Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1906-06-14


Tucker was electrocuted at 1912
this morning for the murder of Mabel
Page. He was officially pronounced
dead at 1919.
One more effort was made yester-
day to prolong the life of the murdec-
err through executive clemency, but
after hearing the appeal of his clergy.
man as well as his counsel, Governor
Guild again declined to interfere with
the execution of the sentence. An
appeal to President Roosevelt had
failed before.
When Tucker arrived in front of
the death chair he read a brief state
ment as follows:
Il hope God will forgive me for all
the wrongs | have ever done in my
past life, 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 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 cleo
tricity, the surgeon made an examin-
alton and announced that the pulse
was still beating. After the current
had been applied a second time the
surgeon detected a movement of the
heart, but when the current was ap-
piled third time Tucker was pro-
nounced dead. This announcement
was made at 1919.
The surgeon stated that Tucker was
unconscious from the moment the
first shock was sustained.
The electrocution of Charles l..
Tucker marked the final chapter in
the history of the murder of Mabel
Page at her home in Weston, March
81, 1904, and also marked the close
of the most desperate legal battle
ever waged in Massachusetts for the
life of convicted murderer. Tuck
er's case was taken through the legal
windings until it received a hearing
in the supreme court of the United
States. A decision by the highest
court in the land sustaining the rul-
ing of the lower courts did not dis.
courage fuckers lawyers. A petit
ton to Governor Guild was prepared
and circulated throughout the state
In short time there were over 49,
900 names attached to 1t.
Mabel Page was murdered at her
CO.. Wy, ~
81, 1904. Her body was found sew
eral hours later by her aged father.
On nearby table was found d note,
supposed to have been written by
Miss Page, stating that she had been
called to Boston because of the i'll
ness OF her brother. 1t later devel-
oped that her brother Harold, was
not i'll and the handwriting on the
note and postal card which was al
so found in the house figured in the
trial, the government contending That
the handwriting as shown on the pos
tai card was identical with specimens
of fuckers handwriting.
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 muir
der. They found Tucker and on TAX
ing him to a police station, ques-
toned him but released him About
three weeks afterward the officers
searched fuckers 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 of
file A stick pin of peculiar design
was also found. 1t was soon learned
that Mabel Page had owned a pin
similar to that found In fuckers coat
This, together with the fact that the
stains on the knife blade were sus.
pected of being those Of blood as well
as the cause of fuckers act in break
ing the blaze into three pieces caused
his arrest.