Show I I FRIENDS ADMIT T TAIDING AIDING PlANS Of LOVE lOV MURDERER I Used Grays Gray's Telephone and Rumpled Up Bed Tell Prosecutor PRESSURE IS DENIED Confessions of f Snyder Slayers Are Withheld NEW YORK March 23 AP- AP Mrs Ruth Snyder and Henry Judd I Gray were indicted on charges of I first degree murder by the Queens county grand jury today for the slaying of the womans woman's husband Albert Snyder NEW gW YORK March 23 AP Haddon Gray and Harry Platt S Syracuse friends of Henry Judd Gray Glay ac accused used of the murder of Albert B. B Snyder today told District District Dis- Dis Newcombe that the corset salesman had asked them to cover up for hini at t Syracuse Sunday according to n coming from the room where the two hyo men were were being questioned Henry Judd Gra Gray the police say told lold vo t-vo- that tha t he Wad hail an engagement In New York with witha a friend and that his office oHice might check up on him and add be peeved pec at him for leaving SyraCUSE Syra Syra- CUSE where he wAs supposed to be working hIs sales territory Haddon gray according to the ot of the district attorneys attorney office Is s said ld to have declared it was he who used the telephone from Henry Judd Grays Gray's room in inthe the tho salesman's absence and who rumpled the bed making It appear appear ap- ap pear as though the salesman had i slept there Saturday night E. E Ii F. attorney for Mrs rs Ruth Snyder wll se alleged Confession confession con con- to participating In the murdEr sent detectives to arrest Gray In Syracuse as the other principal In the plot today Issued a statement saying that he was not considering an insanity plea for his client He added that he was not y yet t decided whether to request that tIre woman be tried separately on the murder charge or whether he would agree to the woman and her lover being tried at the same time I INSURANCE I have learned authoritatively he said that Mr SnYder did not I I. I recently raise his Insurance as It has been commonly reported On his own he raised his ITis policy to OOOO two years alto ago Mrs Sn Snyder der after a restless night In her cell In the Queens county jail where Gray also Is held made several requests today that she be permitted to attend the burial of her husband Funeral services for the mIddle mIddle- aged magazine art editor were held at at the Queens village residence last night Mrs Snyders Snyder's pleas to join the procession today to Mount Olivet cemetery were denied District Attorney Newcombe after a morning largely spent In delving Into the alibi angles of the case planned personally to Continued on page 7 FRIENDS ADMIT AIDING PLANS OF LOVE MURDERER Continued page i. i go 10 before belore th the Queen Queena county count grand Jury to present evidence seeking In indictments ot of Gr Grey y and Mrs SnYder for tor first degree murder District Attorney Newcombe Newcom e of lor Queens Que-e-ns county today refused to snake bake public the transcripts or of the theall all alleged ed confessions conCessions ot of Mrs Snyder Sn- Sn der and Gray which the they later recanted d. d claimIng the were made under duress Mrs Snyders Snyder's Sn ders statement occupies fifty fifty- two typewritten pages ages They are my evidence said the distrIct attorney and I will keep them confidential for the present He laughed at the assertion that stat statements c ts were made un and sr r pressure re sute i purees s was not necessary he hel said ald l for tor they told elYth e everything It- It r. r freely Mr Ir Newcombe declined to cUe cuss cusa a printed story to the effect that the crime was hastened by the belief bellef that Mrs Irs Snyder Is to be come a mother The story It was said Mid emanated from a man wh visited d Gray Cray In jail all y yesterday f Fear ar that this development t would bring brim about a crisis between n Snyder and his wife was declared to ha have va b been n put forward as a final reason for or orthe the tho crime Police today set lIet about to tears down piece by piece the elaborate alibi lIbl they say Gray erected for tor bim self Willie while he be and Mrs Irs Snider planned the murder r. r SEEK THIRD T-HIRD MAN I With this In view two acquaintances lanc s or of Cray Oray were brought to this city front Syracuse for examination while Syracuse authorities sought a a third man Gray Oray and fn Snyder ordered held without ball bail yesterday esterday at a a. preliminary hearing be will 11 be arraigned ar- ar tomorrow on Charges or of murd murder r for the Slaying or of Al Albert ert Snyder r. r magazine art edItor found clubbed and strangled d to death to in his home in Queens Village earl early Sunday WILL SEEK DEATH District Attorney y Newcombe or of Qu Queens ens county se seeks ks indictments fot for murder in the first d degree gr e th the pen penalty pen pen- ally alty for tor which Is death In the electrIc elec- elec electric chair Haddon Gra Gray an an insurance agent agent- unrelated to th the defendant and harry Platt en an adjuster were brought from Syracuse for ques- ques Snyder Snyders me life Insurance had b been en Increased from to 5 S- S shortly before his death old ar-old Lorraine Snyder year old y Ine-y probably will eventually receive t Hi e insurance carried by hr her murdered father which the mother had Increased from a f few w weeks ago It was learned The law bW lawin In this state specifically pr provides that a murderer shall not ben benefit from the ute late insurance policy ot of alcUm a a. victim |