The evening world. Newspaper, March 29, 1909, Page 2

her left and Father Hickey the same,of I!fe, and both stopped back again her and had {elt, also F en quickly when Warden Benham gave a signal and the full voltage was sent through placed thelr stethosc » and again heavy bands held, and the vody relaxed. when the current was turned off after a full minute. As the thunderbolt of yolts entered the body an unearthly gasp escaped her lips. I shall never fo) the sound. It was unlike anything I ever heard It lasted only a second or two, but I never wisn to hear it gain. A deep flush overspread her face and her neck began to swell perceptibly. A livid whiteness then set in, it was the fina! shade of death. | The fingers of both hands snapped toward the palms after the shock, and remained that way. The lever re- Jeased, Executioner Davis stepped from his cage and placed his ht hand on the muscles of the neck. Slight flut- | terings were found. Frightened Suspense he terrible routine. ‘Then to the surprise of all, the phy- ns stepped back, and again the ful current was driven Into the body. 1 was no sound. ody agall right and relaxed » triple shock ickly destroyed all 8 of life. ere me 8 ‘The visiting phystclans moved for 1, apy thoscope, shook ir heads and returned to thelr seats. than ten minutes in the chamber. Mrs. Farmer showed the most amaz She never faltered a yes, Into eternity, think she proved | woman | ever heard of, Th returned to the warden's ofiic The stethoscopes of Drs. Gerin and execution was pronounced a Bpitzka quickly found other evidences | every detall, as electrocutions a Dying Confession of Wite visitors ce cee (Special (om a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) AUBURN, N. Y., March 29.—Mary Farmer's promised dying con- fession completely exonerating her husband was written by her in her cell Friday atternoon, and sworn and subscribed before B. F. Winegar, notary ! a) public, on Sunday afternoon, It was ade { of Holy Family Church, as follows: To Rey, J. J. Hiekeyt My husb: » James D. Farmer, neve Brennan's death, nor never knew anything about it Ul the trunk was opened, I never told him anything what had hap- pened. I feel he has been terribly wronged James D. Farmer was not at home the day the affair hap- pened, neither did James D, Farmer ever put @ hand on Sarah Brennan after her death, Again I wish (o aay, as strongly asl can, that my husband, Jamen D, Farmer, ts entirely innocent of the death of Sarah Brennan; that he knowingly had no part in any plane that had led to it, and that he knew nothing whatever about It, Signed, MARY Il, FARMER, nef oe Mrs. Farmer Meets Death at 6.15 A.M.; Does Not Collapse (Special from a Staff Correspondent of The Evening World.) AUBURN, N, Y., March 29.—Mrs. Mary Farmer was shocked to death in the electric chair in the prison here at 6.15 o'clock this morning | for the murder of Mrs, Mary Brennan, at Brownsville. The woman was brought into the death chamber at 6.04, There were three shoc The first application of 1,840 volts, seven nd one-half amperes, lasted for one minute and two seconds, Then, as the physicians after an examination of her heart found muscular Alutterings, |, there was a second shock, lasting five seconds. Again an examination w current was turned on full force. At 6.15, after an examination by Drs. Hickey, dad any bund to sarah e E, M. Sommers, Fred M. that she was dead Warden Benham and the Rev. Father Besey stole ne MIS to the); woman's cell at 3.45, and the priest began whi dying, Mrs. Farmer sat on her couch. the | the cor It may Her head was bowed, s ve the electrode full contact. arose she gazed aout fet as o as pare in black, In her tient a trance she She her lef crucifix, and over wide. Mrs 1 kept the dec Women prison euendanls who | 1 the cell and stood on DAG , entere either side of Mrs. H ing ina louder