The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1906-10-30
THE CONSPIRACY
TO ROB THE FOREST GROVE
BANK is REVEALED.
Woman Tells of Plot to Bnrglsrize
Jewelry Store and to Slay Pawn
sbroker'e Clerk-Dynamite
Hid Near Snyder's
Home-Other News.

Hillsboro, Or, Oct. 27.-Before
District Attorusy Harrison Allen,
his deputy, E. B. Tongue, and 9TH
er officials, MrN. Madge Snyder, re-
lated a uiarvelous confession of
crime this morning, involving her
dead husband and others in series
Of jobs that vie in sensational dar-
ing with tie widest stories of yell
low back fiction. -. ..-
Among thej lbs that were to have
been undertaken by her reckless
husband tnl desperate companions
I was the ho'ding up of the box Office
Of the Heil'g theatre in Portland.
Another plan involved the robbery
of Dan Marks jewelry store on
Third street. Plans of other crimes
were equa ly as sensational were
told by the widow. Many of the
plots were overheard by her, she
said, as she lay hidden behind a
baymow in the barn where her bus
band and his companions met to do
their plotting.
:. Openly and unhesitatingly she
told today Of the plan to rob the
Forest Grove bank. The deed was
planned hy her late husband and
man named Rogers, she declared.
Her husband and Rogers quarreled ,
she said ard it was because of the
quarrel that Carey NJ. Snyder did
not participate in the actual rob-
berry. She also told where the nj
troglycerine, dynamite caps and
fuse, po,t ons of which were used
in blowing the vault Of the Forest
Grove bank, were buried near their
home near Glencoe.
She further told how che had
been cruelty beaten and bruised by
her husband and his pirate crew
bs Cause she refused to become an
accessory 10 their conspiracy to
murder m l rob. Once, she said,
her husband fred two shots at her
in the hope of inttmidating her and
forcing Ter to take part in the
crimes be planned. The shots were
fred in their home and the bullets
buried them selves In the wall of
their living room..
The widow appeared here today
in response to subpoena served
upon her by the district attorney
directing her appearance before
Judge Mcbride. For weeks she has
bafaed every effort on the part of
the officials to induce her to divulge
her secret, and threatened to return
to her home in Kansas City.
She arrived here from Portland
this morning. She processes resent
ment toward the officials and off,
GERS who have been working on the
,ase and also claims that her life is
in danger as a result of her confes-
sion duplicating George Perry in
the murder of ber husband. OFF,
lcers AMI others, however, who know
the woman place little credence in
her alleged fears. She doesn't
know the meaning ofthe word. they
say.
Perry came to visit my husband
and me in the early part of June,
1906" continued Mrs. Snyder. II
soon saw he welded bad influence
over my husband and I tried to get
Carey to ask him to leave. Ny hus-
band grew brutal to me under Per.
ry's domination, and many times
struck and kicked me. Once he
knocked me down with chair and
kicked me because detected him
cheating at game of cards with
Perry and myself. Perry hated me
and never offered to interfere.
"On Saturday, Nov. Is, my hus.
band and I went to Portland, and
from there duck hunting. We GO!
back to Portland Sunday evening
The plan of Perry and my husband
was to rob the pawnshop mex,
morning. Our room was on Fourth
street, not far from Oak. 1t was
arranged that at 6:45 I was to pass