The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 30, 1927, Page 7

SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1927 TF MRS. SNYDER IS WILL BE SEVENTH EXECUTED SHE WHITE WOMAN IN U.S. TO PAY THE SUPREME PENALTY Records Show. 14 Women|: Have Been Put to Death) 4 Legally ‘in This Country, Six White and ight Ne- gro—Good Looking Al- leged Murderesses Usually Freed or Given Prison Snyder, a blond preferred by a gen- tleman not her husband—a gentle- man now on trial with his erstwhile paramour for the murder of that husband, Albert Snyder—is faund guilty of murder— If she is not only found guilty, but sentenced to death— If this sentence is not reversed— If she is not pardoned—- If she really dies for the murder which she once confessed and now denies— She will be a member of a much more exelusive set than it she mere- ly becomes one more of the vast army of ladies who have faced mur- der charges, and then escaped death or even prison terms. Fearteen Put to Death » For, while murderesses have not been few in this country, the best information obtainable indicates that only 14 women in the history of this country have paid the death penalty, while men by the hundreds have breathed lethal gas, dangled from the noose or sat in the electric chair to expiate their crimes. Of this number, it is believed six were white women and the rest negroes. The names of the negro women are not available, As to the white women, it was way back in 1830 that Polly Barclay hanged in Wilkes county, Ga., for the murder of her husband. In 1860 a Susan Eberhardt, also of Georgia, was hung for complicity in choking to death the wife of her lover. To Prison for Life Georgia almost added the name of a third white woman to its execution list when Mrs. Ida Hughes, 26, was sentenced to hang on March 14, 1924, for the murder of her mother-in-law. But the sentence of pretty Mrs. Hughes was commuted from hanging to life imprisonment. R On July 7, 1865, Mrs. Mary Suratt hung for her part in the assassina- tion of President Lincoln. In_ 1899 Mrs. Martha Placa of Brooklyn was executed at Sing Sing for hacking to bits with an ax her husband. She first blinded with acid cher stepdaughter, of whom she was jealous. i Ten years later Mrs. Mary Farmer sat on the same death seat in Sing Sing, paying for the murder of a neighbor woman, Mrs. Sarah Bren- nan, whose property she hoped to obtain through a ruse. Mrs, Mary Mabel Rogers was hang- in Vermont in 1905. An Eye for An Eye These \few names represent the practical grand total of society's de- mands in this country for an eye for an eye when it is a woman who has taken life. The list of women who have been condemned to death, only to be saved from the noose or chair at the last second, is another story, of course. In_ 1923 the first white woman in the history of the state of Illinois was given the death sentence. She was Mrs. Sabelle Nitti-Crudelle, con- victed of plotting with her lover to slay her husband. She was found guilty of hitting him on the head with a heavy hammer and helping throw his body into a catch basin on their farm. She was condemned to death. Then the racket began. There had been an epidemic of women murder cases. Scores of them had been acquitted. The acquitted ones had been beauti- ful women. This woman condemned to death was nothing but an ugly peasant woman. Shrieking this fact, and demanding justice for ugly mur- deresses as well as pretty ones, Chi- cago women got a reprieve for the condemned woman. Served Three Years In the same year Mrs. Anna Buzzi of New York was sentenced to elec- trocution in Sing Sing. She had been found guilty of murdering Fred- erick Schneider, wealthy contractor, with whom she had lived for seven years, and whom she killed when he grew restless and showed interest in another woman, After nearly three years in prison with one new tri ed after another, Mrs. Buzzi was free. The ‘number of women murderers who received punishments other than { th and life sentences is much jarger. here was Mrs. Pearl Odell, sen- tenced to 20 years for helping to whip a former lover to death. There was Mrs. Clara Phillips, who beat a woman to death with a ham- mer and escaped from a Los Angeles eee in where she was sentenced for pt 8. There was Mrs. Ivy Giberson in prison for life for shooting her hi id. Dorothy Perkins, Paulette Saludes, Lillian Raizen, are in Au- burn, N. Y., for man killings. Mrs. Tillie Klimek went to the penitentiary for life for her murder arty with her third husband. Mrs. slimek was very homely. There was Mrs. Angers Nack, who served a term in. Auburn for the murder of her lover, Guldensuppe, whom she, with her new paramour, lured to a lonely cottage and hacked to death. i Kitty Malm of og 'p helped kill a watchman. She got life. . The Group One could go on listing several other murderesses who have served jong or short sentences, but now we come to the largest group of all— women charged with murder who were either acquitted or, after due ourt preamble, pardoned even when found guilty. . The name of Mrs. Cora Isabelle Orthwein may be familiar. She ad- mitted shooting her lover, Herbert Ziegler, at Chicago. the jury found her “not guilty.” She was quite comely. Beulah Annan was called “the prettiest woman ever tried for murder in Chicago.” Although she was found in her suite with a mar- ei an Pie her feet, she was found “not guilty.” ‘ihe, ianca De Saulles, Spanish beauty, wife of Jack De Saulles, Yale football ptayer, shot and killed her j