The Washington times., 1920-07-07
DOUBLE'CROSS,
SNOWSREP
Aged Millionaire Says Charge
of Plot TO XIII Wife ls
"frame-up."
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Informed him of SHOWS alleged plan.
."Snow, according to Mrs. Acker.
presented several ways OF carrying
out his ideas. Both Mrs. Acker and
LanEdon declare they never tried TO
carry out the plan"
Brown Is held as a United States
witness in $1,000 bond. He is en-
ployed by the Potomac Electric Power
Company. 1t IL Brown from Whom AT
torney Hoover says he has secured al
fadavits which he declares will exon
crate Snow from the charge
HAD INKLING OF CHARGE.
at have had an inkiing OF what was
going to happen for many days" said
Hoover At court today. Last week I
had Brown come into my offfce anu
make tho affidsvits.
Brown swears that Mrs. Acker and
Langdon conspirsd against snow. he
declares the plan was to visit Mrs.
Snow and offer to sell to her infor-
nation regarding . conspiracy. which
they Intended to frame up"
my client is innocent. The nrst
hearing. am confident. Will exon
crate him."
Hoover admitted that Mrs. Acker
has been employed by Snow since
last January. He declares, however.
that Mrs. Acker was only employed
for the purpose OF shadowing MRS.
Snow. 1t was several years ago that
The courts granted Mrs. Snow limited
divorce, with $500 a month aiimony
and possession of their six-year-oid
10y, Dexter II. Snow, six days
week, Snow to have the boy tne
other day in the week. Snow oo-
jected to this. .... ~.
SNOW SOUGHT CHILD.
Snow a short time ago went to
court In an attempt to get posses-
sion Of his child more than once q
week. The case Is now before inc
courts
Henry E. Davis. attorney for Mrs.
Snow and star witness In the con.
spiracy case. declared today he had
received his Information regarding
the conspiracy from Mrs.. Acker and
Langdon. He talked with them Last
Monday noon in Mrs Shows home In
Chevy Chase. he said.
at met them at Mrs. Snow'a house
declared Davis. They were trying
to sell their information. For some
months back ! knew Mrs. Acker haa
been trailing Mrs. Snow.
"rt was not until last Monday that
learned Of the charges these people
were making against Snow. I was
astounded and Immediately went to
AssIstant District Attorney j. b.
Archer and presented the information,
We had a long conference and Mr.
Archer decided to swear out warrants
for the arrest of Snow, Mrs. Acker
and Langdon."
District Attorney Archer stated to-
day the Government would probably
summon two more witnesses for It's
case tomorrow. One of these wit
nesses, It was learned, Is more or less
directly involved. Archer refused to
disclose their names.
ARREST CAUSES STIR
The arrest of Snow has caused
quito a stir among his associates In
Washington. Snow is one of the most
prominent patent attorneys in the Dis
trict. sHe has elaborate offices at 10
Eighth street northwest and lives at
woodside, Md. He had been mar
ried three times, and Is seventy
years old. Recently, Snow announced
a bequest of $4,000 to the Florence
Crittenton Mission. He also is we'll
known as a worker in the Humane So
ciety OF the District
From the story told to detectives.
r. J. Kelly, A. Scrivener and B. r.
King. who arrested. Mrs. Acker and
Langdon. the two for the last six
months have been engaged in ain
vestisation" work.
Last January Mrs. Acker visited
Mr.. Snow in his office" Grant says,
Mrs. Acker told him, "she told Snow
she was a private detective and urged
him to hire her. He agreed. Her
salary was set at $50 a week. her
assistants salary was to be $50
week.
FRIENDLY WITH MRS. SNOW.
DAY after day Mrs. Acker followed
Mrs. Snow. and 1t wasn't long before
she made Mrs. SHOWS acquaintance.
She went around with her quite a bit,
took her to dinner at the Washington
Hotel, and became very friendly.
''rhe next,month, however, she Gays
Snow put his plan before her, Lang
don and Brown. Brown had been en-
ployed to do shadowing' work. Hc
worked only two nights and received
$50.
"Langdon, for some reason unex-
planned left Shows employ on April
20. Since that time Mrs. Acker has
been working alone.
Attorney Davis has represented
Mrs. Snow for several years. About
three months ago Mrs. Snow in
formed him she believed Mrs. Acker
was a detective. Davis then began
his investigation.
1T gathered evidence to present to
the court which would conclusively
discount any damaging evidence that
might be presented by Mrs Acker in
the divorce case. We let every thing
go along quietly, leading Mrs. Acker
to believe she was only considered a
friend.
APPROACHED SEVERAL TIMES.
During the past few weeks have
been approached several times by
parties wishing to sell me informa-
tion. declined to deal with them.
However, last Monday when went
TO Mrs. Shows house found Mrs.
Acker and Langdon present. got
them to disclose their story. i in
tend to push this case to the very
limit"
Attorney Davis predicts the case
will develop even greater interest
than apparent at this time. He de-
clarss that others Will be involved