The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1909-04-01

the district attorneys office and en-
gagged a 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 a large black trunk, which
Mrs. Farmer asked of the men to
tie with a rope. Mrs. Farmer lifted
the ends Of the trunk while a clothes
line was wrapped around II and tied
securely. Mrs. Farmer said 'she had
STUFF in there she, didn't want broken
and had two men carry 1t to the Bren-
nan house while h walked along and
directed where 1t should be placed in
a back room where other things were
piled upon 1t. She then proceeded to
do some washing. ....r o.. .
When the constable who had been
employed by Brennan went to the
house and asked where Mrs. Brennan
was, Mrs. Farmer told him h had
gone to WATERFOWL to get her teeth
fixed" She ser 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
produce the deeds, and after some de-
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velope from a cradle and showed the
papers. Then a search OF the house
was begun. Inquiry was made In re
gard to the trunk tied with a clothes
line, w~hereupon Mrs. Farmer denied
that she owned it. saying II belonged
to her husband, IND he with an oath
said IL did not belong to him. The o.
was removed, the lock broken and in
the trunk the sheriff found the body or
Mrs. Brennan fully dressed. The head
and face were horribly mutilated by
many blows from a blunt instrument
but the body was not injured. The
turbau hat which the woman wore was
missing, but the burned framework of
q hat similar to the one she wore was
found In Mrs. Farmers stove.
Mrs. Farmer and her husband were
arrested charged with the crime
which the woman at first stoutly de-
MED. Then she stated that Mrs. Bren-
nan was in her GUS and stood by
the door looking out of the window
and that h 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" did II. She
said Mrs. Brennan had been with her
uptown and that when they came back
Jim was angry because h had left
her baby at a neighbours. She said
she then went for the baby and on her
aNhhA" "AhA NoS just WILL tlIC pOty
in the trunk.
Another Version.
At the jail Mrs. Farmer made an
other statement in which she said that
Mrs. Brennan came to her house and
said she was not feeling well. She said
that Mrs, Brennan said: "she would
give anything II 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" She SAID then she put the body
in the trunk, washed up the things
that were bloody and burned UP the
things from which she could not re-
move the blood. She said Mrs. Bren-
nan was sitting down In a char ~ the
window when she killed her.
The cases of Mrs. Farme. and her
husband were appealed to the court Of
appeals which has yet to determine
the husbands case. Mrs. Farmers IN
Viction vas affirmed and f.. r. Wilcox,
her counsel, asked the governor to
appoint a commission to examine into
the woman's mental condition, express
ing the belief that the woman was in
sane,