Evening star., 1927-04-30
MRS. SNYDER SOBS
AS SHE TELLSSTORY
viii Continue Testimony
Monday, Then viii Face
CrosS-ExaminatiOn.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK. April 30.-Mrs. Ruth
Snyder. who from the witness stand
yesterday placed the entire blame for
the murder of her husband on her
former lover. Henry Judd Gray. will
continue her story of the crime when
the SnyderGray trial resumes on
Monday.
a courtroom iammed with hu-
manity listened with bated breath
as the blond housewife told the grue-
some details of the early morning Of
March 20. when her husband, Albert
Snyder, was killed while he slept in
his Queens Village home.
Generally calm and self possessed.
the 32-year-Old widow oCca siOnally
lapsed into tears; at one time sobbed
vilently. and on several occasions
gave vent TO harsh outCries of de.
nunciation of her former lover. with
whom she is charged with the muir
der
Confession Is Repudiated.
She repudiated the confession in
which she had admitted plotting her
husbands death with Gray. asserting
it had been obtained under duress,
and testified that instead of helping
to kill her husband, as charged in
Gray's confession, she actually tried
to save him.
The accused woman, however, has
still to face her most trying ordeal.
On Monday when she completes her
story, she Will be Cross-eXamined by
the State and by counsel for her CO.
defendant. Gray
Mrs. Snyder seemed calm when she
took the stand and answered the pre-
liminary questions of her counsel. Ed
gar f. Hazeton, in an assured voice
that carried to the farthest corners.
Only when the examination came to
the birth of her daughter did she
show any emotion. Then. briefly, she
held a handkerchief to her eyes and
wept openly. She soon had herself in
hand and the questioning went on.
Married Life Unhappy.
The story she told of the murder
was, in brief, as follows:
Her married life, she said. was un-
happy almost from the very begin
ming. Her husband never loved her.
and so, after years passed. she sought
love elsewhere. She met Henry Judd
Gray and their relations became inti-
mate.
Then, she related, he began to pester
her to get rid of her husband, so they
could enjoy his insurance together
He sent her poison powders. which
she threw away: he duped her into
carrying home the sashweight, which
has figured so largely in the trial; he
went to her house once to commit the
murder and she sent him away.
On March 10, she said. he sneaked
into her home at night after writing
her he was coming to kill her hus-
band. She got her husband and daugh-
ter to sleep and then confronted him.
Says She Grappled With Him.
She said she pleaded with him and
got him downstairs. There she left
him for moment. and while she was
in another room. she said, she heard
a terrific thud"
Il ran out into the hail." she al
most screamed from the stand, "and
| saw Judd Gray beating my husband
over the head with the sashweight.
l grabbed him by the neck in an at
tempt to save my husband and he
pushed me so that / fell and tainted.
When l came to it was all over and
and m yhusband@-''
Here Mrs. Snyder broke into yio.
lent sobbing which took some mo-
ments to bring under control Then
she told of helping her lover with
the story that Snyder had been killed
by burglars because ne threatened
her.
Il had just seen him kill my hus-
band, she said, 'and / was mortally
afraid that if / did not do as he or
dered he would finish me off too"