Show LAWYER KEPT THREE WIVES FOR YEARS UNSUSPECTED wf Wr w. Wallace Snyder Had Hadin HadD ad vOne in Each of Three Towns f Small J HELD SECRET 25 YEARS 4 yi A J. J R Romance ance of New Yorker Is I. I r r Revealed by His HisT I J T W Wills V NEW NEW V 18 YORK Aug Three enchanted tenants of William Wil Wil- Ham liam Wallace Snyders Snyder's heart were mOre more than disturbed disturb d some months after his heart had ceased to toT to beat to learn that the graduate of New New York university and prominent 1 lawyer Yer and real estate operator of New Jersey had maintained three homes for tor twenty-five twenty years within ten miles of ono one another and had three wives ardent church workers who took an active part with him in his business transactions Secret Leaks Out Through the death of Mr Snyder In Mt Vernon N. N Y T. In February 1915 1916 the great secret of his life leaked out with the tha reading of his will wil The public public pub pub- lb lic was vas kept in the dark regarding the triple life of the wealthy lawyer until wife No 3 at whose home borne he expired commenced suit in the New Jersey courts to secure possession of the home occupied by wife No 2 at Seventh street Harrison N. N J. J According to the records Snyder in 1876 courted an and won the heart and hand of Phoebe Baldwin ono one of the society bells of the Oranges lIe He was in his prime at that time a a. great athlete athlete athlete ath ath- lete with a lucrative law practice that during the week weel called him away from home several days Shortly after his marriage to Miss Baldwin Miss Lucinda Pabst a pretty girl arrived in Tr Trenton N. N J. J Ther Therb she met Mr Snyder who at that time was proprietor of a flourishing dry goods and no notion lon business both in Newark and Trenton L Love e at First Sight To put the story atory in her own words she fell In love with him at first sight and then he paid court to her After several months of courtship Miss Pabst avers she became the wife of Snyder and went to an elaborately furnished furnished furnished fur fur- home at Harrison N. N J. J J. J with the man she ehe claimed as her husband Wife Vite No 3 fit fits into the quadrangular l love ve affair with the filing of a will signed by Snyder with the officials at White Plains N. N Y In that document Snyder says that he ho and Miss Sara another New Jersey belle were Vere made man and wife in Buffalo N. N Y March 5 C 1898 Now that he is dead and his money and property are to be divided the ther r romances mances of the most popular man in New Jersey and his three wives will wm be revealed in the circuit court some time next month How Friends Heard of Affairs After fter Snyders Snyder's death this notice appeared appearEd ap ap- ap- ap in the he Newark papers Funeral services for W. W Wallace Vallace Snyder took place last night at his late residence in Mt rIt Vernon N. N Y and in interment In- In was made today In the family plot in Mt Pleasant cemetery this city Mr Sn Snyder der who at one time Ume conducted conducted con con- ducted a a. dry goods store at Broad and New J streets Newark was born horn In Orange sixty seven years rears a ago o and was wasa a son of the l lt late te John Snyder He was city clerk of Orange in 1870 and afterward afterward afterward after after- ward studied law and was admitted to the New York bar He was a graduate grad grad- nate of the Newark academy and of New York university In the class of 6 67 He lie was a member of the Westchester Bar Ear association the Sons of the American American Amer Amer- ican Revolution and Mt Kisco lodge F. F and A. A M. M He is survived by his wife who was Miss Phoebe Baldwin of of Orange and the brother Col II 11 Snyder formerly of Orange but now of Brooklyn A similar r n notice tc anI eared in the Mt V Vernon papers but this stated that he was survived by his wife Sarah White White- nack Snyder of Elm avenue Mt 1 Vernon This started an Inquiry which brought out that he had three homes one in Mt rU Vernon another in East Orange and the third in Harrison S Suit it Is Begun After Arter the funeral Mrs Snyder of Mt Vernon took an Inventory notary of what was left to her by her husband She found i in a note book the address at Harrison She demanded possession of the property property prop prop- erty and