Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-12-23
A WOMAN TO HANG.
Cow Hill Of New York Posipoucs the
Day orExecaiioR Of Rex alma Drav,
under Sentence Of Death.
Any FURTHER c,er.ency wan uAvs 20 csns
fromthe h-gieleture In tho way
OF = change In tho Law,

/ ALnANNl MN, Dec. aa.---Coy. nm Is.
day Issued an executive order postponine
the execution Of Mrs Roxallna Drus,
under sentence Of death for tho murder
81 her huebaudi from December 20, the
date fixed In tho sentence, tlll February
rs. Tho governor says be does this In
order TO give the state Legislature an
opportunity 10 modify the law of capital
4 punishment In ita application and adds
! that as far ~ he 10 concerned, tho caae IA
closed, and the woman must suffer
/ the penalty Of her crime on
/ tho day fixed unless IN the mean.
time tho law shall have been changed.
| The governor says THAI Il was aclear case
ot murder and that he can And no reason
/ for Interference with tho penalty except
1 the sex OF the CONDEMNED, which the law
does not tako into aecount. lie aayst
The evidence shows the killing was most
brutal aud atronlous In It's character,
! Briefly stated, the inrts, satisfactorily os-
tablshed, arc es follows
The family consisted Of deceased and
Mrs prnes daughter, Mary, aged nine.
teen years, q son, George, aged ten years,
and a nephew, Frank Gates, aged four.
teen years, A. quarrel bad occurred on
] Ahh AhbAMAllls vi wv llOAultlut UtINtNn Inc
deceased aud the defendant az tho break
fast table. The deceased waR atln
at the table, and duElng the quarrel
OF words tho defendant went into
another room andltook n loaded revolver
whloh was there, and, putting Il under
her apron, returned aud whispered TO the
boys 10 20 out Of dooYs, which they did,
leaving herself, her daughter Mary aud
tho deceased IN the room Mary then
placed ruRe around her father'a neck
WHILE no was AZ thu table and the defend
ant ilrod the revolver once or
twice st him, woundlng him,
and he fell over sideways In
his chair. The defendant being unable 10
mako tho revolver go OF again, called 10
her nephew Frank, who came into the
house together with tho boy George,
whoroupon tho prisoner gave the revolver
TO her nephew and, under threats OF kin.
Ing hun, compelled him TO Ore II on two
or three times, and the deceased, belnghit
by the shots, rolled on his chair
upon tho floor aud tben she seized an axe
and HIT her husband on the head with II
and continued hitting him on tho mock
untll she chopped his head on she then
caused the head as well hs the body 70 be-
taken into the parlor and hurlng that day
aud evening tbs body Was cut up With an
axe and was burned In stove.
She threatened 70 MI the boys "
hey told what had occurred.
During the evening Mrs, Dfuz ana Mary
we're amusing themselves by playing
checkers Ia an adjoining room 90 that IN
which the murder had been committed.
thus showing their unooncern, and the
utter lack Of feeling Of the whole family.
Mrs Druz had previously made threats
against the deceased, and boosted
That she would be rid Of
him some day These and other
facts almost too horrible for description
mark tho case plain one Of deliberate
aud premedliased murder There seems
70 oe scarcely n single mitigating crcum-
stance. The daughter Mary aided and
assisted her mother IN the murder, and
after the conviction OF her mother
she pleaded guilty "a murder
In the second degree, which plea on ac-
count OF her youth, the fact that she was
probably acting under this Influence Of
her mother and other circumstances, was
accepted by the district attorney aud she
WAS sentenced TO tho states prison for
life