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WOMAN AND LOVER
TO DIE.
CONFESSED TO MURDER OF HUSBAND.
AN ALIBI THAT FAILED.
A New York cable this week to Manila papers reports that sen- tence of death has been passed on Mrs. Ruth Brown Snyder and her lover Henry Judd Gray, for the wilful murder of the former's husband, Albert Snyder, on March 20 last.
The case came for trial in the New York court on April 18, and was the eduse celebre of the month.
20,
1927:
BATHS FOR CANTON,
A GENERAL'S PROPOSALS.
General Teng Yen-hua, Chief of the Bureau of Public Safety, re- cently made a proposal for the raak- ing of public bathrooms in the city Following is the gist of his pro- posal: "Bodlly cleanliness is essen- tial to human health and also a good way to guard against skin fn- fections. In the large cities of for 'eign countries, public bathrooms are generally provided. In England and America, Buch facilities are. complete, ample funds being allöt ted to their maintenance. A very small fee will be charged- to 'the citizens who go in for a bath, to cover the general expenses of up- keep and maintenance. In this city, however, no such public util The following brief statement ities have been made. Conse. gives an outline of the charge de-quently, the poor classes cannot, tailed by the prosecution.
after a whole day's toiling, find any The death of Spyder, 46-year-old | nuituble place to have a wash. This art editor of Motor Boating was is not only inconsistent with the described by District Attorney sanitation doctrine but is also the Richn Newcombe as the re deficiency of the Municipal Ad- sult The "most cold-blooded, | ministration. I have therefore put brutal ever uncovered."
| forward this proposal and hope that Thowho knew Albert Snyder measures will be taken to arrange found attractive. He Wa for such establishments."--Canton quiet, l-mannered and hard Gazette. working. He enjoyed pottering around a moter boat and had some. mechanical skill He disliked going out at night.
His won the other hand, liked ermeat, "Tommy" Sn der, as was known by her gay friends, went to card partles, occasionally drank liquor and had many men friends.
ago.
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CURRENT CALLS IN CANTON. 12
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12 Brood of pheasants.
Squeeze.
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15 Weird. In the latest copy of the Canton 16 Cattle fish. Gazette to hand, there is a list of 20 Small waterways.
29 Mark "Tommy" Snyder met Henry no fewer than fifty "Slogans for 22
Parched. Judd Gray more than two years the People" issued by the Pro-24
paganda Department in connexion 25 Square measurement. Gray, married and the father of with the "Purge the Party cam-Belt.
20 27 Roman orator, a child, was described as short
paign:
28 Trial. and pleasant-faced. His intimate It is stated that the slogans "are 30 Scholar, friends have said they could not an embodiment of the aims and 24 Stalks. comprehend his having participat-spirit of the Nationalist Move- 30 lelands.
ed in the crime attributed to him. Iment," and among the 60 are to be 39 Place of sacrifice.
Down.
It seemed ridiculously incongruous found calls, for the execution of 1 Capable of being estimated. that the "Bud" Gray, who made a Hsu, Chien, Teng Yen-ta and "the 42 Wand. comfortable living selling brass- unworthy and covetous Sun Fo 43 Indian agitator. the 44 Give sparingly. feres and corseta to retail dry who betrays the party and Koods stores in New York State country." There is a slogan call-45 Wooden pin. cities, could have become a muring for the execution of Borodin derer.
"who cursos and disturbs China and the Kuomintang," one asking for the dismissal of Wang Ching wei who "is ubgrateful to the masses of the people," and, among- the numerous slogans of a general nature is one calling for the "clean up of all the local Sharks and un- scrupulous gentries.
A Mystery At First. The slaying of Snyder at first held all the elements of a sensa. tional mystery.
on
Slogan No. 47 is a call for the emancipation of the Tibetans.
By kind permission of Lt. Col. B.B. Ferrers, D.S.O. and Officers the band of the 1st Batt. Camero-! nians will play at the Kowloon Dock beach at 6.30 this evening, and on Saturday that of H.M.S. Hermes, by permission of Capt. R. Ellot C.B.D. and officers will give selections.
At 7.30 o'clocit Sunday morning March 29. Mrs. Spyder, her hands tied, made her way to her young daughter Lorraine's bedroom. The girl was aroused and together they discovered" the body of Sayder, He lay in his pyjamas, He had been struck on the head by a sash weight and his throat was bound by picture wire. Police were summoned when Lorraine had run to the home of a neighbour. Mrs. Snyder told a straightforward story. She said that the family had returned early In the morning from a card party. She was partially undressed, she said, when she heard a noise, She was seized by a "tall man of to Mrs. Gray had been mailed at such a time as to indicate he great strength and then she could not possibly have made a
of piece fainted. A torn
hurried trip to New York over the Italian newspaper was regarded
week-end. as a "clue."
