New Britain herald., 1927-04-30
MRS. SNYDER TELLS DIFFERENT STORY
Repudiat@ Her Confession and
 Blames Gray Entirely
SAYS SHE AIDED HUSBAND
Woman Defendant Will Be Subject ed to Gruclling Cross Examination When Court Is Resumed on Monday.

New York. N. Y, April 90 LF- ! Mrs. Ruth Snyder. who from the witness stand yesterday afternoon. placed the entire blame for .ho murder of her husband on her former lover, Henry Judd Gray will continue her graphic story of i the crime when the Snyder trial resumes on Monday.
 A court room damned with hu- manity listened with intense inter- est as the blonde housewife told the gruesome details ot the early morning of March 20 when her husband, Albert Snyder. was killed while he slept in his Queens Village home.
 Generally calm and seIf-possess- ed. the 32 year old widow occa- sionally lapsed into tears: at once time sobbed violently, and on sev- raj occasions gave vent to harsh outcri"s of denuuciation oc her former lover with whom she is charged with the murder.
 Rcpudiates Confession She repudiated the confession In which she had admitted plotting her husbands death with Gray, as sorting it had been obtained under .duress, and testified that instead of helping 10 kill her husband as charged in Grays confession. she actually tried 10 save him.
 The accused woman. however. has still to face her most trying ordeal. On Monday. when she com plcttes her story. she will be cross examined by the state and by counsel for her defendant. Gray.
 Mrs. Snyder seemed calm when she took the stand and answered the preliminary questions of her counsel, Edgar F. Hazelton, in an assured voice that carried to the farthest corners.
 She Wccps Openly
 Only when the examination came to the birth of her daughter did she show any emotion. Then. brief ly, she held a handkerchief to her eyes and openly wppt.
 The story she told of the mur- der was in brief. as follows: Her married life, she said, was unhappy almost from the very be- ginning. Her husband never loved her and so after years passed she sought love elsewhere She met Henry Judd Gray and their rela- tions became intimate.
 Then, she related. he began 10 poster her 10 get rid Of her hus- band so they could enjoy his in - surance together He sent her poi son powders which she throw away: he duped her into carrying home the sashweight which has figured so largely in the trial; h" went to her house once To com init the murder and she sent him away.
 Sncakcd Into House
 On the 18th of March she said. he sncaked into her home at night after writing her he was coming to kill her husband. She got her hus- band and daughter to sleep and then confronted him.
 He kissed me- she said. and felt his rubber gloves on my face. Then l knew he really meant to do it.
 Pleaded, She Said
 She said she pleaded with him and got him downstairs. There she left him for q moment and while she was in the bathroom she said. she heard a terrific thud."
 Y ran out into the hall" she almost screamed from the stand" and l saw Judd Gray beating my husband over the head with tho sashweight. grabbed him by the neck in an attempt to save my husband and he pushed me so that fell and tainted. When l came to it was all over and my husband xxxy"
 Then she told Of helping her lover with the story that Snyder had been killed by burglars because he threatened her.
 'I had just seen him kill my husband" she said. and 1 was mortally afraid that if l did not do as he ordered he would finish me off too
 Laugh at Her Story
 New York, April 30 tCP) -