New Britain herald., 1927-05-09
OPPOSING LAWYERS
 VOICE ARGUMENTS
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(Continued From First Page) announced that Mrs. Snyder's sum- nation would be first. T am going to plead to you" Mil lard told the jury, "just as though Gray was my son, because l believe in him." He then outlined Gray's< home background during his youth, the 1 care his mother gave him, his church affiliations. Willard pictured the bright future which loomed before Gray as he be- came success In business, married and had daughter. 'Then. suddenly" he said. Fin 1925 a sinister, fascinating, unscru- pulous woman came across his path. What q catastrophe tha. those two should have met. T would not blacken any wom- ans name if could help, but you | must have the truth. | Like Poisonous Serpent. That woman. like Q poisonous serpent. drew Judd Gray into her glistening coils and there was no 1 escape"
 Willard said that Gray turned to the stimulation of whiskey because 1 he was exhausted by the violence of her passion.
 And while he was under the in- fluence of drink" he said, she in- serted into his weakened mind her desire. her determination, to kill her husband"
 AS Willard spoke. Gray sat be- hind him in alert pose, listening at tentively. and Mrs. Snyder lounged back In her chair with twisted ! smile on her thin lips.
 This woman,' he continued, l hard as it is for me to say, herself tried to kill her husband at least four times. By poison. by gas and by asphyxiation from the fumes of an automobile engine she sought and failed to end his life. Had Gray In Her Power. "She had in tow this poor fellow Gray, gradually warp.ng his mind. and when she failed and failed again. she put him to her use. She knew that she had him where he ! must submit, he must obey He struggled, gentlemen. When first she broached her plan he shrank back in horror and told her spc was ter r!ble. But she knew that she could bend him to her desire aud she did. | "She kept at her victim until she had him. It was exactly as though he was under hypnotic influence. His mind was slave to her mind. He was ill helpless thrall 10 the strange power she had for him. ! He did what he did because she 1 told him to; he could not help him self"
 Willard stressed the fact that Gray and snyder had never met and therefore Judd Gay could not have had any reason of his own for get ting Snyder out of the way As the lawyer spoke Of Grays go- ing to the Snyder home on March '. l he turned on his client with an ex- pression Of pitying contempt. Called Him Poor Fool" This poor fool" he said. this poor goop, this poor helpless thing, ! went there because he hal been told to go. But .even then. even In his | lnaudlin state of fear and drunken ness. he could not do what she asked him.
 And she saw this, knew that not quite yet was the clay shaped to her hand and for that night she let him go.
 "Shc kept constantly In touch with him until March l9, when she said Come again.
 Willard then took up Gray's Syra- cuse alibi. He likened it to a scheolboy looking down at his book after throwing a putty ball. 1t was instinctive." he said. Even animals cover their tracks Then the lawyer described how Gray went to the Snyder home on
 
 a drunken haze but that Mrs. Sny- der went to party with the hus- band she intended to kill and she l was sober.
 Isn't that the mind Of a field ?" he asked. "A diabolical flend? It is hardly human mind at all" Willard stressed that Mrs. Snyder had left a four ounce bottle and d quart for Gray. Why the four ounce hottle?" he asked when the quart was there? Why indeed, if the little bottle had whiskey in it at all? "She meant him to drink from the quart until he was almost paralyzed and then she was going 10 give him the little bottle.
 "But he found the little bottle and drank it first. It made him sick. The Mysterious Bottle.
 Gentlemen. what was in that bot tie? We would give mu,h to know, but what l think is that his imme- diate drink from the big bottle saved him from dying of the poison in the little bottle"
 Mrs. Snyder's counsel protested at this point and Justice Scudder warned Willard.
 Willard said that immediately after the murder. Mrs. Snyler told Gray he ought to take q Grink.
 "She did not know then" he said, that he had already drunk from the four ounce bottle and survived. That was to have been saved until Gray's usefulness had passed. The lawyer then outlined Gray's story of the murder. how Mrs. Shy der led Gray into the room.
 "He struck" Willard said. "and