The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-19

band worked for Gaar-Scott and COM
pany firing the boilers. He obtained
81 60 per day for his labor and continu-
ally asked for a raise.
ION Labor Day, 1910, he got up early
in the morning and said he was going
to the country to get work. That was
the last we ever saw of him. We saw
his foot prints in the frost showing
that the crime had been committed aft
er he left the house. We found no
blood stains.
"One day last December Snyder
arose early, as was his custom and
told us he was going to work. He
was found at o'clock in the morning
by Jesse Barrett, a boarder, in an out
house. Barrett raised the alarm and
dragged him to the kitchen. Snyder
had cut his wrists with a razor, and
was lying on the floor of an clubhouse
when found. He thought he was
| about to die, but his attempt to COM
nit suicide was unsuccessful.
Gives Confession.
"He handed me a letter while lying
on the floor, telling me it would be of
service to me at some time, but it was
not to be opened then. After his re-
sovery, Snyder ransacked the house
| for the letter. He asked me for it and
l put it in the sideboard drawer with
some insurance policies belonging to
my children. l locked the drawer.
Every morning Snyder would get up
and get breakfast. Many times l saw
he had tried to force the drawers
which were locked. l found skeleton
keys on the sideboard. Finally he got
into the drawer, but did not find the
| confession which was contained in the
letter.
Left Last Tuesday.
He left me last Tuesday and have
| not seen him since. / knew he was
going to leave by his actions. The way
he looked at me many times almost
made me believe that he would kill
me. He would pace the floor for hours
at time and when l would ask him
what was the matter he would say he
was of nervous temperament. Now he
has run off and left me, and has
thrown the suspicion of the crime on
Believed His Word.
why did you tell the police that
there was no cellar in the house." was
asked Mrs. Dayton.
when We moved here Snyder was
one of the roomers and boarders. Ny
! husband was not living with me and
he assumed charge of things he told
me there was no cellar, except a ditch
which was filled with tin cans under
the kitchen floor. l never even rails
ed the floor to look under there" she
replied.
Left Her Five Times.
! When asked if she ever had trouble
with her husband she said:
| He left me five times. but each time
returned of his own free will. He
| beat me twice and threatened me oft
en-. He did not help me support the
| children as we'll as he might have
done. He paid part of the rent and
| bought coal. The balance of the mon
ey was spent somewhere else. 1 sup
! ported the family by renting rooms
and taking boarders. There were
four boarders with me at the time of
the murder. When he left me he said
he was going to the country to get
work, as l had enough money coming
| in from the boarders to insure the
| family support, and when he got
enough money or a place where he
could take US in he would send for US.
Tried to Poison Family.
Snyder has tried to poison the
whole family. He placed some kind
of drug in the food each day and
sometimes We would all be too sick
to move around. Just before Snyder
left US he placed something in my
sons food which caused him to be so
sick that We were afraid he would
die.
A Grewsome Task.
! The work of uncovering the body
! Continued on Page SIxl