Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 213, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 January 1928 — Page 13

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PASS 24-HOUR MARK SEEKING SKY RECORD Chamberlin and Aid Beset by Numerous Troubles on Stay in Air. GAS LEAK RUINS FOOD Cruise Off Long Island to Drop Notes Asking for Data on Weather. By inilcil Press ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. Y. ( Jan. 13. Clarence Chamberlin and Roger Williams, in their new monoplahe, today cruised aimlessly over Long Island as they continued their efforts, in the lace of numerous troubles, to set anew record for sustained flight. At 10:53 a. m. today the first twenty-four hours ended. To break the existing endurance mark of fifty-two hours, twenty-two minutee and thirty-one seconds, a record held by two German aviators, they would have to remain in the air until 3.34:24 p. m. tomorrow. A new rule requires that records must be better by an hour to be broken. Chamberlin's own American mark, established last spring with Bert Acosta, will be passed after 2 p. m. tomorrow. Econoimze on Gasoline The plane was moving at the rate of seventy-flve miles an hour, the slowest possible pace which Chamberlin and Williams could maintain in their efforts to economize on the 471 gallons of gasoline with which they started. They hoped that supply would keep them in the aii fifty-five to sixty hours. Should they be successful in setting anew endurance mark they would not descend until Saturday afternoon or night. At dusk last night. Chamberlin tossed over a note that he expected the flight to be a cool one during the night. The pipe connecting the exhaust with the heater in the cabin had been broken by the motor’s vibrations, he raid, but did not endanger the monoplane in any way. Troubles Told in Note Chamberlin slept on a cot in the cabin last night, while Williams took over the controls. Both aviators were extremely tired when they took the air Thursday, for repairs on a broken gasoline pump had kept them up nearly all of the night before. The plane is a huge Bellanca. it Is r-med the Martine, after Us owner, A. R. Martine, wealthy Wall Street banker, who is backing the flight. The fliers dropped a note to tne ftwirt headquarters at 10:30 a. m. today telling of difficulties that may jn-ove dangerous to the success of the flight. There had been mechanical tvmiole, they said, and asked for advice regarding their next move. Food Supplies Ruined Four of the navigation instruments on his plane have been disabled, Chamberlin said in the note. He asked whether he should fly to Washington to avoid possible f °After a conference with Dr. James H Kimball of the United States Weather Bureau, it was decided to keep the airmen in this vicinity for the present. The trans-Atlantic pilot also reported a leak in the wing gasoline tank, but said he hoped to "stick it out” as long as any fuel remained. Me reported gasoline from the leaking tank hand sprayed in and ruined their sandwiches and other food supplies. The coffee they had taken was “terrible,” he said. RESERVE CHIEF HERE Col. A. J. Dougherty Assigned to 84th Division. Col. A. J. Dougherty, wlio is in the city attending the two-day session of the national executive committee of American Legion, which commenced today, has been assigned by the War Department as chief of staff of the 84th Reserve Division, with headquarters here. He has been relieved from command of the 25th Infanrty, Nogales, Ariz., and will report for ten days temporary duty at Ft. Hayes before taking up his new duties here. He is national executive committeeman from Arizona, where he has been State commander, finance officer and in other offeial positions. Colonel Dougherty is a veteran of the Spanish-American War, the Philippine campaign, the Pershing Mexican expedition and the World War.

DEMOCRATS IN DRIVE 1,000 Members Will Be Sought by Indiana Club. Plans for inaugurating “anew era in the history of the Indiana Democratic Club” were outlined by Fred Barrett, newly elected presitent, at a luncheon attended by sty Democrats at tlie club, 518 N. Pennsylvania St., today. announced a drive would be made at once for 1,000 new members, and that 300 of this number already were pledged. A movement was started for purchasing anew clubhouse and plans made for engaging an Evans Woollen special to the Democratic national convention at Houston, Texas., June 26. The president is working on committee personnel, and announced toutstanding Democrats would be announced soon as chairmen.

