Show GRAY ORAY RELATES TALE OF HIS ACTIVITIES IN MURDER CASE Pictures Mrs Snyder As One Who Vho Long Plotted Crime POISONING TRIED Salesman Candid In Describing Relations With Yoman QUI COU COURT counT lOCSI New The Thc Iress lr ss ii en c a r y Gray tears stream stream- streamIng Ing nl down his itIs race face freely ton On fe l Cathay that Ire he took nn an part In tito tho of lbert inder ho cr that lint Mrs Irs Hurls Snyder nIl r gave ga hint him actie It h calli and that SnI r could not hn have hr 11 overcome o h her r l Gray Cray almo t S I Ito he left the lie stand ll hen flirt Ourt 1111 jOl at 1 J I 13 and ami had to tolo lo he from the thc court room s. Mt-s. Irs was W wildly situ she also hall hail to ho he out I by matrons As I tIme he tiled filed front from the wo- wo titter trier their Were ere sol sobbing l openly QUEENS COUNTY COURT COURT- COURThOUSE I HOUSe N N. Y May islay By Thi AE Associated Pres Judd Information about abou Gray Gry secured leU lethal al poisons for Mrs l Buth de Ire he testified today toda but when Sh ah suggested his active participation tion In the murder of her husband lit itt refused Court convened today tody with Sam Sam- Samuel Samuel uel Miller Greys Grey's counsel resuming ing direct examination of his cU- cU client ent who with Mrs Irs Snyder is 15 charged with the murder of her husband Albert Snyder art editor Under direct examination In his 0 o is 11 defense he said she asked him to shoot hoot Snyder after actor her attempt with poison polson and with gas had and he told her yoLi 1 0 will have to see this through h alone n one At noon recess way with his recital nl- nl a lie hall had already been on the U I stand for five lve hours corset The salesman sold said that In I Xo 1926 she sho told him Im to I asIc a doctor she knew lie was wt friendly with about knockom drops REMINDS HIM HIMI I told her I 1 would try It he Ir testified The next morning sh sir I reminded me or of my promise and an I said she sho wanted the right away Gray said he got the Information I fo for her but that Mrs Irs Snyder trie I to get the poison but failed ii lie said she asked him to get It for fc her and amid ho he refused Later she sho got It from a from Hartford lie he continued In December I met her and an sh said sIte she had used It twice on her he husband of the gas tube tub accIdentally with her second at- at at tempt She said she had no h he said because the gas hit him hitup I up and he was just sick Then I he said ald Mrs Irs snyder aske i hUT him if he knew other ways was to kill ki and ho he replied he lid not I Site he said she he was afraid hr he hurt might become suspicious of at her her he testified COULD COULDN'T Just before Christmas last Gray Gra said Mrs rs Snyder told hint of oC her he husband slapping and threatening her Ito He said she Bhe expressed tea fear for 0 her life She ho asked me It if I knew hoW to t testified shoot hot a revolver Gray and I said no Gray G ra said eald he went ent to the Snide homE the day after Christmas to II tose so se the tree and the presents i r orraine and Mrs Snyder mother Mrs Irs Josephine Brown werE present until after lunch Ihen Gray t testified Mrs Snyder asked mo mc If I wouldn't help heli her by shooting her 11 refused and she then asked for forsu to suggestIons su as to how she could do di dithe tile the killing kUling I told her she Il see seo It 1 I went back Ic 10 alone ant and New York lie He said Bard that earlY In January lre he told him she w was having trou trou- trouble I bill ble keeping up her husbands husband's Irs In and lie he advised her to tc said she would think cancel ancel It She It over O y NEW May By The Henry Judd Gray the tho little I- I East ast Orange N J r. r sal salesman man charged with Albert Snyder ma a- a me art editor took tire the stand defense Tuesday In Inthe In it his own murder triaL the he Snyder Gray Erect voice olce welt well his unusually good the tho lov by lovable able ible little cuss as Mrs Ruth Brown irown Snyder Ills his paramour and defendant o-defendant called him In her ller titers letters soon loon WILS wa-s launched Into a L st ry of events leading up to I Ia the he murder ef Albert Snyder It I w a a. story that followed the i titlinG outline given ghen In the opening made I Ifor for or him bliss by his chief of counsel smuel 1 I Miller lIe fixed upon Mrs rs Snyder the of a plot to kill 1111 her for his Insurance which In a cue case or of death by accident would net et her as beneficiary almost lie He began a picure of Ira Snyder that U re her acoman a woman coman predatory In her love lo pursuing him by letters and b by telephone calls caUs and as ls l corn com companion panion anion at numerous night club parties arties and at hotels lie He pictured her em a subtle mentor In the In- In Intrigues that preceded the tho killing and nd told ot of her lIeI Introducing In- In Continued On lA C Two GRAY RELATES STORY OF CRIME Continued From Page One and murder Into their conversations IS WITNESS Gray took the witness stand late lato In the day after Mrs Irs Snyders Snyder's defense had rested Ito followed Lorraine Mrs it ra Snyders Snyder's year nine ear earold old daughter as a a. witness Little Lorraine was asked whether It was light when her mother her on the morning after the murder She said It wu was light and In response to another ques- ques question ion tion said she ran to n a neighbors neighbor's house for fol h help lp She then was ex- ex excused Mrs Snyder surrendered the wit witness n c. c q chair to her hel daughter after aftel occupying occupying- It for tOl more than 12 hours Ot Of that number eight and one half hours ere ere