[This is a follow-up article to the one about Frank Rose murdering his wife on Christmas Day 1903. She was a daughter Mrs. Eliza Morris of Desloge, and a sister of Mrs. Pearl Poston of Bonne Terre.] FARMINGTON TIMES, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri, Friday, April 29, 1904 FRANK ROSE SHOT TO DEATH _________ Brutally Murdered His Wife on Last Christmas Day _________ Confesses to Having Followed a Career of Crime During the Past Fourteen Years _________ Salt Lake City, Utah, April 23 -- Frank Rose, the wife murderer, was shot to death in the yard of the state penitentiary here at 10:09 a.m. Death was instantaneous, four bullets lodging in or very close to his heart. Rose was strapped to the same little wooden chair in which Peter Mortensen met his fate a few months ago. Five prison guards, concealed behind a heavy blue curtain in the doorway of the blacksmith shop, across the area, formed the executing squad. One of the rifles held a blank cartridge. Rose went to his death chair with the same coolness that had marked his conduct since he surrendered to the police. A Peculiarly Atrocious Crime Rose's crime was peculiarly atrocious and cold-blooded in that it almost resulted in the death of his two-year-old son from starvation and cold. Rose, who claimed that his wife was intimate with other men, shot her on Christmas day while she was lying in bed. He sat and talked with her until she died of the wound, and then went away, leaving the boy in bed with his dead mother and soaked in her blood. Rose says he returned four times within the next few days to feed the child, climbing through a window and over the dead body of his wife in order to get into the house. At the end of that time he went to police headquarters and gave himself up, stating that he had shot his wife. Rose never expressed any sorrow for his deed, and asserted a firm belief that it all was predestined. Confessed to a Career of Crime Rose confessed to other murders, said to number no less than ten. He declared he had spent the last 14 years in committing successive crimes, varying from robbery to murder.