Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1901 — 15 Years’ Term for Woman. [ARTICLE]

15 Years’ Term for Woman.

Binghamton, N. Y., dispatch: Fifteen years’ imprisonment in Auburn state prison was the sentence imposed on Mrs. Mary Johnson in Owego for burning her summer residence at Newark Valley. Mrs. Johnson is a woman of considerable wealth, who went from Chicago to Buffalo, where she became acquainted with I. H. Radford, a real estate dealer, and it is charged entered into a conspiracy with him and others to place insurance on summer cottages, burn them and swindle the company. She employed four prominent lawyers to defend her. They failed before a Jury, but have secured a stay of twenty days.