RUTH SNYDER & JUDD GRAY Guilty MURDER 1927 Newspaper *
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RUTH SNYDER & JUDD GRAY Guilty MURDER 1927 Newspaper * is a complete, genuine historic newspaper with the following title, date and description: THE NEW YORK TIMES , May 10, 1927. * Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray guilty of murder * Death sentence This 54 page newspaper has a three line, three column headline on the front page: "MRS. SNYDER AND GRAY FOUND GUILTY IN THE FIRST DEGREE IN SWIFT VERDICT; BOTH TO GET DEATH SENTENCE MONDAY" with subheads that include: "First Ballot Dooms Her" "Widow's Story False and Gray's the Truth, Jurors Find" and more. Other news of the day throughout. Good condition. source: wikipedia: Ruth Brown Snyder ( 1895 January 12 , 1928 ) was executed for the murder of her husband, Albert Snyder. She was electrocuted (by 'state electrician' Robert G. Elliott ) at Sing Sing Prison on January 12 , 1928 , along with Judd Gray, her lover and co-conspirator. In 1925 Snyder began a series of affairs that ended with a thin, mousy, and unremarkable man named Judd Gray. Gray, a corset salesman, and Snyder met in varying Manhattan hotels for their adulterous trysts. The relationship wasn't enough for Snyder; she began to plan the murder of her husband, enlisting the help of her new lover. Snyder persuaded her husband into a $48,000 life insurance policy and began varied attempts to kill him, all of which he survived. Finally
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