The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1912-09-20

dren.
Before AL would agree to leave
Amarillo 1t was necessary to have
Mrs. sneed ask him to go.
This she did as she had agreed to
do and Al went to a ranch belong
ing to himself and brother Lynn
Boyce on the Pecos river.
His stay was short however In
September of last year he was back
in Amarillo and then 1t was that
he and Lena Sneed decided that they
could not live apart
so the night of Oct 13, 1911 Mrs.
Sneed undressed her two little girls
and kissed them good night Then
she went into the room with her hus
band, their father and told him that
she loved another man and could
not live with him any longer
When Sneed Attacked Wife:
Sneed was crazed he said. Snatch
ing open drawer he took out a re-
volver and started TO kill his wife,
before killing himself The one idea
in his mind was to end everything
as soon as possible
He seized his wife and despite her
struggles held her powerless. Then
placing the point of his weapon
against her body. he laid his finger
on the trigger and then the door OPP
ened.
frightened little face, the face
of their Oldest child peered around
the door and the eyes were wide
with terror The noise of the scuf-
file had awakened her and she was a
fraid of the dark so Lena Sneed's
life was spared.
Sneed left the house then and
went out to try to calm himself and
reason the thing out. He could not
think for a time. but when. the next
morning he found his way home a
gain, his face though lined with
suffering showed no sign of anger
against his wife. On the other hand
he pited her for he believed she was
crazy.
Therefore he decided to send her
TO sanltarium and Oct. II, four
days later he brought her here and
placed her in the Arlington Heights
Sanitarium
After week or two spent there.
Mrs. Sneed seemed to have gotten
over her infatuation for Boyce, be-
cause she wrote her husband telling
him that she realized the enormity
of her ofense and was going to
make up to him for it,.
She made up to him.
That letter was simply a master
piece of deception for on the same
day she wrote to Al Boyce "For
Gods sake, come and take me out
OF this place
Possibly young Boyce should have
ignored this appeal from the wom-
an he loved, but he didn't After
laying careful plans he came to Fl
Worth Nov. 3 and registered at the
Metropolitan hotel On the same day
Beal sneed was registered at the
Metropolitan
The Ulopcment:
The next day hy bribing one OF
tbc nurscg at the sauitarlum. % was
managed 90 get Mrs snoed down
town and chat uieht the two fled
They went first TO ST. Louis. and
from there started west to Omaha,
Neb
I'm Omaha. Dec % young Royce
registered uudcr the name OF A. J. |
Brooks, received telegram from
DTS brother Henry Boyce. cashier of
the Midway Bank and Trust Com
pany of Dalhurt Toxins. telling him
that Snood WIS hot ON his trail and
advising him 90 move ON.
sncod was hot ON his trail and
had retained what he believed TO be
The best detective In the United |
States 20 aid fan The search for his
wife. and had scattered broadcast, /
circulars bearing the photographs
of Mrs Sncod and Boyce offering /
$3.50 for thc arrest of either of them .
So Boyce and tha woman who /
loved him enough ,o desert her
home TO go with him. packed mp
hCir goods and went to Chicago. /
Thcy stayed there day or SO and /
chem won't ON Co Winnipeg. Mantle /
ba supplied with money which came /
from the sale of principally all OF Al /
Boyco's property TO his brothers
Dec 26 They were arrested by the
Canadian police and the next MORN
ing Beal Sneed after first obtaining .
an automatic pistol under the name I
of John Smith started for Manito- T
ba Before ho crossed tho Canadian T.
line Doc was warned by the Canadian /
authorities chat no violence would /
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