New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 6, 1927, Page 22

him last May when she gave him some sleeping powders to inhale to determines their potency. The testimony was given to es- tablish Gray's part in the Kkilling of a man against whom he sald he had no enmity—a man he had not even seen. The “psychic dominance” pre- vailed, the witnesses said, in his sub- conscious mind throughout the time GRAY NOT SHAKEN | ~ INMURDER STORY' (Continued from First Page) for the state. “You sald Lorraine’s door was locked the night of the killing,” Mr. Newcombe said. *“Yes," “Who locked it?"” “Mrs. Snyder.” “What did she say to you about Snyder being asleep?” “She said we'd have to wait until he was asleep.” “On March 7 when you went Queens Village you saw her?” “Yes, she beckoned me from the | kitchen window. 1 went in. She asked it I could go through with her plan then, and I said no.” i “You didn't drink on the train that brought you here, did you! Gra; | to e police sta- | | i | o. Nor In the Sy prior to tha o, Nor in my office up to the time you signed your confession?” Describes His Confession Gray then recalled the conditions under which he had made his state- ment, that he expressed willingness | o talk and that took down his words “That statement is your dictation 't 2 | nd it's true?” es."” “And you m without duress “I allowed you to talk to your| mother and wife by telephone?” “You did." Newcombe then led Gra his action on March 19 in § Gray acknowledged that he had in- | fluenced Haddon Gray, his friend, in | getting him to establish it voluntarily, through an al | “After you were arrested in § guse you persisted in your claim of innocence and pointed to your fake @libi as proof of your statement, gidn't you?" “I did.” “And you maintained vour inno- eence until the train takin, u here was about at Poughkeep: | “1 did.” Then Told Truth “Then y oy told the truth? S T think we were a lttle! nearer Farmon than Poughkeepsie though.” | ; “That was on the evening ot Mon- | @ay, March 212" | | seemingly he bought the sashweight and the other implements with which Snyder was Killed on March 20 in his Queens Village home. Gray Himselt Changes Gray, who in the last few days has been transformed from a cringing, frightened person to one of almost dominating personality as he has un- folded his story of the crime from | the witness stand, yesterday set him- self up as a final authority on the events of what he termed ‘“the mur- der night.” In the closing moments of yes- terday's session of the trial of Gray and the dead man's widow for mur- der, Dana Wallace, counsel for Mrs. Ruth Snyder, questioned Gray's | testimony. “You sald,” Wallace examined him, “that after you struck Albert Snyder on the head with that sash- weight he sat up and grabbed you by the necktie. Do you know that the doctor who performed autopsy testified at this trial that any one of the blows to which Al- bert Snyder was subjected would have caused unconsciousness? Don't you want to change your testimony in view of what that doctor said?” His Story Stands The little corset salesman drew himself up in the high witness chair | and looked solemnly down on the “I heard the doctor testify that,” he replied, “but my story stands. I don't doubt the doctor believed what he said but he doesn't know. I was ther Nothing Wallace could say broke down in the slightest degree Gray's assertion that after the first blow Snyder sat up in bed and grappled with him. Was Full of Fight “He was full of fight,” he testl- fied, “and he hollered. I jumped on top of him and tried to stuff the bedclothes over his mouth. I drop- ped the sashweight and I got him by the throat but he was getting the better of me. Then I yelled ‘Momie, Momie, help me' and Mrs. Snyder grabbed up the sash weight and rained blows on his head.” That is Gray's story and all day he stuck to it through an almost overwhelming cross examination. Through it all Gray sat calm and unperturbed, Wallace grew red and wiped the perspira- tion from his face. His hair was rumpled and his tie was askew. And still the little corset salesman sat primly in the high chair and declin- fed to be moved from his testimony. Now you say Mrs. Snyder went | with you from her mother’s room | into the room where her husband |attorney Gray had wept freely but fay asleep.” i “Yes, I had the weight and she had the chloroform and wire and spaper.” | You say vou struck him, strug- | gled with him, dropped the weight | end then called for help. What did Mrs. Snyder do then? on the pillow, grabbed and hit him.” hen he lay still?” the weight “And vou started to put the wire around Snyder’'s neck " “I tried but couldn’ ou then went out of the room?" “Yes.” Understands Situation “You have told the incidents of that night in detail, Gray. Do you understand the consequences of your words?" ; “I do and what truth.” “That is all.” Her Magnetic Power A mysterious “magnetic’ power exerted by the blonde, statuesque Ruth Brown Snyder forced him to help in the killing of the woman's husband, Gray testified yesterday at the Snyder-Gray murder trial. It was this influence, Gray ex- plained, that brought him from Syracuse 300 miles away to particl- pate in a murder against his will. “And that magnetic force was so great that it overcame all thoughts of your family and child?” asked Dana Wallace, counsel for Mrs. Shyder, in cross examination. “Yes, sir,” replied the former corset salesman sweetheart of the woman. 