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Moth! Girl Plays With Gangsters for Silks and Jewels, and Pays With Life.

CHICAGO, Jan. 13. Betty Chambers, 25, played with gangsters to get silks and jewels and paid with her life, because she learned too much, police believed today as they sought two men in connection with her murder. She lay on a silken coverlet propped up amid silken cushions in an ornate bed, writing a letter threatening revenge, when her slayer interrupted her. The girl was clubbed and strangled with an electric light cord. Then to make death certain, the slayer had wound ten yards of ahdestive tape around her mouth and nose. The murder bore striking resemblance to the Dot King case and other “Butterfly slayings” in New York. n n a TWO men were sought by police—Gordon Chambers, who lived with Betty as her husband until they fought and separated recently, and a “lithe, dark man with a hooked nose” who had visited her often since. Thousands of dollars’ worth of gowns, riding habits and lingerie, as well as valuable jewels, were untouched in her expensive hotel suite. With robbery impossible as a motive, police were confident the girl had been killed because her desire for revenge had led her to threaten to reveal her knowledge of Chicago's gangland. Chambers, police said, was a petty gangster. He was sought only as a materail witness, for police were confident the hookednose man knew more about the slaying than the “husband.” u u n THE letter which Betty apparently had been .writing when her slaver appeared read: “Dear Gordie: Revenge is the sweetest think I know of—” Mrs. Florence Hauptman, who occupied a suite near Betty Chambers', told police she heard a violent quarrel in the room Thursday. She did not report it, she said, because Betty and Chambers often had quarreled and she thought the “husband” had returned. ■ It seemed definitely established, however, that Chambers had not been in the hotel since he and the girl quarreled several weeks ago.

COFFIN 1$ HONORED City Manager Leaders Give Luncheon for Ex-Head. More than 200 leading Indian- i apolis citizens, most of whom were prominent in the city manager movement, today attended a testimonial luncheon at the Chamber of Commerce in honor of Charles E. Coffin, who resigned as executive chairman of the City Manager League to take several months vacation in Florida. He is chief counsel for the State Life Insurance Company. • Frank C. Jordon, secretary of the Indianapolis Water Company, presided and presented the honor guest with a testimonial book. Bishop Frederick D. Leete of the Methodist church pronounced the blessing and Dr. Frank B. Roberts, new pastor of Central Ave. M. E. Church the benediction. Speakers were Mayor L. Ert Slack, Arthur R. Baxter, Henry W. Bennett, Dick Miller, Felix McWhirter, Claude H. Anderson, Dr. O. W. Fifer and Emsley W. Johnson. PUSH CONTEMPT CHARGE Remy to Cite Attorney, Ex-Steve Aid, Before Court. An information charging contempt of Criminal Court against John H. Kiplinger, Rushville, Ind., attorney, will be filed soon, Prosecutor William H. Remy announced today. This action will be in line with a recommendation of the retiring county grand jury two weeks ago in the final report which alleged Kiplinger aided Miss Mildred Meade and L. G. Julian, former confidants of D. C. Stephenson, to avoid testifying before the grand jury in the political probe. ‘JUGMUJRES TWO TO JAIL Arrested as Drunk on Way to Court for Intoxication Trial. Because two men couldn’t leave liquor alone long enough to appear in court, they are in jail, police records show. J. E. Daugherty, 2127 N. Wallace St., and Oscar E. Hampton, 1614 Hall PI., were placed on bond Wednesday on charges of intoxication. Today, on their way to a hearing before Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter, they were again arrested on charges of being drunk.

SUPER-AIR LINER SCHEDULED TO CROSS OCEAN EARLY NEXT SUMMER

By SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Jan. 13.—Eclipsing the fantasies of Jules Verne or H. Wells, Britain’s mammoth air liher, the R-100, is scheduled to take the air early next summer. A series of short trial flights will be its christening. Then it is planned to fly it to New York, pick up passengers and return to Britain. The journey undoubtedly will be the most spectacular in the history of modem aviaticn, and Americans who have booked reservations will A i . f .

