Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-06-13
VOLTS JARRED LIFE
OUT OF TUCKER
Youthful Murderer Electrocuted
at Midnight.
eLENDER EVIDENCE CONVICTED
But Every Effort to Secure CIemency
for Him Was in Vain-RooseVelt
Wrote Governor Guild Urging Him
to Put Tucker to Death.

to Put Tucker to Death.
Boston, Mass, June 12.-Charles L.
! Tucker was electrocuted at 1912 a.
I m. Tuesday for the murder of Mabel
Page at Weston, March 3, 1904. Tuck
er was officially pronounced dead by
the prison doctors at 1919.
Three applications of the current
| were made.
When Tucker arrived in front of the
| death chair he drew from his trous-
ers' pocket a brief statement which
he read. The statement was:
81 hope that God will forgive me
for all the wrongs l have ever done in
my past lift. l forgive everybody
who has ever wronged me. l am at
peace with my Master. May God
have mercy on my SOUL
In the Death Chair.
Tucker then sat down in the chai!
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 elec-
tricity, DR.. Joseph Mclaughlin, the
prison surgeon, made an examination
and announced that the pulse was still
beating. After the current had been
applied a second time the surgeon de-
dected movement of the heart, but
when the current was applied a third
time Tucker was pronounced dead.
This announcement was made at 1919
o'clock a. N.
The surgeon stated that Tucker
was unconscious from the moment the
first shock was sustained. .
One effort was made to prolong the
life Of Charles L. Tucker, through ex
ecutive clemency, but after hearing
the appeal of his clergyman as we'll
as his counsel, Governor Guild decid-
ed not to interfere with the execution
of the sentence.
Sketch of fuckers Crime.
One of the incidents of the day was
telegram received at the state house
by Governor Guild from President
Roosevelt in relation to the Tucker
case, declaring that there should be
no interference with carrying out the
sentence.
The electrocution of Charles L.
Tucker marked the final chapter in
the history of the murder Of Mabel
Page at her home in Weston, Mass,
March 81, 1904, and also marked the
close of the most desperate legal bat
tie ever waged in Massachusetts for
the life of a convicted murderer
Mabel Page was murdered at her
home in Weston on March 81, 1904
Her body was found several hours
later by her aged father On a near
by table was found a note which was
supposed to have been written by
Miss Page, stating that she had called
to Boston because of illness of her
brother. 1t later developed that her
brother, Harold, was not i'll and the
handwriting on the note and a postal
card, which was also found in the
house, figured in the trial, the govern
ment contending that the handwriting
on the postal card and note were iden-
teal with specimens of fuckers hand
writing.
The police learned that Charles L.
Tucker, an Auburndale young man of
rowing habits, had been seen near the
Page house on the day of the murder
They found Tucker and on taking
him to a police station questioned him
but released him. About three weeks
afterward the officers searched Tuck
er's home.
Knife Blade Doomed Him.
There, in an old coat, they found a
broken knife blade stained and scar
red, the scars indicating that an ef-
fort had been made to destroy ia by
means Of a file. A stick-pin of pc
culiar design was also found 1t was
soon learned that Mabel Page had
owned pin similar to that found In
fuckers coat. This, together with
the fact that stains on the knife blade
were suspected of being those of
blood as well as fuckers act of
breaking the blade in three pieces,
caused his arrest. Indictment for
murder in the first degree followed.
The evidence at the trial was largely
! Of a cirCumstantial nature.
Since fuckers trial and conviction.
Edwin Page, father of the murdered
girl, has died, as has Professor E. S.
Wood, of Harvard university, who was
the expert analysist for the prosecu-
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