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New Britain herald., 1927-05-06

him last May when she gave him
 some sleeping powders to inhale to determines their potency. The testimony was given to e.
 tablish Gray's part in the killing of , a man against whom he said he had
 no enmity--a man he had not even
 seen.
 The psychic dominance" pre-. vailed. the witnesses said. in his sub-
 conscious mind throughout the time
 he bought the sashweight and the
 other implements with which Snyder l was Killed on March 20 in his Queens Village home.
 Gray Himself Changes Gray. who in the last few days has | been transformed from cringing, frightened person to one of almost
 dominating personality as he has un- folded his story of the crime from the witness stand. yesterday set him. self up as a final authority on the events of what he termed the mur- der night"
 In the closing moments of yes terday's session of the trial of Gray and the dead mans widow for mur-
 der, Dana Wallace. counsel for Mrs. Ruth Snyder. questioned Gray's testimony.
 You said" Wallace examined him, that after you struck Albert
 Snyder on the head with that sash
 weight he sat up and grabbed you by the necktie. Do you know that the doctor who performed the
 autopsy testified at this trial that any one of the blows to which AL
 bert Snyder was subjected would have caused unconsciousness? Don't
 you want to change your testimony in view of what that doctor said?" His Story Stands The little corset salesman drew himself up in the high witness chair
 and looked solemnly down on the
 lawyer.
 q heard the doctor testify that
 he replied, "but my story stands.
 don't doubt the doctor believed what he said but he doesn't know.
 I was there."
 Nothing Wallace could say broke
 down in the slightest degree Grays assertion that after the first blow
 Snyder sat up in bed and grappled with him.
 Was Full of Fight He was full of fight" he testi- fled, ''and he hollered. l jumped on top of him and tried to stuff the
 bedclothes over his mouth. drop ped the sashweight and I got him by the throat but he was getting
 the better of me. Then I yelled
 'Momie, Momie, help me- and Mrs
 Snyder grabbed up the sash weight
 and rained blows on his head" That is Gray's story and all day
 he stuck to it through an almost
 overwhelming cross examination. Through it all Gray sat calm and
 seemingly unperturbed, Wallace
 grew red and wiped the perspira-
 tion from his face. His hair was
 rumpled and his tie was askew. And still the little corset salesman sa, primly in the high chair and declin-
 ed to be moved from his testimony | Gray Wecps Freely Under questioning by his own
 attorney Gray had wept freely but
 under the much greater pressure ol
New Britain herald., 1927-05-06

Yes
 'Is it possible you wanted to gel her nerves into shape so that she could carry through plan to kill her husband. plan originated by you"
 That is not true"
 "On the night of the killing you were drunk?"
 "Yes."
 But your mind was clear enough so that you hid in the dark room lest Snyder see you?"
 Mrs. Snyder had told me to-"
 But you would have hidden from Snyder anyway to protect your. self?"
 ''Of course, automatically"
 Repeats Testimony.
 Wallace then quoted the part of Gray's testimony where he said he called to Mrs. Snyder to help him and she picked up the weight and beat her husband.
 "Is that testimony true?"
 "It certainly is.'
 "Why isn't it in your signed con- fession? ?"
 They didn't ask me for details when I made the confession"
 There was then lengthy examina- tion as to whether Gray wore buck skin or rubber gloves at the time of the attack. but the wrangle ended with no results.
 When you got in that room did you see Albert Snyder's face Wal lace asked.
 No"
 Did you see him at all?"
 "No."
 You couldn't even see his face in the light from the arc light that was shining through the window?"
 T could see the outline of his 1 face" ....
 And you hit him?" "Yes."
 And you claim that after you hit him, he rose up and grasped your necktie Grappled With snyder
 ''No sir. I said that I then went over on top of him and tried to stife his cries with the bed clothes"
 Did you feel him pulling on your tie?"
 Yes sir. He was choking me-" The examination then EEung away from the actual killing.
 Did you," Wallace shouted. consider your relations with Alice In Buffalo and with Mrs. Snyder the acts of gentleman"
 My acts with Alice were always those of a gentleman"
 Would you want your wife to know you were going out to din- ner with Alice every chance you got?"
 "Yes, with her. or any other lady"
 Again the questioning turned to dominance" and Wallace again asked if Gray was under any domi. nance while he waited alone in the Snyder home the night of the kill | ing.
 T told you yesterday I was," Gray replied.
 Wallace then brought out that 1t was at Gray's own suggestion that he got the chloroform. the wire and the sashweight with which Snyder was killed. | No domination there
 well, she"
 "Yes, or no?" No"
 She suggested rope and you got her wire, didn't you?" "Vosv
New Britain herald., 1927-05-06