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DEMOCRATS ‘MAKE UP’ IN LOVEPARLEY 1,500 Leaders Hear Thirteen Addresses and Go Home at 2:30 A. M. CANCEL FIVE SPEECHES Jim Reed Put Off Until Last, but Climaxes Evening by Dry Row Warning. BY PAUL R. MALLON Vnited Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Fifteen hundred Democratic leaders at the Jackson day dinner here showed a general desire for peace within the party during seven hours of patriotic speeches from thirteen leaders. Five scheduled speakers were still unheard when the meeting adjourned at 2:30 a. m. today because of fatigue. Party leaders indicated they were willing to go far to end the differences which flared in the 1924 New York convention. Prohibition and religipn—questions causing previous disastrous discussions—were mentioned, but always with the suggestion that they should be subverted to the real issues of tariff, public corruption and equal privileges. Governor Al Smith of New York, in a message, urged that foreign relations, prohibition, agriculture, reform of Government machinery, conservation and development of resources and other questions be treated definitely with stem Jeffersonian reasoning. Urges Sense of Humor Smith's old opponent, William G. McAdoo, did not mention Smith or prohibition in his speech, but pleaded with the party to preserve it3 sense of humor. Senator James A. Reed of Missouri warned that If "Every Democrat -wants to have his own way in everything no Democrat can have his own way In anything.” Governor Ritchie of Maryland praised Smith and informed partypatriots that the States’ rights issue must be met, and* stressed prohibition as a paramount issue. John W. Davis, toastmaster and presidential candidate in 1924, suggested that the Democratic party was tampering with dynamite .'n the prohibition question. He said this question should not be made a test of party loyalty. There were several little strained moments like the Ritchie-Davis disagreement, but they successfully were smoothed over.

Reed Speaks Last Davis neglected to call upon Reed until twelve had spoken. The crowd was continually calling for Reed, but Davis persisted in introducing other speakers. Finally, as thirteenth speaker, Davis introduced at 1:50 a. m., Representative Oldfield of Arkansas, and Oldfield, taking more notice of the call of the crowd than the toastmaster, declined to speak and gave way to Reed. “The wet who insists on putting wet propaganda in the platform when he knows that about 50 per cent of the party will oppose it knows that if he drives 50 per cent of the party out he will perpetuate Republican iniquities forever,” Reed said. The same, he said, applied to a dry who insisted on a dry plank. “Our duty is to arrest corruption in high offices,” Reeci declared. "Turn the rogues out of official life. That is a bigger question than wet or dry for the League of Nations.” Few of the guests knew what the Smith letter was about until it was concluded, as Davis failed to mention Smith’s name when he announced that former Lieutenant Governor Lunn of New York would read a letter from a distinguished Democrat. Smith’s name was not called until the signature was read. Evans Woollen Talks Smith warned that the party could not succeed alone by the mistakes of its adversaries. He suggested that party principles be drafted at the earliest possible moment so that definite principles of Jefferson could be stated in modern language. The message was received with considerable applause, but it did not approach the proportions of a demonstration. The thirteen speakers included: Reed, Ritchie, McAdoo. Clem Shaver, chairman of the national committee; Senator Robinson, Arkansas; Representative Garrett, Tennessee; Will Rogers, cowboy humorist, who chided the committeemen about the lack of cocktails; Claude G. Bowers of the New York World; Evans Woollen, Indiana’s favorite son; Governor Dan Moody, Texas; Governor Bulow of South Dakota; ex-Governor Nellie Taylor Ross, Wyoming, and Mrs. Hooper, Wisconsin.

participate in an inaugural flight destined to be the forerunner of a regular passenger-carrying airship service between the old and new worlds. The R-lOO’s appearance gives the idea of a floating miniature skyscraper. It completely dwarfs any previous aircraft. It is 714 feet long and 130 feet high. Four stories provide accommodation for 100 passengers and a crew of fifty, St St St COMPARABLE to a modem hotel the ship is warmed and lighted by electricity, which also serves to

