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Show TRIES TO PQ1SDNG1RL: JS HIMSELF A VICTIM Cecil Snyder, 17, Dies When Candy Intended for Her Is Eaten by Fiance. Bessie X-ton, sweetheart oC Cecil Snyder, testified before a coroner's jury at Midvaje yesterday that she ate chocolates choco-lates from a sack in which were those e-harged with poison that caused the dea til of Snyder shortly before 6 o'clock last Friday morning'. At the conclusion of an inquest held before M. M. Taylor, justice of the peace, as acting coroner, the jury brought in a verdict that Snyder died of poison taken with suicidal intent. Brs. Andrew J. Hosmor and J. K. Robertson, Rob-ertson, who attended Snyder, testified to his hainr confessed to putting- the poison poi-son in the chocolates by making- holes in them with a pin. Having loaded some of the piecc3 of candy with the poison, he mixed them with the rest and called upon his sweetheart, daughter of Nels Nelson, proprietor of the rooming house where Snyder lived. The two iite chocolates alternately from (he hag-, according to t Vie girl's testimony. testi-mony. The call upon the young woman whs made about 1 1 o'clock Thursday ni-,'ht. ili-ma inin.-r but a, short while, the young man remarked as he was leaving. "UVlt, I pupss wp ar hot h con ." accord ac-cord in t; ti the testimony of the girl. Were Soon to Marry. Snyder was net yet 17 yea re of air and tho two were to have been married next month, said ihe girl on th witness .stand. She told of ha vine- asked him while thev were ca t i tig thft c.hor-ola.tes w hot her he could evf-r kill himself and of his having answf-rpd that h could not. because, be lo ed life, too well. She ,aid that t he nading of a story in whl h a lover coin-mil coin-mil ted sui'-ide hal prompted her to ask the fU'sl if n. After U--)ving hi? swfthenrt. Snydrr hpcatne etTicusly ill, was taken to hi? room by The night wa'fhman and r. I!o:snipr v;,m called and later Dr. UobTt-son, UobTt-son, it was then that hf? confessed to the met h. of taking thp poison, i.'h-u les W'atKfui, drmr i l'-ik in the Midval drug store-, testified to Iiaving nold Snyder ptdson. He said that Snvder evphiined that he wanteo It for poisoning coyoie-s. Planned Double Death. 1. J. M it son, room ma tc nf Snyder, testified lira I when Snyrler hea rd t hn t Mis.s Nelson had suffered no ill offects from eatiri:,' thf; andv ho wanted to go .and kill her with a pistol. Uiler, aeeord-ing aeeord-ing to t soil's tent imony, he relented a nd paid t h;i t be was glad sho rlirj not get ;my of 1i;e -hfn olat ex containing t lie lOison. i-;v.n latr Sjiydr assured Mat-son Mat-son t hat he bad not tit k-n the poison with the in i cntion of ending bin IH'e and .-Lskf-d tii tit his mother at'snrcd of this, according to Matsim's (est i rnony. No motive ffir the laking of his own 11 fo and 1 1 ,e apparent endea vor to tiling his pwcethcoi't an imconscbnis partl'.-l-panl in Ids murder a rid Filicide plan was rewad bv by the investigations at the innneMt. Tli voting man was a i;on of a M i s. I'. e(ia rst rorn of I Vlica.n l'olnt, on i;t.ah lake;, it. in nndersii'O.l. |