voice and his words seeme il 2 ells Then there port Roth arms rested on the w h wires attendants of six € row ! s E Bound Down With Strapa, ten ° : as great strap was fastened about the pie Lu 7 er body, a second Se iantaeenit ; a r arms then the bifurcated the women. The March to The mar was | above the knees, her a cap ar- de of stcel and wires, was ad, reaching down Death, the + nost to her eyes Farmer 1 } ack of her head to dragged Btone r is now tn The War- Bhe was u furcat side continued gown, T 1 his ded hollow clally & 8 ONE 8 h den “dropped his cha wor draw she \ feet: her hy Father Hickey Tolls oi distance to her right. Dr. Helen M. |The tense, drawn faces of the witnesses Westfall sat dire in front, The indicated their frightened suspens woman's attendants had ut) Not a sound was made, The y led good-by before ente exchange: ‘tans olone br Oy assistant. I stood against the wall with again the shrouded with Miss B: 3. The second Hardly was the setting complete five seconds, Again pes the hand of Mrs, Farmer's body, The figure started aincesaedt her neckea forward, tightening the straps, and of Mavtha Place: Cheater then shot upward fe aches. 1 others, Blanched faces 1e Walked deliberately, lth Says Farmer Is Innocent: vas made, and ona signal to the electrician fal Boyle, H. M. Westfall and P. M. Donovan, Warden Benham announced | ges us the big cell door swung | ™s wn aside and about the ° __THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MARCH 29, 1909. : Woman Executed To-Day, Her Confessor, the Warden and Diagram of Death March the bravest | | oe CHAIR pete d his thr m dying happy 4 ne me so mu hat you did her t in the death chamber, and Tam, Dunnigan to priest's ' realized what struy word being a ‘ ited was over She sighed alae it pressed her faco close to the ne d, but | mind be- o¢ tron and Tere essiO | by. Jim, Th en ohe has not want re iby to save her hua-| Forgive me and pray for me to-night.” it some time care for| Mrs. Dunnigan and Miss Mary Gor- a F wal i Ue AAV ony tare Me man, the two nt Who will ac- bac tia ¢ 2 ‘| eineen ested, Her) company her to death ie h t s \ and tears rolle r ba een mans th iss ° but nev ed hu: Her y Was . 1S to obs about to They urged he $ whit 5 ‘ folks at) "Just one second mor anything | yim, don't forget ttle Pete—may M were nthe f pat t B ng Mrs i} key, US ° t it T don't srougt ene iy the | melanehe the against the b sugh losed her oboe Autopsy Disproves Theor y That [Yoman Was Insane r Jefferson Medi- Evening Worl AUBL sensation feat was ological w York Canandaigua, ston of complicit een In talked MAY SEEK A NENW TRIAL FOR FARMER, organ and! app, Mareh es, Wes algo ; at re no dn- | Court of Appeals ¢ disease |received the appeal men- lot James D. 5 ay for the de by Mrs and fro not be a that hated mi | SENATE. CONFIRMS ‘DURANT. ston Port New Collector at Cha Mrs. Farmer's Last Hours 2@ Brave, Jim!’ Conden:ned tea tr te sninatin eae eee Pen Woman Cries to ae ual Hana ira oom freien womans ss Auburn, pis dea, y ut greet tat in the corridor of the coodemped| at sed os 8 bs ies Joba aie aistiat ih Ks Sas | Sui’ ] . Far WOMAN WIELDED AXE,| Pac! in In ‘om sutte pris In was Cler was ” 8 ut sigh tertown and, with the IN SWORN CONFESSION MRS. FARMER DECLARES HU SBAND INNOCENT f “CUTICUR CUR PLANNED MURDER ROOSEVELT LaNDS Cll GET “FORTUNE” AND HAS A DR FOR THEIR GniLD AT THE AZORES —— na Ex-Pres and mers Began by Forging, Governor Welcomes Jeeds to Victim's Property | ident Has Months Before Killing, | Him and Party as Guests, | ¢ Informally Azores, M. The steamer Hamburg with ch oy Theodore ked Mrs. | Roosevelt and the mem! Body on board, put in here to-d “| the m party Brennan's The sta port dry rezema. moval was co seth to it fur two ye on my ferape it o! to it unti! “POLE Canadian Officer P Poisoned by Weeds ~Cozema Developed and Legs Became Scaly