Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 329, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1927 — Page 2

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GRAY PUTS BLAME UPON MRS. SNYDER Confession Read at Murder Trial Accuses Woman. ‘INTENSE LOVE MAKING’ Threats Also Weapons, Man Declares. BULLETIN Bn United Prctt LONG Ust-iAND CITY, N. ■—April 27.— Edgar Hazleton, attorney tor Mrs. Ruth Brown .Snyder, failed tins afternoon in an attempt to have the Snyder-Gray murder case declared a mistrial. Hazleton made a motion to withdraw a juror and end the present hearing. 'Bu United rents LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y., April 27.—Henry Judd Gray “blamed It on the woman” when he made an j alleged confession to the murder of Albert Snyder. Gray's confession went into evi- , donee today at the trial of himself and Mrs. Ruth Brown Snyder for the Snyder murder and it revealed i and absorbing dory of a man who i admitted that his own will had given : ■way to dominance by the will of a ■woman. The woman was Mrs. Sny- | der, the statement said. Used Threats "I absolutely refused at first and With some veiled threats and intense love making, she reached the point where she got me in such a whirl that I didn’t know where I was at,” read the confession as it charged Mrs. Snyder with inspiring the murder. At another point it said: “I will say, to use the slang, she ’did me pretty hard for a while.” Gray charged that Mrs. Snyder made several attempts to end her husband's life, before the murder, frwice, he charged, she gave Sny'der sleeping powders and turned on the gas, in hopes of killing him, but each time Snyder escaped. Checked Faltering The confession charged Mrs. Sny- j der with actual participation in the j murder. Gray said that after he j struck Snyder with a window weight I Snyder clinched with him and I grasped his necktie. When Gray faltered, the confession said, Mrs. Snyder stood by and told him that “this thing has absolutely got to go through.” Then the statement said that if j there was picture wire found around the neck of Snyder's body, it was j tied there by Mrs. Snyder and not by | him.

GROCERY CLERK BANDR VICTIM Found in Dazed Condition in Store. Detectives quest) oned John Schwier, 23, of 32 N. Chester Ave., at city hospital today, hoping to obtain Information that will lead to ar-) jfest of two young bandits who are alleged to have beaten and robbed gchweir early today. Schwier, a clerk at the W. A. JBevis grocery, 3924 E. Washington St., was found in a dazed condition f-t the store by Michael Mercurio, '433 S. New Jersey St., a fruit pedidler. Edward Orme, 2520 E. Tenth St., bakery wagon driver, arrived the store and they called police. ) Lieut. Fred Drinkut and emergency squad, questioned Schwier and Jrom his incoherent story pieced together the facts that the bandits came Into the store at 5:45 a. m. knd sruck him on the head. They took ?8 from his pocket. His empty nurse was found on the floor. The telephone wire in the store was cut, but Bevis said the store money was Intact in the cash register. Schwier said the two drove up in a Ford coupe.

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Mildred Riddle Wins County Spelling Crown

