Arizona republican., 1906-06-12
MABEL PAGES
 SLAYER DIES
The EIeCtTOCutiOR of MuT- derer ChaS. 1. Tucker
Every Avenue of Escape the Law Furnished, Only Led to the Chair.

Boston, June 12.-Chas. L. Tucker was e'ectrocuted at 1912 this morning for the murder of Mabel Page Tucker was officially pronounced dead by the prison doctor at 12:19. Three applica- tions of the current were made.
 When Tucker arrived in front of the death chair he drew from his trousers pocket a brief statement which he read. The statement was: II hope that God will forgive me for all the wrongs l have ever done in my past life I forgive everybody who has wronged me. I am at peace with my Maker. May God have mercy on my soul"
 Tucker then sat down in the chain and after the guards had adjusted the straps the warden raised his hand as a signal to the electrician.
 After the first application of the cleo tricity Dr. Jos. Mclaughlin, the prison surgeon, made an examination and an nounced that the pulse was still beat ing. After the current had been ap- piled a second time the surgeon detect ed d movement of the heart but when the current was applied a third time Tucker was pronounced dead.
 The surgeon stated that Tucker was
 
 shock was applied.
 The electrocution of Charles L. Tuck CT marked the final chapter in the his tory of the murder of Mabel Page at her home in Weston, March 31 1904, and also marked the close of the most desperate legal battle ever waged in Massachusetts for the life of a convict ed murderer. Fuckers case was taken through the legal windings until it re- ceived a hearing in the supreme court of the United States A decision by the highest court in the land sustaining the ruling of the lower courts did not dis courage Fuckers lawyers A petition to Governor Guild was prepared and circulated throughout the state. In a short time there were over 1I6.O00 names attached to it.
 Attorneys for the prisoner went be- fore Governor Guild not only with new evidence. but with general plea for executive clemency and with ahidavits. but they were not successful.
 Mabel Page was murdered at her fathers home in Weston on March 31, 1904. Her body was found several hours later by her aged father. On a nearby table was found a note. sup posed to have been written by Miss Page, stating that she had been called to Boston because of the illness of her brother. It later developed that her brother, Harold, was not ill and the handwriting on the note and d postal card which was also found in the house figured in the trial, the government contending that the hanwriting as shown on the postal card was identical with specimens of Fuckers handwr1t- ing.
 The police learned that Chas. L. Tucker, an AuburndaIe young man of rowing habits. had been seen in the Page house on the day of the murder They found Tucker and on taking him to the police station questioned him. but released him. About three weeks afterward the officers searched Tuck CTS home. There, in an old coat they found a broken knife blade stained and scared, the scars indicating that an effort had been made to destroy it by means oi file. A stickpin of peculiar design was also found. It was soon learned that Mabel Page had owned d pin similar to that found in Fuckers coat. and this together with the fact that the stains on the knife blade were suspeced of being those of blood as well as the cause of Fuckers act in breaking the blade into three pieces caused his arrest.
 An indictment for murder in the first degree followed. The evidence at the trial was largely of circumstantiaI nature and counsel for the defense pro- duced witnesses and maps to prove an alibi, but the pin and knife played more prominent parts than did any witnesses produced by either the prosecution or the defense.
 Since Fuckers trial and conviction Edwin Page, the father of the mur- dered girl has died, as has Prof. F. S. Wood of Harvard university, who was the expert analycist for the prosecu- tiOn.