Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-31
GOES ID ELECTRIC CHAIR SAYING
 PRAYERS
MAKES CONFESSION ATTEMPTING TO ExoNERATE HUSBAND
 FROM ALL BLAME.
CRIME REvOLT|NGLY SHOCKING
TRAINED WIFE OF NEIGHBoR IN ORDER TO GET POSSESSION
 OF LIFELONG HOME.

AUBURN, N. F., March 30--Hoping to save her husband from tho fate that befell her, Mrs. Mary Farmer, con- vieted of killing Mrs. Sarah Brennan last April at Brownsville, left a comics sion to be made public after her execu- tion by electricity at the Auburn prison early today.
 She says her husband, James Far mer, now under sentence of death, was not guilty of the crime and knew noth- ing of it until it had been committed.
 The woman walked quietly to the death chair and died with prayer on her lips.
 Story of Crime
 Mrs. Mary Farmer is the second woman to meet death in the electric chair. The crime for which she was ex- ecuted and for which her husban l. James D. Farmer, is also under sentence of death, was the murder of Mrs. Sarah Brennan, a neighbor, in the village of Brownsville, Jefferson county, about four miles from the city of Watertown, on Thursday, April 23rd, 1908. The body of Mrs. Brennan was found on the following Monday in trunk owned by Mrs. Farmer and in her possession. Mrs. Farmer and her husband were given separate trials, and although the evi- dence was circumstantial, both were convicted and sentenced to be cleo tro- cuted. Mrs. Farmers counsel attempt ed at the trial to establish that she was insane and irresponsible for the crime but the court of appeals declared that it was "clearly deliberate and intentional act'', and that there was no circumstance that mitigated against it's heinousness.
 Mrs. Farmer came to this country from Ireland in 1900 and worked for a time as domestic in Binghampton, going from there to Buffalo where she married James D. Farmer in 1904. Early in 1905 they moved to Brownsville where they remained for few months at one of Farmer s relatives after which they kept boarders in an adjoining village In May, 1907, they moved into a DOT tion of an old building formerly used as hotel in part of Brownsville known as Paddy Hill.
 Mrs. Brennan and her husband Pat. rick lived in house nearby which they had occupied for twenty years and which was owned by Mrs. Brennan. Mrs. Farmer became frequent caller at the Brennan home and Mrs. Brennan occasionally called on the Farmers. Mrs. Brennan kept the deed to her property and insurance papers and savings bank book in black oilcloth pocket. book in tin case in her bedroom.
 Months before the homicide, in Octo Der, 1907, Mrs. Farmer went to law. yer's office in Watertown, produced a deed of the Brennan property and, i'm personating Mrs. Brennan, had the deed transferred to James D. Farmer, signing the name "Sarah Brennan The deed was returned from the clerk s office to James D. Farmer on November 26, and on January z, 1908, Mrs. Farmer and her husband went to another lawyer ir Watertown and had the deed drawn to Peter J. Farmer, child who had beer born to them the preceding September T2.
 On the day of the crime Mrs. Bren nan's husband left early for his work his wife telling him she was going tt visit dentist in Watertown. Between and 10 o clock she was seen to leave her home and enter the Farmer house She was never seen alive again. Early the same day Mrs. Farmer took hel baby to the home of a neighbor and lcft it, saying she was going up town. Be tween that time and the time Mrs Brennan went to the Farmer house Mrs. Farmer passed back and forth be tween the two houses several times Shortly after noon she went for hel baby and arranged for young daugh ter of the neighbor to assist her II caring for the child.
 The girl, upon her arrival, found Farmer and his wife at lunch and latel he left for the home of his sister wher, he was laying walk. Soon after Mrs Farmer went into the Brennan house she returned and told the girl to g for her husband but Farmer refused tt return home. Mrs. Farmer then wen to the sister s home with package which proved to be the black oilclotl pocketbook of Mrs. Brennan's contain | ing the deedes, insurance and other pa pers, and said she wanted to leave i | for while.
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