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The Washington times., 1927-04-28

dence yesterday. The letter Is ad.
DRESSED to Jane Gray. the name
used by Mrs. Snyder In her CORE.
spondence with the salesman. The
letter was written in the Seneca
Hotel. Rochester, n. Y. 1t is dated
March Is, 1927.
Hello Nom. Old Pal:
Here 1t is raining and has been
ever since a. m. but 1t hasn't been
too pleasant getting about. but am
all through with this section and
leave for Syracuse on the $40,
where I'll be till Monday night at
least and may be Tuesday--depends
on how they hold me up, but am
hoping for some nice fat orders.
"They didn't treat me so badly
here and in Batavia today, as /
picked up 800 or q little over
so hope to grab off some more
tomorrow to help swell up the
week,
"Ths heat Of yesterday just about
played me out. for it got up as high
as ~ here in the afternoon and one
The Washington times., 1927-04-28
IRIS. SNYDER'S VERSION

MRS. SNYDER'S VERSION
Things between my husband
and myself were unbearable. He
was constantly nagging at me. l
was looking for way out.
II told him Gray that 1t was
either. my husband going or my
going and after we had all the
details arranged he kissed me and
walked into my husbands room.
II followed him into the IlaR.
In the darkness / could see Dir.
Gray raise his arm, holding what
believe to be the window weight
In his hand. and in the darkness
the white paper around the
weight stood out.
81 saw the weight in Mr.. Gray's
hand start to travel and imme.
diateIy | heard . thud. / saw
Mr., Gray tie my husbands hands
behind his back.
HE then put the blue hand
kerchief and the waste with the
chlOr0fOrm on 1t on the pillow
and then turned my husbands
face down 50 that the waste and
the blue handkerchief with the
chlOrOfOrm on it would cover his
nose and mouth. He then tied my
husbands feet. ! am quite sure
that Mr.. Gray then came out of
the room and said to me. 1 guess
that's it,"
The Washington times., 1927-04-28
SUN BLAZING ON
APPLE EETE
By staff Corrsspondent


WINCHESTER, Va. April 2s.--
Harry X. Thaw is among the thou.
sands In attendance at the fourth
annual Shenandoah apple blossom
festival.
He attended the dance at the
George Washington Hotel last night.
A pretty blonde was with him and
he danced all evening and smiled
every minute of 1t.
Thaw Is a member OF the Volun.
teer Fire Department OF Winchester
and is regarded al substantial
citizen OF the town. The years have
not dealt very kindly with him. The
dash and vigOr Of the old days have
gone.
Another well known parsonage
here Is BILLY" Mitchell, formerly
head OF the United States Army
Flying Corps. and commander of
Costello Post, American Legion,
washington.
Winchester streets are 80 fhronged
that traffic is impeded to a great
extent. Some are closed to any but
pedestrian traffic.
The city awoke today to find a
blazing sun in league with other
factors 10 make OF this the best
apple blossom festival in the history
Of this annual fete. There is not
cloud in the sky.
Spring. the coming OF which
thousands are celebrating. Is here
in all Its glory. The entire valley
Of Virginia is witness to the advent
OF the season.
Special trains are being run today
by all railroads Visitors are com.
ing in by the thousa nds.
This morning a salute OF thirteen
aeria shells was fired in honor OF
the governor Of Virginia. who for
the first time is taking a prOmineat
part In the fete. The governor IL
one OF the great orchidists of the
country.
The Washington times., 1927-04-28

forward powerful evidence against
both defendants. particularly the
confessions of Mrs. Snyder and
|, Gray Of participation in the staying
Of Snyder.
The strength Of the States case
Is said to have caused the defend
ing attorneys to change their minds
and to plan to call upon both de-
PENDANTS to testify
Crowds Storm Court
Interest in the trial has reached
a high point and the crowds that
storm the courthouse are growing
larger daily.
The mo standing room" order of
Justice Townsend Scudder, presid.
ing, is being ignored and at every
session standees are parked all
around the side and rear walls.
The cold, Unconditional exterior of
the blonde Ruth Snyder has aroused
antipathy among the courtroom fans,
especially the women who openly ex-
The Washington times., 1927-04-28
GRAY's VERSION

