New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 4, 1927, Page 4

EXAMINERS' FEES 1GRAY TELLS OF - T0 BE DISCUSSED| ~ WOMAN'S PLOTS, ‘Baiking Comnission Nembers < v (Continued From First Page) will never give you up.” Events yesterday moved .swittly NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1927, - ted her as saying. “It's too bad the tube wasn't long enough to atick in his nose. This identical phrase was at- tributed to Gray himself when Mrs. Snyder was on the stand and told of telling Gray of an “accident” her husband had had. “I met her again early in October,” he sald, “and she told mne she had had another argument with ‘the old crab,’ and that she was at the limit ? her endurance. I urged divorce, | knockout drops. I told her 1 would i try. The next morning shc reminded me of my promise and =ald she wanted the informatiop right away.” Hartford Man Named. “Did you get this information for Ler?” Miller asked. “I did. ARRESTED, KILLS HIMSELF New York Real Lstate Operator, Ac- cused of Larceny, Hangs Himself At Howme. “Did she act on the New York, May 4 (P—Abraham you got her Crosney, real estate operator, held “She eaid she had tried to get the | in $5,000 bail on a charge of grand poison I had told her about and |larceny and forgery, committed sul- tailed. She asked me to get it for her |cide in the Hbrary of his home to- information toward a conclusion of the trial. Mrs. | " 1 Session This Alternoon s 1ot Snyder finished her 12-hour ordeal The bullding commission, with a|on the stand after repeatedly telling problem o8 to whether electrical ex- | her story of the killing in which she aminers will be pald the $5 per ses-| lald entire blame on Gray. sion they have demanded to bc! She was followed to the stand by solved, and with the matter of au-|her nine-year-old daughter, Lor- tomobile purchase a worrisome task ; raine, who was not sworn because before them, has planned a meeting ; of her youth and who was asked but for 5 o'clock this afternoon at'one question. The child told in a which, the building department de- | piping volce of calling in the neigh- clares this afternoon “routine busi- | bors when she was awakened to find ness will be transacted.” her mother lying bound on the floor. The commission occupied the cen-‘lt was the first time mother and ter of the municipal stage for sev- ) daughter had seen each other since cral months during which meetings the date of the killing, March 20. were Neld every Monday night. Al-| After Lorraine stepped down, Gray though that is the regular meeting |was called and his counsel led him time no sessions have been held on|step by step through his intimacy that day in recent weeks. Today's| with Mrs. Snyder. That intimacy be- gathering of commissioners was not ; gan in July of 1925, and when court prefaced by public announcement.|adjourned he had only got as far in Some opposition to paying the two | his recital as August of 1926, electrical examiners $5 each per ses- Showed Him son. sion has been expressed and it 18| But during that timo, he sald, considered 'a certainty that they will | Mrs, Snyder had shown him a bottle Tesign i¢ they are not paid. There |of poison she had in her home, and 13 :also reported to be an unwfllinl-\had told him of her intention of ness on the part of commissioners | “doing away” with her husband. to alter their recommendation to: but she sald that was not the way out.” Called Trips “Honeymoon.” In the middle of October, he said, she met him in Newark, N. J., and | they drove up.to Newburgh, N. Y., tor lunch, and thence to Kingston. He sald she referred to the trip as the first honeymoon she had ever had. . As Gray related this, his volce caught with emotion and it seemed it for her.” | “Did ehe use it?” coincident with the second attem and he was just sick.” and I refused. She told me later a friend, the Hartford man, had got “In December I met lier and she said she had used it twice on hur‘l husband, kicking off the gas tube “She sald she had no luck,” he said, “because the gas woke him up Then, he said, Mrs. Snyder asked | him it he knew other ways to kill day by hanging himself with the silk cord of his dressing gown, gc- cording to the police. R Crosney