A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > District of Columbia http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=323 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=31687 Submitted by: barbara-dave Article Title: Washington Post Article Date: April 9 1912 Article Description: NY Murder-Snyder Page 5 Article Text: Washington Post April 9, 1912 NY Murder-Snyder Page 5 DELAY COST HIS LIFE Surgeon Might Have Saved Victim of Wife's Scissors. SHE SCREAMS WHEN ACCUSED Mrs. Snyder, Formally Charged With Murder of Her Husband, the Turf Editor, and Held Without Bail - Tells Story of Stabbing, Which She Holds Was Accidental. New York, April 8. - Following an autopsy at the morgue today on the body of Walter J. SNYDER, editor of Sports of the Times and victim of wounds inflicted by scissors in the hands of his wife, Coroner's Physician, Otto C. SCHULTZE said that if medical aid had reached him in time an operation might have saved his life. Furthermore, he said, in his opinion the man had lived an hour or an hour and a half after being wounded and then had slowly succumbed to an internal hemorrhage. The autopsy showed, Dr. SCHULTZE said, four wounds - two in the outer covering of the heart and one severing an artery. It was this that caused the fatal hemorrhage. The fourth wound, between the fourth and fifth ribs, was not serious. An inquest into SNYDER's death will be held April 18. No testimony was taken by the coroner today. Mrs. SNYDER, weeping and on the verge of breaking down, was charged with homicide. As she listened to the charge she screamed and buried her face in her hands. She was held without bail. Before the coroner arrived Mrs. SNYDER chatted with newspaper men and agreed to go out to the street to pose for her picture. At that time she seemed to be unconcerned. Woman Tells Her Life Story. When asked to make a statement, she readily agreed, and even smiled as she began. "I was born in Morristown, N. J., where my father has been in various business enterprises," she said. "Besides myself, I have four brothers and four sisters. My father and mother separated when I was quite young. Two of my brothers are dead, but several of my relatives still live in Morristown, Seven years ago SNYDER came to Morristown with a man named Barney DEMOREST, a well-known horseman. They opened a roadhouse there. Shortly before he came to Morristown he was married to Annie TRACEY, of Baltimore, but she secured a divorce from him after he had been in Morristown for some time. I met SNYDER through friends, and he told me of this. Some time later we were married. We went to Newark, N. J., and lived there for a number of years, then we went to Detroit, Mich., where he became secretary of the Detroit Racing Association." At this point Mrs. SNYDER started to cry, and wrung her hands pitifully. "He started to go around with other women, and would not listen to me. He met a woman named YAEGER, and became her companion all the time. I stood it as long as I could, and then I came East alone. I came to New York to live and forget. To support myself I took positions as housekeeper and maid. I tried to forget him, and was getting along all right, when I heard that he had returned to New York with the YAEGER woman. Agreed to Be Reunited. "I wanted to see him. The Old Glory horse sale was on at Madison Square Garden, and I knew he would be there. So I wrote him a letter to the Garden and he got it. He came to visit me. He was then living at 200 West 140th street with a girl named KAUFIELD. It makes no difference where I was living at the time. "We talked of old times, and he declared that he still loved me. I told him I thought we should try to live together again, and he agreed. I told him, however, that he could not come back to me unless he gave up all other women. He said he would." By this time the woman was weeping hysterically, and had to stop her narrative for some time before she regained her composure. "Walter and I then moved to 604 West 145th street," she continued. "We remained there for some time and then went to 930 St. Nicholas avenue. We got along happily, but he would not give up other women. We did not quarrel, but that was the only thing that he would not do for me." The woman stopped and walked excitedly up and down the room, plainly showing that the strain she has been under was fast telling upon her. Her Version of Fatal Struggle. "Oh, I never realized the seriousness of it all," she cried, wringing her hands, and, dropping into a chair, she buried her face in her arms. "I did not realize how bad it was, or I would have called a doctor sooner than I did. We were out late Saturday night, and in the morning, as I was fixing my hair, and as he was preparing for his bath, he came in with a handful of water and shot it at me. I said if he didn't stop it I would do something to him. " 'What would you do?' he asked me. ' 'Something awful,' I replied in mock seriousness. "I had been cutting the ends of the tidy on the bureau with a pair of shears, which I held in my hand. He grabbed my hands and drew me toward him, and banged my hands in his chest four times. I held the shears in my hands, and they cut him. He then released my hands and went into the bathroom. There was some blood on his undershirt, and I asked him if he was badly hurt. He said no. While he was in the bathroom I washed his underclothes, as he only had two suits, and one suit was in the wash. I am sorry now that I ever washed the suit with the blood on it. "After he had been in the bathroom for some time I became worried, and went into see what was the matter. He was lying in the tub, and could hardly speak. 'Get a doctor, quick; I am dying,' he just managed to whisper, and that was the last thing he ever said. "I ran into the hall and went to the telephone. I called up Dr. AZUL, but he was not in, and I then phoned for Dr. TROUT. The phone boy said they couldn't get him, so they sent for Dr. O'NEIL. When he came he said Walter was dead. "That's just how it happened," she finished. "My belief is that he only meant to frighten me. It is too bad that I did not phone for a doctor before I did." The woman had to be half carried to the Tombs prison. She moaned and cried all the way over, and it is believed that she will collapse entirely. -------------------------------- Detroit Wife Claims Estate. Detroit, Mich., April 8. - Mrs. Bertha T. SNYDER, of this city, who claims to have married Walter J. SNYDER, who was stabbed to death in New York yesterday, eight years ago, and to still be his wife, today asked local lawyers to enter claim in her behalf to the dead man's estate. 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