The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-04

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mystery. was engaged with many
others of my sex and sentiments in
working up a liberty bond drive.
/ was part of the outdoor ''bally-
hoo" Ina Claire was making a
speech. Far down below me ]
could watch her graceful gestures.
Rae Cox, the vaudeville star, had
introduced her. She had a voice
that carried. Even I could hear
1t, way up there.
As put myself back there again
in memory for a moment, stand
with the free air playing about me,
looking down on so many of my
fellow humans, I wonder II any
Of them, as they turned their eyes
upward for q glance at q not un.
pretty figure in q tight one-piece
garment, crowned with blonde hair
whipping in the breeze Eyes! I was
blonde then, am now, and always
was, despite what they sayD cling
ing to an upright beam and smil-
ingly gazing down to them-if any
Of them could have had such q
thought as this:
Who Could FOreten Her Fate?
There Is . girl. At the moment
she Is up, alOft doing something.
But what do we know about her?
What do we know about what she
does when she isn't up there, doing
what she is? What do we know
about what she thinks? Has she
hesrtachss, p rGSITnHs Who would
be affected much If her frail hold
una -E wwI.S..l2-.s,
crashing down to the hard earth?'
I give you this picture to help
you realize that before the fatal
day when I was taken by the
police, I wore no brand of Cain.
I passed through the congested
population, ate, went to the
stores, I mingled with neighbors
and friends and relatives and in
laws-and none of them, whether
they saw me close at hand and
knew me intimately, or whether
they stared up at me hundreds of
feet on high, q stranger, ever sus-
pected that I was the demon that
/ turned out to be, at least accord
ing to Judd Gray, the State, and
the jury.
1t seems had time and energy to
give to many things besides plotting
murders, trying to execute them, and
laboring necessarily to break UP de-
cent mems homes and corrup them
against their will into committing
CHASTITY crimes. Is 1t hard for those
who never met" me until 1 was the
proclaimed cold-hearted killer to Wis
ualize me as giving earnest effort to-
ward selling Liberty Bonds?
entertained soldiers and sailors,
too. I cooked for them, drove them,
knitted for them-even "staked" a
few. Oh, I am not trying to show
that / was patriot; that isn't the
point at all. =.
What / am trying to help you see,
however, is that i lived, as far as
those closest to me knew, and they
must have known, normal, orderly,
regulation life of suburban married
woman of my age and station and
condition.
All the tradesmen will tell you /
was a thrifty shopper, that chose
the things for my family table my
self, that l bought the best within
lily IASdllSs 11Au LlAclk l. was GhAAOA6
to save a nickel wherever could so
that my SIS a week would have its
full buying power.
Helped Lorraine With Lessons
They will tell you / took my LOr-
raine walking, playing with her,
drove her about In the car; that l
dressed her neatly and well, that she
was always clean, that / helped her
with her lessons, that / made dolls
clothes for her as well as her own
things, that 1 bathed her, that /
took her to parties and called for her,
and the like of that.
They will tell you that I sub.
scribed to magazines, and that
did not give all of my reading time
to the research into strange poisons
and their uses, as Judd Gray would
nobly have you see me.
They will tell you that, I was
hospitable, companionable. and, with
those I liked, sociable. never
cared much for bridge, but I played
it to be accommodating. I never
cared for liquor at all, but I slipped
to be agreeable.
went about with my husband
YES, even to the last night. that
awful fatal night-tO keep up ap
pearances and keep down gossip
though he and / had long since
between us, come to definite and
distinct breach, each with new and
outside attachments apart from the
other.
NeighbOrs Knew Truth
They will tell you that there
wasn't a woman in the whole
county of Queens whom they could
have anticipated as criminal less
readily than the Mrs. Snyder whom
they knew and saw every day.
ST did not call any Character
witnesses; Judd did.
The law seems to give stress and
weight to the opinion of those who
knew one ''in the vicinity in which
she resides" They ask them what
defendants reputation was for Flaw
and order" for peace and quiet,
and for truth and veracity."
wish when / cross the TIRES
hold Of my doom / could be Judged
by what those in the vicinity h
which / resided would have said OF
my law and order, my peace and
quiet, and my truth and veracity
the day before my first neighbOr
across the street, was called by LOr
raine to come at q weird hour "a
unite me from the bonds In which
Judd Gray had trussed me up.