Charles H. "Charlie" Snider was born in North Carolina on January 23, 1889. On December 14, 1918, Snider—freshly discharged from the army at Camp Greene—slashed the throat of Southern Railway engineer Hugh Alexander Winders (1892-1918) and cut the arms of Fronie Snider, his wife of six months. Winders died a short time after the assault. A subsequent trial found Snider guilty of manslaughter, and he was sentenced to serve not less than ten nor more than fifteen years in prison. While at the state prison farm in Halifax County in April 1919, Snider signed his name to a document accusing prison officials of committing brutalities against a Black inmate named John Baker. During the ensuing investigation, Snider courageously stood by his statement, despite intense pressure from the prison board and staff to back down. By the summer of 1920, Snider had been relocated to the state prison in Raleigh. He was murdered by an unknown party while in Greensboro on November 28, 1925.