hostile examination he was cool and perfectly composed. Only once dur ing the long day did Wallace shake him. That was when he reminded the defendant-witness of his little daughter.
 You have a daughter about the age of Mrs. snyder's daughter?" the lawyer asked and Gray gulped.
 T certainly have" he replied and blinked his weak eyes rapidly be- hind the thick lenses of his horn trimmed glasses.
 And you have . fine wife for whom you cared and who cared for you and yet you went with this woman who you knew was having trouble at home?" Wallace persist ed.
 Admits His Shame
 Gray hung his head and wiped a tear from his cheek. He struggled visibly with his emotions before he was able to answer.
 II am ashamed to say that did" he said at last, and Wallace direct ed hls questioning to other matters.
 To Testify Again.
 Counsel for Mrs. Snyder told re- that the Queens Village housewife was to be put back on the witness stand in an attempt to refute the story Of Henry Judd Gray. i Mir. Snyder was on the stand for 12 hours under direct and cross-ex- animation and 1t had not previously been thought that she would be re- called as a rebuttal witness. i Before court opened Gray had completed If hours on the stand. having finished his direct eXamipa- tion and being still under cross-eX- animation by counsel for Mrs. Sym der when court adjourned last night.
 All spectators carrying packages were stopped at the main entrance to the court house today and the packages were investigated to see 1 if they contained lunch. Court of- ficers said that spectators who have stayed in the courtroom during noon recesses so as not to lose their seats, | have turned the room into a picnic grounds, leaving bottles and refuse about the floor.
 All eating in the courtroom has been stopped.
 Saturday Session.
 It was officially announced at 10 o'clock that court would be held all day tomorrow in an effort to get the case to the jury before Sunday. Pre- viously there have been no Satur- day sessions. As court opened. Gray back in the witness chair, Mrs. Sny- der's counsel. Dana Wallace, re- sumed his cross-examination.
 Gray was calm and answered in a clear even voice. Mrs. Snyder sat staring at him from the defense counsel table.
 Wallace questioned Gray about his income, which averaged $500 a year, and about hts drinking. which Gray said often exceeded half doz- en drinks a day.
 Gray insisted his drinking habits did not eat into his income to such an extent that he was in desperate straits for money.
 Wallace Gets PeeviSh. The courteous manner i'll which Gray answered all questions, ending each sentence with polite "sir" or MT. Wallace" seemed to annoy the examining attorney.
 Don't call me MT. Wallace" he snapped. All I want of you is just yes or no to my questions"
 "Very well. MT. Wallace" Gray agreed. and Wallace glared at him.
 The questioning dealt in detail
New Britain herald., 1927-05-06

with a $1.0o0 loan Gray got shortly 1 before Snyder was killed. Gray said he borrowed the money to buy some stock in the company he worked for You have admitted the staying of Albert Snyder, have you not? Wallace suddenly asked. and Gray's counsel objected and was sustained The question was withdrawn and re. phrased.
 You have sworn to the part you took in the series of acts that re. suited in the death of Albert Shy. der?" Wallace asked.
 T have told the truth" Gray re. i piled.
 Why did you take that part ir the attack on Snyder? What had you to gain by his death?" That said the little corset sales. man. "is what l would like to know
 You mean you had nothing tc gain?"
 T certainly did not" The questioning then turned to events in Syracuse when Gray pre- l pared an alibi and got rid of dam- aging evidence.
 "All these actions were purely au- tomatic." Gray said.
 And you lied to your friend, Had don Gray about what occurred in Queens Village?" Wallace asked. | "Yes"
 You mean about this automatic . business that you were drunk?" T was in haze"
 "A drunken haze?" "Yes."
 When did you come out of this condition?"
 Not until I had been brought back here and put in jail."
 Do you know what you told Had don Gray?"
 T did not recall the details until I heard him testify here"
 "But you remembered some- thing"
 T remember saying there had been burglary and I got blood on me in leaning over to see If he was dead"
 Wallace then launched on long involved question that was inter- rupted by the state. "Is that a question or q summa- tion?" the state asked, and Justice Scudder replied: Tt is very close to a summation"
 Wallace laughed sardonically and withdrew the question. His exami- nation dealt almost entirely with minute details of previous testimony, trying to shake the witness story under direct examination.
 DO you know a girl named Alice?" Wallace asked.
 T know many"
 "All named Alice?" "Yes."
 "Well, do you know one in Buff falo?"
 T know three of them in Buff falo."
 One of these Alices, Gray said, was newspaper woman he had known for years. He said her pet name" was "SnookS." Wallace then referred to testi- mony by Mrs. Snyder that Gray had borrowed s20O to repay debt to a girl called "Snooks." Gray said he had no recollection Of giving Mrs. Snyder that reason for borrowing from her Magnetic Domination. Examination then turned to the magnetic domination" Gray said Mrs. Snyder held over him.
 But it was you who suggested the trip upstate to quiet her nerves, wasn't it?"
New Britain herald., 1927-05-06
Broke the Domination