INDIANAPOLIS, 'FRIDAY, JAN. 13, 1928

Birthday Figures Don’t Lie on Chin

“rxON'T tell me THAT, dearie! •U' Your chin says ‘twentyeight’!” , So Hazel McKamey, 1936 W. Vermont St., who is 19, <at the right), proves to Lillian Brunnemer, of Whitelsnd, Ind., her chum at the Rainbow Beauty Shoppe, 157 N. Illinois St., that beauty authorities know what they are talking about when they say: “You can tell a woman's age by her chin line!” Mile. Manka Rubinstein, of New

FIGHT FAY ON SNYOERPOLICY Insurance Company Balks, Charging Fraud. Ei! United Press NEW YORK. Jan. 13.—Lorraine Snyder, the 10-year-old girl, who first was made fatherless and now motherless, probably will know within a few weeks whether she is to be an heiress to $95,000, representing the insurance on Albert Snyder’s life. After the electrocution of Mrs. Ruth Snyder last night, lawyers announced they would hasten attempts to bring to trial the suit of the insurance company for cancellation of the policies. The company contends Mrs. Snyder caused the policies to be issued without the knowledge of the husband she later killed and she conspired with Judd Gray In the slaying merely to obtain the insurance money. On the witness stand during the murder trial, Mrs. Snyder denied these charges. Argument on a motion for a jury trial of the insurance matter is set for today, but a brief adjournment was considered likely. Lorraine now is the legal ward of her grandmother, Mrs. Josephine Brown. She has been placeu in a Catholic institution for the last few months and, so far as known, no word ol her mother's fate has reached her.

ONE-MAN COUP WINS HOUSTON CONCLAVE

Jesse Jones Posts Check for $200,000, Amazing Democrats. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Selection Thursday of a small city auditorium in Houston, Texas, as the site for the June national convention of the Democratic party was a dramatic personal coup for Jesse Jones, multimillionaire business man. But it was an unexepected development which confounded the party politicians interested in presidential candidates. Jones negotia'ed the selection of his home town when he laid down a personal check for $200,000 and some say they believe Jones will handle the committee's $220,000 deficit incurred in the last election, which now is being carried on his personal note. He acted on his own autlnoiAy, solely without consulting the officials in Houston, but he hastened to assure everyone that the city would be “tickled to death” to show some real Southern hospitality. His friends say that he “owns most of the town” and that his promise is sure to be fulfilled. Tall, with iron gray hair and a soft southern accent, Jones worked alone among the committeemen and women. His arguments were that the Democrats for once should come into the Solid South. They have not held a convention in the South since the Charleston (S. C.) convention in 1860. He said Houston harbored no selfish influences which could affect their deliberations. He lined up all the South behind Houston, except a

cook the food. One deck contains a dining room with accommodation for fifty passengers, kitchens, and two and four-berth cabins. The dining room can be converted into a dance hall, and spectators can be seated on lounges on a balcony above and be able to watch passengers dancing at an altitude of thousands of feet. Broadcast wireless and gramophones will provide the music. The safety of passengers is a feature in the construction. The walls of the cabins consist of tough

York and Paris, sister and associate of Madame Helena Rubinstein, world famous authority cn beauty, pronounced this significant remark, and her opinion is promptly seconded by Viva H. Fulton, who directs the training of embryo cosmeticians and hairdressers at the Rainbow Shoppe. “The contour of the face is almost an infallible index to a woman's age.” said Mile. Rubinstein. “In youth, it is a lovely curve. But as the years pass, it becomes a little heavier, or scraw-

