The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-10-16
KENTUCKY CRIME.
Full Particulars Of the Ter
rible Rogers Fratricide.
The Two Brothers Shot by Sam
Rogers, ST., and His
Son, Sam.

which took place near the Blue Licss last
Thursday, are about as follows: A suit was
pending in the Robertson county court tor
the division of the estate of Granville ROg.
ers, q young brother of the four boys, who
was murdered about 1870, by an old man
named Griffith, who died in '73, of cholera,
in Millersburg. This estate is estimated at
about 5000 Dispositions had been taken
at Owingsville, Georgetown, Millersburg
and in Mason county, and q meeting at the
old Rogers homestead II miles from the
Blue Licks was had for that purpose last
Thursday. The four brothers, Sam, Bob,
Bill and Tom, with two sisters and Sam
Rogers, jr., and Attorneys Buckler and
Lytle were present. The session begun ut
about 10 o'clock, and as q Mrs. Hook was
being examined as a witness, Sam made
some remark about her character at which
Bill took umbrage, and made demonstra-
tons as if to draw q pistol. One of his
sisters grabbed him, and Sam, ST.. fired at
him. At this, Tom attempted to rise from
his chair, when Sam, j., opened on him
and fred FIVE shots, TWO of which took
effect-one through the head and one in the
left arm. Sam, ST., fired five shots at Bill,
three of which took effect-one through the
bowels, one through the small of the back
and one shattered the bone of the right
leg, Just grazing the femoral artery. Only
the ten shots we're fired by Sam and his
son. One shot slightly wounded Winfield
Buckler on a finger, and one passed through
the seat of his pants. The other shots
struck the door and walls. Judge Lyle
stepped out of the door after the first shot
was fired, and Buckler soon followed, but
not until after several shots were fired. He
saw no weapons drawn by the two wounded
men, although Bills pistol was found on
the floor by his body, with all the chambers
loaded. The shot through Toms temples
ranged through an angulsr position, show.
ing that he was in sitting or STOPPING
posture when he received il. The pistols
used BY Sam and his son were new and i'm
proved self-cocking revolvers, of % and 80
caliber.
Bill fingered in a conscious state until 4
O'Clock Friday morning, when be died. He
made will, leaving his two sisters all his
property, valued at $4,000, besides trans
ferring them his life policy OF $500 in the
Masonic Life Insurance, of St. Louis.
Tom Rogers suffered great pain, but was
asked to be let 60 into the fight as soon as
the first paralyzing effects of the shot
through the brain. He died Sunday after
noon at-o'clock, and was buried at the
Millersburg cemetery yesterday afternoon.
Bills remains were shipped to St. Louis, to
be buried in honors of the knight Tenn
plar's order.
The Rogers boys were all game, daring
and desperate men. Just after the war,
when lot of desperadoes were on trial at
St. Louis, he entire ST. Louis bar refused
to prosecute them, even the prosecuting al
torney resigned his Office to escape the dan
gerous duty. Bill, who had been a colonel
in the federal army, and had but recently
located in St. Louis, for the practice of law.
volunteered to prosecute, and before the
work was over he had killed two of the out
laws in open court. Tom killed an Irish.
man named Mike Lavelle, at Flemings.
burg, Just before the war, and on change
of venue to Nicholas, was acquitted on the
insanity dodge, his brother Sam being the
chief witness in his defense. Sam was .
captain in Col, Lon Metcalf's famous cav
airy regiment, in the federal army, and was
wounded in the leg at Aorgan's first battle
at Cynthiana. He has engaged in several
fights and shooting scrapes in his time
the most famous one being q pistol fight
with Dick Brewer, in the road near the
battlefield of Blue Licks, where one took
shelter behind cedar tree and the other
behind his horse. The tree received sever.
al bullets and so did the horse and saddle,
but both combattants escaped unscathed
after emptying their revolvers. Sam is
dead game, cool and self possessed, and al
ways waited until he had the law on his
side.
The citizens of Nicholas county are in
full sympathy with Sam so far a. last ex.
tremity was concerned, but all good citi.
zens join in saying that it would have been
q thousand fold better for him to have
yielded the point in controversy and given
his brother the sum asked for, or even
double or triple the amount, and thereby
averted all trouble.
II is conceded that Bill and Tom lad
bounded and bull-dozed them for six weeks
and had made many threats at the lives OF
Sam and Bob, and even sought to wsylsy