Evening star., 1927-03-23
FRIENDS SAY GRAY
ASKED AID IN AL|B|
covered Up" for Him, Police
ToId-WidoW Not to
Plead Insanity.

TO cover up" for him at Syracuse
Sunday. according to information com
ing from the room where the two men
were being questioned.
Henry Judd Gray, the police say,
told the two friends that he had an
engagement in New York with a girl
friend" and that his office might check
up on him and be ''peeved" at him
for leaving Syracuse, where he was
supposed TO be working his sales ter
ritOry.
Haddon Gray. according to the at
tache of the district attorneys office,
is said to have declared it was he who
used the telephone from Henry Judd
Gray's room in the saleSman's alb
sence. and who rumpled the bed. max
ing it appear the salesman had slept
there Saturday night.
Insanity Plea Not Considered.
f.. F. Hazleton, attorney for Mrs.
Ruth Snyder, whose alleged confes-
sion to participating in the murder
sent detectives 10 arrest Gray in SYRIA
cuse as the other principal in the plot,
today issued a statement saying that
he was not considering an insanity
plea for his client.
He added that he was not yet de-
cided whether to request that the
woman be tried separately on the
murder charge. or whether he would
agree to the woman and her lover
being tried at the same time.
Il have learned authoritatively," he
said, that Mr. Snyder did not recently
raise his insurance, as II has been
commonly reported. On his own voli-
he !, &c to
two years ago"
Mr. Hazleton after talking to his
clients reiterated today that he be-
lieved Mrs. Snyder's alleged confes-
sion had been made under duress.
Alleged Confessions Withheld.
District Attorney Newcombe Of
Queens County refused to make pub
lie the transcripts of the alleged con-
fessions of Mrs. Snyder and Gray,
which they later recanted. claiming
they were made under duress. Mrs.
Snyder's statement occupies 81 type
written pages.
They are my evidence" said the
district attorney, "and | Will keep them
confidential for the present" He
laughed at the assertion that the state
ments were made under pressure.
"Duress was not necessary he said,
for they told everything freely"
MIR .%ewcombe declined TO discuss q
printed story to the effect that the
crime was hastened by the belief that
Mrs. Snyder is to become a mother.
| The story, it was said, emanated from
man who visited Gray In Jail yes
terday. Fear that this development
would bring about a crisis between
Z n
have been put forward as a final rea.
son for the crime.
/ Nine.year old Lorraine Snyder prob
ably will eventually receive the $25 .000
/ insurance carried by her murdered
| father. which the mother had in
/ creased from $40 900 a few weeks ago,
! IL was learned today. The law in this
state specifically provides that muir
deref shall not benefit from the life in
/ surance policy of victim.
To BE Arraigned Tomorrow.
/ Gray and Mrs Snyder. ordered held
! without bail yesterday at a prelirni-
I nary hearing. viii be arraigned to-
morrow on charges of murder for the
Staying Of Albert Snyder. magazine
art editor, found dubbed and stran.
2led TO death in his home in Queens
village early Sunday.
DlStIICt attorney NeWCOnbe of
Queens seeks indictment for murder
in the first degree, the penalty for
| which is death in the electric chair
Haddon Gray, an insurance agent
| unrelated TO the defendant, and
| Platt. an adtuster, were brought
| from Syracuse for questioning Sny-
| der's life insurance had been increa sed
from 10000 10 S25 600 shortly be.
fore his death,
Note Found i'm Room.
Police sought To learn the signifi
cance of a note admittedly written
/ by Haddon Gray and found in Henry
/ Gray's room IN the hotel, which
! read "Perfect-cali when you are
ready?" Iiaddon Gray has explained
| the note was written in reference to
/ Il dinner engagement at his home.
Henry Gray and Mrs. Synder.
through their attorneys, have repudi-
ated the confessions police say they
made. Counsel for both charged that
the confessions were obtained under
duress.
| Gray later, in conversation with
his wife, in the district attorneys