Pair Wait, Tortured, as Hour of Death 'Nears

Gray Mere Resigned, but Mrs. Snyder Sobs and Screams. BY PALL W. WHITE United Pre Staff Correspondent OSSINING, N. Y., Jan. 13.—Death, the last gesture of all mortals, came to Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray after they had endured a day and an evening of torture, sometimes numbing, sometimes agonizing. They reacted differently. Ruth Snyder, volatile, knew extremes of emotion, now self-possessed; now crying silently: now screaming only to sink back upon her cot, a study in dejection. But Gray was more contained. With the same resignation he displayed on the witness stand, he sat for the most part quietly. Occasionally, though, he would arise and restlessly walk about his narrow cell. The hours passed on toward the hour of doom. Mrs. Josephine Brown, mother of Mrs. Snyder, came to the prison with her son Andrew. Mrs. Brown was a broken woman, ill with the weight of tragedy. Mrs. Margaret Gray, a woman of infinite tenderness, came to see her boy Judd. With her was his sister Mrs. Harold Logan. They came not

scattering support for Miami. And then in the committee ballotting. he got enough votes to put Houston over against San Francisco on the fifth ballot, 54 to 48. June 26 was set aa the date. The selection is expected to have a strong political effect on the Smith and other candidacies. Texas was strongly opposed to Smith in 1924 and has been considered anti-Smith territory. It favored McAdoo, Smith’s opponent. Jones has not intimated whom he favors, though he has been friendly to many Smith leaders. He received numerous Smith votes for the Houston selection. In fact, it appeared as if the Smith committeemen and women equally had divided their strength between Houston and San Francisco. * S-4 DEAD IN ARLINGTON Victims of Submarine Disaster to Be Buried in Washington. By United Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 13. The bodies of Lieut. Donald Weller, Radioman Walter Bishop, Chief Rarioman Elmer L. Cash, Electrician’s Mate Paul R. Kempfer and Electrician’s Mate Rudolph J. Rose, are to be buried in Arlington National Cemetery, the Navy department announced today. These were among the fifteen bodies recovered Wednesday from the sunken submarine S-4 off Provincetown, Mass. Funeral services for Chief Electrician’s Mate Earl W. Boone and Seaman Donald Fred Goening will be held in the Presidio National Cemetery, San Francisco. Bodies of the eight other men will be sent to their homes.

fabric and fireproof paper. Beds are made of duralumin, a light and strong metal of which the vessel is built. * * X WO wide verandas around the entire circumference of this flying hotel, enclosed with sliding glass windows, are large enough to provide simultaneous observation accommodation for all passengers. The ship will be driven by six Rolls Royce Condor engines, each of 700 horse-power coupled up to six immense propellers seventeen feet in lengtto

nier, revealing the age lines of the neck. "Succeeding birthdays see it drcoping more and more as the cheek muscles sag. Finally, when old age has triumphed, it relaxes into little pockets on either side of the chin. "If a woman would start young enough to care for her skin and keep the facial muscles young and healthy, she would not have to resort to an operation, such as some undergo, to take a tuck in their chin line.”

Last Letters By 1 nilrd Press OSSINING. N. Y„ Jail. 13. Jane Gray. 9-year-old daughter of Judd Gray, will receive annually. on her birthday, a letter written by her father, who last night was put to death in the electric chair at Sing Sing. Warden Lawes revealed after the electrocution that Gray had entrusted to him a packet of letters. He did not say how many were in the packet.