SCHOOL STRIKE AI NEW ALBANY IS CALLED DLL Pupils Return on Plea of Principal They Sought to Save. Bn Times Special NEW ALBANY, lnd„ April 27. Students of the New Albany High School "’today called off their twoday strike on the advice of Principal Charles B. McLinn, whose reappointment they had demanded. More than 71)0 students, practically the entire student body—left their classrooms Monday morning when they learned the school board had refused to rename McLiivn, principal for twenty years. Monday and Tuesday, the students paraded the streets with the high school band bearing banners and shouting they would not return to school until McLinn was reappointed. Parents, the alumni association of the school, and citizens in general supported the pupils. The school board remained adamant. Members said McLinn would not be named. Tuesday afternoon McLinn called the leaders of the strike. He advisedthem to call It off. “We'll put it up to the student body,” the leaders finally agreed. This morning the students marched to the city library. There were speeches by the leaders, advising their return and promising that citizens would carry on their fight to secure McLinn's reappointment. McLinn also spoke. All but one student —Morris Smith —voted to return. Then they marched back to school. A mass meeting will be held Friday under auspices of the citizens’ committee, at which time the school j board will be called to explain McLinn's dismissal. DEMOCRATS TO PUBLISH Plans for a monthly magazine to keep party members posted on Indiana Democracy were outlined at a conference of Democratic leaders at State headquarters at the Claypool Tuesday, presided over by State Chairman R. Earl Peters. It is expected to print the first issue in June, Peters said. Those attending the meetings were Marshall Williams, Indianapolis, State committee secretary; Miss Ruby Hendleman, Seventh district vice chairman; Charles Hack, Shelbyville, Sixtli district chairman; E. B. Crowe, Bedford, Third district chairman, approved the project by letter. Will Remembers Churches Hit Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., April 27. Three churches here, the First Methodist Episcopal, the First Presbyterian and the First Baptist, will receive $5,000 each by the will of Samuel Laughlin,'who died here recently. Other beneficiaries are: Hanover College, SIO,OOO, and a church and Sunday school organization in Ireland. Fall From Auto Fatal Bn Times Special MUNCIE, Ind.. April 27. —Funeral services were held today for Vinton L. Nickey, 28, of Gaston, who was fatally injured when he fell from an auto driven George R. Thomas.

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THOSE OFFICERS BROKE RUTH’S BEAUTY SLEEP Maurine Watkins Tells How Snyder Case Defense Views That Confession Made in Bed.

By Maurine Watkins, Author of "Chicago.” NEW YORK, April 27.—The jufy looks puzzled and dazed. Who is on trial—Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd Gray, or the officers and assistant district attorney, who obtained their confessions? It’s very confusing. The indictment, as they vaguely recall, contains the names of the former, but for hours and hours the latter hold the witness stand and are the butt of defense attack. And, with what crimes they arc charged! Speaking rudely to a lady held for murder, interrupting her beauty nap to ask questions—think of it, to ask questions! Naughty, naughty Mr. Daly of the district attorney’s office, didn't mamma ever teach you it was rude to ask questions of a lady, even if she did sashweight her husband and scent him with, chloroform? Such Bad Manners! And. worse still, you neglected to announce her callers—her mother and daughter; what did you mean, Mr. Daly, by interfering with the reception hour of a woman held for murder? Is this the etiquette of our criminal procedure? Why didn't you let her go? “Because the investigation was not complete,” is Mr. Daly's simple explanation. O, fie, fie! Shall officers of the law be thus allowed to monopolize the time of ladies who kill? And Mr. Gray fared equally bad, for they talked to him, the men who made the arrest in Syracuse, without even calling his attorney. And then, my dear, when Mr. Gray got chummy and questioned them in return, they refused to answer! Can you beat it—such rudeness to a man held for a picture wire strangulation! Some day. long hence, when jurors need be neither liars', illiterates or eccentrics, the status of confessions will be clearly and unmistakably defined. But at present they’re documents a police officer h?ys to get in order to clear his books; documents that the suspect is glad to sign in order to hush that stinging, buzzing mosquito questioning that constitutes the modern third degree and documents that are instantly repudiated upon the entrance of the defense counsel as obtained under duress, violence, threat or promise of reward or immunity. And the law holds that any such attendant circumstance Immediately invalidates the statement, however true it may be. Confessions I>eflned Their chief value—confessions, not defendants—is that they enable the State to gather evidence. Their chief danger is that their admission to the jury may be grounds for appeal and reversal. ' Hour after hour they quibble and fight. Finally, it’s read. Ruth Snyder's statement—and, curiously enough, for all her attorneys' objections, it's the best defense she'll ever have. Even though read by Prosecutor Newcombe, who is most assuredly not sympathetic, it rang out with a strange simplicity and sincerity that touched the heart. The crime was hideous, the slayer callous, but certain phrases, certain sentences paint a poignant picture: “While he was only 30 (at the

