The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-21
Neighbor Tells Police She
Detected Horrible Stencil
Months After the Body
Was Buried.
THOUGHT GUINEA
PIG HAD DIED
Woman Saw Snyder Garry
Bags of Lime into the
House After She Called
Attention to Stencil.

The murderer OF Henry Dayton is
still al large. One sordid detail after
another has been added. however, 10
the grim tragedy that was enacted AT
11d6 North l street in September. 1910.
Long forgotten incidents nave been.
recalled by neighbors, and episodes
that seemed commonplace three weeks
ago have now been given a sinister as
pect by the discovery of the skeleton
of Dayton in the cellar of the house.
Mrs. Dayton. wife of the murdered
man. is still living in the house that
covered for many months the body of
her husband. Her story 10 the police
and newspaper men, although IL does
not contradict itself in essential facts.
nevertheless contains discrepancies
that strengthened the belief of the po-
lice that the woman is holding back
important facts.
Hold Suspects.
The police of Eastern Indiana and
Western Ohio are looking for Snyder
The authorities have been furnished
with accurate descriptions of the murd
erer by Chief of Police Gormon.
A tramp was arrested at Vernon. In
diana. today, who said his name was
Joe Snyder. He did not tally with
Snyder's description. and was dis
charged after the local police chief
had conferred with the Vernon author
| tiles.
| A tramp answering in a general way
to Snyder, was arrested at Lafayette.
but was discharged.
The nearest clew to the whereabouts
of Snyder was received from Fountain
| City. A man appeared there today.
and asked for work. He resembled
Snyder in ali particulars. excepting
the clothing he wore. He got out OF
the town before he could be held.
Evidence secured today by the po-
lice convince them that the body OF
Henry Dayton was not covered with
in North l street, at the time OF the
murder. but that months elapsed be-
fore quicklime was used to destroy the
body.
Mrs. Minnie Cordell, living in the
house ten feet west from the Dayton
home, in the spring of 1911, months
after the murder. noted a terrible
stencil between the houses. She be-
lieved a dead animal was lying on the
premises but after a careful search
was unable TO find a carcass. The
stencil became so offensive that she
made plans TO move to another house.
Mrs. Cordell complained to Mrs.
Dayton, who looked for the carcass for
which Mrs. Cordell was searching
Both yards were searched but nothing
was found. Mrs. CordelI said she would
report the matter to an officer. She
then saw Snyder carry bags OF lime
into the Dayton home. She did not no
tice the stencil after this. and gave
the matter no further thought
Sure IL Was Lime.
How do you know il was lime that
was carried into the house?" she was
asked.
Il knew that lime was back in the
dump because had seen IL there my.
self and procured some. | had some
guinea pigs. and for a time believed
one of them had died and the stencil
came from it"
Mrs. Dayton said she did not know
that lime was brought into the house
except when some plastering was done
) in the kitchen a year after the mur
; der A few bushels was all that was
used at this time. Between eight and
ten bushels were used TO destroy the
body. Coroner Pierce said the bones
| of the dead man were in an unusually
= good condition considering the length
of time he had been buried in lime
, This is taken to substantiate the the
: ory of the police that the body was
, not covered with the lime until months
after the man was murdered
r Greensboro Clue.
= Snyder according to Mrs. Daytor
, had at one time worked at Maxwell
Briscoe's automobile factory at New
castle. II may be that he went there
. to get work when seen there last Wed
! nesday morning. He has rot been seer
since that time. Chief Gormon receiv
ed a letter from ex-sheriff T. Overman
. of Randolph county, who wag at ths
hotel in Greensboro Tuesday night
= Snyder acted very suspicious and reg
: istered under the same name which
was placed above his on the registel
by another guest of the hotel He avoi
ded every one Prosecuting Attornel
!, Allen said he would get the signature