Word: snyder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Machinal. It is related that Sophie Treadwell, author of Machinal and in private life the wife of Sports-Columnist W. O. McGeehan, witnessed the murder trial of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray; that brooding upon it, she was able to select from the gaudy tangle a single thread on which to build her tragedy. Thus in Machinal a young woman marries, to escape the routine of work in an office, a gross and chuckling businessman. She bears him a child which she hates as she fears its father; then, in a speakeasy, she meets a man with whom she falls...
...mustn't read that," her mother would say, when Jane Gray picked up a newspaper, "that's too old for you." An obedient child, Jane Gray never learned that her father, Judd Gray, had been tried and executed for the murder of Albert Snyder. She was however informed that he was dead and that before his death he had written a series of letters one of which she would receive every year on her birthday. Last week, Jane Gray received the first of these letters. Newsgatherers wished to know its contents but Jane Gray refused to tell them...
...HERBERT SNYDER...
...Monroe 53 APTHORP E. T. Clapp 8 BECK A. G. Thatcher 22 CLAVERLY 1-11 H. W. Sturges 3 12-22 J. V. N. Hitch 16 23-33--C. B. H. Hollister 30 34-44 R. Follansbee 37 45-55 S. E. Brown 51 CONANT 3-20 J. K. Snyder 5 21-32 S. B. Jones 28 32-48 P. G. Stevens 38 DIVINITY 5-15 E. N. Eddy 9 16-30 M. E. Jones 17 31-42 H. Fowler 40 DUNSTER 14-24 L. B. Osborne 17 25-41 W. P. Salmon 33 42-56 E. B. Otis...
...York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania is a tall gaunt man named Robert G. Elliott, official executioner for those four States. After society had finally decided it must take the lives of Communists Sacco & Vanzetti last summer, it was Executioner Elliott who threw the electric switch. He also killed Ruth Snyder, Judd Gray, and over 100 less famed criminals. When he took up his profession in 1926 he tried to keep it secret. But his name leaked out after a year. He has been uneasy ever since...