Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 April 1907 — GOVERNOR SAVES AGGIE MYERS' NECK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOVERNOR SAVES AGGIE MYERS' NECK.

The sentence of death imposed upon Mrs. Aggie Myers of Kansas City and Frank Hottman of Higginsvllle, Mo., who were convicted of having murdered the woman’s husband, Clarence Myers, in 1904, were commuted by Governor Folk to imprisonment for life. Iu a message to the Secretary of State relntlve to the action in commuting the sentences Governor Folk states that he believes that public morals will be better conserved by commuting

the sentence of Mrs. Myers to life Imprisonment than by hanging her. In the Hoffman" case, he said, similar facts to those in the Myers case exist, and for that reason he also commuted Ilottman’s sentence to life Imprisonment, _ - - The woman had been divorced before she married Myers. After her marriage to Myers she fell in love with Hottman, and they conspired to murder Myers so they could get married. She admitted him to the houso after midnight and directed him to the bedroom where Myers lay asleep. Myers arose In bed when Hottman struck him with a club. The men clinched, and the woman came to Hottman’s aid. Mrs. Myers beat her husband with a bed slat and stabbed him with a pair of scissors. As he cried to her, “Help me, AggT?, help me!” she slashed him nine times across the face, throat and chest with a razor.