when the Mrs Snyder who lived there refused to give it up began suit GUlt Lucinda Pabst Snyder who is known In Harrison for her work for charity and the churches holds the fort In the home from which the Mount Vernon woman wants her ousted I 1 lived with Mr l Snyder for more mort than twenty-five twenty years she says I met him In liv Trenton and when we wo were married we had only enough money to get along with We moved to Harrison and began housekeeping My husband told me he hp was a car car- penter He began to build and I was his helper not only at home but at at athis his work I carried lumber sorted bricks and ran errands on my bicycle When labor was scar scarce e I painted our r rooms oms varnished the floors and papered papered pa j the walls Yet he left me roe without without with with- out a cent while his other wives who helped him spend his money are lire to get pet 50 a week But by and by Mr Snyders Snyder's Increasing business called him away from home more and more I 1 did not distrust him To Fill Grave With Dishes But once I accused him of loving other women He flew into a rage to took k his walking stick and broke every dish In the house I cried That was all I could do I have saved those broken dishes and If I lose my roy suit I will wUl open his his' grave and give William Wallace Snyder what is left of the dishes Mrs Lucinda Pabst Snyder then ad admitted admitted ad- ad admitted that she knew at one time he her r husband maintained a home homo in Irvington Irving Irving- ton a suburb of Newark another i In n Harrison and a third in the exclusive e section of East Orange I I 1 wonder if the Mount Vernon wife e j is JI the same woman I heard he ha had ed d married in Irvington One winters winter's s night long ago I trudged through th tho e snow now enoY knee high over to Irvington an and d s saw aw my husband nd with a woman 1 I r sf f followed Allowed them to New York and we we wead sI sh h had iad an encounter on Fourteenth street I brought my William home by the theair h lair hall of the head All seemed well a after fter that until ho e told me his bust busi n was ness so large he could only stay a at t home two days a week That n ar l ly y broke my heart S Shows hows Copy of Will Mrs Lucinda Pabst Snyder showed a copy of a will she found in a suit he lie h had bad ad left at home It leaves his entire e estate state to his executors with instructions instructions t ions to pay the sum of 50 per week t to o Phoebe B. B Snyder of East Orange d during her natural life Ufe if she shall soong so soong l long ong remain unmarried and to Sara D D. D daughter of Alfred o of P Pleasant Valley Mercer c county New Jersey 1 I the sum of 50 cp p per er week during her natural life if s she he shall so so- long remain sin single le an and sI su u unmarried It also directs that any income I above the a week be used t to o educate his children Helen born bom at I ton Irving in in- 1899 and William Walace Val Wai- l lac ace b born riT at at Mount l Vernon In 1901 la a and lt nd at al the expiration of the trust for forthe forthe t the he two women the estate is to be bo di divided divided di- di v vided between these children There Theres I is s also a provision of 25 a week for formy formy formy my brother Edward H. H Snyder if at a any ny time he should need ft it The t two wo Women omen named named are are made executors ta tT T Tho hg Harrison wife is not mentioned at ataU atall a all aU ll nor is Sara referred to tos toas a as s his wife as in the will offered at White Plains The first wife of Snyder lives In a p palatial home on Hawthorne avenue E East Sast Orange Orang She has plenty of of money oney i it t Is said and has refused to enter any c contest for property left by her hex hus- hus cb b and band To the East Orange and Mount Verjon Vernon Veron Ver- Ver n non jon wives Snyder was not a carpener caipen- caipen t ter er but a lawyer whose whoso business waso was wasso wasso s so o extensive he could remain at home b but ut two or three days a week weel Ills in income income inome in- in c come ome ba backed ked up his claims Former Judge Thomas A. A Davis of O Orange range has been retained by the Mrs S Snyder in In Harrison and promises promIse many revelations when the three widows widows' face each other in court |