The Washington times., 1927-06-02
MRS. SNYDER'S final
APPEAL FOR MERCY

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that. Even Judd Gray cannot
make that seem likely.
Hlccough Plot Explained
Now. as to the famous hiccough
anecdote:
Gray recited how, In the Wal.
dorf, told him with great grief
how / had fed Mr.. Snyder ''enough
mercury to kill 10 people," as
poison intended to murder him
that he would take thinking II
was a hiccough cure; and that he
asked me what had happened aad
I told him It had made my hus.
band ,vomit Violently, and that I
disgustedly said 1t had only worked
to cure his hicconghs, whereupoa
ne says he replied. That's a hell
OF way to cure hiccoughs."
That nifty" like the rest Of the
whole speech, was faxed out of the
whole cloth. What really took
place, and which I related to Judd.
was as follows:
Mr.. Snyder was taken with a
violent case OF hiccoughing at home.
For five days this continued, grow.
ing worse. He wouldn't let me
send Tor doctor; that was another
listed.
1 asked my mother. a trained
nurse, what was good. She recon.
mended essence of anondyne COM
pound, which got and tried, but It
didn't help. He was getting thin
and weak. He didn't eat, slept
little, was in great pain and awful
mental frame.
Had to Call Doctor
Again asked my mother to do
something, and this time she recon.
mended ipecac, also rhubarb and
soda. I tried both. The first didn't
help and the second only nau-
seated him that was when Judd got
the vomiting and overdose idea.
substituting only the slight differ.
ence between rhubarL and soda and
bichloride. Of mercury.
He was lapsing into unconscious.
ness but stil stubbornly and angrily
refused to call a physician. When
he next fell asleep, 1t was really
more OF a coma from exhaustion
than sleep, took the thing in my
own hands and called in a doctor.
He smiled, said we were q pack of
fools, and told me to give him a
teaspoonful OF bismuth. He charged
me 81 and walked out.
took him to the door. and as
he put on his hat. he turned to me
and said:
women like you are dangerous.
To save the price of q doctors call
You let q man suffer like that and.
which you don't realize, endanger
his life. Do you know that three
days more Of this would kill that
mann"
Could Have Let Him Die
There was my chance II wanted
Albert Snyder to die!
He was still asleep. He didn't
know the physician had been there.
he had not heard a word Of IL.
Ny mother was not in the house.
Lorraine was asleep.
Three days more Of this would
Kill hint
All would have had to do was
let It go the three days. He wouldn't
call . doctor. He c0uldn't say
anything, but that 1 had tried
every remedy that as far a. he
knew had been suggested.
Did let him die?
l ran out and bought a dimes
worth Of bismuth. I ran back.
shook him furiously, got him half
conscious, threw water on him,
rubbed his pulses, told him 1 had q
put the bismuth down his
throat. He choked on It but swal-
lowed 1t. In half an hour he was
sitting up the hiccoughs over, call
ing for food.
He never knew 1 had called
doctor. He never knew how near
to the end his determined refusal
to call a medical man had taken
him. But 1t cured him.
That is what really happened in
the hell Of a way to cure hic.
coughs. matter.
Gray Sent Her Poison
Gray said I showed him poison
in my home on one of his visits
and that he induced me to pour
1t In the sink. He said had filed
the label off, and, when he asked
me whether didn't fear a terrible,
accident might happen through
keeping poison in the home. I told
him I had it hidden In a boz IN
the medicine chest,
That story was about as true a.
most OF Gray's villainous lies. n
mad just enough truth in it 10 make
1t sound convincing.
He only turned one little fact
upside dOwn-that IL was HE who
sent me the poison, that / fled
the label off for fear my mother
Or husband would see Il and ask
me how came to have it with
an upstate druggists label on
the label. OAi
l did pour it into the sink IN
my home In Judd's presence. But
the scene was one in which I. NOT
ne, asked how a human Sein@
could be 30 cold-bIOOded AZ to
deliberately buy q deadly noison
70 take human life. II was I
who then took out the cork and
spilled 1t down the drain.
3 The action was very similar tn
mis- Ratftnop ~