"She Mrs. SnyderD had made
several attempts upon Snyder'S
life. In two Instances she gave
him sleeping powders or turned
on the gas. She gave him hi.
chloride Of mercury whe9 Ice was
sick with the hiccOughs. But all
her plans seemed to fail.
ION the night of SnydeF's
death / went tn her home, she
having left the door open for me.
When she came in she asked me:
"YOu are going TO do it, aren't
your" / said: Eyes" told her
to go to bed. figuring that
could steal away. But she didn't
go.
she sat right there In the door.
way and / started after her. She
went first.
Il followed her into the bedroom
and It was ] who hit him the
first blow with the window
weight. He got me by the neck.
tie and she started to beIabOr
him with the window weight.
She had q bottle of chlOrOform
and handkerchief and she
poured the chlOrOfoFm over the
bed. / don't know whether. she
gagged him or not. She tied his
hands with 3 towel.
II had put some paper around
the sash weight, because thought
1t would hurt 80 much, but she
il had evidently stripped that off,
because the weight was bare"
The Washington times., 1927-04-28
CONTINUED from First Page.)

Continued from First Page1
bany to keep dinner engagement.
He said" Haddop testified, that
he wanted it fixed so that If his
office or his wife called. they would
not know he was out, He asked
me to mail some letters for him and
rumple the bed in his room and
hang a DO Not Disturb sign on
the door. He said he was TO see
'Momsie,'"
Q.-Do you know "Momsis"?
Ayes, Mrs: Snyder.
Followed Out Instructions
Later. Haddon went to Judd's
hotel.
II opened the door of his room
with his key" Haddon related,
1.-THE letters were on the bed.
phoned the operator and told her
not to disturb me. left the room,
locked the door and hung up the
DO Not Disturb sign. / dropped
the letters down the mail chute"
Haddon said he heard from Judd
the next afternoon. between $50
and o'clock.
Judd said" Haddon related,
''that he got into trouble, He said
at Albany he got a code wire from
'Momsie' to meet him. in New York.
He said that at 'Momsie's' house
there was a burglary and that
'Momsie' and her husband Were
struck down; that he was hiding in
a closet at the time. He also said
he learned there had been a MUIR
der. He said he hid in the house
but finally got away. He showed
me vest with a blood stain on it
and q blue shirt. He also showed
me 4 photograph of 'Momsle.' He
said that while he was waiting in
the house, he saw fMomsie' sIugged
in the hall by a dark man. He
said he was hiding and the man
didn't see him, He said he aroused
his courage and looked into the
bedroom and saw Snyder on the
bed. While leaning over the bed he
got blood on his shirt and vest. he
told me-"
Packed in Black Case
Newcombe asked Haddon what
was done with "these articles"
Haddon replied that Judd said. 81
must get rid of them" and that they
were placed in a small black suit
case,
Then he and Judd went to Had.
don's home.
"Iudd played around with my kids
played marbles with them on the
floor and read stories 10 them from
q Sunday school paper" HaddOn
said.
Haddon then related how he had
been taken, the following Tuesday
to the district attorneys office ir
Queens county after Judd had beer
arrested. Before he told the district
attorney Of the elaborate 'alibf' he
insisted on talking to Judd. He saw
Judd in the jail.
81 said to Judd, Did you do this
thing?'" Haddon testified, "and HI
said he Had. did it, ! asked hin
why. He said. Had Fdnn't know
Asked what Judd had told hin
about "Momsie," Haddon saidt
Nothing, except that he har
dinner with her in New York now
and then"
Wallace Cross Questions Him
Haddon said he didn't know Mrs
Snyder until after the murder.
Dana Wallace, attorney for Mrs
Snyder, then cross-examined Had
don Gray.
Wallace asked Haddon what jude
The Washington times., 1927-04-28
|SUMllARYOF'
DAYS TRIAL

LONG ISLAND CITY, N. r., april
2S.-PdMI Mathis, tG1i driver, tsst-
fled taking Gray from Jamaoia, l..
l., to Net0 York city morning OF
MGrch 20.
HGddoN Gray, Syracuse friend Of
Henry Judd Gray, testified he helped
Jrane the Ghbi OF the alleged SJlN-
der slayer, which later collapsed,
AZ 1897 the State rested Its case
on the ninth day Of the trial; A
witnesses had been placed on the
stand by the state.
Edgar r. HdeletoR, formally an.
Mostnced after state had rested ease
that Mrs. Ruth BROOM Snyder tCould
tdks the st6Rd in her oWn defense
Henry Plat, Hdddon Grdu's Sun.
euse friend, INSURANCE GQeRt testt
RED disposing Of Judd .Grey's blood.
SteiWed garments.
The Washington times., 1927-04-28
Foreign War Veterans
Aid Victims of Flood

A check for $500 was rendered
President Coolidge today for Mis-.
sissippi flocd relief by Elizabeth
Anne Stitt, three-year-old daughter
Of the commander.in-chief OF the
Veterans OF Foreign Wars. The
ganization.
She also presented the President
with the first buddy poppy of
the season, thus formally opening
this years drive for funds.
The Washington times., 1927-04-28
Each Blames Other;
Who Is Lying?

LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y Map 2S-With the fell
the electric chair in the back Of their minds and h their
mad shattered Ruth BroWn Snyder Henry Judd
Gray sGyes of Albert Snyder IN their confessions Of the
each sought to pin the blame for the tragedy the other
Their recu Of the circumstances the night of March
when both admit Snyder done bed
killing there is in each confession deposition place
blame upon the other.
Here Of the outstanding differences rseias
The Washington times., 1927-04-28

press their condemnation for her.
On the other hand some sympa thy
Is expressed for the detected Gray
who sits slumped in his chair like q
stone image seemingly unable to be.
lieye the predicament he II in.
Back Of both defendants cit some
OF their relatives - Gray's mother
and his sister and Mrs. Snyder's
mother md brother. Conspicuously
absent is Gray's wife who at first
refused to believe her husband had
become involved with another wo.
man, especially in q murder.
The Washington times., 1927-04-28
Rochester Letter Put
In Evidence Signed
By Gray's Nickname

LONG ISLAND CITY. N. z,
April 2S.-Following IL a letter
from Henry Judd Gray to Mrs.
Ruth Snyder which was put in evl.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-03
MiIitarist Heads Board
Appointed To Give Out
Wireless Wave Lengths

WASHINGTON, March Pres
ident Coolidge today appointed the
five members of the newly created
federal radio commission.
The sppOintees follow:
Cd Rear Admiral William II. G.
Billiard, U. s. N, retired, chairman,
six year term. He lives in Media,
Pa.
(2) Orestes II. Caldwell, New
York, five years.
CD Eugene o. Sykes, Jackson,
Miss, four years.
ca Henry A. Bellows, Mime
apOlis, three years.
go John F. Dillon, San Fran
cisco, two years.
The commission is appointed un-
der the Dill-White radio law, just
signed, and has authority to give
away forever the best wave lengths
to any brOadcasters they may favor.
The bill was fought in congress on
the grounds that it establishes a
most vicious monopoly of a growing
industry.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-03
New Local Deadlock
POstpones Illinois
Miners Convention

SPRINGFIELD. I'll. (FP)-The
deadlock in Florida between the
operators and the United Mine
Workers of America ever ma
tional bituminOus agreement is re-
sponsible for the pOstpotement of
the Illinois Mine Workers cOnven-
ton. originally annOm ced for
March 1st at Peoria.
Local unions will be notified in
due time as to the date set for the
converting of the postponed con-
vention", says Walter NesAit, sec
rotary of Dist. II.
The general opinion is that there
will be either a strike or shutdown
of mines April 1st when the pre-
sent national agreement expires,
as a reserve of over $4,000 tons
Of coal is already above ground.
In addition the nonuniOn fields,
which cover $50 of the productive
capacity, will keep operating. The
outlying union fields may also con-
tinue at work even if the central
competitive field (IllinOis, Indiana,
Ohio, and western Pennsylvania
goes on strike.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-03
Future French Loans
Seen AS They Decide
To Pay Ten Million

WASHINGTON, March PIT was
announced here by the treasury de-
partment that the French govern
ment would pay $10,000.c00 this year
OH its debt to the United States.
This payment will be in addition to
the S20,000o00 which now is being
paid annually on the surplus war
materials indebtness taken over in
France following the end Of the war
While the S1O,00O,000 installment
is promised only for this year it was
stated by the president that it was
expected that it would be continued
until the debt funding agreement
originally entered into had been dis
posed of by the French parliament
and the American congress.
In some quarters it is believed that
the decision on the part of France to
pay $10,000,000 is gesture for
future loans, some Of which might
be made in the near future.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-03
SIXTY Arrested IN POLAND AS
WAVE OF white TERROR SPREADS

