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Show ' GOVERNOR HUGHES DENIES CLEMENCY TO MRS. FARMER Albany, N. Y., March 22. Governor Hughes today denied clemency In the case of Mrs. Mary Farmer, under sentence sen-tence of death, at Auburn, for the murder mur-der of Thomas Brennan at Brownsville, Browns-ville, and she will be executed pome time next week. The woman's husband, James D. Farmer, was also convicted of complicity com-plicity In the murder. Ills case Is now upon appeal. In denying clemency, Governor Hughes says: ' There are those who urge that the sentence should be commuted upon the ground of eex. The laws ot the state, regarding murder, make no distinction dis-tinction between the sexes, and a woman, wo-man, who is found guilty of this crime, Is subject to the same penalty as a man." |