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j time of the marriage), he seemed like fifty to me.” | "He never took me out, and that is why I had to seek the company of others.” “He was constantly picking and nagging at me and I had gotten to that stage where I would take any means to get out of it all.” “I could not divorce him ...” Attention, State of New York; “I coOld not divorce him." "I was in love with Mr. Gray and : Mr. Gray loved me, and if my husband hadn't said that he would take my life, we would not have thought of taking his.” No excuse for the crime, but it makes of the marble woman a creature of flesh and blood. Copyright, 1927, New York Telegram REFUGEES HELD ON Rip SPAN (Continued From Page 1) iy 10,000 refugees quartered in Vicksburg and vicinity. Close guard was kept over Negro refugees on the outskirts of the city after labor agents were found trying to induce the Negroes not to return to plantations when the flood is over. COMPENSATION PROPOSED Hu l Hi ted Prr** NEW ORLEANS, La.. April 27. The peaceful bayous of St. Bernard Parish, just outside of New Orleans, are to be flooded through an intentional break in the levee in order to save New Orleans from inundation, Governor Simpson of Louisiana announced. Already hundreds of residents of the parish are moving into New Orleans and the remainder are being evacuated. Objections Expected Many of the residents are expected to protest against inundation of the territory, but will be forced to move immediately. The levee probably will be dynamited Friday, it was said this morning. About 10,000 persons are expected to be made homeless by the dynamiting of the levee, but Governor Simpson said business men of New Orleans would make efforts to compensate them for losses. Several armed guards—volunteers from the group of citizens—today re- . ported maintaining a patrol up and down the levees in an attempt to forestall the dynamiting. Thus, fur, however, there has been no concerted opposition.

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Mildred Biddle, (upper left) eighth grade pupil in Valley Mills, Decatur Township schools, won the County Zone Spelling Bee at Warren Central Tuesday afternoon, and will compete in the State Spelling Ilee, sponsored h.v The Times, in May. Upper right is Betty Noland, sixth grade pupil, John Strange School, Washington Township, runner-up in the County Bee. Upper center (left to right) are Chairman C. E. Eash, Warren Township; Frances Carter, Lawrence Township, and Ruth Do I;ong, Pike Township, of the County Spoiling committee, and W. M. Stafford of Butler University faculty, the official pronouncer. Center, below (left to right) Walter Rudolnh of Lawrence Township, Irma Cartmell of Warren Township, Helen Stumps of Center Township, Mary Vaughn of Perry Township, and Marvin Roberts, Beech Grove Spelling champion, who represented their townships in the rural championship competition. Mildred Riddle. eighth grade pupil at Valley Mills, and representative of Decatur Township in the Marion County Zone Spelling Rde, at Warren Central School Tuesday afternoon, won the county championship. And Betty Noland, who wore the colors of Washington Township, shed bitter tears. Sho had lost on what the judges considered a technicality. Betty is a sixth grade pupil at John Strange School. The line had simmered down to two, with Betty and Mildred fighting it out for county zone honors, which would pave the way to entry into the State Spelling Bee here in May, sponsored by The Indianapolis Times. The word “Protestant” was given by W. M. Stafford, of the Butler University faculty, who had been appointed official pronouncer by the county spelling bee committee, composed of C. K. Eash, principal of Warren Central; Ruth De Long of Pike Township, and Ruth Carter of Lawrence Township. Failed to Capitalize Betty spelled it, but she had failed to capitalize. The judges ruled her down —the word was capitalized in the McCall Speller, which was authority in the rural bees. Betty protested before the word had been given to Mildred, and the protect may have put Mildred on the alert, for she spelled It to the satisfaction of the judges and was declared county zone champion. There was protest from Betty’s mother and there is possibility of carrying the case to the board of appeals, appointed to act in disputed matters. There, it is understood, Webster would be cited as authority that capitalization of the word "protestant” is not compulsory. Only twenty minutes were required to declare the winner. Pauline Hines of Pike Township headed the line and spelled correctly the first words given to her. Then came the word “deceive.” Pauline began, then hesitated. She began

