes, with whom Mrs. \ Sneider lived, and Mrs. Karsh, the wo- # man whose home was burned out Sun X day morning.
 attet Corop Miy sat with Mir TUIonr tba state prosecutor in the case and Attor- neys Blydenburgh and Ullman were seated near Sneider. Sneider sat at the end of the lawyers table. He re- tained an easy position and showed lit- tie concern. He has, however, lost con- siderable flesh since his incarceration
 When Coroner Mix was speaking of the condition of the pantry with it's ev- idences of the wife's industry that was etopped by her sudden death, the man showed no emotion, nor did the descrip- tion of the blood clotted and saturated clothing cause him to change counte- nance.
 When Sneider had been transferred to police headquarters Coroner Mix se- cured statement from him. The mans story was absurdly inadequate ard was in Substance as follows: He had come to the house to see his wife and tell her that he was going to New York to look for work. He found her in the pantry washing dishes. In the course Of their interview she felt in his pocket and found a pistol. She told him she had no objection to his going to New York, but he must leave the weapon | behind. They got to fooling and the | revolver went off There was only one | Shot discharged. He was not drunk, | having had only one or two beers that | day. There was no jealousy between him and his wife, and they had not 0uarreled. He was sorry that his wife was dead.
 Dr. Bartlett, the medical examiner, testified that he visited the Sneider house few minutes after the shoot inK In the pantry, he said, he had found the blood covered corpse. He had found a bullet hole in the left side of the neck and wound on the left of the forehead A second bullet wound was found in the breast.
 X pr. Bartlett then, at the request Of Assistant City Attorney Tyner, pro- ceeded to describe the autopsy conduct ed on Saturday. The wound in the neck was singed and marked by burnt pow der. The neck had been dlssected to Ascertain the track of the wound The misshaped bullet was found in the course of the dissection. It had been given to Coroner Mix and had been Identified by Dr. Bartlett. The bullet | had been found in the inner side of the ia ~ hone, That bone had stopped the bullet.
 The breast wound followed through the sixth rib directly through the heart. piercing the diaphragm and was stopped in the muscles back of the liver. Death had resulted from the bull Iet wounds. as the condition of the or pans showed no other cause for the death. fudge Blydenburgh then asked Dr. Bartlett several questions relative to inc condition of the clothing and as to ,, Ehe direction of the wounds in the body. He was also asked if he would produce the clothing taken from the body.
 Policeman John Kelly was next call .d. Kelly testified that he was fifty 'eet away from the building at the time if the tragedy He ran upstairs to the sneider flat. Fred Stelzle the young
 An who had reached there before the ! hceman, directed him to the bath ! s5m. Kelly then opened the room and y Arested the armed man. d Mhe revolver was hot when Kelly | grenched it from the prisoner. He had V old the policeman that he was about \ o kill himself He led Sneider to the e Iitchen and placed the prisoner on 4 .hair, giving him over to the charge of d |ohn B. Deegan, who was with Stelzle, a while he examined the body, which he F hen saw for the first time. n Coroner Mix testified that he found V he policeman in the flat, and went at O nee to the pantry and sink room, where the dead body was found. He old of the finding of the three other E ,uIlets, one on the floor of the pantry,