MONTGOMERY DIES AT AUBURN.
Montgomery Murder of 1901 Happened Here.
THE WALTON REPORTER, MAY 11, 1907HAD BEEN IN FAILING HEALTH FROM BRIGHT’S DISEASE.
His Imprisonment Told on Him and Finally Wore Him Out.
Buried at Home
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Harvey D. Montgomery died in the prison hospital at Auburn, Sunday Night, May 5th, aged 65 years. His Daughter, Mrs. Dell M. Simonson, who lives on the Montgomery Homestead at Hobart, received a telegram announcing his death Monday morning, and telling her that she might take charge of the body if she so desired. Mrs. Simonson immediately telegraphed back to have the body embalmed and sent to Hobart. Funeral services were held from the Montgomery Homestead Thursday. His former pastor, Rev. A. E. Lord, officiated. He leaves beside his daughter, one son, George, who is clerk at Pocantico Inn, Margaretville.
Montgomery was serving a life sentence at Auburn and had been there a little over three years. He was convicted of the murder of his wife, Amelia B. Montgomery, at Delhi, June 2, 1902, and sentenced by Judge Sewell to be electrocuted. An appeal was taken, a new trial granted and change of venue ordered. Montgomery was taken from Delhi to Cooperstown in March, 1904, found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced by Judge Miller to Auburn for life.
Mrs. Amelia Brown Montgomery was shot on the night of March 30th, 1901 by a gun in the hands of her husband, Harvey D. Montgomery, as she lay in bed. The shooting was never denied but Montgomery always claimed to the day he died that the shooting was an accidental. That he was attacked with a fainting spell as he was going to the window to frighten away thieves from his pig pens and as he fell the gun discharged. The motive claimed by the prosecution was that Montgomery shot his wife to obtain her money which amounted, it is said, to about $10,000. The case was strongly contested on both sides.
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