again, but she transposed positions for the "e” and ”i" and went down. Irma Cartmell. Warren school youngster who was fighting for the county honors, hesitated over the word “acid.” Then, as the five seconds of grace were fleeing, she spelled, but with an additional “c." Walter Rudolph, the champion speller of township, was next to take a chair. 110 had stood | his ground well against the field unI til the word “aggravate" was given. Walter forge* that the ''double g” was a feature of the word. ! Three champions had been spelled down in five minutes. The line was shortening rapidly. Then, for five minutes, the surI vivors of the ordeal caught the words from the lips of PronounceiStafford, pronounced and spelled them correctly. But the word “museum" was pronounced for Mary Vaughn of Perry township. She spelled quickly, but was wrong. It may have been a s!ip of the tongue, judging from her expression as she realized her fate. She had substituted an “i” for the “o.” The Boy Goes Out Only four remained standing ,and Marvin Roberts, a bright little fellow from Beech Grove schools, was gallantly hammering at the tradition that boys seldom win in spelling bees. He had taken the words as they came to him. snd had sp?!led them with the utmost confidence. But in a flicker he met his downfall. It was the word "unconscious,” and, partly done, he hesitated, then—forgot the letter “s.” Helen Stumps, who won the Center Township championship, had been expected by her principal and her friends to win the county honors. She might have gone through had not the word ‘lombroidery" been given to her. Then came the word battle between Mildred Riddle and Betty Noland. It was going along at a merry clip until the word "Protestant” was pronounced. Betty didn’t capitalize; Mildred did. McCall said Mildred was right; Webster says that either is correct. The judges, using McCall i as authority because the words for ! the bee were chosen from that book, j upheld Mildred Riddle, and declared j her the best speller in the Marion ! County schools. The county championship settled, i the city schools took another step j toward the State spelling bee today. , In eighty-one buildings written bees were held. Eighty-one champions were chosen. These will be assigned to eight city zones, in each of which a city champion will be selected in oral bees on Thursday, May 5. The city and county zone champions will enter the State bees here late in May, in which champions from other counties cooperating in | the spelling program, sponsored in Indiana by The Times, will also compete. The State champion will be sent to Washington, D. C., with chaperon, at the expense of The Times, to enter the national spelling bee'late in May. A prize of SI,OOO cash is offered the national champion, while the winner of second place will receive SSOO.

FIRST SENATE SPEECH GAVE BEVERIDGE RANK Attitude on Philippine Policy Stamped New Solon With Influence and Shaped United States Policy.

The first speech delivered by Albert J. Beveridge in the United States Senate made history. It also lifted him from the ranks of “new” Senators to that of influence and almost leadership. It was on Jan. 10. 1000. that lie spoke upon the Philippine policy, then a question which had divided the Republican party. Important passages from this historic speech are: “We will not renounce our part in the mission of the race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world. “Mr. President, self-government and internal development have been the dominant notes of our first century; administration and the development of other lands will be the dominant notes of our second century....He has made us (our race) the master organizers of the world to establish system where eliaos reigns... .lie has made us adepts in government that we may administer government among savages and senile people. And of all our race, He has marked the American people as His chosen Nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America, and it holds for us all the profit, all the glory, all the

The Statesman Albert J. Beveridge began his political career in 1884 while a student at De Pauw University, taking part in the Blaine campaign as a “stump speaker.” Ilis first public office was reading clerk in (lie Indiana General As-embly of 1886-1887. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1899. Upon expiration of his firs* term in 1905 he was re-elected for a second term, which ended Mnrrh 4. 1911. In 1912 he was nominee of the Progressive ticket for Gov ernor, but was defeated by the late Samuel Ralston. In 1914 he was defeated Progressive candidate for the United States Senate by John W. Kern. In 1922 lie was Republican cand'date for United States Senator, hut was again defeated by Ralston. Beveridge was regarded as the best informed Senator on tire Philippines and lie prepared tire resolution defining tire l nited States' policy regarding the islands. He championed the child lalair cause, the direct primary and Federal meat inspection.

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