l
 "You broke the domination there?"
 .Yes."
 "She didn't suggest tho waste you picked up in Rochester or the gauze?"
 She suggested cotton and I got gauze."
 "Oh. 50 again you overrode this strange magnetic domination
 T suppose so."
 How loud did you shout 'Mom- mie?'"
 Y don't remember"
 Was she in the room thenw
 "Yes.'
 ''Now isn't 1t true that you hit Snyder three times and then you called 'Mommie' in from the other room and said: See what I have done?"
 That Is not true"
 Gray then denied talk other witnesses had testified to while he was waiting for bus after the murder.
 Didn't you say to an elderly man that you'd hate to have a DO. liceman who was shooting at a target firing at you?" Wallace ask l ed.
 T did not"
 Says He Was Dazed ''NYere you excited at tho tim O 9n More dazed than excited"
 But not so dazed but that a little time before you had had presence of mind enough to take your glasses off before going into Snyder's room
 T did take my glasses off,"
 Did you hear Mrs. Snyder tes- tify that before the killing she took revolver away from you and put | it on the piano?"
 That's what she said." Isn't it true?"
 Tt is not. l never saw that pis- tol until after Snyder was tied up.' But you knew the pistol was in the house and that you had no weapon but the sashweight and yet you didn't ask Mrs. Snyder for the pistol?"
 That Is right"
 Suddenly Wallace turned to his seat with a curt That Is all"
 District Attorney Newcombe be. gan cross s-examining for the state.
New Britain herald., 1927-05-06

You Sal0 Ioffa1neS Ooor was locked the night of the killing" Mir. Newcombe said.
 Yes"
 "Who locked it?"
 Mrs. Snyder"
 What did she say to you about Snyder being asleep?"
 She said we'd have to wait until he was asleep"
 "On March z when you went to Queens Village you saw herr"
 Yes, she beckoned me from the kitchen window. I went in. She asked if l could go through with her plan then, and l said no" You didn't drink on the train that brought you here. did you Gray?"
 No"
 Nor in the Syracuse police sta- ton prior to that?"
 No"
 Nor in my office up to the time you signed your confession?" No"
 DtSNTIDCS HIS NVislSSShoh Gray then recalled the conditions under which he had made his state ment, that he expressed willingness to talk and that stenographer took down his words.
 That statement is your dictation isn't it?"
 "Ycs.'
 And it's true?"
 Yes"
 And you made 1t voluntarily, without duress?"
 Yes"
 T allowed you to talk to your mother and wife by telephone ?" You did," Newcombe then led Gray through his action on March 19 in Syracuse. Gray acknowledged that he had in fluenced Haddon Gray, his friend, in getting him to establish an alibi. After you were arrested in Syra- cuse you persisted in your claim of innocence and pointed to your fake alibi as proof of your statement, didn't you?"
 T did,
 And you maintained your inno- cence until the train taking you here was about at Poughkeepsie? T did,
 Then Told Truth
 Then you told the truth?" "Yes. I think we were a little nearer Harmon than Poughkeepsie though"
 That was on the evening of Mon- day, March 21?"
 Yes"
 ''Now you say Mrs. Snyder went with you from her mothers room into the room where her husband lay asleep"
 "Yes, I had the weight and she had the chloroform and wire and Italian newspaper"
 You say you struck him, strug- gled with him, dropped the weight end then called for help. What did Mrs Snyder do then?'
 'She threw the things in her hands on the pillow, grabbed the weight and hit him."
 Then he lay still?"
 "Yes."
 And you started to put the wire around Snyder's necll?"
 T tried but couldn't"
 You then went out of the room ?' Yes"
 Understands Situation You have told the incidents of that night in detail, Gray. Do you understand the consequences of your words?"
 T do and what is said Is the truth"
 That is all"
 Her Magnetic Power A mysterious magnetic" power exerted by the blonde, statuesque Ruth Brown Snyder forced him to help in the killing of the woman's husband. Gray testified yesterday at the Snyder-Gray murder trial It was this influence, Gray ex- plained. that brought him from Syracuse 300 miles away to partici- pate in a murder against his will. And that magnetic force was 50 great that it overcame all thoughts of your family and child?" asked Dana Wallace. counsel for Mrs. Snyder, in cross examination. Yes. sir" replied the former corset salesman sweetheart of the woman.
 Nominated u@v, Er<,~,,- This charm of his former mistress, said Gray, first began to dominate
New Britain herald., 1927-05-06
CITY PLAN COMMISSION
 WANTS DOERR PARK LAND
Macauley and Andrew Appointed Committee to Assemble Data
 on Proposed Site

