The Washington times., 1927-06-22
WOLF I Ed
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LAWS Of
GOD

mother of three children, her
self only "a years old, writes to the
editor Of the Washington Times to
express the fervent hope that Mrs.
Ruth Snyder, the New York hus-
band slayer, will be executed.
She il Mrs. Alfred e. Johnson.
ir., of 1853 K st. s. e. Her letter
il one of the scores prompted by
Mrs. snyder's own story of her
life. now running serially in The
Times. 1t follows:
Too Precious . Name
"Courtship days. love and mar
riage, supreme happiness for awhile.
then Gods greatest blessing. q
babyl
"Can you picture Ruth Snyder
with the blessing of God in her
arms and the stain of murder upon
her soul? Poor little Lorraine sends
her love to her mother. Can We
speak of Mrs. Snyder as a mother?
Isn't that too precious a name to
call her? Would it not be more
like it to refer to her as Just the
woman who gave breath to Baby
Lorraine?'
"a mother has q heart. sympathy.
and understanding, love and long
ing for those near and dear, and a
constant desire to protect her loved
ones even at the risk of her own
life. If Ruth Snyder loved her
baby girl with true mothers love
she could not have so cruelty and
heartlessly murdered her daddy.
what God has Joined together,
let not man put asunder.' All! how
often do the ministers Of God re-
peat those words! Would that both
Ruth Snyder and judd Gray could
haye remembered them when they
so 1brutally battered the last bit of
precious life from Albert Snyder's
body! Would that he could have
begged and pleaded to live!
Feels He Would Have Fled
"He probably would have pro-
missed to get out of their way and
leave them to enjoy their sinful,
unlawful love. II they would not
have needed his cries and pitiful
pleadings for mercy, then, knowing
that he must go into the Great Be-
yond, wouldn't it have made him
happier to enter eternity with the
touch of those baby hands upon
his face and the innocent baby lips
that once called him Daddy pressed
to his own, a part Of his own flesh
and blood, his child. borne by the
woman he loved so we'll, with whom
he had lived and shared his all for
so many years?
They Want to Live
"The jury has tried and convicted
Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray. but
will they get the chair? They have
appealed their case. How on earth
can any judge. after such just
and honest verdict has been given,
afford them a new trial?
II am positive no jury could be
found that would fail to convict
them. Let them go? Never.
Give them life in prison? All,
that is just what they want. Life,
the greatest thing or earth, no mat
ter where or how il must be lived.
Where there IS life, there is al
ways hope.
1.-The tiniest ray Of sunshine can
often creep through the bars OF the
dreariest prison cells and bring
with 1t some cheerfulness from the
blue skies. Their blue skies have
turned to gray 10y their own cruel
hands.
Perhaps as they slowly tread the
prison corridor to the silent CHASTITY
death chamber at Sing Sing, they
at last will be able to vision slightly
the other and everlasting life to
which they have sent Albert Snyder,
his soul no doubt gene TO peace and
rest with his Maker, and their
souls, doomed forever, bound for
where there is no peace or pity, the
everlasting fires of hell"