The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-01-16
THE ROGERS MURDER.
The Assassin Found In Auburn State Prison
Confession TO n FeilOw-Culprit.

COnfcSBI0u LO n FelI0W-CulprI.
AUBURN, Jan. 14.-The announcement that
Francis E. Pinto, who gained a criminal Eoto-
riety by attempting to rob the Park Bank in
New York, has confessed that he Is the npur-
derer of Mr.. Rogers, will no doubt create SEN
sation. Nevertheless, it is true. When, on the
morning of the ending of 1863 Mr.. Rogers was
stabbed in front of his own door, in East Twelfth
street, the excitement was intense. The entire
machinery of the law was set in motion, detec--
tives made arrests without number, masses of
evidence were taken, and, if we are to believe
the statement of Pinto, all that time he-the
murderer of Rogers-was at liberty, plunderlng
daily, until on the morning of January 23, 1869,
he was brought to justice for the Park Bank
robbery.
He was sentenced to five years in the State
Prison, and taken to Sing Sing. He was trans
fened from there to this prison last spring. and
shortly after his transferral Mr.. w. V. B. .Hoff-
man, one of the keepers, noticed his nervous
ness and strange conduct while at work. Pinto
would frequently exclaim, "Oh, my God, what
shall dol" and run his hand through his hair in
a spasmodic way. All these pecullarities tended
to convince the keeper that there was some
thing on Pintos mind, and he determined to
watch him closely. Although prisoners are not
allowed to converse at work, Mr.. Hoffman gave
Pinto permission to do So and was last week
rewarded by hearing Pinto, when at work in the
"Slate Shop" make some peculiar remarks to
another prisoner about the Rogers murder, half
intimating that he knew more about IL than he
dared tell. On hearing this the keeper put an
other prisoner at work to ferret out what Pinto
knew, and 1t is now stated that he has made a
full confession OF the murder, the keepers stating
that Pinto's disclosures are in. every way con-
elusive of his guilt.
He will most probably be taken to New York
to see whether he can be identified by the wit
nesses in the Rogers murder case. Now, as to
the probabilities of his being the murderer.
Pinto was arrested for the Park Bank robbery
on the morning OF January %, 1869, the murder
was committed on the morning OF the 3lst OF
| December, 1868, so to all intents and purposes
he was at large in New York city at the time OF
the murder. Mr.. Rogers, in his dying deposition,
| and the colored boy who saw the two men going
| through Twelfth street before the murder, gave
the description of the shorter man (the mur-
| terer) as follows:-"A man about twenty-five oil
twenty-three years old, short of stature, wore Q
light overcoat dark undercoat and Clothes and
black soft felt hat, had no whiskers, but a slight
moustache." Now, Pinto, at the time of his
arrest was twenty-five years old, feet inches
in height, had no wLiskers, but slight, downy
moustache. The dark clothes worn by him OF
| the morning of the robbery correspond exactly
| in description with those worn by the murderer
excepting the light overcoat. So much for facts
| The question now is, whether Pinto is seekinl
additional notoriety or not.