Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-11-08
TRIAL Of
SNffD Will TAKE
PLACE NEXTWEEk
Must Again Answer the
Charge Of Murder, for the
Killing Of A. g. Boyce at
Fort Worth.

Fort worth, Tex. Nov. s.-With the
approach OF the second trial OF J. b.
|Sneed for the murder of A. g. Boyce.
Sr. which Is On the court docket for
next week. Luh,ic interest in the bloody
feud existinga between the Sneed and
the ,Boyce families. both wealthy and
well known throughout the state OF
Texas, has become revived. Not for
many years. IL ever. has there been a
case known in this state, (which was
so full Of the most sational detail
and in which SO many men of great
wealth and social Importance played
an active part.
The Sneed and Boyce families are
among the most prominent in the Pan
handle region Of Texas. They have
large property interests in the way of
banks, ranches and farms and their
wealth Is estimated at several mil
lions. The heads of the families were
intimately associated with each other
in the earlier days and their children
grew UP together. J. B Sneed, the
defendant In the coming trial and the
younger Of his two victims, A. G.
Boyce, Jr., were students together at
Southwestern university, Georgetown,
Texas, but love for Lena Snyder, the
beautiful daughter Of well-to-do
land owner of central Texas. made
the two young men first rivals. then
bitter enemies and eventually caused
the feud which, up to the present
time, has cost the lives OF six per-
sons.
| Could Not Resist Impulses.
| Miss Snyder seemed to be fond of
both young men and, not until after
she had married J. Beal Sneed, did she
discover that she was really in love
with Boyce. She did not have the
strength Of character to resist the i'm
pulses of her heart and, soon after her
marriage to Sneed she began to have
secret meetings with Boyce, which
became more frequent after the Sneeds
took up their residence at Amarillo,
where AL Boyce, Jr., lived.
On the night Of October 13, 1911,
Mrs. Sneed informed her husband that
she loved AL .Boyce and would not
live with him any longer. Sneed. who
was devoted to his beautiful wife, be-
came furious and would have killed his
wife and himself had not one Of his
little children come into the room at
the time. On the following day, how
ever, he had her taken to a private
sanitarium for insane persons, at Arl-
ington Heights near Fort Worth. a
few weeks later Mrs. Sneed managed
to send a letter to Al Boyce. her lover,
begging him to release her from her
prison.
AL Boyce drew large sum Of money
and went to Fort Worth. bribed one
of the attendants of, the sanitarium
and through him secured the release
of Mrs Sneed. Boyce and Mrs. Sneed
eloped to the north, going first to St
Louis. then to Omaha. At Omaha
Boyce learned that Sneed was in hot
pursuit and without delay he fled
with Mrs. Sneed to Chicago and thence
to Winnipeg, Man. There they were
arrested an undesirable citizens on De-
cember 26, 1911, and when Sneed
reached winnipeg, having been in
formed Of the arrest. Boyce fled. Sneed
took his wife back to Texas and again
lplaced her in the same sanitarium
from which she had escaped.
Tragedy in Hotel Lobby.
In some manner Sneed learned that
Captain a. C. Boyce, the father of Al
| Boyce. was in full sympathy with his
son and was plotting to get Mrs. Sneed
, out OF the sanitarium. Young Boyce
had been indicted on the charge of alb
! duction, but his father brought about
D the dismissal of the Indictments, which
fact also greatly embittered Sneet
against him. The two men met in tht
, lobby of hotel in this city on Jan
| nary "a of this wear and. after al