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"I certainly have,” he replied and blinked his weak eyes rapidly be- hind the thick lenses of his horn | rimmed glasses. 1 { “And you have a fine wife for| | whom you cared and who cared for you and yet you went with this| | woman who you knew was having | | trouble at home?” Wallace persist- | ed. | Admits His Shame Gray hung his head and wiped & tear from his cheek. He struggled | visibly avith his emotions before he | was able to answer. | “I am ashamed to say that I did,” | he said at last, and Wallace direct- | ed his questioning to other matters. | To Testify Again. | Counsel for Mrs. Snyder told re-| porters before court opened today | that the Queens Village houséwife was to be put back on the witness stand in an attempt to refute the| story of Henry Judd Gray. Mr. Snyder was on the stand for 12 hours under direct and cross-ex- | amination and it had not previously | been thoughy that she would be re- | called as a rebuttal witness, | Before court opened Gray had| completed 14 hours on the stand, | having finished his direct examipa- | tion and being still under cro: amination by counsel for Mrs. | der when court adjourned last night. | | All spectators carrying packages | | were stopped at the main entrance !to the court house today and the | packages were investigated to see | {if they contained lunch. Court of- ficers said that spectators who have | stayed in the courtroom during noon recesscs 80 as not to lose thelr seats, have turned the room into a picnic grounds, leaving bottles and refuse about the floor. All eating in the courtroom has been stopped. Saturday Session. It was officially announced at 10| o'clock that court would be held all day tomorrow in an effort to get the | case to the jury before Sunday. Pre- | viously there have been no Satur- | day sessions. As court opened, Gray back in the witness chair, Mrs. Sny- der's collne‘cl, Dana Wallace, re- | sumed his"c examination. | Gray was calm and answered in a |clear even voice. Mrs. Snyder sat Istaring at him from the defense | counsel table. | Wallace questioned Gray about his |income, which averaged $5,500 a | | year, and about his drinking, which | Gray said often exceeded half a doz- |en drinks a day. Gray insisted his drinking habits did not eat into his income to such | an extent that he was in desperate straits for money. Wallace Gets Peevish. The courteous manner in Wwhich | ray adswered all questions, ending cach sentence with a polite *sir” or | | “Mr. Wallace,” seemed to annoy the examining attorney. “Don’t call me Mr. Wallace,” he snapped. “All I want of you is yes or no to my questions.” | “Very well, Mr. Wallace, Gl':.l)“K agreed, and Wallace glared at him. | The questioning dealt In detall| | | | | | | | T with a $1,000 loan Gray got shortly | before Snyder was ki!led. Gray said | he borrowed the money to buy some stock in the company he worked for. “You have admitled the slaying of Albert Snyder, have you not?"| Wallace suddenly asked, and Gray's | counscl objected and was sustained. | The question was withdrawn and re- phrased. | “You have sworn to the part you took in the series of acts that re sulted in the death of Albert Sny- der?” Wallace asked. “I have told the truth,” Gray re- plied. “Why did you take that part in the attack on Snyder? What had you | to gain by his deat “That,” said the little corset sale: man, “is what I would like to know.” “You mean you had nothing to &ain?" “I certainly did not.” | The questioning then turned to events in Syracuse when Gray pre- pared an alibi and got vid of dam- aging evidence. “All these actions were purcly au- tomatic,” Gray said. “And you lied to your friend, Had- don Gray about what occurred in Queens Village?” Wallace asked. “Yes.” | ou mean about this ‘automatic’ business that you were drunk? “I was in a haze.” “A drunken haze?” es.” “When did you come out of this| condition?"” | “Not until I had been back here and put in jail."” “Do you know what you told Had- don Gray?" “I did not recall the I heard him