Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-06-12
Mabel Pages Murderer Executed.
Charles Louis Tucker was electrocntec

Charles Louis Tucker was electrOcnted
at 1912 this morning in Charlestown,
Mass. for the murder of Mabel Page.
Three applications of the current were
made.
When Tucker arrived in front of the
death chair he drew from his trousers
pocket briel statement. which he read.
He cid not assert his innocence. The
statement was. al hope that God will for
give me for all the wrongs have ever
done in my past life. | forgive every
body who has ever wronged me. am
at peace with my maker. May 6od
have mercy upon my soul.
Tucker then sat down 10 the chair,
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
electricity, DIR. Joseph McLsuglin, the
prison surgeon, made an examination
and announced that the pulse was Bill
beating. After the current had been
applied 3 second time, the surgeon de-
tected movement of the heart, but
when the current was applied third
time, Tucker was pronounced dead.
This announcement was made al l2:l9.
The surgeon stated that Tucker was
unconscious from the moment the hrst
shock WAS sustained.
After bspt;zing Tucker in the after
noon in the faith OF the Methodist
Episcopal Church, Rev. Thomas W.
Bishop, a former pastor of the church
at which Tucker was once an attendant,
convinced by fuckers proteststipns OF
innocence, made final appeal to the
governor. James H. Vshey, the Pris-
oners counsel also called upon The
governor, and said that the prisoner
had, 10 response to his own appeals for
confession, if guilty. repeated his asser"
tions of innocence. Mr. Nahey also
showed the governor fuckers last letter
to his counsel, which likeSi'e asserted
his innocence.
Mabel Page was murdered at her
fathers home in Weston on the morn
inc of March 81, 1904. Her body was
found several hours later by her aged
father. On nearby table was found
a note, supposed to have been written
by Miss Page, stating that she had been
called to Boston because of the 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 government con-
tending that the handwriting as shown
ON the postal card WAS identical with
specimens of fuckers handwriting.
The police authorities, about three
weeks after the crime, searched fuckers s
home. There. in an old coat, they
fonnd brokan knife blade, blood'stsin-
ed anil scared, the scars indicating that
an effort had been made 10 destroy 1t by
means of file. A stickpin of peculiar
design WAS also found. 1t was soon
learned that Mabel Page had Owned 3
min similar to that found in Tucker 8
coat Tucker was arrested, and indict-
ment for murder in the first degree fol-
lowed.
Amy Roberts, the servant in the Page
house identified stick pin commonly
known during the Trial as the Canadian
pin-as the property of Mabel Page.
The mother of the prisoner testified
that the pin taken from her house by
the State police mad been the property
of her son for several years, and thai
she had worn the piH on several occa'
sions.
The defense, however, produced tSC
pins, one, the Page pin, aud the other q
pin purchased in Canada by the defense.
Both were OF the same general design,
but they differed radically in color. Hold
| ing the two pins in his OuIstreIched hand
| Attorney Vahey walked up to Mrs Tnck
er and requested her to pick out her SON
pin. With a trembling hand she select
ed a pin, saving "Thst is Louis's. " Th'
pale face of the prisoners attorney indl'
Gated only TOO plainly that Mrs. Tucker
had picked out the pin which had recent
ly been purchased.
| Todsy's dispatches from Boston Sa.
that Tucker asserted his innocence to tn
last.