to give hope, but to assure Judd Gray of compassion and foregiveness. Soon the sun sank behind the ' stern Palisades and at the close of day came word to the prison that all legal obstacles to the execution had been removed. Lewis E. Lawes, the warden, told Gray: "I expected nothing more,” the prisoner sighed. “It is God’s will.” John J. Sheehy, the burly head keeper, notified Mrs. Snyder. “Ain’t there anything anybody can do?” she asked. Then she cried. Mrs. Snyder's appetite for dinner was impaired by the news. She had not been permitted to order the dishes on her last repast because of the uncertainty of court procedures throughout the day. But she was served with substantially the same menu as that written out by Gray. It follows: Chicken soup, roast chicken, mashed potatoes, celery, stuffed olives, ice cream and “good” coffee. Gray also was permitted the luxury of a cigar. He enjoyed his meal, but Mrs. Snyder let it grow cold, as she contemplated the fate just ahead. APRIL WEATHER HERE Above Normal Temperatures May Bring Showers Saturday. This is ‘‘April shower” weather, according to experts at the United States Weather Bureau here. And Saturday Indianapolis may get some of the “April showers which bring May flowers,” they said. More moderate temperature, with probably unsettled conditions, is predicted for Saturday. The lowest temperature tonight will fee about 40 to 45. Today’s 7 a. m. temperature of 44 was 17 degrees above normal, a normal temperature for early April. Thursday’s high temperature was 55 and the average for the day 42, 14 degrees above normal. FLAYS TRIAL WEDDINGS Lindsey’s Scheme All Wrong, Says Evangelist at Revival. Ben Lindsey’s companionate marriage scheme is all wrong, declared Evangelist Charles Stewart in his sermon Thursday night, at Cadle Tabernacle. “His remedy is wrong for with Jesus in the world in so many instances, man and organizations, the companionate marriage scheme is impossible; to live we must go forward,” Stewart said in a sermon on “A Timid Woman.” "As society touches Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, it will throw light on their sins and cause men to seek new standards,” Clark said.

The cruising speed aimed at is seventy-five miles an hour with a top speed of eighty-three m. p. h. Thirty-five fuel tanks are incorporated, each able to carry one ton of gasoline. The gasbags, each of 50,000 cubic feet capacity, are the largest ever made, and were constructed at the Zeppelin works at Friedrichshafen. a a a DESPITE all these wonders of modern science, the structure only weighs 83 tons, leaving 73 tons iof lift for passengers, crew, fuel

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SNYDER-GRAY DEATHS ARE CLMAX OF SORDID DRAMA THAT SHOCKED MILLIONS Slayers Were Average Small City Type, Whose Chance Meeting Developed Into Illicit Romance, Then Brutal Murder. CRIME OF AMAZING RUTHLESSNESS Pair Convicted in One of Most Publicized Trials in Country’s History; Woman Sought to Lay Guilt on Companion. BY PAUL W. WHITE United Press Staff Correspondent OSSINING, N. Y., Jan. 13.—Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray were strapped in the electric chair at Sing Sing prison because they murdered Mrs. Snyder’s husband, Albert, last March 20. I lie double electrocution furnished a dramatic epilogue to one of the most publicized trials the nation ever has seen. For some obscure reason Ruth Snyder, the housewife, and Judd Gray, the corset salesman, became known wherever newspapers are read. The courtroom was crowded daily with celebrities. Perhaps it was the incredible brutality of the crime. Readers perused the trial reports and shuddered over the fate of Albert Snyder. sy*?, * r .L ed,tor of the ma ?azine Motor Boating and had pursued quietly his SIOO-a-week way in a modest suburban home So far as was ever known. Snyder died without realizing that he was a deceived husband. He died without the knowledge that his wife 2d her lo\er foi weeks had plotted the slaying. • beaten with a sashweight. He was chloroformed. He ri u m Stran ®l ed P lcture wlre - He was asleep in his bed when his faithless wife and Gray entered the room with murderous intent nnHi n f u™ and understood from the moment of awakening until death stilled his senses is a moot and morbid question. 5

Slayers Just Average Type, as Was Victim

i U WaS the brufcality - but niore likely was the fact that the principals were so very ordinary. i i were 110 Leopold and Loeb whom people could call “intellectual. Here was no Remus of high voltage dynamo and a mind that was different—no Hickman to startle because of a lack of moral sense ™J n f t f ead .. the J hree persons in an average triangle were of average mentality, education and standing. They lived in average homes 8 Snyder, for instance, was the “home” man. He liked to sit around the house in the evenings, although occasionally because his wife insisted. he would go to a party or to the movies. The fires of romance flickered and Ruth Snyder became bored. Bhe ,rL Wa ! a “ g ? od wife and m °ther.” She did her own housework, made all the draperies, put up preserves and kept her daughter. Lorrainee, nice ana neat. Ruth Snyder was known as “Tommy” to her friends. She went to budge parties and was happy and carefree. She drank a little, danced a ~ "Ruth’s lot sos fun; let’s have her over.” And they added: ‘But Albert’s kind of a stick.”