testify here. “But you rememberes thing 2" “I remember saying there had been a burglary and I got blood on me in leaning over to see if he was dead.” Wallace then launched on a long involved question that was inter- rupted by the state. “Is that a question or a summa- | tion?" the state asked, and Justice | Scudder repli “It is very close to | a summation.” * Wallace laughed sardonically and | withdrew the question. His exami- | nation dealt almost entirely with | minute detaiis of previous testimony, | trying to shake the witness’ story | under direct examination. | “Do you know a girl Alice?” Wallace “r i | brought ails until | some- | | named “Well, do you know one in Buf- falo?" | “I know three of them in Buf- talo.” { One of these Alices, Gray said, was a newspaper woman he had known for ars. He said her “pet name” wi n00ks.” | Wi then referred to testi- mony by Mrs. Snyder that Gray had borrowed $200 to repay a debt to a girl called “Snook Gray said he had no recollection of giving Mrs. Snyder that reason for borrowing from her. Magnetic Domination. | Examination then turned to the just| “magnetic domipation,” Gray said| “Yes, or no?" | Irs. Snyder held over him. | “But it was you who suggested | the trip up-state to quiet her nerves, wasn't 12" ‘ “Yes." “Is it possible you wanted to get her nerves into shape £o that she could ry through a plan to kill her husband, a plan originated by you “That is not true.” “On the night of the killing you were drunk?" “Yes.” | “But your mind was clear enough so that you hid in the dark room lest Snyder see you?” “Mrs. Snyder had told me to.” “But you would have hidden from Snyder anyway to protect your- self 2" “Of course, automatically.” Repeats Testimony. Wallace then quoted the part of Gray's testimony where he said he called to Mrs. Snyder to help him nd she picked up the welght and t her husband. that testimony true?" “It certainly is."* “Why isn’t it in your signed con- | | y didn’t ask me for detalls | when I made the confession.” | There was then lengthy examina- | tion as to whether Gray wore buck- | skin or rubber gloves at the time of the attack, but the wrangle ended with no results. “When you got in that room did you see Albert Snyder's face * Wal- lace asked. 'No.” “Did you see him at all?" “You couldn’t even see his face in the light from the arc light that as shining through the window?” 1 could see the outline of his | “And you claim that after you hit him, he rose up and grasped your necktie " Grappled With Snyder “No sir. I sald that I then went over on top of him and trled to stifle his cries with the bed clothes."” “Did you feel him pulling on your tie?" “Yes sir. He was choking me."” The examination then rung wvay from the actual killing. “Did you,” Wallace shouted, “consider your relations with Alice In Buffalo and with Mrs. Snyder the acts of a gentleman?” My acts with Alice were always | those of a gentleman.” | “Would you want your wife to know you werg going out to din- | ner with Alice every chance you “Yes, lady."” A with her= or any other | ain the questioning turned to minance,” and Wallace again :d if Gray was under any domi- nance while he waited alone in the | Snyder home the night of the kill- | ing. J “I told vyou yesterday I was,” | Gray replicd. | Wallace then brought out that it | at Gray's own suggestion that | he got the chloroform, the wire vl the sashweight with which ayder was killed. No domination there " “Well, she—' wi “Now | “She suggested rope and you got her wire, didn’t you?” “Yogn 927. Broke the Domination “You broke the domination there?” “Yes. ) “She didn't suggest the waste you picked up in Rochester or the gauze?” “She suggested cotton and I got gauze.” . “Oh, so again you overrode this strange magnetic domination?" “I suppose s0.” “How loud did you shout ‘Mom- mie?" " . “I don’t remember.” “Was she in the room then?" “Yes.' “Now {sn’t it true that you hit Snyder three times and then you called ‘Mommie’ in from the other room and said: ‘See what I have done?" " “That is not true.” Gray then denied a talk other witnesses had testified to while he was waiting for a bus after the murder. “Didn’t you say to an elderly man that you'd hate to have a po- liceman who was shooting at a target firing at you?” Wallace ask- ed. “I did not.” Says He Was Dazed “Were you excited at the time?” “More dazed than excited.” “But not so dazed but that a little time before you had had |presence of mind enough to take |your glasses off before going into Snyder's room " “I did take my glasses off.” “Did you hear Mrs. Snyder tes- tify that before the killing she took a revolver away from you and put it on the piano?” “That's what she sald.” “Isn't it true?” “It is not. I never saw that pls- tol until after Snyder was