The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-06-28
SCHNEIDER SURE OF
PLOTTO KILL FAMILY
Washington Capitalist Be-
licves Wife and Daughter
Were Threatened.
HIS FORTUNE THE AIM

WAsHISoroN. June 27.-Mrs. Thomas
@. Forney, wife of the Washington law
yer under arrest in Pittsburg on the
charge of assaulting her wealthy father.
T. Franklin Schneider. with intent to
kill. repudiated her husband to-day.
She said she hoped never to see his
face or hear his name again.
Some of the papers have said that
] am being urged to repudiate him.
said Mrs. Forney. but II is ridiculous
to say that I need urging. I am doing
II of my own free will. I do not want
to be called by his name and I hope I
will never see him as long as I live. I
am gathering up all his belongings and
everything that might remind me of him
and will put them out of the house.
! am done with him forever"
Mr.. Schneider arrived at his home
this morning from Pittshurg. He had
a surgical dressing on his forehead. evil
dence of the three hammer blows which
he says were inflicted in the attempt
10 murder him. Mr.. Schneider came
from Pittsburg for the purpose of re-
assuring his wife and daughter as to his
injuries.
convinced Of a Plot.
He insisted that he was the victim
OF a plot to get his fortune. He be-
lieves there are widespread raminca-
tions to the plot and that other ar
rests will be mad He feels confident
George McHenry. the Washington
waiter. arrested here on n charge OF
completely, are involved.
Mr.. Schneider believes that the al
legged plot involved not only the death
OF himself but OF his wife and daughter.
81 ain CONVINCED" he said, that II I
had been killed my wife would nave
been next, and then my daughter"
McHenry was taken to Pit;sburg to-
day. He denies emphatically that he
was there at the time OF the alleged
assault. but the Washington police say
he vas absent from his boarding house
here on Tuesday. Wednesday and Thurs
day. The assault. IL is alleged, was
committed In the Pittsburg hotel early
Thursday morning.
The Washington police also say that
they found seventeen CARTRIDGES in one
OF McHenry's po, kets. They add that
they are following up a resemblance
between McHenry and the photograph OF
a man who was arrested here IN 1919
Tor carrying concealed weapons and who
was known as George Gales. alias George
Bradley. alias William II. Babbs. Gales
had once been under arrest In Phila-
delphia.
From Pittsburg came the information
that the police are seeking a third per-
son. whom they describe as a Washing
ton chauffeur.
No Attempt TO Identify.
Mr.. Schneider made no attempt TO
identify McHenry as one Of his assail-
ants, Il could not possibly recognize
him. he said. 1T was In n dark room,
and he had his head down. do not
wish to see him"
srnA,.
end the life OF his father-in-law, in
which he named McHenry as the man /
who had used the hammer. was obtained.
Mr.. Schneider said. at the point OF a
revolver.
I'm the presence OF three detectives
I thrust a revolver in his face in a hotel
and told him TO confess or I wouli
kill him. When he hesitated over points
in the concession I became more mem
acing. The only motive he could give
was the statement. i was money wild:
I was money wild. that's all He re-
peated this over and over again.
Il have no doubt that. according to
the plans made. / was TO die before
26, when a twenty year endow-
ment insurance policy for $4,000 be-
payable. Forney knew OF the
facts. | believe, and did not want me
TO collect the money. He wanted II to
go to the estate in cash.
Before ! left Washington | showed
the policy TO him and to my wife. say
Ing. I just want you to witness my
sending this policy TO New York for
collection. so that IL anything should
happen to me you wnl know that the
policy has been turned in and is COL
'Forney advised me not to send it.
insisted that | wait before turning
L in for collection until after my re-
turn. He asked what II covered and
to know whether IL would cover
suicide or death by violence. ! told
him II covered everything and could
rot be broken.
AT first l would not believe that my
'on-in-law had been a party to the
assault upon me, but when detectives
giving me additional evidence to
hat effect ! consented to his arrest"