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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1909
Page
5
Mrs. Mary Farmer was executed by electric chair at Auburn prison shortly after 6 am for the killing of Mrs. Sarah Brennan in Brownville last April. She murmured a prayer before the sentence was carried out.
The second woman executed in the state died at 6 15 a m after three electric shocks of 1840 volts and seven and a half amperes were delivered. Five women witnesses including prison attendants watched as Father Hickey offered prayers. Mrs Farmer left a signed statement declaring her husband James Farmer innocent, written before execution and addressed to Father Hickey. Autopsy followed the pronouncement of death by the prison physicians.
In the autopsy prep of Mrs. Farmer, the photograph of her 2 year old son Peter, now with an uncle in Watertown New York, was discovered smeared under her corsage. She told Father Hickey she had no known relatives.
Mary H. Farmer proclaims her husband James D. Farmer innocent of any part in Sarah Brennan's death and says he knew nothing about the act. The 1909 Cayuga County case notes she spoke before a notary, while in a prison cell she awaited execution, bidding farewell to her husband as she was moved to the condemned row.
In London the House of Commons rejected a motion of no confidence in the government’s naval policy by a vote of 853 to 135. The motion, proposed by Conservative Arthur Hamilton Lee, argued the imperial safety required immediate provision for battleships of the newest type.
A Finance Commission charter proposal is described as defeated with no recall provision or party designation abolition. The report reportedly omits a Governor appointed paid Finance Commission and a provision for Civil Service Commission confirmation of city officials.
In a late interview ex-Mayor John F Fitzgerald denounced the Finance Commission report as a campaign document aimed at defeating him in the fall mayoral race. He vows to reveal unknown facts at a Boston public meeting at Faneuil Hall on April 19 and questions grafts tied to Back Bay losses.
Albert A. Langtry and Senator Elmer A. Stevens emerge as leading contenders for state treasurer while Arthur B. Chapin succeeds Pierre Jay as bank commissioner, shaping the financial leadership slate.
A prominent Republican leader in the legislature backs Langtry of Springfield for state treasurer to shift balance in the ticket. Crane and Stevens vie for influence. caucus delays complicate the race as Chapin’s bank commissioner appointment looms and Draper, Frothingham, Lodge, and Stevens seek favorable outcomes.
Rosebud Nell appeared in the local court admitting her tattooed arms reveal her identity. police recognized her from past arrests, despite her attempts to use an alias. She received probation rather than a harsher sentence.
A portrait of Theodore Roosevelt is donated to Harvard University by the 1880 class. Boston artist Joseph Decamp completed the painting, now exhibited in Boston at the Copley Square Society. The Harvard Union living room will house the portrait, and Harvard’s corporation accepted the gift at its meeting yesterday.
Mary Green about 37 appeared in Police Court charged as accessory before the fact in a fatal operation tied to the death of Alice McKinley 22 of 22 Dwight street. Defense asked for continuance. case set for April 1 with ball fixed at 3000.
John Collins, father of Jessie McDonald wife of former Governor McDonald, shot and fatally wounded Miss Sarah Nichols in Denver and then killed himself. Motive unknown. Collins had recently arrived from the East.
Annie J Upham of Dorchester brought a four ounce Plymouth Rock pullet egg to the Post office. The 10 month old bird laid the giant egg measuring 6 1/2 inches by 8 1/4 inches in circumference and titled to a place in the paper's giant eggs column.
Nathan Matthews, former chair of the Finance Commission, told the metropolitan affairs committee he would not trust business groups to name the finance commission, saying they would be easily influenced. He noted Real Estate Exchange nomination of his seat and criticized the Lomasney controller bill as unconstitutional. He planned to finish testimony this morning.
Mrs Rhode Island Red presented to her owner a curious egg laid by Harold Sav age 14 of Roslindale. The egg measures eight and six inches in circumference and Mme Hen is said to have hatched only nine months ago.
Albert I. Thompson, 75, a Watertown hermit, was arraigned on an assault with a dangerous weapon charge after a shooting that injured Matthew Murphy in the Waltham Hospital. Thompson conducted his own defense and was held in $2000 bond for the grand jury.
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