Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-05
YOUTH UNDER MANY LOADS
Rsy Snyder Identified a. Psrpstrator Of
Some erious 0ffsnseI.
STREET CAR MAN sHJ1 At SPOTS HIN
Firing at Conductor, RObbing Drug
store and Stealing Candy ~
INTERVIEW Park Are Laid
IN Against Him.

Identified by chance by the street car
conductor. whom he attempted 20 shoot,
Roy Snyder a youth about q years Of age,
was charged by the police late Friday as
the robbeT who held up the drug store OF
q. H. Meyers, Twenty-fourth and Binney
streets, the night Of April q; fred three
shots at Conductor Jdcob A. Sally on an
Albright car wednesday night barely miss
ing a woman passenger, and stole nearly
100 pounds Of candy at the Riverview park
refectory, Thursday night, and Is now
locked up on a charge OF shooting with IN
tent to Kill. The boys arrest is, according
20 the police. an early interruption OF a
young life, which was fast starting out
in a career Of crime with reckless
abandon.
The capture Of Snyder. whose home is at
2sU South twentieth street, and his con-
nection with the shooting AFFAIR in the
street car in which a man and a young
woman barely escaped death or injury and
with the holding-up Of Meyers drug store.
was the result Of the work Of Detectives
Heitfeld and Devereese and Conductor Sally.
sally had been requested to be at the police
station at s o'clock Friday afternoon to
look at some men held on suspicion, but
having nothing else to do he went at $3.50,
seating himself In the waiting room until
the time should come. He had not been
there long before the two detectives walked
into the station with a prisoner, whom he
Immediately recognized az the man who
fred at him and nearly hit the woman
passenger. The detectives had arrested him
in connection with the candy theft at the
park, and when Meyers was sent for he
was positive in his declaration that the
prisoner was the man who held him up in
the drug store and secured 800.
Trouble win Conductor.
Sally is a conductor on an Albright car
and about o'clock Wednesday night he
had trouble with a passenger at Thirteenth
and Canton streets, the fellow persistins
In standing in the passageway between the
railing and the door Sally pushed him in
side In order to clear the way for alight-
ing passengers and long quarrel was
carried on. Just before he got off the car
the man drew a revolver and. with the
words This is where get even with you,
fired three shots at Sally. The latter lodged
and one Of the bullets went inside OF the
car and passed between and a trlhe below
the knees Of Miss Elizabeth Sommer oil
Albright, penetrating her dress and i'm
bedding itself in the wood under the seat
The bullet is now IN the hands Of Chief oil
shots the man hurrfedly left the car as
several men on board started at him.
Meyers store was entered by an un
masked robber a week ago Friday night
and while the fellow was helping himself
at the cash drawer the proprietor made {
dash for the side door. escaping. though {
shot was fred after him. When he wen
around to the front the robber was gone.
The arrest is looked upon with satisfac
tion by the police. who believe anothe
embryo outlaw has been rounded up evel
before he has got fairly started and be
fore blood has been she'd That no on
wac struck by the several bullets fired b,
Snyder is considered remarkable, and espe
cialiy Is the escape of Miss Sommers locke,
upon as fortunate, as she very narrowl,
escaped being crippled. Snyder, the polio
3 and others who know him assert, Is on
OF the sloppy Smith crowd. which &
accused OF having at various times ha'
plans in view for robbing street car barns