The Detroit times., 1912-04-11
"MAME'' KARIN DECLARES SHE
MARRIED SNYDER AND LIVED
WITH HIM IN DETROIT
Tells New York Reporters That
Bertha Yeager Became HIS
Constant Companion"
CAUFIELD GIRL MISSING
Disappears After Reading Of
Snyder's Death-"Vampire,"
Says Detroit Widow
cAUFIELD GIRL MISSING

Attorneys McHugh, Gallagher &
McGann, who are looking after the
interests of Mrs. Bertha Yeager Sny-
der In connection with the estate OF
her husband, Walter j. Snyder, killed
In New York, Sunday, are anxiously
awaiting word from their New York
representative relative TO the proper
~ Snyder Is supposed to have owned.
Mrs. Snyder says he was worth up
wards Of $4,000. represented In race
horses, automobiles and .jewelry.
Mrs. Snyder still has sympathy for
Name Karn, who is held on suspi-
cion OF killing Snyder, but she Is bit
ter toward Helen Caufield, the Hart
ford stenographer who Is said to
have eloped with Snyder Mrs. Sny-
der denounces the Caufield girl as a
vampire" and On adventures"
Thus far the authorities have been
unable TO find Miss Caufleld. who is
wanted for examination in connection
with the case.
New York dispatches say that while
awaiting the arrival OF the coroner
after Snyder was killed the Harms wo-
man talked freely with the reporters.
Before she married Snyder, In Morris.
-
from Anne Tracey, OF Baltimore, she
said. After their marriage they lived
In Newark and later In Detroit. Other
women began to engage his attention
at this time she said, and one, Bertha
Heager, became his constant compan-
ion
I'll stood II as long as | could" she
said Then | came east alone to
nj \ ....fl al salf
in various ways and was getting along
pretty well when | heard Walter was
in New York. Knowing that he would
be at the Old Glory horse sale, in
Madison Square Garden, | wrote to
him there and he got my letter. We
met By appointment later on and
agreed to come together. ! knew at
the time that he had been living with
a woman by the name OF Helen Caul-
field. OF Hartford. She was very at
tractlve, but Walter promised TO give
her up. We talked OF old times and
he vowed he still loved me. He sent
the Caulfield girl TO live with her sis
ter, Mary Caulfield. at the Hotel AS
cot. No. 60 Madison-ave.
About three weeks ago We moved
from his apartment and sublet rooms
On the ground floor OF the Historic
Hall apartments, No. $50 st. Nicholas
ave. say We go along together pref
~ we'll, but | discovered that he had
not given up the other woman. That
was the only thing he would not do
for me-" s
The woman then went or to give
her version of how Snyder met his
death. claiming il was an accident.
= About a month ago, according to
New York dispatches, Helen Caul-
field appeared before the janitor OF
the Snyder apartment and exhibited a
humber OF well-colored bruises on
her face and arms, and said they
were marks of Snyders brutality. For
some time the occupants of the place
had heard violent uproars emanating
from the Snyder apartments. The
ianitor helped her get her trunk out
and Miss Caulfield. with her pet
brindle bulldog, left the place for
good. Two weeks later the Harms
woman moved in.
Miss Mary Caulfleld, good looking
blonde. stylishly dressed. said at the
,Hotel Ascot, in New York, that her
sister, Helen Caulfield, had left the
/ city Monday morning after reading
the news OF Snyder's death in the
papers. She came TO her, Miss Caul-
field said. about six weeks ago, with
hardly enough clothes 10 keep her
/ warm and with a story OF cruel mis-
Treatment at Snyders hands. She told
me that he was corresponding with
a Harms woman.
my sister has gone into New York
state somewhere. | shan't say where.
That's all know about the case"
she said
Helen Caulfeld is the daughter OF
. John +. Caulfleld, a well-to-do builder
. of New Britain. Snyder eloped with
. her from Hartford in 1909. leaving his
. wife. who was Bertha Yeager, Of De-
,rnit