tied up.” “But you knew the pistol was in the house and that you had no | weapon but the sashweight and yet you didn't ask Mrs. Snyder for the pistol 2" “That is right."” Suddenly Wallace turned to his seat with a curt “That is all.” District Attorney Newcombe be- gan cross-examining for the state. MacDonald Absolutely Is Not Seriously™ll Philadelphia, May 6 (#—Reuters correspondent today cabled London as follows: Rumeors which appear to have gained credence in certain quarters in London regarding the health of Ramsay MacDonald, former British labor prime minister, were definite- {1v 1aid at rest today by Dr. Solomon | Solis-Cohen, professor of clinical medicine in Jefferson Medical col- lege here. In the course of an interview with Reuters correspondent, Dr. Solis-Cohen, who had been in at- tendance upon MacDonald declared emphatically there was absolutely nothing whatever chronically or or- ganically wrong with the ex-pre- mier. He sald MacDonald was re- covering from acute inflammatory sore throat accompanied by tox- aemia caused by streptococel infec- tion, as always happened in such cases, said Dr. Solis-Cohen, the pa- tient's condition fluctuated from day to day. swinging over to OLD GOLD Even the felow who hates to change is getting chummy with O. Gs. . . Loyal as he is to his ¢ld brand, he can’t resist these winning cigarettes . . . They’re so obviously better! Better tobaccos. Better blending. With no throat-scratch or tongue-bite. . . Honey to the throat and perfection to the taste. . . They’re an altogether betfer cigarette. .. That’s why they’re forging to the front. Est. 1760 not a cough in a carload CITY PLAN COMMISSION WANTS DOERR PARK LAND Macauley and Andrews Appointed Committee to Assemble Data on Proposed Site George K. Macauley and John A. Andrews are a committee of the city plan commission to gather data relative to the Doerr tract on Shut- tle Meadow avenue and its possibili- ties as a park site. The commission has under consideration a recom- mendation that the plot be pur- chased and developed. 5 Discussion of the potential park site took place at a meeting of the plan commission yesterday after- noon and it was voted to proceed, with the collection of facts for presentation to the council. Because the school board has under con- struction the Robert J. Vance build- |ing nearby, the city plan board fav- ors development of the park at once, i its further investigation indicates the idea to be a practical one. Rutherford Prepares Case Against Williams Inspector Arthur N. Rutherford has completed the preparation of evidence in the complaint against L. Willlams, owner of a bullding at Commonwealth avenueand Cariton street and will present the facts to | Prosecutor Joseph G. Woods at a conference this afternoon. Neigh- bors have protested that Williams |obtained a permit to build a garage and is occuping the structure as a dwelling. They charge that the use of the building for residence pur- pose has a deteriorating effect on property values in their locality. In- spector Rutherford will ask the prosecutor to issue a warrant alleg- ing violation of the terms of Wil- llams' permit. Willlams has re- tained Attorney David L. Dunn to handle his interests. ¥ FAVOR $176.20 REBATEMENTS Rebatements in the amount of $176.20 will be recommended by the building commission to the [common council, including amounts (varying from $7.50 to $12.50 to clectricians who paid license fees for the full term of one year, but who held them for a portion of the year only. The common council ap- proved a pro-rating plan after the ordinance establishing $16 as the fee for the whole or any part of a year had been put in effect, The recommended rebatements are: Spring & Buckley, $7.50; Billings Electric Co., $7.50; C. E. Brayman, [$7.50; N.'N. Nelson, $7.50; Ander- |son Electric Co., $7.5 Anthony |Aparo, $7.50; Barry & Bamforth, 137.50; Yonan Electric Co., $7.50; |Charles Horosik, $7.50; S. Lehrer, 187.50; F. Feinberg, $7.50; William | E. Wilson, $7.50; John M. Mac- | Farlane, $7.50; Joseph Wratschko, $7.50; Joseph Baranowski, $7.50; T. W. Hinchliffe, 0; Leo Bal- |dersari, $7.50; William J. Grem, $7.50; Bradley & Hubbard, $10; Thomas Stanton, $11.25; Grifing & Schofleld, $12.50; A. Peterson, $7.50. MIDDLEFIELD WINS GUN CHAMPIONSHIP Ties With New Britain and Then Takes Title New Britain Rifle club shot a heart-breaking tie score against the Middlefield Rifle club last evening at the neutral range of Cromwell in a contest for the championship of the Nutmeg Rifle league. Both teams reluctantly followed the present rules of the league by picking two men from each team to decide the winner., New Britain was represented by E. W. Pape and M. A. Belkin. 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