husband, but paid no penalty. The Jury Wept You may remember the tale of Lillian Rowland, who shot her den- tist husband, whom she had sent through school acting as a waitress, when he spurned her when success came. Nan Patterson, one of the origi- nal Floradora sextet, shot to death her lover, Cesar Young, a wealthy bookmaker, as he rode in a cab to the pier where he was about to sail for Europe to get rid of his now unwelcome liason. Nan was acquit- ted. She was described as “like a dewy rose” in court. And, by no means last on the list, there was Clara Smith Hamon, acquitted of slaying Jake Hamon, oil magnate and national Repu n committeeman. Pretty Madelynne Connor Obechain heard her story of the murder of her sweetheart, J. Belton Kennedy, told before five juries. The case was dismissed. She had won many a campus beauty contest when in Northwestern University. Mrs, Jacques Lebaudy, wife of the so-called “Sultan of Sahara,” never served a day in prison for his mur- der. . And the list grows and grows. Many Cases Pending es involving women as are pending in the courts right now. Mrs. Bertha Heilman and Mrs. Alma Olson of Chicago are charged with murdering their husbands, and Miss Florence Stokes of the same city is charged with the murder of her sweetheart, James J. Glennon. Three women went on trial in New York and New Jersey for murder on the very day that ‘the Snyder case opened and a fourth woman murder trial is booked for New Jersey soon, Mrs. Christine Stoble was found i for the murder of her daughter whom she slew when the daughter gave birth to a child. Mrs. Lucy Baxter Earley is on trial at Newburg, N. Y., charged with poisoning her husbi for love of an_iceman. Mrs. Edwin Raser of New Jersey will soon face the grand jury on a charge of helping a third man kill her husband. Nor can we forget that Mrs. J. R. McIntyre of Vancouver, B. {shot her husband, was found |jury of only ac in_self-defens She h just lear: that her hu: band’s will left her his estate of $37,000. The City of London? proper, has a population of only persons, altho more than 420,000 perso1 work there daily. Renville Co. Man Says Loan Is Paid; Fisher Claims Not Whether or not a Renville county in ¢ school land loan probably will be the question at issue in a law cuit scheduled to be filed soon, it was said at the state treasurer's office today. The state treasurer’s books show that the loan has not been paid but a receipt has been issued by the treasurer's office is in the hands of the man who claims the loan has been pai State Treasurer C. A. Fisher said the receipt was issued through clerical error and that the money never has been paid. The Renville county man claims that he sent the $1,500 to the state treasurer in the form of currency, Fisher said, despite the fact that he is supposed to have sent in the same envelope a draft covering the inter- tt due on the loan. Fisher's view is that when the man received the receipt for payment of the principal on his loan he immediately realized that a mistake had been made and concocted a story to justify himself in taking advantage of the error. Fisher said he is confident that the money never was received at his office since the mail is opened by no one but himself and a, trusted deputy and the receipt of so much currency in an unregistered letter would in- evitably have created comment be- cause it is so unusual. He hopes to induce the state's late debtor to admit that he is in error and reinstate the loan, Fisher said. In the event of continued ‘fail- ure, however, suit will be filed in Renville county in an effort to prove that the receipt was issued by acci- dent and the man never paid the money. —_— Dakota Will fot Be Represented on New Commission Requests that North Dakota ap- point a man to serve on a proposed commission intended to promote commercial relationships between the United States and the Argen- tine as well as other South Ameri- can republics will be ignored, in so far_as_ he is concerned, Governor A. G. Sorlie said today. At the same time the executive made public a letter which he had received from Frank B. Kellogg, secretary of state, in which it was pointed out that the proposed com- mission and the Pan-American Congress, which is promoting it, has no official status. Sorlie said he had received several letters asking him to name a North Dakota man on the com- mission but had ignored them. State-wide Safety Week Is Considered Plans for a_ state-wide safety week to begin Sunday, May 22, are being considered by Frank Mil- hollan, president of the North Da- kota Safety Council, and other offi- cials of that organization, Milhollan said today, The plan is to ask Governor Sor- lie to designate May 22 as Safety Sunday and the week following as Safety week. Churches, newspapers and all other agencies will be asked _-} THREE co FIVE MINUTES “\ to FORTY THEATRES Let’s Cooperate With the City After May 1st, we wish to ask our patrons or anyone calling for our service to give the number which the city put on the ‘house, so that no mistakes will be made. Your cooperation will be appreciated. Light Truck Service of All Kinds “If it’s service you want, we have it” = - Blue & White Cab Co. 119 Fifth St. Phone 57. THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE to join in the movement, Mithotian | said, in an effort to reduce the toll of accidents of all kinds. Preach-| ers will be asked to speak on the! subject of ty and every other | available means will be used to pro- | cg the