and his son, Paul, were arrested at their home last night, in | connection with alleged real estate | frauds sald by the police to range from $160,000 to $500,000. They | were released in $5,000 bail each in night court for arraignment in"York. ville court today. The Crosneys were arrested on complaint of Pincus J. Barash, dress !intervals and was for a moment fhat he was going to ery. A At Kingston, he,continued, she told him in detail of the differences between her and her husband. He said he told her he could not under- stand her feelings as he was not un- | happy at home to that extent. They went to Albany from King- ston and thence to Troy. As Gray continued his recital, he seemed to be struggling, & lump in his throat. He sighed deeply at evidently hard pressed to retain his composure. From Troy they went to Schenec- tady, he sald, and thence to Amster- and he repligd that he did not. ! “She sald she was afratd her hus- band might become suspicious of ! her,” he testificds Talked of Revolver. Just before Christmas last, Gray said, Mrs. Snyder told him of her | husband siapping and tbreatening | her. He sald she expressed fear for { her life. “She asked me it I knew how to ishoot a revolver,” Gray testified, 1and 1 said no. He then told of doing Christmas | shopping with Mrs. Snyder and her | daughter, the second year they had manufacturer, a friend of long | standing. The specific charge against | the father and son is that they ne- gotiated a loan of $125,000 from the investment firm of Greenspansand Lauer, and appropriated the money to their own use. Here's Real Relief From Neuritis the common council that an Over- land car be purchased, in spite of | “I told her I thought she was ter- | ible,” he sald, and Mrs. Snyder bur- ied her face in her handkerchief the faot that the council has refused | to approve such purchase, MASONIC ACTIVITIES Blue Lodge, Chapter and Fellow- craft Club Schedules Are An- nounced For Current Month, and wept. 1t was in August of 1926 thatiGray aid he decided to “break” with Mrs. | Snyder. He told of going to her ! Queens Village home one afternoon t2nd finding her in & swoon on a ! couch. He said he telephoned a con- | fidante of Mrs. Snyder’s and was told | at the husband had been making |inquiries about his wife's absences, absences which were spent with Gray. “I worked over her for an hour,” | le said, “and when she came to I| {suggested that this was the time for ,uis to break {t off if it caused her| ich worry and discomfort. She said she would never let me.” Mrs. Snyder retained her com- iposure until she left the witness stand and then she seemed sudden- | ly to give way. She did not actually | collapse, but she seemed on the work the Fellowcraft degre | verge of it several times and she| On Monday evening, May 23, Har- | wept almost continuously while Gray mony Quarry, Felloweraft club will | testified. Rolt its regular mecting. | Gray, on the other hard, showed ursday evening at a stated con- | perfect composure throughout the | vocation Giddings Chapter, Royal|day and seemed to have definitely Arch Masons, will work the Mark|thrown off the dejection that kept Master degree. The same degree him bowed in his seat during the _ will be worked on May 19. trial's first two weeks. The court scene yesterday was en- DALFAIR CLUB ELECTS livened at one juncture by an angry Miss Margle Kelth was elected,Clash between opposing lawyers Seensurer of the Dalfair club at “.iwhe;'nd 1; seemed probable that blows i i | woul e struck. ;;’:,nrv:;;“::t‘ fifr;"g's‘?m“ ;}K“ sistant District Attorney Charles ceeds Miss Lillian Peplau, who has |} Toessel was questioning Mrs. Syn- resigned. A hot dog roast ama|UeT and when she changed her first dance at Lake Compounce is planned | 2"S¥er t0 a question, as she did fre- by the club to take place about May | 1Uen{ly during his cxamination, trom 26. There were 18 members pres. | 01 ho asked 16 slic had ent last night. illrw] when she mur{n the first answer. l; Her lcoum;:;l, tht‘igm;ul". lia;ellfnd S jumped to his feet with a shoute: GopTTEN BY RABIED CAT |protest at Froessel’s metiiod of ex-| wilch bit et e AiA N ‘1"01"" {amination and the lawyers strode to- | Niers Tast ook wan afflieted