CRACOW, March 2-Sixty work
ers have been arrested here, the po-
lice claiming that they are part of
Communist plot" to overthrow the
Pilsudski government. This marks
the latest step of a wave of white
terrorism which started in Hungary
day before yesterday, and spread
thru Roumania as we'll as northward
to Poland. In every case the police
make similar charges; that "Rus-
sian Communists" are planning a
March revolution.
The legation Of the Union of Social
list Soviet Republics at Vienna has
officially declared these charges to
be absurd. General opinion among
government circles in central
Europe is that the English intrigues
which brought about the Lithuanian
Polish alliance against the U. S. S.
r. have something to do with the
present attacks on Communists, and
the arrest of workers on charge of
plotting revolution.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-03
Legislators Think
Drastic Laws Will
Retard Crime Wave

While the present system of I'M
employment, and low wages for those
that are working is maintained and
is the real source Of modern crime
wave, the legislators 3t Albany think
they can stop crime b increasing the
laws on the statute books. Thus there
was introduced today at the state as
sembly another batch Of bills, thirty
eight in all, whom its sponsors, Sena-
tor Banoes and Assemblyman Esmond
hope to become laws and to stop
crimes.
One of the bills provides drastic,
regulations Of the use and sale Of
firearms.
The crime conSmission of which
Senator Caleb H. Baumes is chairman,
has also made It's report and recon-
mended the erection Of a new state
prison, establishment of a statewide
system of finger printing, remove
Of innocence protecting
the defendants, speed-up apprehension
IF crooks and eliminate technicalities
from criminal procedure, establish
ment OF district courts instead of the
present function of justices of the
peace
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-03
State Government
To Cost S225 Million

ALBANY, N. Y.,-The total cost
of the state government for the next
fiscal year may reach $225,000 900
as compared with s187,0OO,O0O last
year, according to estimates made to-
day by the states financial experts.
Governor Smith has just signed
the annual appropriation Of $147,-
100000 Last year the same bill
totalling, $2,2l7,000 are provided in
five other measures approved by the
governor. These bills include $780,
900 to secure a site for a new prison
in the western part of the state; and
$Ss,000 for new buildings at Elmira,
reformatory.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-03
'Tis Only the Spirit of
Youth Makes Student
Hit Cops; Says Lawyer

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, March g.
"Chicken-hearted and white-livered'
police were contrasted to the flaming
spirit of youth, the finest thing in
the world" by Judge Frederick II.
Chase, attorney for 80 defendants in
the so-called Harvard Square riot
cases in the closing arguments in
Third District Court today.
Terming Patrolman James A.
Pryor 'the coward who ran" Judge
Chase asserted that when his hat
was knocked off "the majesty of the
law was offended and he LOST his hat
and his head"
"The spirit OF YOUTH detained
pr laws et, lis the finest thing in
the world and will not be cru she'd ny
the welding Of clubs in the hands Of
police officers"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-03
Scott Nearing to Speak
In Pittsburg. March s

PITTSBURGH ~ Scc,t Nearing
speaks here on Dollar Diplomacy.
All Of you remember the impress
sion he made last winter at the de-
hate he held with Clarence barrow.
Now you have another chance to
hear him.
He will deliver only one lecture.
subject "Dollar Diplomacy" satur-
day evening, March s. $3.50 p. M, at
the Labor Lyceum. IS Miller St.
Admission 80 cents Order your
tickets by mail from the Scott Near
ing Committee, 35 Miller St., Pitts
burgh, Pa.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-03
Judge Who Censored
Newspaper Now Under
Corruption Charges

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. March 2.
Impeachment of Circuit Judge
Clarence w. Dearth of Muncie, IN
diana on charges of corruption
and high crime" will be recon-
mended in a resolution decided
upon today by a committee of the
state legislature.
Judge Dearth came under fire
as the result of his recent sup
preston of an issue of the Muncie
Post Democrat, published by
George Dale, who is now under ar
rest at Celina, Ohio, on charge
of criminal libel. The judge was
also charged with the irregular
appointment Of a jury commits
sioner.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-03
Aimee McPh ersOn VIII
Use Seventy Foot Sign
70 Advertise Herself

