Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-31
MRS. FARMER PAYS
 PRICE FOR CRIME


 in the habit of leaving were not in their usual place. While he was trying to get in he saw Farmer standing nearby, who remarked: Brennan, don t you know l bought this place?' Brennan finally secured a ladder, entered sec ond story window and occupied the house that night. The next morning he went to work as usual.
 Mrs. Farmer that same morning went to the sisters house, took Mrs. Bren- nan s oilcloth pocket book from where it had been hidden in chair, and with her husband went to Watertown where they had an attorney prepare papers ordering Brennan off the premises, which were served on him that night
 Brennan went to Watertown and made inquiries for his wife but failed to find her and Saturday morning left for his work as usual after spending the night in the house. He returned home however, later, and found Mrs. Farmer and her husband occupying the house. Mrs. Farmer told him that so long as he used the Farmers well he could stay Brennan then reported the matter to the district attorneys office and en gagged constable to search for his wife.
 The Farmers, in the meantime, with others who were induced to help by free access to ale which was furnished, commenced moving their goods to the Brennan house. In one of the back rooms was large black trunk which Mrs. Farmer asked one of the men to tie with a rope. Mrs. Farmer lifted the ends of the trunk while the clothes line was wrapped around it and tied secure ly. Mrs. Farmer said "she had stuff in there she didn't want broken" and had the men carry it to the Brennan house while she walked along and directed where it should be placed in a back room where other things were piled upon it. She then proceeded to do some washing.
 When the constable who had been em- ployed by Brennan went to the house and asked where Mrs. Brennan was, Mrs. Farmer told him she had "gone to Watertown to get her teeth fixed" She sent for the parish priest, told him a similar story, and had him bless the home
 On the following Monday the sheriff with several others again visited the Farmers and asked Mrs. Farmer to pro duce the deeds, and after some delay she pulled the black oilcloth envelope from a cradle and showed the papers. Then a search of the house was begun. Inquiry was made in regard to the trunk tied with clothes line where upon Mrs. Farmer denied that she owned it, saying it belonged to her hus- band, and he with an oath said it did not belong to him. The rope was re moved, the lock broken, and in the trunk the sheriff found the body of Mrs. Brennan fully dressed. The head and face were horribly mutilated by many blows from blunt instrument but the body was not injured The turban hat which the woman wore was missing but the burned wire framework of hat similar to the one she wore was found in Mrs. Farmer 's stove
 Mrs. Farmer and her husband were arrested charged with the crime, which the woman at first stoutly denied. Then she stated that Mrs. Brennan was in her house and stood by the door looking out of the window and that she stepped up behind her and hit her with an axe. Subsequently, she said to the sheriff that she had not told the truth; that Jim v did it. She said Mrs. Brennan had been with her uptown and that when they came back "Jim' was angry because she had left her baby at neighbor s. She said she then went for the baby and on her return "Jim was putting the body in the trunk.
 At the jail Mrs. Farmer made another statement in which she said that Mrs Brennan came to her house and said she 1 was not feeling well. She said that Mrs. Brennan said "she would give anything if she would take that old axe that laid there and knock her brains out and said all right, here she goes | I takes the axe and kills her.' Sne said she then put the body in the trunk | washed up the things that were bloody and burned up the things from whicf she could not remove the blood. 5ht said Mrs. Brennan was sitting in chaii by the window when she killed her.
 The cases of Mrs. Farmer and he' husband were appealed to the court of appeals which has yet to determine the husbands $ case. Mrs. Farmer 's con viction was affirmed and E. R. Wilcox her counsel, asked the governor to ap point a commission to examine int the woman s mental condition, express ] ing the belief that the woman was in sane.