e | ward each other, bellowing and wav- | ribios, according to & repest fea |INE their arms. Conflict scemed un-| he Hraseaed itersits P TOM | 4voidable, but Justice Scudder issucd laboratory, {5 gtern reprimand from the bench to which the ani:..ul was submitted | =5 L i thei 2 it e ol the lawyers resumed their This is the first |Srce. sEe of its kind reported in this sec- | * 0 sy entered at 10 wclock and | | Justice Scudder took his seat. Mrs. | Suyder went to her counsel mhla, > ge seemingly recovered from her frantic | Tax Notice By virtue of & tax warrant to me | appearance of yesterday. Gray took he witness chair and listened calm: Atrected and now In my hands, 1 this day | o frer X lovy said warrant upon certain pieces or as the court warned the crowd percels of land standing in the name of | 28ainst any disturbance. H oll :(urmydWof.ad of Hartford upon | Samuel Miller, Gray's counsel, re- land records of the town of Newing- | SR on and described as lots g imE- lsumed the direct examination of his , 336, and 327 as shown on map of | client. N wlnn.?nml’a!rk on file Im the town clerk’s b *d Him Policy. 2idtaxe: 3 3 o S5 1928 amount to. $1700 and. imterses,| GTAY fi. .iod that in the middle wnd on June 25th at 2:30 P. M. I wili | Of the year 1926, Mrs. Snyder showed #ell at pubilc auction to the highest bid- | him a $5,000 insurance policy on her der at the public sign post in sald town, | husband. ty " maorary d property a3 will | " ghe asked me If it would be pay- 3 able if her husband drowned,” he said. “She told me she thought her | husband might be drowned that| summer.” { He told then of her inceting him lat the Waldorf when she brought| {two bottles of whiskey and some! - | sleeping powders. Took Sleeping Powders. | “She asked me to try the sleeping he told me The Master Mason degree will be | exemplified by the officers of Cen- tennial lodge, A. 1" and A. M, th evening at a stated communicatioi On May 18, Centgnnial lodge will work the entered apprentice degree at a stated communication, and on | AMay 25 the Master Mason degree will be worked at a special com- Taunication. On Meay 16 Harmony lodge will thoreon. Dated at Newington, this 20th day of Aprty, 1027, E. B. PROUDMAN, Collector. Tax Notice pon the Tand Newington and 2 and 45 |1 cd to know what the cffect was. 1 % ltcok the powders and my brain be- came very vague and did not cl up for a whoic day. Under the i fluence of those powders, I xoved about, took her Lome, and returned |10 the hotel without any knowledge of what 1 was doing. She eaid the t be potent enough for | dezcribed a3 lots No. as shown on on tle in t! tazes on Lists of 14 wmount to $46.48 and | Juns 25th at 2:30 P. M. publle auction to ihe ki the public sign post # much of said #2id warrant and Dated nt Newin, day of April, 1827 AN, dJam. done this together, Was Her “Love Slav | He testified that on this trip Mrs. traveling set instead of the brushes This Christmas she gave him & In 24 to 48 Hours Pains Are Often Relieved and You Get Rest and Comfort Again. | Snyder's love making was so intense that he became to all intonts a slave to love. It is this condition of help- less submission that Gray's counsel says the corset salesman was in at | the time of the killing. At Amsterdam, he said, Mrs. Snyder learned by telephone that.her husband was ill. He sald he suggest- od her return home but she sald, “Let the old crab die.” They then went to Syracuse, with | stops at Gloversville, Booneville and Watertown. Hides Her Face. ‘While Gray testified Mrs. Snyder t at her counsel table with her head buried in her arms. He spoke in a flat, even voice, devoid of emo- tion, and was aliowed to tell his story with almost no prompting questions from his lawyer. | Binghamton was the next stop, | where they had luncheon with the | buyer for his principal customer. | Then they went over into Pennsyl- vania. At Scranton his funds were low and he borrowed $57 from Mrs. | Snyder. | In Scranton, he said Mrs. Snyder | suggested they “get good and plas-| tered” as it might be the last day of | thetr trip. He sald he protested that | they must stay in condition to call| on his trade, but in the end they! both got intoxicated. They then went