New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 13, 1928, Page 26

-,Wewnrml Long Island n' not audible | ‘Ip that his lips were mt as the currenl was. .l.u Sing de-'h chnmbu is- siieg.a bld black. warning 4o those Wh Bssemble there, “silence.’, The warpiag was not necessary as Mrs. Snyder, the. first womap to be. éxe- cutoa in the state in nearly 30 years, came through the door, beneath th sign, “The 20 mewspaper: men And | seven plmmin- three of them prisén’ doctors, ‘were deathly silent. Only the slight sound of escaping steam from a radiater could be heard. Woman's Am-um 5 Mrs. ‘Sivder wore a black dress with a tan smock as she walked 25| foet from her “last minute” cejl. One of her-black stockings, the right. was relled - 4own. Her slippers -were gray. telt. Her lips were moving but 1hé words.could not be distingnuigh. ed tntil she was heard to murmer. “have -mercy on my' soul!” The Remsn Catholie chaplain - of the’l prisen stepped forward -as she was placed In the chair and Warden Lewlr E. Lawes acked the stereo- typed question if the condemned had anything to say. Then the weman repeated the worde of Christ on the crope. J ¢ Immediately the black thask’ hid her face from tha lookers-on, and foyr minutes later she was pro- noynesd dead. Gray Carefully Drecsed Ap seon as the body of the wom- an could be removed from the chair .and the room. her co-defendant was breyght in, walking with two guards | who barely touched his elbows Gray was carefully groomed; in contrast fo the bedraggled appear-| ance of Wis erstwhile paramour. The men wore a gray suit with a hand- Lerchief showing from a pocket and was freshly shaven. Mrs had jhed her hair on her last' day alive but prison confinement with no access to' Beauty parlor equipment had destroyed its wave. Her once blonde hair was streaked with brown and was much longer than ‘she wore it when she was the Queens village ‘housewife. ! ¥ Makes No Response Gray seated himgelf in the chair as_the Protestant chaplain of the| prison began to repeat the beati- tudes.. with a pause. before each of | the "blessed” as he quoted the as- suranges from the scriptures of in- heritances for many. The prison- er's.lips seemed to move in’ response but. no one could hear what he said He made no response to the ward- en's formal question-if he had a last word. Three times the pulsing cirrent of the qynamo feeding the chair electricity had been sént through the form of Mrs. Snyder but only twice was it called on to snuft out the life of Gray. Snyder | ‘\!flcn to.Gray's cell to . say goodbye yesterday were his ‘mother, his' sister and his brother-| n-law, They remained to the last possible the gra walls of the prison by the Huawn when 9“’ had to go awi . Brown Prostrated Only’ ono member of Mrs. Say- |des's family visited her, a brother tHer mother, broken by visit after |depregeing atmosphere of that part lof the. prison where only death | waits, could mot make: the trip th final day.. She was reparted pros- trated. |\ A gaping crowd.. asembled as |close to the prison as guards would | fpermit. furnished an angle to the lexecution ‘that” could be explained {only by a'charge of morbid curios- ity. There was nothing to_hear and |nothing to see but several hundred |crowded in the streets outside the prison and others rode up and down }in autemobiles, They never knew when'the man and woman died tmt’ they sfood long.heurs:in the dark- Iness waiting Execution Runs Smoothly | Sing Sige. Jan, 13 (UF)—The exe | cution’ that so stirred the world was | {carried out with a precision and | lack of sensation .that seemed cal- | | culated to make the process of capi- 'tal punishment the !ras' harrowing possible The drama moved to a steady olimas through a long day and eve. ning well. The lawvers goodbye. Warden last visit ‘to the condemned They were made ready for exeeution and {1eft with their spiritual consele came to say The phonograph that had Nd\'vd‘ throngh the evening in the recrea- tion' rgom of the pricon was silent and the ilghts were out in the cell blocks. The prisen had the air of any nor- mal night, and if the occupants of | ['tha celis stretched row on