Evening star., 1927-04-25
SNYDER'S BROTHER
IS FIRST WITNESS
Murder Trial of Widow and
Gray Gets Under Way
in New York.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 25. - Warren
Snyder, brother of the Queens Village
art editor for whose murder Mrs. Ruth
Snyder and Henry Judd Gray are on
trial, was called as the first witness
today.
His appearance on the stand fol-
lowed a half-hour opening statement
by the State and after defense counsel
had waived rights to opening state.
ments at the time.
Was "SIated for Death.
Snyder was Slated for death" on
March Z last, District Attorney New.
combe told the jury in his opening
statement today.
Mrs. Ruth Snyder and her lover,
Henry Judd Gray, met in Manhattan
that day." he said, ''after Gray had
bought a sash-weight and chloroform
in Kingston, n. Y.
THAT day the death OF Albert
Snyder was decided on and the inn
plements of murder were procured.
Prior to that two insurance
policies for $4,000 had been taken.
out on the life of Albert Snyder,
with double indemnity clause for
death by violence.
Never Knew Of Policies.
"Albert Snyder never knew about
those policies, gentlemen, but Mrs.
Snyder knew of thena, for she had
taken them out, and Judd Gray knew
of them, for he hoped to benefit.
"Gray then went away. but he re-
turned on the night of the murder
and hid in q darkened room while
Snyder was put to bed by his wife.
when the poor devil was asleep
Mrs. SNYDER sneaked out of bed and
told her skulking lover. Now is the
time
"They kissed and then they went to
Albert Snyder's room. They stun
him with the sashweight, they stick
chloroformed cotton up his nose, they
strangle him with picture wire.
"Then, gentlemen, the job is done.
Gray wore suede gloves and after
the murder he takes these off and
goes into the bathroom, where he
sees blood on his shirt. They burn
the shirt and her bloody gown. She
lends him a blue shirt belonging tc
her husband.
'"Then they decide to make it look
like a burglary and they upset every
thing IN the mouse.
Neither Shows Emotion.
"They sat then in the house from
8 in the morning to 6, plotting what
God knows.
Before leaving Gray binds and
gags Mrs. Snyder to help out the
burglary story. Then he takes the
train for Syracuse"
ONLY when he got to Syracuse, New
comb said, did he discover large
spot of blood on his vest.
While the district attorney shouted
to the jury in a trembling voice, Mrs.
Snyder and Gray sat close behind
him, without any show of emotion
stronger than very mild interest.
Schneider, who has retained the
original spelling of the family name,
established the fact of his brothers
death, a necessary legal preliminary
to the trial He said he had identi-
fed the body in the presence of a
county medical examiner.
Brother Describes Home.
DR.. II. w. Neail, medical examiner,
also established the corpus deficit, DR.
Neail described the Snyder home in
detail as he found it on March 20,
after the murder was discovered.
How the stub Of Pullman car
ticket broke down the perfect alibi'
of Gray was revealed for the first
time today.
The ticket, showing the date and
the train on which he had travelled
from New York to Albany after the
Staying of Snyder was found by po-
lice in a waste basket in his SYRIA
! cuse hotel room.