The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1909-04-01
the district attorneys ofice and en-
gagged a constable to search for his

the district attorneys office and en-
gagged a constable to search for his
wife.
The Farmers, In the meantime, with
others who Were tnduced}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 q 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 a clothes
line was wrapped around 1t and tied
securely. Mrs. Farmer said she had
stun In there she didn't want broken"
and a W men carry 1t to the Bren-
q house while she 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.
When the constable who had been
employed by Brennan went to the
house and asked where Mrs. Brennan
vas, Mrs. Farmer told him she had
gone to Watertown to get her teeth
fixed She sent for the parish priest,
bless the home.
On the following Monday the sherin
with several others again visited the
Farmers and asked Mrs. Farmer to
produce the deeds, and after some de-
lay she pulled the black oilcloth en-
sShoPS q GIduIG IN 6ltOWGu ZIG
papers. Then q search of the house
was begun. Inquiry was mad in re-
| gard to the trunk tied with q clothes
line, whereupon Mrs. Farmer denied
that she owned 1t, saying 1t belonged
to her husband, and he with an oath
said 1T did not belong to him. The rope
was removed, the lock broker and in
the trunk the sheriff found the body or
Mrs. Brennan fully dressed. The head
nj face We're horribly mutilated by
many blows from a blunt instrument
put the body was not injured. The
turbau hat which the woman wore was
missing, but the burned framework OF
a hat similar to the one she wore was
round IN Mrs. Farmers stove.
Mrs. Farmer nj her husband were
arrested charged with the crime
which the woman at first stoutly de-
MED. Then h stated that Mrs. Bren-
nan 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" did it. She
said Mrs. Brennan had been with hel
uptown and that when they came back
Jim" was angry because she had left
her baby at a neighbours. She said
she then went for the baby n on hel
return Jim" was just putting the body
In the trunk.
Another Version.
AT the jail Mrs. Farmer mad an
other statement in which she said thai
Mrs. Brennan came to her house anc
said she was not feeling well. h sai(
that Mrs. Brennan said: "she would
give anything if h would take tina
old axe that laid there and knock hel
brains out" and I said all right, her
she goes. I takes the AXE n kill
her" She said then she put the bod,
In the trunk, washed up the things
that were bloody and burned up TIN
things from which she could not re
move the blood. She said Mrs. Bren
nan was sitting down in a chair by TIN
window when she killed her.
The cases of Mrs. Farmer and he
husband were appealed to the court o
appeals which has yet to determin
, the husbands case. Mrs. Farmers con
viction was affirmed and e. R. Wilcox
her counsel, asked the governor t.
appoint a commission to examine int
the woman's mental condition, express
Ing the belief that the woman was In
l sane