row in vast corridors lay awake and think- ing, there was no sign. Even in the erowded prison office, where the witnesses gathered, the air, was quiet and conversation went on'in low tones that conveyed no Jtnzz of talk, Shortly after ten o'clock, tLawes called the reporters into his | office and gave them their finab in-| !structions. He' wa tressed, although | courteous manner |smiled occasionaily | Don't Like Executions T don't like capital punishment, he said. T .don't emjoy it and 1 don’t look' on the procession any more than T have fo “But nnderstand e, those are 1y personal view T distinguish £haryp ly befween my personal my official duties,. in ‘fact, 1 lean | hackward to perform my duty strict {1f and’ keep my own views apart grave and dis- his quiet hid it and he otherwise another: person to perform my duty, moment, and dark ‘had settled over ! {visit to her doomeéd daughter in the | 1the Relatives said their last fare- | Lawes paid his| Warden ! and | views andy | .“T attend. those executions hecauce | I world have to delegate ‘The second execution over in ah- ‘and 1, prefer “do it mysell mluv- quiet, the witnesges filed slow- | He &poke \1! “hls 1ast. vislt 1A thal - and solemply from the death rhnmben As they left the prison Dr. C. Bweet, chief Sing Eing sur- goon, and his assistants, Dre. Ker. nev and Goslin, wepre parforming the | 2utopeies the law.requires. R Autopsies Helll Retatives of Mre. Snyder. through counsel, had sought to prevent this but their contention was overruled Teday funeral services will be held. in the prison chapel afa. the} bodies giten into the hands ‘of rela- tives'. They, must. however, be taken immedjately . to the cemeterie chosen to recetve them s The official witnessés wers news. per. ‘reporters. The tour visiting physicians completing the official group’ Were to be present at th autopstes To ‘the reportcrs before they went to - the death. chamber. Warden Lawes appealed for “fair play.” Ad- dressing the newspapermen, the warden: an avcwed opponenf .of | capital punishment although he has set thé day and the hour for more than 100 tegal deaths, told that -they labored under duty. With their r—monnhnm to their papers, he declared, went arother to the etate . Appeals tn Reporters “I only ask yon." he waid. exsetly what veu see” He that there he no attempt to heizht en-morbid interest nor any effort to paint a‘picture of gruesome hor- for whare none existed ‘o Yell The warden had outlined hefore | the Bour for the exacutions, the ex a0t precedure. giving minute de 121187 40 the little ‘audiance was pre- parad for the chair, with, ts font ball ‘hélmet encasing 1ts indtrument ef death, when thet entered the 1i#41é ‘room where' the final chapter Bas tEén written to £ manv . Mre Snyder Penitent The Jast persons from the #HE" fo epeak th the pair were their lawvers epiritual advisers The came from fhe pre.cxe reports that hoth to -die -and Father Murph: Island City fail chaplain Mrs. Snyder. “If ecver penitent, 1t 1z 17 Th also quoted as saving malice to anv whe had v her. No mention of Grav n.the womans quated ances. Gray was £217 tn M. Snyder in kindlv two. lovers long Before they to slay Albert Snyder aveight and picture wire became enemies the murder and,” &t their joint frial. attempted to place the greater burder cponsibility upon’ ~ac) had mot met at King not see each other as their _death. Thev awsy to the death chamber 1 they could not see Woman Looked Ol Had they met G2 auestionably have bhee H) the change aman )y Srer KO i vond the “out pof feninsd and 5etr attornevé tien eells Tohk diiptea was a mAde lazt utter 116 ™ inined with a wag heslep! of re- ather. They and did ont to eall hers el cach other wouid un- hy irance of th il n the aha was tonked vear her 30 Viile fram the jef sands tried 1o soe i them | a double | begged | condemned. ¢ “Mrs. Snyder was prepared for | 4eath.”