New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 22, 1929, Page 5

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, JULY 22, 1920. Snook Murder Trial Will Begin Wednesday as Sanity Hearing Is . Abandoned By Defense Lawyers Emotional Insanity, Similar to Remus Plea, May Be Used as Excuse For Slaying of Co-ed Paramour by Professor. Columbus, 0. July 22 (UP)— paper he was preparing at the time Formal withdrawal of the demsnd |of his arrest for a sanity trial for Dr. James H. | Snook today will open the way for | Snook’s murder trial for murder lo{N[]TE[] INVENT begin on Wednesday sithout further | - DIES AT AGE OF 69 Snook, aged 48, former professor | of veterinary medicine at Ohio State | University, is accused of the murder | of Theora K. Hix, 24-year-old stu- | it rom nenes? ot e “on | Thomas E. Murray Was Granted stine association for thre2 Trial Starts Wednesday On Saturday it was announced that the plan to force a sanity hear- ing preceding the murder trial hal been abandoned by the defense. Ac cordingly Snook’s attorney’s reed to appear today before Ju Henry Scarlett, presiding over the | criminal court, and withdraw the re- quest for a sanity hearing. Judgze Scarlett has announced he will or- der Snook’s murder trial to proceed | on Wednesday. E. 0. Ricketts, ('hvrl‘ of defense council, and John ¥. § del, associated with him, emphati ally denied any plan to have thr client plead guilty to- a general charge of homicide and throw hini- selt upon the mercy of the court. Self defense and emotional sanity will be the basic plea of the de- fense, it was indicated. The defe oddly enough, will combine ou standing features of two other not- able recent murder trials, that of Henry Judd Gray in New York aad | of George Remus at Cincinnati. m Snook Dominated Snook’s lawyers are expected to at- tempt to show that Miss Hix gained such a dominance over Snook t he came to fear her and that it was the constant conflict going on with- in him, caused by Miss Hix and hs zlleged demands upon him, which broke in a storm of emotional in- sanity during which the murder was done. Gray was defended upon a much similar theory, namely th the dominance Ruth Snyder gain: over him brought him so far unde ler power that he could not resist doing murder when sh~ ied him into a situation which suggested such a course. The insanity defense parallels that offered by Remus in its legal phases. Remus, notorious bootlegger, mur- dered his wife, Tmogene, because of her alleged intimacy with Ioranklin Dodge, former government agent. He then pleaded emotional insanit was acquitted of murder upon tho; grounds and committed to an as lum, He was able to prove himself | sane and gained his freedom within | More Than 1,100 Patents | Southampton, L. I., July 22 (UP) homas E. Murray, 69, who had reeeived 1100 patents during his life- |time and who was for many years |in charge of all the allied Edison |companies in New York and Brook- Iyn and their Westchester county subsidiaries. died here yesterday | nis home, Wiskapogue, after an ill- |ness of several months Granted Many Patents Next to Thomas A. Idison. Mur- 1y was said.to have been granted more patents than any man in the United States. His career included not only success in the electrical field, but in the gas industry |well, and his safety inventions won |for him many ‘honors, including the Longstreth medal of merit from the | Franklin Tnstitute of Philadelphia. |An invention for welding 240 milli- meter mortar shells brought com- mendation from the war department | In the religious field' Mur |rewarded by being n |of the Knights of St. George and of the Knights of Malta. He also was honored at Rome by |ileged to have mass celebrated in his {home and to 1 an altar in {which the Ble: crament re- poses. Funeral on Wednesday Truneral services will be held Wed- 10 a. m. in Brooklyn. He leaves eight Ichildren. John I, Joseph. Daniel, [Thomas I, Jr. Mrs. Katherine ) Quail, ) Anna_McDonnell, Julia Cuddihy and Mrs. Marie Donnell. ENGRAVINGS FOUND - OF TWO GENERALS Newspaperman Aids West Point " in Search for Likenesses 1 few months. It seems certain that | Snook’s defense will contemplate | the pattern of the Remus defen with perhaps the same ends :n view., Tnterest Runs High Interest in the case runs high in ‘olumbus. ‘Tt is estimated that 50.- 000 persons have visited the New York Central Rifle Range. five miles out of town, where the murder was committed. Sentiment is somewhat divid.1 Many are critical of Miss Hix and are inclined to defend Snook as the victim of a passionate, schemir woman, but the ferocity of the mu der—Miss Hix was struck 17 tim: with a hammer, her throat cut and ugly wounds slashed into her body -has robbed Snook of a vast amount of sympathy. Snook, who has been held in the county jail here since his arrest is reported outwardly calm but aciu ally suffering deeply from the shad- ow of the electric chair which is falling upon him. He reads much and is ‘said to have worked a little | upon the manuscript of a scicntific Tonight - serve a cool, Miabi. Ariz. July 22 (P—Stecl en- gravings of Brigadicr Nathaniel Llon |and General William B. Franklin Union ~ generals whose likenesses have been sought by West Point au- thorities, were available to them tfo |day by Leslie Gregory, i news- paperman. Publication of an appeal from Ma- jor General William R. Smith, su- perintendent of the military acad- emy. led to a search that rev in Gregory's library, two of eight likkenesses needed for reproduction n oil in West Point Memorial Hall The engravings are in a bhook of |several volumes written during the war. General Lyon was killed in ac- at Wilsons Creek, Mo., August 2, 1861. The book describes his ex- i at the outhreak ot war. when Governor Clairhorn’ Jackson was lcading Missouri secessionists and Lyon suppressed a revolt at St Louis. 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