The Sentinel=record., 1912-11-26
SNEED RELATES
 STORY OF LIFE
TELLS STORY OF COURTSHIP MARRIAGE AND ELOPEMENT
 OF WIFE WITH 5OYcE.
Called Family Conference in an Effori to Save His Wife--Witness Ar
 rested for Perjury.

1 Fort Worth, Texas, Nov. 25.-Ar- rested on charge of perjury, was the fate of w. A. Weaver, a witness
 in the trial of J. Beall Sneed, for the Killing of Captain A. C. Boyce, in this city last January. Weaver is a new witness and did not testify at the l former trial.
 | |, He testified that Sneed and Bow man were three or four or five steps apart when the shooting commenced wtich was slightly at variance with | ihat of Henry Bowman, Who testified that he was about four feet from Sneed.' Weaver was then excused. Miss Christine Jones Peak, tele- phone operator from Amarillo, was caled by the defense to testify to 6 mum Der of conversations between the | Boyces at Amarillo and Dalhart, and said they sometimes talked as many as four or five times day during the time Mrs. Sneed and Albert Boyce were away. Call slip records of 105 calls were offered in evidence by the defense but were objected to and dis allowed
 Sneed took the stand in his own behalf at the afternoon session and the direct examiualon had not been finished when court adjourned.
 A resume of his story as fa1 as completed is as follows:
 'I knew Lenora Snyder, who later married, when she was little girl at Georgetown, but did not wait on her until about three years before we married l knew the Boyce boys there also and we were playmates, and every Saturday night l would De playing in their yard or they in mine
 T graduated in the university al Georgetown, then went to Princeton for a year, and returning to Texas attended the Texas State university graduating in the law course.
 We were married Oct IT, 1900 and immediately went to Hillsborc
 where l engaged in the practice oi l law. Lenofa, our first child, was born there the following year, and aftei years in HilIsboro, moved to Child- ress. where tried. to practice law
 but also had little cattle business Two years later. 1 moved to Amarillo and engaged solely i'll cattle business 1 in partnership with my brother. The Boyces in the meantime had moved te Amarillo and we renewed the old ac qgaintance. the relation being the most cordial
 "On Friday, Oct 13, 1911, l went l home one day to dinner and my wife informed ne that she wanted to go away with Albert Boyce and wanted my consent. She said that he wanted her to go away without telling me | but that she knew I would consent and let her take the youngest girl T tried to reason with her, but she would lisien to nothing. so l sent for her fatner, and ir the ii iii s 7. time my father too was sent tTr. and in sea
 e-al conference, we decided to sen
 her to sanitarium, being convinced 1 that her mind was unbalenced.'
 Ire .hen detailed incidents in con nection with placing her in the sanf. taTium on Oct IF. her escape and
 elopement with Al Boyce, on Nov. [ His story ssinterrupted by the nigh
 adjournment at this point and did no lreach incidents surrounding the acs
 ual shooting of Capt. Boyce on Jan E3 last.
 He will resume his testimony wheI
 court convenes tomorrow.