The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-09-01
And All Survive to Fight i
Court for the Fortune He
Left.

NEW YORK. Sept Three en-
chanied tenants Of william Wallace
Snyders heart we're more than dis
turbed some months after his heart
had ceased 10 beat. 10 learn that Sny-
der, graduate Of New York t'niyers-
ity and prominent lawyer and real es-
tate operator Of New jersey, had main
tianed three homes for twenty-five
years within ten miles Of ono another
ana had three wives, ardent church
workers, who took an active pnrt with
him In his business transactions.
Snyder. who leaves real estate val
ucd nj 100000 or more, died in NJ.
vernon. New York. tn February. 1915.
and the great secret Of his iifc became
known with the reading OF his viii.
The public was kept in tho dark re
gardlng the triple life of the wealthy
lawyer until wife No >, at whose home
he expired, commenced suit in the New
Jersey courts to secure possession OF
tho home occupied by wife No. in
Harrison. n. J.
Three Wives, All Living.
According to the records Snyder in
1876, courted and won the hear, and
hand Of Phoebe Baldwin. on Of the
society bellies Of East Orange. y. J.
Shortly after his marriage to Miss
Baldwin, Miss Lucinda Papst. pref
ty girl, arrived In Trenton. y. J.
where she met Snyder, who nj that
time was proprietor OF a Furnishing
dry goods and notion business, both
L. IL
To put the story in her own words
she fell in love with him al first sight.
and then he paid conrt 10 her. After
several months OF courtship. Miss
Papst AYERS, she became the wife OF
Snyder and went 10 an claborately
furnished home ut Harrison, y. J.
Wife No. Alta into the love AFFAIR
with the filing n a will signed by shy
der with officials nj White Plains, y.
Y. In that document snyder says that
he and Miss Sara Whltenack. another
New Jersey belle, whose home was
at Mount Vernon. were made man and
wife In Buffalo, N. Y. March 8, 1898.
No, 3 Snes Wife No. ..
Intent on getting what was he
uueathcd TO her. wife No. 3 wants the
Harrison wife mo. o. TO leave the
Seventh street dwelling, where she has
lived fore than thirty years as Mrs.
w. ". Snyder, or pay rent-and back
ront amounting to $4,000.
Further details Of William Wallace
Snyder's stra 1ge career arc to be re-
yealed in the courts next month.
Mrs. Lucinda Papst Snyder. the sec
ond OF the trio in Snyders life, de-
clared with emphasis that she never
reporter called at her home in Harri-
son. She was sympathetic when men
ton was made of Mrs, Phoebe
Baldwin SNYDER. of East Orange. but
the name Of Mrs. Sarah Whitenack
Snyder brought fire to the aged wom-
ans ewes.
WAS Also Carpcnter,
"Wbose picture is that" asked the
reporter indicating photograph of
n man In military attire,
THAT" Slammed Mrs. SNYDER No. .
ia Colonel SNYDER, lived with him
ror about tyventv-uiuc wears. met
him in Trenton and at that time we
only had enough money to get along
with. Then We came 10 HARRISON and
began housekeeping. He told me that
he was carpenter. He used TO build
and was his helper, not only in the
home but at his work. carried lum-
her. sorted bricks and did pyramids for
him on a bicycle. When money and
labor we're scarce painted rooms,
vanished The floors and papered the
walls. Yet he left me without a cent
and his other wives get $50 week.
His business took him away from home
and aid not suspect him
Once | accused him OF being in
fatuatcd with another woman. That
was in the early DAYS. lie was so
mad with me that he took his stick
and smashed every plate in the house.
/ have saved the pieces OF crockery and
IL | lose my suit | will open his grave
AND eiye Wtlltaw Wallace SNYDER what
Is lett Of The dishes. Maybe the Mount
vernon wife IA The woman heard he
had married in Irvington later on.
When heard that story trudged