The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-29
WOMAN MIoT
 DE WcHAlR No HC For Mrs.
 Farmer. TO BE EXECUTED TODAY New York Female to. Suffer Death Penalty. She Murdered Her Neighbor, Mrs. Bren- nah. h . Heartless Manner,
 and Was Aided by Her
 Husband.

Auburn, N. r., March 2S.-Mrs Mary Farmer. who is to die in the electric chair in the State prison here at sun rise tomorrow. for the murder of Mrs. Sarah Brennan at Brownsville. has made a statement, 1t was learned late tonight. which she believes will ex- onerate her husband, who Is also un- der sentence of death for the same crime.
 Mrs. Farmer prepared the statement today in the presence of a notary pub lie and Father Hickey, her spiritual adviser. Father Hickey had told the condemned woman that if she could truthfully make any statement that would exonerate her husband she should do so Mrs. Farmer replied that she had no desire to make any confess sion but that she would make a state ment concerning the case. It was. Farmer, that the notary public was called in. The statement will be made public after Mrs Farmers death.
 Father Hickey has told friends that he did not believe Mrs. Farmer should be electrocuted because of her mental condition. which he stated was un- sound.
 Farewell to Husband.
 The current of events tonight and the final hours sof the life of Mrs. Far mer. who dies in the electric chair at sunrise tomorrow, moved on relent- lessly. though dramatically, after night-fall in Auburn prison. Brought from the woman's prison chamber to the receiving cell ,n the condemned row, Mrs. Farmer bade fal cwell to her husband and then was lodged in a cell that adjoins the execution chamber. there to await the call to the chair
 James Farmer, the husband, who al- So is under sentence of dsath for the killing of the Brennan woman; and whose case is before the court Of ap- peals. was taken to another part of the prison that te might not hear the tread of the witnesses on :heir way to the room of execution, or the march of his wife to her death. .l,-s s9' The wretched woman tcnight showed no evidence of collapse, though the last words between. herself and hus- band, separated in ftheir parting in'er- view by~heavy bars, ani an 'mpere- trable screen. were. affecting 70 the two women atte ldarts and inc captain of the guard. As the law does mt permit it. there vas no farewell cm- brace when the time came for sepsra- tion.
 After the stasl door Of her cell had been closed and James Farmer weep ing, had been :ed away, the woman fell upon her cot and wept for few moments, and then began 10 pray. Her attendants did not tell her of the death chair in the next room
 Father j. J. Hickey, pastor of the Holy Cross Church visited Mrs. FariE- CT today ana prayed with her. Tie priest Will ad,ulnis.er the last sacra- ment and offer pray srs for tne lying before the short mach 10 the eXccu- ton chamber.
 VIII Die n Christian. Mrs. Farmer will die a good Catho- lic." said Father Hickey tonight. and will go to her death bravely. It may be, though l cannot say positively, that some statement will be made by Mrs. Farmer to the public. If so. 1t will not be given out until after the exc cution."
 The prisoH buildings were quiet and the prison yards were cast with dark shadows from the high walls tonight when Mrs. Farmer, accompanied by the two women attendants, Dr. John Geriff, the prison physician. Father Hickey and Warden Benham was brought down from her cell on the second tier of the women's building. Across the silent yard the woman and her escort walked to the end of the mems build ing, where a carriage waited to drive them to the entrance of the death row"
 After he had talked to his wife, Far mer was led away and will not be brought back to his old cell in the condemned row before Wednesday morning. During the day. the Tour other occupants of the death house were removed.
 "I have given orders that Mrs. Farm CTS last hours shall be for prayer and meditation" said Warden Benham. witnesses have been instructed to meet at my office at $ o'clock tomorrow morning, when we will march across the prison yard to the execution cham. ber."
 Father Hickey and an assistant will lead the death march. The leg elec- | trode will be adjusted by Captain Pat | terson, and the two women nurses will assist him. State Electrician Davis
 will turn on the current. He tested the dynamo today.
 | During her long incarceration. Mary | Farmer has occupied a cell in the Wo> man's department, and has spent most of her time in reading religious books | She rarely spoke of her two year old | son, Peter Farmer, who is now with an
 uncle in Watertown. N. Y.
 | Warden Benham says that he onder-
 stands Mrs. Farmer has written an ac- count of her life which will be given | to her son when he becomes of age. l Her prayer book she has given to her l attorney, Wilcox, who defended her al | the trial.