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Woman Pardoned Who Has Been in FRI
son For Fifteen Years
A RESUME UF THE CASE

Fannie Carson Is iie
Wac Convicted of Completely II
Helping Two Men, Who Arc w"
Serving Terms in Prison. M"ru''
Her Husband.
Gov Ansel has pardoned Mrs Fan
Mo Carson, who, with TWO nieh
slammed the death of her own nus
hand over fifteen years ago. anu sne
hos heen in the ~penitentiary ever
since She may so back TO tha'
nome now, where still fingers TN
memory of a dark night when >. ".
Carson lay asleep in his bed anu was
murdered by Ed Green and Jonl
page while the wife stealthliy lei'
the home, and abandoned mere nus
hand to his cruel rate. >
A humble woman now is fanhie
r,rson Out at the p~enltentlars
thav saw that she has repentea VI
her sins. Conducting a Bible class
among her fellow prisoners II 10
rr,hable that she has seen the error
re- her way and it truly sorry TOT
wat she has done. Pity anu lie
orinion hat she has suffered much
are the moving powers in the secur-
irg of a pardon for his woman
T'rail of body. q physical Wr7cK: az
r: riding to the written statement VI
navsicians, Fannie Carson is not Z
ct nerson. in TIL opinion OF thos
who considered her case, to sef''
ont her days in the State prison.
Cows. McSweeney and Hey "ath re-
fused to pardon the woman that i"
goes free.
Mrs Carson will leave in the pen
itentiary serving life sentences john
Page and Ed Green, the two men
with whom she conspired to muroer
here husband. 1t was by the con-
fession on the stand of Fannie Car
son that it was possible to cohvlct
these two men who are now serving
life sentences in the prison. me
planning of that horrible murder was
told by Fannie larson on the witness
stand. and she also told OF thr &C
tual killing.
On two occasions, before the t"c
men took the life Of her husband.
she and they had discussed the plan
and on the second occasion poison
was suggested. The first time tina
Page and Green came to the mouse
TO kill Carson, the wife informed thu
men that her husband was not
asleep. This saved his life tina
time.
The next time, when strychnlne
was suggested, Mrs. Carson said She
did not have the heart to poison
nv husband" thus failed the seconc
plot to kill her husband. Then came
the third and successful plot.
Ed Green and Page came around
to the Carson home. What to &c
with the Little baby was the hrs;
matter discussed. The men who
were about to become murderers did
not wish to wake the baby, n l.
was agreed that Mrs. Carson woulG
take the child out into the yard
With no mention of the killing it
self, but in words that carried con-
viction with more force than If there
had been another eyewitness, the
two men who killed Carson, the wife
told of the happenings of the next
few minutes.
After describing the passage o!
Ed Green and John Page through thu
dining room, one with an axe in his
hand, Mrs. Carson said, well, | weni
out and went to the well, but | dlo
not stay there but a few minutes
I went around to the front yard and
STAYED there until they came out
When they came out John stopped il
the kitchen and Ed started towards
me, and ! motioned my hand to hin
not to come to me, that the BABE
was awake, and he never came, ant
they went and | went then to MIR
.Jackson's." And in those few min
utes her husband had been murdered
as he lay asleep.
Some of those in Spartanbure
County, who recall the killing o.
Carson, say that Ed. Green exerte'
a hypnotic Influence over Mrs. Cal
son. Green had been received int
the Carson home and had very prob
ably planted himself in the affec
tons of Mrs. Carson. When he
husband came home drunk an
abused her, Green would take up fol
the wife. This attachment mus
have become closer and closer, judg,
ing from the matters limited at IL
the papers filed in this case.
Worn out, perhaps, by the drunk
en- debauches of her husband ant
day by day becoming more and more
under the control of Green, Mrs
Carson readily lent herself to the
scheme to rid her home of the hus
band. BY securing the aid OF Page
this was found easy to do by Green
In a review of the cas by the par
don board, Green is called the in
stigator of the plot and the on
who used the other two to carry on
the plan. 1t was Green who brough