Furthermore, Haddon Gray, a Mr. Snyder said jewels and Zoos throughout the world may clothing had been stolen. They friend but not a relative of the has just been reheard. Durity soon be enriched by the addition later were found hidden, und salesman, came to police head- The message published" in the this second trial extracts from the of specimens of those kinds of police for the Arst time be quarters and offered what appear- the engrossing trial of a Fronch- were read out in Court to show impossible to capture alive, as thegan to suspect her. For 18ed to be substantiation
TANGIER COMEDY.
DIPLOMACY AND THE
LAPWING.
Appeal Succeeds,
In the lower Court the French-1
man lost his case and was fined
1.50f. He appealed and the case.
DEATHLESS "SHOT."
GAME BAGGED ALIVE.
Times not long back referred to message to the Times of March 23 animals which have been almost,
A Letter: Blind.
an
•
The
of the alibi.. man accused of shooting a lapwing the importance of the case. A
But, Gray was taken into cus- hours she was questioned: Her result of an invention of Captain face pale, but with jaw get, tody and on the way from Syra- on land over which the diplomatie majority of the Judges of the Barnett Harris, sportsman and re-she turned back her inquisitors cuse to New York he began a con- representatives at Tangier claim. Court of Appeal reversed the judge presentative of the Chicago Zoo-ven when they pointed out dis-fession which occupied some three under a concession from a long ment of the law Court. They logical Society.
The alibi hours in the telling. decensed Sultan, to have sporting did not dispute the existence or
It is a deathless bullet which crepancies in her stories.
Gray's name, found on a tele-had been prepared in advance, rights. For long years this re-i
legality of the concession, but
produces, complete unconscious- serve has heen their playground. found that the limits of the sport ness but no permanent ill effects.
phone pad, was introduced. Then he said, and Haddon Gray had Here, away from the public gazeing reserve have been marked out
The "mercy bullet," as he calls she made her confession, later re-aided in its perpetration. they have ridden after boar and with a certain traditional diploit, contains a chemical which is re-
latter was examined and testified pudlated.
before the Grand Jury, which re- fallen off their horses, have shot matic disregard for exactitude and leased upon striking the animal.
turned an indictment charging at race rabbits and missed elusive precision. To put it delicately, Entering the blood, this drug al- snipe. As many diplomatic reputa- the diplomatists boundary pusts, most instantly produces a state of
Two detectives were dispatched first degree murder, but was not tions have been made and lost by like their dispatches, left room for
to Syracuse, New York, where held as an accessory.
The stories told by Henry Gray the waters of Sharf el Akab as
manoeuvring. The Frenchman Captain Harris will go to Borneo Mrs. Synder said Gray could be
and Mrs. Synder varied somewhat have been made and lost in Tan-
soon to use his new weapon. He found.
of the actual gler's Legations.
At first glance It appeared thens to the details With admirable tenacity, genera-} The Court has throughout this expects to secure orang-outangs,.
Police found evidence tions of diplomatists have clung long trial taken immense trouble. which are easy to shoot, but ex-corset salesman had a perfect killing. to this concession. Sultans have The Judges of Appeal again visit-tremely difficult to capture alive. alibl. He was known to have been that Snyder had been Induced to in Syracuse on the Saturday after-drink heavily at the card party, come and gone, treaties have been ed the scene of the slaughter of
The theory was advanced that made and unmade, Tangier's entire the lapwing. They reclined on the had watched the Frenchman plot-noon preceding the murder, a and chloroformed.
drugged status has been altered, but this very spot where the Frenchman ting death. The whole scene was "please do not disturb" sign had privilege has survived all the had sat and taken his long, steady re-enacted in the presence of the been hung outside his hotel door Synder awoke from a
the witnessee, the on Saturday night, a voice re sleep, when he was hit with the vicissitudes of fortune. Any aim at the sitting bird. They entire Court,
others. Of all who sembling Gray's had telephoned sash weight, and finally met death threat to curtail it has always moved on a few yards and examin- police, and brought about diplomatic unity ed the position where the unwit had figured in the tragedy only the desk clerk, his bed apparent from strangulation carried out
ly had been slept in, and a letter with the pictura wire. which nothing else could achieve, ting and over-confident lapwing the lapwing was missing.
was, therefore, vindicated.
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