The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-02-18
MEAN As DEVIL,
SHARP AS Whip
Captain Boyce.s Opinion Of Mrs.
snead Who Ran Away With
His Son TO
Canada.
LETTER rs PRODUCED
Tone Of II Does Not indicate That the
Murdered Man Was Trying
to Help tho
Eiopcrs.
LETTER rs PRODUCED

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
FORT WORTH, Tex. Feb. ia
letter written by Captain A. G. Boyce
to George Finley of Chicago, just
eight days before he was killed, ex-
pressed the hope that his son Albert
and Mrs. Lena Snead might be kept
forever apart and asking aid of
friends to that end, was introduced
by the prosecutors of John B. Snead
this afternoon as the strongest link
in the chain of testimony rebutting
the defense's charge that Captain
Boyce was seeking to reunite the two.
The letter was written after Mrs.
Snead had been reclaimed by her
husband and while Albert G. Boyce.
Jr. was still detained by the Canadi-
an immigration bureau.
Captain Boyce In this remarkable
letter asked his friend Finley to en-
list the aid Of the Farwells and Judge
Tenney in having Secretary Knox and
President Taft use their influence
to have his son liberated. He told
of the indictment in Fort Worth, de-
clearing that every count was ull.
true. Bitterness toward Mrs. Snead is
expressed in the sentence: She is no
more insane than / am; she is as
mean as the devil and smart as a
whip and toward United States Dis
Itrict Attorney Atwood. whose active
( part in the affair." lie charged 10 his
relationship to Mrs. Snead by mar
riage.
A fathers loyalty is shown in his
declaration that his friends could
assure the Canadian authorities that
Albert would make them good
citizen and a husbands solicitude in
| the statement that Mrs. Boyce is
wholly unneryed and refuses to be
comforted
/ The letter was followed by the tes
timony OF Miss Mary Hamilton, who
has made her home with the Boyces
since 1905. She testified that Captain
1 Boyces aim through the whole affair
was to break up the affair between
| his son and Mrs. Snead.
Mrs. A. G. Boyce, widow of the
! slain man, will take the stand Mon
day in further refutation of the con
spiracy charge against her dead hus
i band. A woman Of active mind II
spite of feeble health, she is expected
\ to make good witness for the prose
y cution. The state will present othe,
witnesses for the purposes of i'm
peaching the defenses witnesses OF
il the stand last week and will res
Monday night
Attorney Johnson of counsel for thu
defense, said today at the close OF th
|, session that two days would be re
: quired for the defense's witnesses il
sur-rebuttal, that is rebuttal OF th
states rebuttal of witness. This viii
!. carry the case to Wednesday might
, The defense's sur-rebuttal testimon
may be of q character that will eI
n title the state to reioiner witnesses
, In any event the arguments OF attoI
neys will not begin before Thursda
J and will require at least two day
) and in all probability the court
t charge to the jury will not be reacf
J ed before Saturday.
, The three weeks of the trial alread
/ passed have sharply defined the col
e tested points in the case. Every inc
! of the ground has been the scene {
i a legal skirmish and no witness o
1 the stand has escaped without
J searching cross examination
/ Miss Nary Hamilton, cousin an
d companion of Mrs. A. G. Boyce. wa
!. on the stand this afternoon. She sal
|. she overheard Mrs. Boyce convers
r with Mrs. Lena Snead Just before tn
j. elopement and that Mrs. Boyce said
h her: ooh, Lena, didn't think 4
= would ever come to this although
knew you were imprudent. What wi
!. Beal Think
e Henry Boyce, son of Captai
. Boyce. was on the stand most all {
IF today and proved a strong witness ft
d the state. Throughout his testimor
d he frankly admitted doing all in h
e power to help his brother Albert ar
4. Mrs. Lena Snead keep together but
Is said this was after the elopement al
=, that his father had no hand in tt
affair. Boyce declared that whi
Mrs. Snead was in Arlington Heigh
. sanitarium here she wrote Albert
Amarillo: For Gods sake, come al
m get me out of this hole" 1t was tn
,s letter that decided Albert to resc,