to Stroudsburg, Pa., and thence to Newark, 10 days! having been spent in tha trip. Gray | said that at Newark he repaid the money he had borrowed and they ther went to their respective homes. | At subsequent meetings, he said, | Mrs. Snyder told him of continuous| quarrcls with her husband, and/| “something would have to be done.” Said She Was Foolish. “I told her she was foolish,” he said, “and that I had taken her on| the trip to get her over any such | ideas, i “ghe replicd by asking me if I' knew anything about knockout | drops and if I could get her some. I! said absolutely not.” | He £aid that she then told him of a friend in Hartford, who was going | to take her to the theater, saying! she had asked him to bring her some | sleeping powders. He visited her in her home, Gray said, and she showed him how she had kicked a tube from a gas heater in an attempt to asphyxiate her hu band. “I think you are absolutely crazy,” Gray said he told her, “and she then told me she had also tried to kill Snyder in his garage. 8he sald she took him two drinks of whiskey there and had then closzd the door while the engine was running.” On this visit, he said, he took her some small bottles of whiskey and she told him she was going to put pow- ders in the bottles. *She had several kinds of poison around the house,” he said. Gray said he saw Mrs. Snyder halt | 2 dozen times in November of 1926, | and she spoke constantly of her| marital troubles. | He then identified the suitcase | which has figured In the case several | times, before, telling which articles | {in it were his and which were Mm.l Snyder's. At one of the Novembar meetings, | he said, she again asked him about | knockout drops. | “She said she had some powders,” | lie testified, “but told me she was red they were = s ad put me i a Tax Notice | tra Iiy virtne of & tax war of 1926, hi M fcialiand mow I iy h im that her aftuirs at| vy mid wariant it , Aot o Iand stas bearable and that she | ¥rod Ledge of Brookiyn, N. Y. w0 kil her| 1and records of the town of and deecribed as lot shown on map of nd. ‘Told of Murder ¥ “1 told her I w hest #iga post In =il to of mid property ns will sa and all charges ther some of ! ¢ had tested out on ill him by gas while Le was in a| day of i e ‘ 1id she was in a Lighly ner- . at this lime, fainting on | he street on one occasion, and that | “she didn't know what she was oz ant | . Mrs. Snyder Bows He | As Gray testificd, Mrs. Snyd, bowed in her seat with her head hanging, but apparently not erying. | Late in September, he sald, Mrs Snyder told him she had tried to kil her husband by gas, but had failed. | “I won't have any luck,” he quo- ! n. s 20th E. B. PROUDMAN, Tax “Tax N otice virtne of a tax ws 4 and now fn my b 1a nt upon o standing in the Murray Estate of Hartf Tecords of the town of N nd_described o3 Iots 215 as shown on In the town clerk’s office. fatoe on lists of 1923, 1924 and amount to 313.67 and Interest and Jute 5th At 2:3 1925 on eaid town, | moeiNo More ‘ Shiny Noses | this 20th day of B If the face powder you usc | does not stay on long enough to suit | not keep thut ugly shine| finitely: not make ' { your skin colorfn] | onder { Process Face Powder called ME LO-GLO. Remember the name MELLO-GLO. There's nothing like it e publie sign pest In or $0 much of Aald property as isty =id warrant and all ch Tiated at Newington, Ap:tl, 1027, E. B. PROUDMAN, Tax Collector. now Dr. Henry R. Lasch 353 Main St. Pyorrhea Treatments spec Ray afraid they were not strong enough. | She asked me if 1 could find out. I| aid [ could but that 1 would not. I| ised to have any part in such a :heme.” Says He Refused. Toward the end of the month, he 1, she asked him if there wasn't any way to get rid @/ her husband, and would Gray help her. He 1 d that he refused. She told #ne she was going to | one more aitempt alone.” he “and if that failed, I would have to help her. “I faid that I would that I knew nothing about such things. She told me to ask a doctor ! she knew 1 was friendly with about not do it, | 30 COMMERC Fresh Caught Block 1sland Mackerel . Conn. River Buck Shad . Roc Shad Large Cape Butterfish, Porgies, & 38c. Ih. 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