Ruth Snyder, Judd Gray [Court House]

Long Island City, Court House - Location of the "Dumb-Bell Murder" trial of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray, original, vintage press photograph, April 18, 1927.

The Snyder-Gray murder of Albert Snyder in Queens, as one crime writer put it, was a "cheap crime involving cheap people." Many considered it the low point in the history of the early 1900's but for those who lived in the thrill-hungry days of the "Roaring '20's," they devoured every sordid detail and made the otherwise mundane personalities of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray into infamous celebrities of the day. Both Snyder and Gray were executed by electrocution in New York on January 12, 1928

This vintage, unsigned, glossy press photograph, approximately 8 x 10 inches is in good condition aside for some minor surface marks, dings, creases and chipping to its top left corner.  Its verso bears a typed press description with hand written edits added.