The Ordway new era., 1909-12-24
ATTEMPTED MURDER
Harry Soydsr. Aios Smith. xaks. a
Brutal Attempt to XIII Kifs.

Last Saturday evening at 8 o'clock,
hand In the employ OF OlOf Lundahl
was arrested on the charge OF wife
beating and brought to the town Jail
Tor safe keeping. Monday morning it |
was discovered that he had made his |
escape by heating stove poker,
burning a hole through the outer door. /,
ihis occurred at l. 80 o'clock Sunday
night.
Securing Il pony at the stable OF
Alex Gray, he proceeded to the Lun.
dahl home several miles west OF town,
stole a revolver and shotgun, proceed
ed To the room occupied by his wife,
tod her to get up, dress aud not to
make disturbance or he would shoot
her. He then took two quilts and
blanket and went To a straw stack
one mile west where the two spent
the balance OF the night, IL being
three O'Clock at this time. Monday
was also spent ut this stack and at
six o'clock he concluded he could get
away easier by himself and sent her
back to the house.
From the straw stack he went to
the Bob Creek schoolhousc to build
| fire and warm himself AT this
time Constable Reynolds with posse
was hot on the trail but the desperate
avoided them, and. ;is he expressed IL,
got so crazy mad thinking that his
wife had betrayed him, and went back
to the Lundahl home intent on killing
her. Sneakiug up the back way, he
entered the room usually occupied by
his wife and not finding her there,
waited for an opportunity to assassin
ate her. About nine the next morning
he met her In some part of the house
and fired the contents of the shotgun
at her, missing entirely. He then
proceeded to beat her and after she
had fallen to the floor, fired between
her shoulders with the 3l-calibrc
revolver. The bal! glanced and the
She was able TO walk some distance
after the affair was over.
| Hearing the shots fired, Frank Icnc-
felt, an employee on the ranch, rushed
into the room, iloored Snyder and
kicked him into insensibility. Tie
officers arrived shortly and he was
soon in handouts, loaded into spring
wagon and brought to town and plac-
ed in Jail, this time in the strong cell
where he has been guarded every
minute since his capture. Having
been without food since breaking jail,
he was nearly famishcd, and, being
badly bruised up, the services Of
physicians we're required to restore
consciousness.
Snyder Is % years of age and has
been going under the name Of Harry
Smith. He has served term in a
reform school in Indiana, and was
afterwards sent to the penitentiary
at Canon City for breaking into Il
cabin up in the mountains and was
out on parole. He says he will kill
himself before submitting to becom
ing a prisoner and has begged Marshal
: Worker to give him morphine that he
might end his life. When told that
he was guarded to keep people from
doing him harm, he remarked: "Fol
Gods sake, let them make a target oI
me and end 1t ALL" lie has sistcl
and one brother living. Nothing i.
known OF his parents.
, Mrs. Snyder was formerly Mis-:
Hattie Kearns and 1t is said that sht
married this man against her parents
wishes. They reside at Loyeland ant
, are prominent and well-tO.do people
One OF the family, a brother OF th'
woman, arrived Wednesday to hell
care for her. She is reported to b'
recovering nicely.
The affair created more excitcmen
than the people of the Bob Creel
neighborhood or residents Of Ordwa!