safety idea, Milhollan} said. | The object, he explained, is. to induce persons to think more on! the subject, thereby planting in| their minds the fact that safe prac- tices may result not only in saving! the lives of their neighbors and) their children but their own lives Opera and Concert Stars to Broadcast | Music Week Program! Grand opera and concert stars.of the first magnitude will join in the| year’s premier program of the air Sunday night, May 1, at 7:15 p. m., from the Gold Medal station, WCCO, through VEAF, New York. The event, which will formally open Na- tional Music Week, will be the ¢: night radio program of the arti: who have appeared during the con- cert series, nine of whom will go on the air through seventeen stations in an hour 4nd a half program of opera and popular numbers. Never before has so great a num- ber of America’s most famous song birds and instrumentalists been heard in a single radio concert. Tho artists who will be heard gala night are Frances Alda, soprano #f the Metrop- olitan Opera; Jeanne Gordon, con- tralto of the Metropoli Louise Homer, contralto; Homer Stires, soprano; John Corig- liano, _violinis Paul Kochanski, violinist; Charles Hackett, tenor of the Chicago Civic Opera; ‘Allen Me- Quhae, tenor; Reinald Werrenrath, baritone; and a male quartet. The program will be as varied as the talents of the artists. There be solos, duets and quartets. The numbers will range from well known operatic arias to old popular songs. There will be violin obligatos and the orchestra under the direction | of Louis Fdlin. This gala night brings to an end the fall and winter series of con- certs, but a new summer series will) - be announced to follow without a break, beginning Sunday, May 8. Session Laws to Soon Be on Sale Popular editions of the session laws of the 1927 legislature will be ready for distribution within a week or two, according to information re- ceived at the secretary of state’s office. Numerous requests for the volumes already have been received from lawyers and others. Under the law they will be sold | by the secretary of state at cost, or about 75 cents. CLEAN UP considerations. When he rea the car is a part of his d and business, then he dependab’ Oversize Tires Will _ Give More Mileage “The use of oversize tires will en- able many motorists to get much | ter satisfaction and longer mile- age than with regular tires,” ac- cording to F. A, Copelin of the Cope- lin’ Motor company, Firestone deal- | ers in Bismarck. Motor cars are equipped with tires that are ample for ordinary use, provided they are inflated to the correct pressure. However, most motorists abuse their tires by over- | loading them and through failure to keep them ‘pumped up.’ | “Oversizing allows a much greater margin of safety, and in the long! run justifies the extra expense. There are many advantages to using over- ize tires, including more comfort- able riding, better braking with less tendency to skid, and less tire trou ble. The larger tire is not so easil: cut or bruised and the tread w h longer. but not Teast, the oversize | average far greater mile- | age, which in terms of cost per mile In tires as in ev pays to buy de. dable, quality merchandise and | restones have a long established | eputation for being a leader in that | field.” The Real Reasons For Car Ownership) “If the man who owns a car will | riously analyze his feelings about it, he will find that what he really | bought the car for was to provide the ‘means of getting to and from quickly and economically,” says J. H. 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CHARLES LAMB Jeweler and Watchmaker 1074 Fifth street A model bathroom is a most important feature of the modern house. It ig a necessary comfort in every home. Better put money into securing san- itary plumbing than spending it for fine fur- nishings—or paying out | the doctor and drug- st. Plumbing as it should be done —.tight, - sanitary, reliable plumbing — that is the kind we do. Call us up on the phone and we'll call and make an estimate. It won't be as high-as you think. e are experts, but our prices remain. low. If there is ‘a leak—fix it at once. H. A. Thompson: & Sons 205 Seventh St. 59° CAPITOL ARMY & NAVY STORE G. P. Hotel Bldg. Bismarck, iN. D. Bismarck’s Only Army & Navy Store | JOHN MAASSEN Bismarck Pioneer Painter Established 1883 Expert Painting and Interior Decorating Also All classes of Duco Refinishing Quality of workmanship and materials are considered first Phcne 79 206 Eighth St. We exchange all kinds of furniture ‘ and household goods » PHONE 790 A, RUDER'S FURNITURE 113 Fifth St. i Bismarck, N. D.' ON MOTOR ROW | that y life knows that y responsibil- ity are the biggest factors in car New Spark Plugs Local automotive equipment deal- 1 to 7, are uniting com- pany in pointing out to motor car owners the actual economy of in- spark if their present d-10,000 or more miles, or have been in use more than The occasion is the Champion com third annual National Change PAGE SEV). 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And now—with courage on the wane, With not a soul but you to blame— You struggle on, and on, and on, And in your heart there is no song To cheer you, as you start the climb The Last Hill in the Path of Time. ’, You have no home—save what you hire— Your rent jumps up—and then jumps higher— And in your span of life you’ve spent The price of a home in paying rent!” F. H. CARPENTER LUMBER H.G. HANSON, Mer, 4 Bismarck, N. Dak. Phone 115