Ankles were Very Sore and Itchy — For Weeks He Could Not Wi Wear Shoes, FREED FROM ITCHING RY CUTICURA REMEDIES “T have been eeriy fred of I wos inspecting the re ot noxlons weeds, it being part of ny duty, from ths edge of a river and tantly in tho dust from the At night 1 shook out my trous cleansed my liinbs, but felt a 1 paid no attention ‘8, but I noticed a scum lice fleh acales, T could d yet T did got attend to ba too itehy and and began getting two runnin, Ty - The oy My ankles were all sore an Trunk, Then Moved Into | one ony. A. De Freitas Ma elt mera ecre ae 0 n O 2 elt P| eka. Her House. of Horta, came c ot anil fe ular tele garrand ' : welcomed Mr. Ro Aiduteeclraotta = membbrs of the Roosevelt par » Soap and some some respects the murder for the) {tkenvashore by the Governo Cuticura Ointment. In less thao ten ' mission of which Mrs. Mary Farmer | tough the town. days I could put on iy boots and in / fs = reception. lesa than threo works, though on duty red h penalty tn Aubura| v Wl th L was free f th Bits -| Mr Roosovett attended a dance o: fli the time. FS eae Sots. ant 3 with the most de-| i Ly founded teh I tell you frankly ein criminal history, | board the Hamt ‘© that Cutioura saved me from what the He dl took husband killed ng frleud—under doctors call Pp. toba, Mar. 20, 1907 eeu sapls 24, 1908." Capt, Geor} a bad leg, Bliss. Chief of Po Morris, Manle —=_ on of the most sordid of danced with several of t f on e for months,! All memvers of the Rooseve! ’ | one] A For Baby s Bath | n ——- Cuticura Soap has Become the GREETING TO ROOSEVELT - Mothers Eavorltes rs . ‘ farm bath: wit! Cutioura Soap and ON HIS STOP \T GIBRALTAR, gentio anv with Cuticura Ointe most soothing emollient pres u sales American Wee Oid it for Their Child, ; hirend ven t ihere is one about the & e hor gulity. patr—they ald nefit themselves. They c © velief that Yi mur- he pos » years ' FREDERICK 30ND, Sane nee fe Ber) NOTED ACTOR, ACCUSED, y Saturday night The Plot Begins. =, Wife Ca of His Va October, 1007, the Farmers went to Georgia istice of the P , fixed Wedr or, drew up a deed nan house and lot er for a consid who was pract Watertown, impersor nd forged her name, recorded tn the office of the County ke with every appearance of ri and the he xarcers went back to at, since Bond an ble on have ber n the road h both ty of as itery erlme. murder obtained a own home so that the p: of tine to wash tention of tie old in and the wife Was to step behind and brain her with an axe, And In way the murder was flnally carried in April Put Body in Trunk. ie carried to w the Ait sthma K Bronchitis Difficult Breathing Omesa Oil Pour a hese of Omega Oil the truth is going to her again well tell y left y 6 a Vfurnithre oy will have to thre kk dumb siked Into the e at by the Early the | to Farmer's with him red mie hh the body of it of the trunk | Mes, Brennan tay crumpled up_and dis- | torted. Farmer repeated his statement | in a cup of boiling water, hold the that Mrs ian bad deeded the | mouth and nose close to the cup, and house and {fu re to him and his wife | Brennan to go to Watertawr and see it| throat and chest with the Oil. It the document had not been properly ex-| gives quick relief, J0cy) 25c., 60e. ecuted and deed. He tren advised |» inhale the rising steam. Also rub the | Only Company of Its Kind in the Worid! | Your Old Trunk or Bag. | Kage Made Good 4 Ousted From Home, | rtown and | The Ja wyer them the he woman i as vague, d the woman could not) neen his wife ee ceaT We ic TRO Ane Ns When Bi rot t o Browns-| pox ay, ville. that he vd that the | Bi “LOOK FOR THE “wt Far a thelr with thetr i i ved Into he FM Flcerernncad home ning the body of Mrs. Bi ad been m too, i was In a back room on the second | BAGGAGE REPAIR Teen ited by the Brennan U4 noae"feom Calon Sq. 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