Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1898 — A DOOMED WOMAN. [ARTICLE]

A DOOMED WOMAN.

Martha M. Place Sentenced to Be Electrocuted for the Murder of Her Strpdaughter. New York, July 13. —Mrs. Martha M. Place, convicted of the murder of her stepdaughter, Ida Place, was sentenced to die in the electrical chair at Sing Sing prison during the week beginning August 29. Mrs. Place broke down when sentence was pronounced. Mrs. Place is 44 years of age; the murdered girl was 18. Mrs. Place was insanely jealous of her stepdaughter, with whom she bad frequent quarrels. If Mrs. Place is executed she will have been the first woman put to death in this state in the electrics! chair.