New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-04-10
TALK Of FREEING WOMAN
| HELD AS SNYDER'S SLAYER
Whitman Says More Evidence
Is Necessary to Warrant
Prosecution by Him.
SHE THE ONLY WITNESS
Prisoner Not Averse to Having
Other Mrs. Snyder" Come
and Testify-Police
Still at Work.

! Unless valuable evidence is found
pretty soon, Mrs Mary Karn Snyder
the little dark haired woman who is in
the TOmbs charged with stabbing fatally
Walter J. Snyder the man she says was
her husband, with pair Of scissors on
Sunday afternoon. will he set free. Dis
trict Attorney Whitman went carefully
over all the evidence yesterday and de-
cided that on what he had received So
far he could not hold the woman for the
Coroner or the grand jury on her own
story-and that is all the evidence the
police have against her, he says
The prisoners story is that Snyder,
who was advertising manager Of Sports
of the Times" drove the scissors into
his breast while they were in her grasp
| by grabbing her wrists and pulling her
violently toward him. The District At
torney says her story is only mildly
convincing as to her guilt" and he de-
clares that he cannot ask n grand jury
to indict her for homicide on that alone.
The prisoner was clipper in the Tombs
yesterday. Last evening a reporter for
The Tribune sent this note to her cell:
Mrs Bertha Yeager Snyder. Of Detroit,
who saws she was Walter j. SnNGer's only
lawful wife. expresses desire 10 come TO
New York and help Won as a witness at
your trial. Wnat DO you think OF h'r atu-
tude toward YOU?
This reply came back in her own PEN
Gil writing:
say let Mrs. Snyder COM along,
MRS SNYDER.
Detectives Calvin and Lyman. under
Detective Lieutenant Tunncy. Of the
West 152d street station. are trying To
establish a clear motive for their charge
that Mrs Mary Karn SNYDER killed
SNYDER in their apartments IN Historic
Hall. 40. $50 St. Nicholas avenue. They
hope 10 prove that Mrs Snyder was
Jealous of his iufatuatlon for pretty
Helen Cauncd. the stcnograph"r with
whom he rloped from Hartford IN 1909.
Charles Soblc. Of 40. I Madison ave
nue., was retained as counsel for Mrs
Snyder by her brother. Samuel karn.
Of 40. 127 Speedw,l avenue. Morris
town. y. J. Mr. Karn is I'm the grocery
business I'm Morristown. Brother and
counsel went 20 the Tombs yesterday and
had long talk with The prisoner. She
wore the same well htting gray dress
that Snyder bought for her before
Easter Shc went over her case calmly
and adhered To her original version of
the stabbing without sign ~ emotion.
Newspaper dispatches from Detroit
hinted yesterday that the other Mrs.
Snyder would come {" New York 70 lay
claim 10 her husbands estate. which she
declared was worth $4,000
Mr. Karn when seen at his home last
evening said that as far as he could
| discover his dead brother-in law had no
estate. real or personal He had heard
| that Snvder's nrst wife was coming 20
New York to testify against the charac-
ter of her dead husband. but he doubted
the sincerity Of her intention, he said
Writing 10 his Detroit wife. after his
marriage to Mary Karn. Snyder once
| used this expression:
Il have been inclined to do away with
myself ashamed Of my treatment Of
| you. IL lilt DIISNI'l III NiIt i'ili'H b'''
to trial this letter may be used in her
| defence
If District Attorney Whitman sue
ceeds in finding substantial evidence
against the Tombs prisoner she will be
brought to a magistrates court and regu-
larly committed on n charge or homicide.
| She is now being held for the Coroner's
| INQUEST on ADril 18.