* he gaid. “She -here it well She £a14 she was better prepared {o go than when ghe was living tha |Nifa she did before l Wonld Aid Others “Gray expressed the hope that his 'example would show other people [the danger ot steirng wrong. so 'hm they -could change the rudder and keep off the tocks He was calm—much calmer than 1 can be, and’ he was'willing to zo “He told me to give his Bible ani the few letters he had, to his 1s mother: | oaes Snyder expressed no wish to gas her daughter Lorraine |" Lawes patiently answered a hun- dred questions fired at him, describ wd the mechanicism of the execu- ‘Nnn 40 aid the reporters in_ therr | ~ork. 1 Mre, Snyder and Gray were £iven | no.narcotics and no sedatives of Any. | kind he eaid 1 Didn't See Each Other | Everything had been done “to | make their lagt hours easier and it | was arranged zo that thew would not i have to see each other in passing 1o the death chamber: Mrs | would have' to walk only [fent from a nearby cell and Gray a little further, about 125 feet An hour after the executions the wae sent and desert vrowd . that had | 25 or great Il gathered at the gates fo be as near prison The enrions 23 possible to the final chapter in| the cordid tragedy of Ruth and Indd. had disappeared Soen after midnight the <whole drama of Ruth and Tndd had rlosed | “Tammy”® whe was o live n the The gav Iv and. popnlar Queens Village, lav TAA Grav, the ple cot saleeman with whom Arfferentls married 1 cocial hife of re-loving cor to taste life from the roufine of their es Fight To the Fnd Yeorlk JTan 2 (P—Flerenth hour fforts tn the execntron of Mrs Ruth and Henry Tudd Gray, kept counsel for the ton con. Aemned pricencre and for the state moving at top speed :irtuaily.te-the haar that the death switch thrawn The w0 in vder Fonfiet started about when Warden 1reql 1% 1< formally Sing prison rred with a copy of Lewye ¥ of Sing {he =tav of everution granted vester Smder Supreme Aavon J Lawes got 1nto communt th Governor Attorney Igtter ssned an opin Tiolding that Judze Levv had no inf-a stay. The ma \torney general’s of- i motion, and d ta advance the yments on the 10 o'clock Inv fnr Mrs v ourt Tevy arder fon dustice Smith, =hae him te Goneral Ottinger. The referred ion thority 10 gr ehinery’ of the Justice timg Ky fice" fyas et Leoy perswad hearing mbrning at for arg from this vesterdav afternnon it o Oftinger the appe 414 not 1ar o'clock Je L Atto ta carry the Hate division ate the Preparatianes wor ney Gensryl matter pefore it Tusties ooy rame Ynaan that et Mre conld net apepar el i owak nearls 4 o'clogk whe ments on tarted Hasleto Mre 5t Snyder | 20 in death beside | she joined | witn Insurance Collpuy of America fto cancel the $95,000 insurance -on the lite of her husband, Alhefl lnyd'r . Auerney General R. P. Bever maintained - that the stay should be vacated by reason of lack ‘of power of the court and that a | person condemned to death was al- |- |ready dead, so far as her legal |status as & witness was concerned. ‘ Justiee Levy, after affirming the authority of his court to issue the tay, announced that “the court can | conceive of no machinery in law to | relieve” the misery of Lorraine, #- | vear-old daughter of Mrs. Snyder, and beneficiary under the policy if |it 1s legal. The stay was therefore |vdcated by Justice Let | matter put back where it was when justice granted the stay Wed- | nesday night. | As the last mote, counsel for Mrs. vder and Gray appealed to United | tates Judge Goddard for writs of habeas corpns. on ths grounds that the constitutional rights of the two | | Ruth-Judd Dramatis Personae | | Néw York Bureau) |That 1ast short walk to the electric chair and doom was taken with Ruth | Snyder by Mrs. Lillian Hickey, Ning Sing prison matren, one of Ruth's | . death eell attenelants, |surance on Snyder's life {firms first confession |arrest he was held in 'had been violated by 'hdl’ sotat trial. . It was after'6 o lookvnlnbt- came known definitely that ‘Judge |- Goddard had ' refused the petition, and that counsel ‘announced they had exhausted thelr l-ul Calendar ot Case New York, Jan. 13 (M—Following )- a ¢lear calendar of the Bnyder- Gray case: March 1927—Albert . Snyder, 45 years old, art editor of magasine Motorboating, is found dead in his Queens Village home, his head: beat- en by a sashweight,.a chloroform ‘pad over his mouth. and nose and garroted with picture wire. Mrs. Snyder tells palice