on Proposed 6ato
 George K. Macauley and John A. Andrews are a committee of the city plan commission to gather data relative to the Doerr tract on Shut tie Meadow avenue and its possibili- ties as . park site. The commission has under consideration a recom- mendation that the plot be pur- chased and developed.
 Discussion of the potential park site took place at meeting of the plan commission yesterday after noon and 1t was voted to proceed with the collection of facts for presentation to the council. Because the school board has under con- struction the Robert J. Vance build ing nearby, the city plan board fav- ors development of the park at once, if its further investigation indicates the idea to be a practical one.
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for the state.
 You said Lorraines door was locked the night of the killing" Mir. Newcombe said.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-08-05
LOCAL APPLES TO ALASKA

Fred Rea was over from Seattle
this week lining up car of early
apples for shipment to Alaska.
The car is to roll next Wednesday
morning and will be made up of
Winter Bananas, Jonathans, Deli
cious, and some of the early varie-
ties. such as Wealthys, etc. The
apples are to be packed orchard
run in sizes of 1905 and larger for
Jonathans and 1885 and larger for
the other varieties. All apples for
this Alaska shipment must be in
the Horticultural Exchange Ware
house by Tuesday night,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-08-05
ANNUAL BARGE PICNIC

Over one hundred old friends and
neighbors enjoyed picnic dinner last
Sunday on the lawn and under the
shade of the big trees at the r. d.
Barge home. This picnic has grown
to be an annual institution and is
usually held on the Fourth of July.
This year, however, with the big cele-
bration it was postponed until Mr..
Barge's umptis tn birthday, which was
last Sunday. A bounteous dinner was
spread on long table on the lawn
and was served cafeteria style, that
is, you were given plate and you
helped yourself to all you could eat
in the way of fried chicken, salad
sandwiches, various hot dishes,
delicious pie and cake and all topped
off with generous helping of ice
cream. Iced tea, Lemonade and coffee
were on tap-in fact, rothing in the
way of good eats had been forgotten.
Conversation and music provided the
entertainment of the afternoon, the
music being furnished by &. portable
Victrola of the White Bluffs Drug
company. A pleasant incident of the
afternoon was the singing of two solcs
by Miss Ethel Smith Woods.
Evening was approaching before the
guests departed wishing Mr.. Barge
many happy returns of the day.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-08-05
TWENTY YEARS OF
CONTINUOUS SERVICE

