SHOOTING ADMITTED
DIVORCED MAN ARRESTED IN HOLLYWOOD. FRACAS IN HOME OF FORMER ' WIFE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. HOLLYWOOD, October 16. Colonel Martin Snyder, aged 43, former husband of the film actress Ruth Etting, is held on suspicion of attempted murder and kidnapping as the result of the shooting of Myrl Aiderman, aged 30, Ruth Etting’s musician husband. Colonel Snyder allegedly forced Aiderman into a car at the point of a gun and drove him to Ruth Etting s home, where, after a violent argument, he twice shot at him. Snyder’s daughter, Edith, arrived to find Snyder and Ruth Etting struggling in the bedroom for possession of the gun. She quietened her father after firing a shot at him which went wild. Snyder then walked to the neighbouring house of Wayne Morris, a screen star, to telephone the police. He admitted the shooting. Snyder was divorced ai year ago on grounds of cruelty. Aiderman and Ruth Etting were married secretly six months ago. The police believe that the motive for the shooting was jealousy. Alderman’s condition is serious.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1938, Page 5
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176SHOOTING ADMITTED Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1938, Page 5
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