her husband’ was killed by burglars. Mhrch 21—Henry Judd Gray, 34 vear, old' corset galesman is arrested in Syracuse, N, Y. after Mrs. Sny- der makes “'confession” in which she lays entire blame on him. . March 22—@iray confesses:that he and Mrs. Snyder jointly killed her {hushand, he striking the first blow and she finishing the murder. ' 8aya one motive was to gét $35,000 in- for Mré. Snyder. . March 23—Snyder 18 buried and bis widow and Gray are indicted for his murder. March 24—Mrs. Snyder and Gray plead not guilty and are remanded without bail for trial April 11. April 5-—Trial postponed until April 18 because original date fell in holy week. April 17—Four alienists report that meither defendant is Insane. April 15—Trial opens befere Jus- tica Townsend Scudder in Long Is- land City. April 29—Mrs, Snyder testifies in | own defense, laying entire blame on Gray whom she says she tried to deter. May 3—Gray takes stand and con- faye he was under domination of Mrs Snyder. and was merely her drink-sodden slave. May*8—Cage goes to jury and in less ‘than two ‘hours a verdict of guilty is rethrned May 13—Mrs. Snyder and Gray sentenced to electrocution in week of June 29 but filing of appeals auto- matically gtays execution. May 17—Prisoners taken to Sing Sing prison. July 21—Company. that insured Snyder files suit for cancellation of policies on ground Mys. Bnyder took htem out without hushand's knowl- edge and with purpose of killing him. Nov. 22— Court-of appeals upholds death sentences and execution set for week qp January 9. January h—bawyers present plea ay-of execulion to Governor Smith at Albar January 10—Governor Smith nounces he finds no reason to halt progress of justice. Janua an- of execntion un- 110 a. 1 'y 13 granted for | Mrs, Snyder by Supreme Court Ju tica Levy in connection with insur ance litigation. Later denied. January Electrocution TAWSON I§ HELD both. Must Stand Trisl on Charge of Ar- son Life tn Westport. Bridgeport, Jan. 13 (F Lawson, who was held in ¢t of | BIRTHIMY LETTERS [ WRITTEN BY GRAYE (Continued from First Pln) nounced they would hasten attempts te bring to trial the suit-of the in- surance company for cancellation of the policies. 5 The company contends Mrs. Sny- der caused the policies to be iasued band ghe later killed and she com- | spired with Judd Gray in the slaying: merely te . obtain the {nsurance money. On'the witness stand dur- ing the murder trial Mrs. Snyder denied these charges when brought forward by the state. Mrs. Snyder’s Message Oesining. N. Y., Jan. 13 (P—Hope that her Jife would serve as a lesson to.the world was expressed:by Mre. Ruth Snyder in.a conversation with her attorneys shortly before her exe- cution, while Henry Judd Gray told his attorney that he realized ‘the enormity of his crime lfld agreed that justice gust be served, Mrs, Snyder was sitting in a chgir with her head in her arms when Eq- gar F. Hazelton, Dana. Wallace and Joseph Lenatdo of her counsel visjt- ed her shortly before 9 o'clock. “1 forgive everybody who holds anything against _me,'” they quoted her -as saying. jone that I bear no malice. Lonarde, who remained with her until 9:15, sald when he asked Mrs. Snyder whether she had any Jast message she pointed to the clock which showed it to be 9:05. Hopes It Wl Be Lesson 1 have an hour and forty-five min- uutes to live," she told him.* "I am Yery, very sorry. I am paying dearly for it. .1 enly | hope that my life—that 1 am giving up now-—will serve as a leseon to the | world." 1 aeked her how she felt teward Judd,” said Lonardo. who quoted Mra. Snyder as saying. ' 'Well we sinned together, and 1 guess we will |80 together, God -knows where', 1 asked her about the child, what |she hoped for the child, she said ‘If IT had my life to life over again, I | weuld want to be what I ‘vant my child to be—a good girl'" Samuel L. Miller, counsel for Gray, {who remained with his client: until iafter nine o'¢lock, reperted he left him entirely resigned. Gray Realized Justice “Gray," punishment is entirely just. He part- ed in tears from his mother. Jt was most. affecting. “He realized the enormity of his act. He said that the only regret he felt In dying for his crime was the suffering that he was, bringing o his Blair & and Fndangering Human port court yesterday for trial in the | suparfor court on charges of arson and endangering human life as the his mansion in Weatpert, was in th county jail today in default of $40.