Sister Aimee Mcpherson, who
broadcasts the word of the Lord in
addition to her other activities, will
use Broadway advertising technique
in peddling religion to the masses.
She plans to erect an electric sign
seventy feet long over the Angelus
Temple in Los Angeles, which is the
sanctuary of the Lords representative
in the United States.
Not to be outdone by Jesus Christ,
who was one of the worlds foremost
statesmen, according to Bruce Barton,
Sister Aimee intends to use all of the
twentieth century advertising devices.
She is now negotiating with repre-
sentatives of Madison Square Garden
foli two weeks bout with the devil
sometime this summer.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-03
Military Tyranny Over
Portugal Pleases King

LISBON, March 2.-Royalist en-
voys from ex-King Manuel have as
sured General Carmona that the
royalists will not oppose the present
military government but will Coop
crate with it in a program Of ma
tional reconstruction.
The Carmona government contin-
ues with fine, exile and sentences of
imprisonment to make life miserable
for the recent liberal revolutionists,
and their families. Three boatloads
Of exiles have already been Dispatch
ed to the Portuguese colonies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-03
Mayor Apologies for
Cop Punching Fascist

TAMPA, Fla, March 2.-Mayor
Perry Wall in a letter to Secretary
Of State Kellogg today extended the
eity's apology for the arrest of Count
Macchi Di Cellere, attache of the
Italian embassy at Washington, dur
ing the South Florida fair early in
February.
During the course of the arrest,
Mussolini's friend grew excited and
resisted. The policeman, not recog-
nizing him and accustomed to beat
ing up the INDECENT, polled the black
shirt few times in the face. The
affair caused the Itaian government
to protest.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-03
British Miners
HOOtPrerliier at
Death Mine
Coal Diggers Enraged AT
Sight Of Tory Leader

Own, Wales, March 2.-Priemer
Stanley Baldwin and wife, visiting
the scene of disaster here today to
watch the raising of bodies of fifty
two men killed in a gas explosion in
a coal mine, were bOOed and practi-
cally chased from the vicinity by
angry relatives of the entombed
workers
The miners families fiercely re-
sented the morbid curiosity of the
man who had done so much to break
the miners strike, and thus make
possible the very tragedy he had
come with indecent officiousness to
s-vey.
Know Who To Blame.
With jeers and imprecations they
made it plain to him that they knew
that the longer hours and speeding
up of the miners which resulted from
the failure of the strike so bitterly
fought by Baldwin, as we'll as the
lack Of inspection which the union
is no longer strong enough to en-
force, had slain their men in gas
filled chambers below.
Baldwin had scarcely been recog-
nized when a furry of indignant
comment in Welsh swept thru the
crowd gathered about the pit head.
Then a voice in English, what
about your victims lying down in the
black VEIN? Another shouted, "Why
don't you go down in the mine your
self?" Then there were Kisses and
curses.
Saw Boss First.
Baldwin and his wife had just left
the mine company office, and were
surveying the series of bodies being
brought to the surface, black,
mangled, and hardly recognizable.
When the demonstration started
the prime minister turned pale and
hastily entered his car, but continued
to keep his pipe in his mouth, and
puff clouds of smoke at the iesticu-
lating crowd. Mrs. Baldwin was
frightened and shrank back into a
corner of the car.
More Bodies Raised.
Twenty-four bodies have been
brought up from the Cwn mine, it
was announced today.
Five more miners were rescued
alive. Twenty-six men are still en-
tombed but little hope is entertained
that rescue crews will find them
alive.
All night long the rescue parties
had labored feverishly to drive their
way through the rocks blocking them
from the entombed men, although
experts said there was no hope that
any were alive.
Sacrifice Pet Birds.
Throughout the long hours of
darkness women lowered about the
pithead awaiting news Of their miss
ing men. For the most part they
were silent, giving evidence Of phe-
nomenal courage.
Canaries were used to test the
quantity of gas in the mine. These
were pets, brought by the women
from their bereaved homes.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-03
WORKERS, FORUM OPENS.

CLEVELAND, March An open
forum, where current topics win be
discussed. will be opaucd h~ III Fun-
rarian Workers Home, 1909 Lorair
Avenue, on March 4th. Ample
tunity for airing all views will be
permitted. All workers and students
orc invited to participate.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-03
Lost ON Way to Church.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, March a.
Rev. Sauel H. Jobe, 60, widely
known Episcopal clergyman and
pastor Of st. Peters Church, was
strangely missing today.
He was last seen in central square
yesterday afternoon en- route to "a
church meeting. His sister, Miss
Jane Jobe, and relatives appealed to
police and his description was broad
cast throughout the state