| With this issue the White Bluff.
| Spokesman enters upon its twenty-firs
year. The first issue came off the press
on August 3, 1907. The equipment fol
the plant was shipped in by steamboat
from Kennewick and the Spokesman:
| first home was tent on the banks o.
the Columbia river, where the towr
was then located. Angus Hay was the
first owner and publisher and he con-
tinued in charge until April 10, 1915
when the paper was purchased by the
present owner
Considering the isolation of the val
ley twenty years ago and the fact that
there was practically no improved land
here at the time, the starting of news
paper was rather a bold venture. But
| with all the vicissitudes and trials OF
a pioneering ommunity-and the Lord
knows this valley had its share-the
Spokesman has made its regular week
ly appearance fifty-two times year in
every one of the twenty years of its
existence.
And twenty years is quite some spell
for uninterrupted publication of a
newspaper in such small community
a AOL VI ASWSPoPClo Ili IAiC SSulieh
have been born and have died in that
time. It is therefore a real compli-
ment to the stability of this. valley
that the Spokesman has been able to
meet it's weekly obligation through
out the two decades of its life.
Much water has run under the bridge
in these twenty years. Born in the at
rnosphere of faith and optimism that
pervaded the country at the time,
the Spokesman has seen and recorded
both the failure and realization of many
hopes. 1t has witnessed the develop
ment of the valley from small handful
cf struggling pioneers to its present
size and Importance. 1t has seen the
passing of the steamboats, and the COM
ing Of the railroad; the moving of the
town; the building of the high school;
the growth of tri-weekly to a twice
a-day mail service and the establish
ment of rural route; the transition
from livery barns to garages; the
coming of the movie and radio; the
building of east and west and north and
south highways; the growth of little
twigs into hundreds of acres of bearing
orchards; the building of three large
fruit warehouses and the 100000 cold
storage plant and the coming of many
ether improvements incident to any
growing community. All of the early
hopes, like the development 'of the.
Priest Rapids power site and the settle
ment of the water case, have not yet
been realized, although it appears now
that the latter will be finally determined
within tho newt wear
In entering upon it's twenty-first
year, the Spokesman's pin feathers
have been replaced by more permanent
cnes; it is little soberer, little disil1
lusioned, maybe, but a whole lot safer.
IT is proflf to have lived aid had its
being in such fine community, and
it stands ready, as it always has in
the past to help in every movement
for constructive progress in the valley.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-08-05
BOOSTERS TO PICNIC

Columbia Basin boosters OF Spokane
and the Inland Empire are planning
a big celebration and picnic dinner on
the top of Saddle Mountain, probably
at point on the mountain on line
between White Bluffs and Corfu. The
celebration is to be held on August II
and it is presumed the picnic dinner
will b.. served about noon. At least
200 boosters from various parts of
Eastern Washington are expected to
be present. A plan is on foot now for
combination of White Bluffs and
Pasco band players to make up a
band to furnish music during the day.
Many congressman are to be in the
party. From the top Of the mountain
splendid view can be had for miles in
every direction, in which great deal
of the land it is proposed to water
can be seen.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-08-05
HOME VEGETABLES PLENTIFUL

The first locally grown cantaloupes
were reported Wednesday morning
and will without doubt be on the
market before long. The stores FUR
nish now nice assortment OF home
grown VEGETABLES among the most
plentiful being tomatoes, cucumbee's,
peppers, string beans, beets and car
rots. There has also been some
sweet corn offered to the trade and
this delicacy will probably be quite
plentiful by the end of the week.
A few water melons have been on the
market and they also are expected to
become quite plentiful in about a
week. On Wednesday tomatoes were
selling 4 pounds for a quarter; cucum-
bers, 8 fer cents; peppers, 3 for 5
cents; string beans, cents a pound;
beets, S cents bunch; carrots bun
ches for cents, and sweet corn, 20
cents per dozen.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-08-05
A Jokes A JOKE

But "What Happened to Jones'
after he backed down the fire es-
cape into the steam room of a la
dies Turkish bath will make you sit
up and howl with unalloyed joy
from the minute the film is un-
reeled at Liberty hall this Satur-
day evening. ;
This is road show picture and
the admittance is 10c and Csc, or
anything you can spare. Just now
we need tomatoes, corn on the cob,
string beans or cucumbers. A
bale of hay will admit the whole
family.
Coming next Saturday, "The
Californian. and a second install
ment of Wise Crackers, Cry and
Get It."
= EDMUND ANDERSON
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1927-08-05

Mrs. w. c. Hills returned home last
Saturday evening from weeks stay
in Seattle where she had been with
her sister, Miss Gladys Hall, in the
latter's last illness and death.