devoted to a t severe ere cross She fixed upon Gray both the plot to kill her husband and tho th actual murder NOTED The state through the persist persist- persistent ent questioning questioning- of oC Assistant Attorney Charles Charles' Froessel brought Mrs Irs Snyders Snyder's testimony to evident confusion In Its last phrases She contradicted her her- herself self sele failed to recollect an and be- be became became came fidgety fidget One contradictory reply followed b by the accusation that she was lying Iring brought op opposing opposing posing attorneys s near blows blow When she resumed her seat beside her counsel Mrs Irs Snyder was In evident distress but did not cr cry She watched Lorraine In- In as the child a mite almost lost In the great chair a added ded her het bit ot of testImony to the thousands of oC words the per per- court stenographers have taken since the trial started When Gray took the stand and begin giving Intimate details of oC their meetings Mrs 1111 Snyder wept ept daUbing dabbing at her eyes ees with a white handkerchief rolled In a ball In her hand band She hung hung- her head during some parts FITS rITS liEn CORSET Gray after telling ot of his early life lite his marriage and giving the age and birthplace of his own daughter described his meeting with Mrs 1 Snyder Their relations transgressed their marital vows on the tho second meeting he said Mrs Ir Snyder he related accompanied him to to the showroom of his firm one night and he there fitted her with a a. corset Mrs Snyder was a weeping weeping- with her head on her arms and her arms resting resting- on counsel table as 35 he told of oC this Although Attorney Miller broUght details details' front from Gray under the handicap of oC drays dray's forgetfulness which Gray explained was duo due to his having been drunk when events occurred before court re- re recessed ceased for fol the day Gray had dix dix- disclosed closed that on a visit to Mrs Irs Snyder Snyders home In Queens Village he found her m ill and fainting lie He explained her condition w was due Ds D's a neighbor had told hIm to the fact that Albert Snyder had been beert told of Mrs Snyders Snyder's goIng goIng- out with a man This man was Gra Gray but Gray was as certain that Snyder never knew It was ho who accompanied his wife on the night In question This was the first testimony that showed Snyders Snyder's ln having had knowledge of oC her In- In Indiscretions discretions In Snyder In direct and examinations cross said her husband never suspected her The affair between n Mrs Irs Snyder Snyder- and Gray began he recounted as a simple flirtation In a res- res restaurant One day In September 1925 only a few weeks after meeting she asked him how much Insurance ho he carried She then told him that her hu husband band car car- carried ned ried onlY a 0 1000 policy The topics of murder and frequently arose In their conversa- conversa conversations he testified Then in Feb Feb- 1916 after many meetings letters telephone calls shopping trips to buy mutual Christmas presents and parties In con con- conspicuous night clubs club she spoke outright ot of killing Albert Snyder Gray was M recovering In a hotel room from excessive drinking ot of the night before Would you OU think me terrible It if I became confident with you ou 1 he quoted quotel Mrs Irs Snyder as asking him that morning ng SUGGESTED He wouldn't ot of course think her terrible What was the trouble She recounted the many quarrels she had with her hums hus husband band He advised her hel to try to Iron them out Then she told him In words he could not vouch she was going to get rid of her husband lIe rejected the Idea But It was as brought up again They went front lOnt nl nIght ht club to night club from hotel to hotel with GrAY always and drinking plen plenty Mrs Snyder drinking some not much lie He supported her contention that she was a a. one highball woman When court recessed for fol the day Gray still was recounting these various parties and hotel so- so sojourns journ for which ho he sometimes furnished the lIquor but some sometimes sometimes times Mrs Irs Snyder would bring a bottle with hero her Mrs Irs Snyder under continued examination cross Tuesday admit admit- admitted admitted ted that she knowing Gray In- In Intended intended tended to kill her husband had handed to him the had left open two doors to her Ier home whEn she went to a 3 bridge party at a 0 friends friend's house on the murder night and had left a bottle of whisky to prime Gray lot br the murder She admitted that after taking rom from Gray her husbands husband's revolver she left It on ona ona a piano where he could find l It it Assistant District Attorney Froessel asked her It if she alto saw law Gray leave leavo the house after the tue murder She said she had Now madame he roared you have told us that you were bound and gagged and lying lying- on your our moth moth- mothers mother's mothers mother's ers er's bed when he left the house Are Arc you lying Edgar F F. Hazelton ot of Mrs Irs Snyders Snyder's counsel rushed to her defense Ann Angry words followed A and Hazelton seemed eeme l labout about to club clash Justice Townsend Scudder brought down with a a. abang bang his heavy gavel Order wu was restored The Tho examination cross went on Froessel then took her het minute minute- minutely ly h- hoer over o her story ot of the aCtual kill killing Int Mrs Snyder became con con- contused confused fused M as to details and frequently said she could not remember Handed ld her second confession she repudiated It almost wholly and accused others ot of putting In there thero things I never said Mid J |