Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-02-25


lsse. ne aArae tarne abCue hsaring thls3
noise ana an0wdon rOnzSng out That
| she did 81 b unc0nkr dietsd More
over that day or svening asaer the
murder was reported. some Of EheEn'
that day and ali before SnOwden was.
arrested. she told wlaaf she had heard
and seen 10 the following people:
MI. and Mrs, Harris Of Morris
street
Mrs. Anita partlett % Morris
street
Mrs. scott os Second street
Mr. and Mrs. Johns. or Second
street
Mrs.. Ella Carroll. 81 second street
FeareA Racial TroshIe.
And that very night Mary became
nervous and her mother had to send
for doctor Doctor Garcia, ccl0red
doctor, came and her mother In her
presence Oh Doctor Garcia asking the
cause or Mary,s nervous condition.
told the doctor about Mary seeing
Gnowden come ont Of the Brandon
home Mary says all Of the eolored
people, including Or Garcia, advised
her not to give It TO the authorities
because II she did Il might cause 2
race riot But Mary felt all the time
she was doing wrong. and on Monday
she went 10 Mrs MurFay's, q white
friend or her mothers and told her
story. and with Mrs. Murray went to
the states attorneys office and gave
to him the full story Up to this time
no one had suspected Snowden Snow
den was Immediately arrested and
questioned closely about his move
Ements. til the first place when arrest
ed he had recent scratches and scars
upon his face and when asked To ac-
count for his. scratches and scars, he
said that Edna Wallace had scratched
him the Sunday before This Edna
Wallace positively denied and stated
that she had not noticed the scars or
scratches on Snowden's face until he
came home to dinner about o'clock
lon that Wednesday the eighth, and
she herself asked about the scratches
and he denied having beep scratched.
1t was proved that Snowden did not
work on the eighth, that the night be-
fore he spent at saloon and about
Ave minutes 10 twelve he sent two
bottles OF beer to Edna with q state
ment that he would not be home but
was going out on the truck Snowden
was asked to give an account Of him
self that day and stated that he left
home about ten minutes 70 eleven,
stopped at his sisters, came up
through the vacant lot near the VII
liams home To Second street and went
down Second street to West street to
Martins saloon. and on the way the
only people he saw was the Rev. Mr..
Williams on his back porch and on
Second street towards West street he
met Mrs Baker and she said To him
why are you not working today r
And he told her he over slept himself
and she replied You fellows at Par
let's have to work hard Mrs Baker
absolutely denies seeing Snowden that
day and on this day or any other day
having any such conversation with
him. and further says she was not out
on the street that day, The undisput-
ed evidence is that Snowden reached
the saloon not later than i've minutes
after twelve o'clock Between ii and
liz o'clock SnoWden cannot account
for himself
Boy Corroborates W0man's Evidence.
And d further corroboration Of the
statement Of Mary Perkins Is given BY
the evidence Of colored boy named
Sisco. Mary Pedkins said that when
she Rrst heard the noise across the
street at the Brandon home and look
ed ont she saw q little colored boy
with bag of flour standing right In
front of the Brandon home, though
she could not identity the boy But
the boy Sisco Is found and he swears
that he was sent BY Mr. Strohmeyer to
carry bag Of -four down Second
street to Mrs. Leeds and when he got
opposite 10 the Brandon home he heard
d racket, looked UP and saw white
womansa elbow out Of the front door
as II she was trying to get out, and
someone whom he could not see pulled
her hack and slammed the door, and
that this was about half past eleven,
and that when he got back TO the store
he told the people there at once that
morning what he had seen. and this
testimony il corToborated both as to
the boys statement and as TO the time
BY Mrs Lee. the clerk and also by Mr..
Smith. a clerk IN Mr.. Strohmeyer'a
store
And now for the motive The eVi-
dence shows that Edna Wallace, Snow
den's common law wife. washed for
Mrs Brandon, and whether or not
Snowden went there 10 borrow money
or for robbery. or whether or not
drinking heavily as he was, IL was
for the purpose Of accomplishing 8
more serious crime Is not known
am inclined to think II was robbery,
and for that purpose the woman's
stockings we're taken on, believing
thai sl7a kngf her money IN her sf0nk