- {000 vait 1t was not known up till noon today whether Lawson would be able to raise fthe bond After hic $25.000 but |result of the fire which destroved this was reduced to $10.000 when ' his wife, who is & -well ulptress, appeared and offered to 1 | (NEA Serviee, New York | Barred by Warden Tawes from vis iting Ruth Snyder in her death eell {were Admfant Agnés MeKernan, of tha Salvation Army (above.) and the | Rev. Gearge D). Murphy. The warden admittance, | | | was | s hrother diter a final visit t ndemned 4 | her {an stinerant handy et in the house, having |on Adams' chest 'rag which had heen &aturated with Bureau) | | wouldn't honor court orders for ther | be his security, She A4 t taining money on property owned by in Weetport The etate claiméd in the hearing which ‘lasted all day vesterday, that known | by ob- Lawson tried to have Frank Adams. ' man, the fire shich the police burned n harge he & he was asleep a Lawson was formerly a of a paper in Westport cliloroform publisher and latterly has a tea room in New York | MAPLE HILL NEWS Maple Hill Bridge clib meet nest Tnesday afternoan wary 17, at 2.15% o'cleck, af home of Mz H R Olmstead The Jan- the on ‘Perry, son of Mr of Golf street and is being eeral Mre Perry able to be out again after confined to his home for weeks by illnese The Maple Hill fire Mondav eveming at the home nf H H Howard on Maple H.l avenue to make plans for the annnal meet district met which will be held later mn the month | The Thursday club will meet nest Thursdav ning. Jannary 19, at 3 o'clock at the home of Mrz William Allen on Rabbins avenne The - conditinn Mrs Kineley of Rabbins atenne a relapse on Wednesday what improved (Elks’ Initiation Is Quite a Family Event Worcester, Mass, Jan. 13 (®)— in the history dom occurred here last might wheén seven brothers {and his three sons appeared on the Toemng at Touse who had come A unique event il | Eridge ' eve. | of and a father placed | Tmsnm-h-inoflefl&nifi a better vaive than &ny bargain. The Atwater Kent A. C. 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SIXTH GIRL DiE§ kncmnunuu- (‘.n-l By Fire Which Was w By Box of ", Seyen Years, . Philadelphia, Jan. 13 ¢P—While autharities . were considering their course of action in the admission of a 7-year old boy to having accident- ally started-a- tire at the:German- town community center on-Wednes- day, the sixth- girl died erly today from burns. The latest victims is Syh". Bres- , 10, she-and the other victims were trapped on. the third floor ot the Community building. William Preno. 7, admitted to | Fire Marshal Mulhern that he had {been the cause of the blaze. He was searching a closet on the second floor of the byilding for toys i with a lighted match, he paid. He heard the appreach of one of the teachers, and frightened, drepped the match. A moment later the 1 building was in flames. | ~ The fire marshal ordered the boy | committed to the heupe of detention | | to.await @ hearing. The lad’s parents | maintain ne is innocent and are de- manding his rele; Women Still in Charge Of Family Puarse-Strings | Washingten, Jan. 13 (M—Wom- [en's place in the home has not dis- appeared to such an extent that she | |is not. still in control of the family purse strings, Mrs. Edith MeClure Patterson of Dayton, Ohio, asid in | 1a report today before the board ef | directors of the General Federation {of Women's Clubs. Paris, Jan. 13 (UP)—A French Snyder-Gray case took a turn toward life today when President Gaston Doumergue commuted a death sen- tence against Yvonne Lelew to life imprisonment and that against her lover and co-husband murderer Mar- ceau Jacquart to hard 1aber for life. The case Wwis ajmost a perfect ‘counterpart of that ended last night when Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray were executed. 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