Show f IS NOT TO u SAVI VF 1118 n lilo I 1 IF I 1 F f 1 1 REFUSES TO ACT CT IN BEHALF OF A MU MURDERER I 1 I 1 1 1 charles L bucl tucker r will be executed in electric chair about midnight AA j I 1 boston I 1 june 11 governor guild made public today a telegram received by him from president roosevelt in which the president after pointing out that he had been requested ter fere with the execution of 0 charles L tucker declares that in his judgment governor guilds decisions decision not to interfere with the carrying out of the sentence on tucker seemed to him entirely sound and commanded his hearty sympathy thy tucker is under sentence of death this week probably tonight for the murder of 0 mabel page at boston march 11 1904 president Roosevel ts telegram fol follows lowa the white house washington gover governor nor curtis guild boston mass june 10 1906 have been requested on behalf of certain parties in boston to interfere with tho the execution of 0 tucker it being alleged that it is my duty so to do inaz inasmuch much as I 1 have the power under the federal laws no showing has been made to me that I 1 have such power but without regard to this I 1 desire to state to you that in my judgment your decision not to interfere with the carrying carryl ng out of 0 the sentence of tucker seems scorns to me entirely sound and commands my hearty heart sympathy it seems particularly ticul arly a case in which there should be no interference with the carrying out of the sentence signed THEODORE ROOSEVELT tucker awoke in his hia cell at the charles town prison today with a realization aliza tion that bis last day on earth had arrived lie ho continued to demonstrate ills his remarkable nerve and informed the deeth death watch that he had enjoyed a good nights rest after breakfast the prisoner began preparations to receive the sacrament of baptism it was for the purpose of administering oils rite that tuckers spiritual adviser rev thomas IV bishop secured u postponement of the death sentence Ben tence tucker having consented at the last moment to become a member of tho methodist episcopal 0 hurch church it alt is uie the general belief that tucker will ba sent to the electric chair shortly after midnight tonight |