Meets Gray; Tragedy Foundation Is Laid

The “stick” didn’t mind. He permitted his wife to go out in the evenings, presumably with “girl friends.” Then at a New York restaurant one noon she met Judd Gray. It was a “pick up’ friendship that soon ripened into illicit love. The testimony was that they became intimate at their second meeting. . . In . 9 ra y y? er f was Nttle of Don Juan. He, too. was married and had a daughter. He lived in a New Jersey suburb and was seldom at home because his territory in the corset trade was extensive. For a year and a half Gray and Mrs. Snyder continued their affair. They took a motor trip together. They stopped at several hotels as man and wife. She said at the trial that Gray had suggested the killing, but Gray told another story. 3 It was his contention that Mrs. Snyder had pleaded with him for months to kill her husband. At first he resisted, but as his mind became infused with her impetuousness anh. body became weakened by the demands she made upon him he consefi. loin her in murder.

Whisky Spurs Killer on to . (al Deed

The two laid plans that would permit an alibi for Gray. On March 19 he was in Syracuse, N. Y. He called upon a friend to call at a hotel and made it appear that Gray had spent the night there. But Gray went down to New York. He went out to the Snyder home and entered the empty house. Mrs. Snyder had left a bottle of whisky for him to stoke his courage. In the early morning hours the Snyders, including Lorraine, came home from a card party. Snyder had been drinking more heavily than usual, but that wasn’t coincidence—his wife had plied him with liquor. The husband stumbled heavily into bed. Lorraine also retired. Ruth Snyder went to her lover. They kissed. And what happened soon after has two versions. That given by Mrs. Snyder absolves her from participation in the crime. On the witness stand she pictured herself as having urged Gray to leave the house. She took him downstairs, she said, and then went to the bathroom. She was a defiant witness. Gray on the other hand, was meek, in a resigned manner as though recognizing that capital punishment would be his portion, he testified, telling the story that sent them to the chair. Gray told how he and Mrs. Snyder had disposed of blood-stained and how he had bound and gagged her to make it look like a robbery had been committed. He ended a full day on the witness stand by saying: “ I tied her feet and I tied her hands. I told her that it may be two months, it may be a year and it may be never before she would see me again, and I left her lying on her mother’s bed, and I went out.”

Police Beat Down Her Story of Robbery

Police were not fooled by the robbery story. Mrs. Snyder’s account was so unconvincing that she was questioned for hours until she finally confessed. _ She implicated Gray and when Syracuse police found a railroad ticket in the hotel room there, he confessed. They recanted their confessions when arraigned in magistrate’s court, but were indicted jointly and went to trial on April 18 on a charge of first degree murder. . . . _ The trial lasted three weeks and on May 9 they were convicted. The death sentence was mandatory. Their legal appeals were overruled as were pleas for mercy addressed to Governor Smith. . . ~ ... And so they died that Justice might be served and the law of the State of New York be upheld. The State showed them a courtesy i/hey did not show Albert Snyder—it gave them warning.

and cargo. It is hoped to carry 10 tons of mail on each journey. It will be equal in dimensions to a 50,000-ton battleship, and yet when fully loaded will weigh only 156 tons. Accommodation for passengers and crew have been built in the hull, while in the basement the control and navigation rooms are housed. This flying machine will be capable of cruising 4,500 miles without refueling. When completed it will have cost $2,250,000.

PICK CADET CANDIDATES Three Are Named by Robinson to Take West Point Quiz. Bu Times Snecinl # WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Senator Arthur R. Robinson today announced that he had named the following to take entrance examinations for West Point Military Academy: Edgar W. Jones, Bedford: Hershel Johnson, Bloomington, and Joseph W. Kelly, Martinsville. Representative Fred Purnell has named Wepdell 3. Montgomery, Frankfort ‘5